University of Otago Centre for Medical Humanities Launch Events

What is the Medical Humanities?
Past, present, and future, at the University of Otago and beyond.

3.00-4.30pm Prestigious Roundtable Panel + New grant programme announcement

4.30pm-6.00pm Launch Party with nibbles, performances, and cash bar

With discussion from...

• Professor Emerita Barbara Brookes (Medical Historian; co-founder of medical humanities selectives programme; co-founder of Corpus)
• Professor Maebh Long (Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies; Co-Director Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies; Deputy-Director Centre for Medical Humanities)
• Professor Helen Nicholson (Clinical Anatomist and Medical Educator; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago)
• Professor Karyn Paringatai (Ngāti Porou; Te Tumu; Prime Minister’s Science Prize for Research, Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence)
• Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland; chair of the Australasian Health & Medical Humanities Network)

Opened by Professor Greg Cook (DVC Research & Innovation)

Chaired by Dr Susan Wardell (Director, Centre for Medical Humanities)

All Welcome

Please RSVP for the launch party, for catering purposes by emailing centreformedicalhumanities@otago.ac.nz