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Mona Baie
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MD + PhD candidate in Comparative Literature @unifr.bsky.social researching clinical spaces in German- and English-language literary prose of the 20th and 21st centuries. #medicalhumanities
https://www.unifr.ch/med/en/section/staff/all/people/372221/61f36
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Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!
Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration. A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks. Programme Friday 4th July 9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction 1. Section: Medical spaces across time 10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities 10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century 11:30-12:00 Coffee 12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry 12:45-14:15 Lunch 2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital 14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943 15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation 19:00 Conference Dinner A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks. Programme, Saturday 5th July 3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization 9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK 10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980 11:00-11:30 Coffee 4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces 11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature 12:15-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949) 14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries 15:30-16 Coffee 16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film 16:45-17:30 Final discussion Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!
June 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Promotionsprojekt LitWiss/Medizingeschichte/Medical Humanities: Bei uns am Lehrstuhl für Medical Humanities in Fribourg ist eine Promotionsstelle (100%, 4 Jahre) im neuen SNF-Projekt von Prof. Martina King ausgeschrieben. Es geht um ärztliche Schriftkommunikation aus narratologischer Perspektive:
April 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM