Nancy_Questions sur le corps, le monde et la santé_Paris 17-18 December 20205 Posted on 16/12/2025 - Read more
Health humanities, narrative medicine and the physician-patient relationship: an exploration Posted on 08/12/2025 - Health humanities, narrative medicine and the physician-patient relationship: an exploration. Health humanities is an interdisciplinary field that combines the study of the arts and humanities with health, medicine, and healthcare. It uses methods from disciplines like literature, philosophy, history, ethics, and cultural studies to understand and reflect on health-related issues,… Read more
Health Humanities in Medical Education Posted on 07/11/2025 - On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December, two colleagues from the University of Toronto will be visiting our faculty for a number of activities focusing on the opportunities that health humanities offer for medical education. The speakers – Dr. Sarah Kim and Dr. Hartley Jafine – are both involved in… Read more
CHARM Intern Zeynep about her stay in our team Posted on 26/10/2025 - Zeynep Saban, our CHARM intern who stayed with us for three months over the summer, has left a testimonial about her stay in Ghent. Read more
CHARM Conference 5-6 November 2025 Posted on 10/10/2025 - CHARM CONFERENCE "Health, Diseases and Environment: Between the Global and the Local" Programme Nancy – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 23–25 rue Baron Louis, Nancy, France Salle de se minaire, pole SJPEG November 5–6, 2025 Org. Zoë Ghyselinck, Jürgen Pieters, Claire Crignon, Ingrid Voléry and Emanuelle Simon Wednesday, November… Read more
Testimonial CHARM Chair Rong Huang Posted on 15/09/2025 - Staying Local, Thinking Global The moment I jotted down this title, I realized how it appeared to jar against the backdrop of a world increasingly marked by regional conflicts, widespread distrust, and extreme conservatism. Yet this is how I felt during my 6-week stay at Ghent as the CHARM… Read more
CHARM Expert Meeting: Connecting Technology, Art and Care Posted on 20/05/2025 - What can technology, art, and care mean for one another in times of ageing populations, digital transformation, and an increasing need for connection? In this small-scale expert meeting, hosted by the international CHARM network, a group of researchers, practitioners, artists, and partners working in the cultural field explores the intersections… Read more
Jürgen Pieters Delivers Guest Lecture at Stanford on the Healing Powers of Fiction Posted on 14/05/2025 - On May 14, 2025, Professor Jürgen Pieters, literary scholar at Ghent University and director of CHARM, delivers a guest lecture at the Stanford Humanities Center titled Please Read Carefully: The Healing Powers of Fiction. This event is part of the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in the Medical Humanities, co-organised… Read more
CHARM Workshop Digital Futures _ 28-29 April 2025, Northeastern University, Boston Posted on 25/04/2025 - CHARM Workshop_Digital Futures Program_ Northeastern University, Boston April 2025 Read more
Annual CHARM Conference 2025 _ Nancy Posted on 22/04/2025 - Health, Diseases and Environment: Between the Global and the Local Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France) 5-6 November 2025 As Latour argues in Où atterrir, comment s’orienter en politique (2017), today the term “local” is often associated with nostalgic and defensive positions, linked to particularity, subjectivity, and sensibility, in contrast to… Read more