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# Episode Title Description People Date
1 Conference Highlights A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 Trish Greenhalgh, Nicola Gardini, Charles Briggs, Mona Baker 04 Jan 2024
2 Into the Translation Zone Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge. Marta Arnaldi 04 Jan 2024
3 Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark 03 Jan 2024
4 Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field. Marta Arnaldi, Eivind Engebretsen, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark 03 Jan 2024
5 Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation Mona Baker’s key note examines the work of recently founded groups of volunteer translators who focus on the intersection of health and the environment. Mona Baker 03 Jan 2024
6 Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health and disease, while also pinpointing potential risks and likely areas of failure. Marta Arnaldi 03 Jan 2024
7 Bodies in Translation: Towards a Translational Medical Humanities Professor John Ødemark outlines the key ideas underpinning the Bodies in Translation project and its role in shaping a translational medical humanities imagination. John Ødemark 03 Jan 2024
8 Creative Commons Computational Literary Studies and Mental Health A project combining English literature, experimental psychology, and computational linguistics, with a focus on entropy, abstraction, and mental health. James Carney, Emily Troscianko 12 Sep 2018
9 Creative Commons Combating Fat Stigma Through Narrative A series of narrative workshops helping make life better for fat people. Rachel Fox, Kelly Park, Emily Troscianko 12 Sep 2018