KU Leuven - LCHH2 Health Humanities Lecture Series 2025-2026

Dear all,

The Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series and we would love to invite you!

This year’s lecture series explores the entangled relations between nature and health. Bringing together perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability studies, colonial studies, and environmental humanities, the talks examine how ideas of nature have shaped — and have been shaped by — practices of care, control, and coexistence. Topics range from the rise of disposable medical technologies and their environmental costs, to colonial disease management at the cattle frontier, and from the ambivalent role of “nature” in the lives of people with disabilities to contemporary debates on the restorative effects of natural environments. The series also turns to the microbial world, challenging human exceptionalism and rethinking health as multispecies interdependence rather than biological mastery. Together, these lectures invite critical reflection on sustainability, vulnerability, and care, and offer new ways of imagining health in a world where human and nonhuman lives are profoundly interconnected.

Join us online and on campus, at KU Leuven, for a series of inspiring health humanities talks.

You can find more information about the lectures and how to register here:

Health Humanities Lecture Series 2025-2026 — 
Leuven Centre for Health Humanities (LCH²)

Best wishes,

Lore Delahaye (she/her)
Administrative Support

KU Leuven
Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences
Blijde Inkomstraat 5, box 3000
3000 Leuven

https://ghum.kuleuven.be/phd

BBC Reith Lectures 2022 - The Four Freedoms

 

 INDIVIDUAL
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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

FEAR	WANT
WORSHIP	SPEECH

Are fear and worship interchangeable? 

Can I follow my faith / beliefs?

Many communities and groups live in fear.

Do the freedoms begin (and end!) with speech?

The ability to meet basic needs 'wants' - relies upon socioeconomic means; but basic needs are material in the first instance, through shelter, water, and food. All these depend upon security (locally, nationally, globally) as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

BBC Radio 4 The Reith Lectures

See also:
Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;0:e000254. doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000254

May 10th Lecture: "Planetary Law for the Anthropocene"

Dear followers of H-net Environment,

Planetar denken

the Panel on Planetary Thinking of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, cordially invites you to join our kick-off event of our Planetary Lecture Series which may be of interest to many of you:

On May 10th, at 6:15 CET, Prof. Dr. Dr. Louis Kotzé (North-West University, South-Africa), will be giving a lecture on "Planetary Law for the Anthropocene" . Prof. Kotzé currently holds a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, and is a Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK. Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn (Chair of Public and International Law, JLU) will open the discussion with a response. The lecture will take place in a hybrid format, allowing you both digital and analog participation.

Feel free to spread the word to interested colleagues and friends. You can register at panel AT planet.uni-giessen.de or join us spontaneously in our BigBlueButton Conference Room.

Warm regards,

Liza Bauer

(on behalf of the Panel on Planetary Thinking).

Register for ‘Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions’ Feb 10 2022

Professor Havi Carel

 

Join us for the Second Annual Joint Center for Knowledge,
Technology and Society Center for Nursing Philosophy lecture,
“Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions”
with University of Bristol Professor Havi Carel.

 

 

About the lecture

“In this talk I develop the concept of vulnerabilisation to pick out a large and diverse group of people who suffer vulnerabilities caused or exacerbated by their situations. I outline how individuals can be made vulnerable by interpersonal encounters and interactions with social structures. I then discuss vulnerabilisation in relation to what I call ‘institutional opacity.’

An opaque institution is especially problematic for individuals and groups already rendered vulnerable during their interactions with that institution, and a prime example are ill persons in the context of healthcare institutions, which I discuss. I articulate the features of an encounter between a vulnerabilised individual and an opaque institution and end by tracing two ameliorative strategies that could help repair this interaction.” — Havi Carel

About Havi Carel

Havi Carel is professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, England. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work.

Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a Best of Bristol lecturer in 2016.

Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), and of What Philosophy Is (2004).

Event details

Date and time: Feb. 10, 2022 | 10 a.m. Pacific; 1 p.m. Eastern; 5 p.m. UK
Event location: Zoom

Registration

You will receive a link to join the event upon registration.

My source: 

University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | 252 Berk Hall, Irvine, CA 92697

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=illness

Links in original source rationalised to reduce any algorithmic penalties.

Twitter on hold: Blog a trickle ...

Deal!

— Dries Buytaert (@Dries) August 25, 2021

 

Feels good already ... 

Thanks for following and visiting ... 

Still available at  h2cmng AT yahoo.co.uk 

Take care 

Peter J.

 

Arithmetic, Population and Energy by Dr Albert Bartlett

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

- a presentation by:

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder

My source:

Price, T. (2016) A monster called growth, MoneyWeek, 23 September, p.28.

Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Exuberant ‘Last Lecture’

Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Exuberant ‘Last Lecture’

1 hr 44 min 8 sec - 20 Sep 2007

Description:
Randy Pausch Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.


Thanks Randy. Brilliant an inspirational light! Bless you, your family and all your friends.
PJ