Launching the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (CMHB), Linköping University

15.00-15.15 Welcome to launch event. Opening speakers: Vice Chancellor Jan-Ingvar Jönsson, Linköping University, and Prefect Per Gyberg, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University.

15.15-16.05 International panel: Challenges and opportunities within Medical Humanities and Bioethics. 
The panel consists of:

• Corinne Saunders, Professor at the Department of English Studies and Co-director of the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Title of talk: Critical Medical Humanities - In Search of the Hidden.
• Klaus Høyer, Professor at the Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University. Title of talk: Medical humanities in a Digital Age.
• Bjørn Hofmann, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Gjøvik and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo. Title of talk: Medical humanities and Bioethics versus Biotechnology: David, Goliat, and the Human Psyche.

16.05-16.50 CMHB Panel: Medical Humanities and Bioethics Perspectives on Covid-19.

The panel consists of:

• Anna Bredström, Associate Professor at the Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Department of Culture and Society, LiU. Title of talk: Ethnic health disparities of Covid-19: Conceptual unclarity and its impact on equal health.
• Lauren E. La Fauci, Research Fellow at the Department of Thematic Studies: Gender Studies, LiU. Title of talk: “Trust Science”; or, what do the medical humanities have to teach us during Covid-19?
• Lars Sandman, Professor at the Division of Society and Health, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, LiU. Title of talk: Philosophy as a practical tool in the Covid-19 pandemic - opportunities and challenges.

16.50 -17 Wrap-Up and presentation of CMHB Autumn Activities.