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
CHARM Seasonal School Literature and Culture as Practices of Care Posted on 13/04/2025 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN HEALTH HUMANITIES LITERATURE AND CULTURE AS PRACTICES OF CARE Ghent, 27-29 August 2025 Venue: Museum dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43B, 9000 Ghent In recent decades, literary and cultural studies have secured a rightful place within the (Critical) Medical and Health Humanities.… Read more
CHARM intergenerational community project on Death Literacy Posted on 04/02/2025 - CHARM has kicked off a new intergenerational community project, Doodnormaal, toch? (Perfectly Normal, Right?), bringing together art, literature, and heritage to foster meaningful conversations about the end of life. In collaboration with Wijkgezondheidscentrum 't Vlot (Joline Goossens & Fien Langouche) and the Outreachlab of the Huis van Alijn (Liesa Rutsaert),… Read more
Sarton Chair and Medal for the History of Medicine awarded to prof. Rina Knoeff (University of Groningen) Posted on 29/10/2024 - 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). Read more
CHARM Kick-Off Event: The Difference We Make Posted on 16/09/2024 - 2024, September 19-20: CHARM Kick-Off Event: The Difference We Make Venue: Museum Dr. Guislain (Ghent) Read more
CHARM Summer School Posted on 06/09/2024 - 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). Read more
Call for Applications: CHARM Summer School Posted on 01/06/2024 - 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… Read more