9.15 – 10.15: Professor Angela Woods, Durham University, introduction by dean Ulf Melin
The Narrative Futures of Healthcare
Narrative remains without a doubt one of the most important concepts in the interdisciplinary field of medical and health humanities. The stories we tell in and of illness, the idea of illness as a stimulus to story, the narratives that shape what it is possible to articulate, investigate and even experience – this is just a glimpse what scholars of health in the humanities and social sciences find so compelling about narrative. In this lecture I will investigate how the study and practice of narrative has evolved in our field over the last fifteen years, with a particular focus on enduring tensions and lacunae. I will then briefly introduce some of the narrative-based projects we are pursuing in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, projects in which lived experience, creative methods and interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration come to the fore. To conclude I offer some reflections on how the challenges posed by AI and other digital health technologies can be addressed by harnessing the critical tools of the medical humanities.
10.15 – 10.30:Break with coffee
10.30 – 11.30: Speaker of the House Andreas Norlén, introduction by dean Ulf Melin
Talmannen och riksdagen, akademin och demokratin (In Swedish)
I en tid av demokratisk tillbakagång runt om i världen kommer Andreas Norlén bland annat att tala om vikten av att värna vår svenska demokrati. Han kommer också att lyfta fram betydelsen av utbyte mellan akademien och politiken.