Educational Aspects in Medical and Health Humanities

Conference.

In recent decades, there has been a growing emphasis on education in medical and health humanities across the Nordic countries. Disciplines are collaborating in new ways, placing interdisciplinarity at the heart of their work, which brings both opportunities and challenges along with the need for further developments. Lund University and the University of Southern Denmark have been leading in this field, and now University of Copenhagen is preparing to launch a new collective package in health humanities from 2026.

The interest in innovative interdisciplinary education invites careful considerations of how to design and assess seminars, courses, diplomas, and curricula aimed at humanities students as well as medical and health students. Opportunities span a wide range of humanities disciplines – such as literature, linguistics, philosophy, theology, history, ethnography, anthropology, cultural studies, visual arts, film studies, and performance art – as well as fields in medicine and health, including hospitals and healthcare institutions. What can we learn from existing experiences, and how can we develop them further? How can we foster collaboration between humanistic disciplines on health issues and between the faculties of humanities and health? And what insights can be drawn from health-related interventions outside the university setting?

Keynote speakers

• Rishi Goyal, MD, associate professor, Department for Medical Humanities and Ethics, Columbia University
• Astrid Pernille Jespersen, professor, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
• Tine Høeg, artist, writer-in-residence at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

Registration

You are also very welcome to participate in the conference without presenting. Participation in the conference is free.

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