Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Events

15 May 2025, 17:30-19:00

Human Skin: The Ever-evolving Interface

Plenary lecture by Nina Jablonski, Atherton Professor and Evan Pugh University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University.

15 May 2025, 13:30-19:00

Dermato-Iconography

The micro-lectures and table talk respond to current challenges by bringing together dermatologists, anthropologists, art historians, and cultural studies scholars for a timely and engaging conversation about the…

17 Dec. 2024, 14:00-16:00

Understanding Stigma in Visible Skin Diseases and the Call for Narrative Intervention in (Psycho)Dermatology

Lecture by Emily Newton-Tanzer, Dr.med.cand. at the University Hospital of Munich (KUM) and Dr.phil.cand. at the LMU Munich.

25 Sept. - 27 Sept. 2024

Skin Manuscripts

28 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

Mechthild Fend on “Fleshing out surfaces”

Reading group with Edward Payne, Associate professor of early modern art history at Aarhus University.

23 Apr. 2024, 15:00-17:00

Leah Price on “Bibliotherapy and Human Flourishing”

Reading group with Virginia Langum, Professor of English Literature at Umeå University.

22 Apr. 2024, 10:30-12:00

The Remains of Emily Shore: Illness Experience in the Archive

Lecture by Virginia Langum, Professor of English literature at Umeå University.