2024, September 16-18: CHARM Summer School
Cross-Cultural Explorations into the Role of Fate, Destiny and Predestination as Agents of Spiritual and Psychological Well-Being
Venue: Museum Dr. Guislain (Ghent).
Category: Education
Call for Applications: CHARM Summer School
2024, June 1: Call for Applications CHARM Summer School
The yearly CHARM Doctoral Summer School will take place from 16-18 September 2024 under the title: “Cross-cultural explorations into the role of fate, destiny, and predestination as agents for health and wellbeing”. You can read the Call for Applications through this link.
Ghent PhD student can register through the Doctoral Schools website.
External participants may send an application to mieke.matthyssen@ugent.be.
Please register before 15 June 2024.
Workshop: Narrative Medicine as Stance and Practice
2024, May 30-31: Workshop Narrative Medicine as Stance and Practice
Two-day workshop organised in collaboration between CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine) and the Ghent Network of Hospitals.
The aim of this two-day workshop is to introduce the audience – doctors, nursing and administrative staff of the Ghent Hospitals, but also other interested parties – to the practice and the concepts underlying that practice of what is called narrative medicine. Narrative medicine has multiple aspects: it is an ethical stance, an innovative form of medical education, and a way to engage in clinical practice. Our three speakers – international authorities in the field – will show in their workshop-based interventions how this narrative practice can be of interest to different actors in the hospital environment: not only patients, doctors and caregivers, but also relatives and loved ones of patients and administrators of hospitals. Our three speakers have collaborated previously, but they approach narrative medicine from different perspectives, including different countries. Their presentations will provide ample opportunity for dialogue among participants.
Venue: AZ Sint-Lucas. Groenebriel 1, 9000 Ghent
Conference: Perspectives on Arts & Health
2023, September 28: Perspectives on Arts & Health
On Thursday, September 28, 2023, the 3i University Network invited individuals from various backgrounds to a convergence of art and health at the Museum Dr. Guislain. Ghent, Leuven, Lille, and Kent universities extended a warm welcome to the inquisitive, the interested, and professionals alike for a day filled with discussions, roundtable talks, a convivial lunch, and a reception. Find the program here and a short summary of the readings on this page.
Conversation Series: Reading in Times of Vulnerability
2023, February-May: Lezen in tijden van kwetsbaarheid (Reading in Times of Vulnerability)
In the spring of 2023, in collaboration with the Humanities Academy we engaged in a conversation with artists, carers and audience members about what it means to be vulnerable today – negatively and positively. About the limits of vulnerability and the power of vulnerability. About the unifying role that art and culture can play. About the support the community can offer the individual. Find all practical information and the list of partners on the Humanities Academy’ s website (in Dutch).
Aflevering 1: Zingen over zorgen
Aflevering 2: Kwetsbaar (Samen) Lezen
Aflevering 3: Jong geweld: met woorden aan de toekomst bouwen
Aflevering 4: Stof en stilte: ouderen, eenzaamheid en lezen
Conversation Series: Reading in Times of Caring (in Dutch)
2022, February-May: Lezen in tijden van zorgzaamheid (Reading in Times of Caring)
Since ancient times, stories have been associated with care and healing, and literature has been seen as a powerful social tool of connection. Even in times of social distance, stories (literary and otherwise) bear witness to this power. In this series of six discussion evenings, experts from the worlds of care and literature have explored ways in which the two disciplines can find and strengthen each other. What is the place of reading and reading aloud in nursing education? What are the implications of a deep engagement with care for the study of literature and other human sciences? Can such an exchange also deepen our experience of literature and art? Or can telling stories and reading a novel or a poem actually be harmful? What role can literature play in inclusive and multicultural care contexts?
These and many other questions guided the overarching narrative that Zoë Ghyselinck and Jürgen Pieters wanted to bring to the series ‘Reading in times of caring’. Together with their guests, Ghyselinck and Pieters spoke about issues that affect us all: feelings and practices of mourning, coping with old age, the comfort of reading, contact with people from other cultures, the identity of the outsider. In collaboration with the Humanities Academy of Ghent University. Find all practical information and the list of partners on the Humanities Academy’s website (in Dutch).