On Thurday, October 17, 2024, the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the Ghent University Museum (GUM) have appointed the 40th Sarton Chair of History of Science to Prof. dr. Rina Knoeff, Aletta Jacobs Chair of Health and Humanities (University of Groningen).
Prof. dr. Alice Scavarda is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin (Italy). She is trained as a medical sociologist and co-founded and co-directed the international research group ESA Epistemic Community on Welfare Disability Policies in Europe (2021-2023). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) and a founding member of Graphic Medicine Italia. Her main research interests are disability, chronic illness and prevention, with a focus on stigma and medicalisation. She is also interested in analysing the methodological and ethical features of creative methods, in particular comics and applied theatre.
As suggested by both the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and the Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty, Ghent University awarded Arthur W. Frank with a Francqui Medal for scientific excellence. Arthur W. Frank is a Health Sociologist from the University of Calgary, Canada. His inaugural lecture took place in Vandenhove and addressed “Anxious Voices in Shakespeare, Heidegger and Healthcare”.
CHARM group leader Jürgen Pieters wrote a short introduction to Frank’s work for this website. (in Dutch).