Call: Medical Humanities International Summer School 2026 for PhD students

[Jelmer Brüggemann]

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The Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (Linköping University) and the Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University) jointly call for applications for a Medical Humanities International Summer School 2026:

 

Bodies and Embodiment in Critical Medical Humanities

 

The Medical Humanities International Summer School invites applications from PhD students in medical humanities, social sciences and medicine with an interest in interdisciplinary research. This Summer School offers theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of bodies and embodiment in critical medical humanities. It provides tools to examine the role of bodies and embodiment within lived experiences of illness, pain, health, different bodily and functional variations, and as enacted through discourses and in various practices or policies. The Summer School combines insights from senior scholars, reflection sessions, creative workshops and personal mentoring conversations while providing ample time to connect to other PhD students.

 

We encourage applications from PhD students whose work engages with health-related topics from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, including (but not limited to) anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, health sciences, history, media studies, music, literary studies, philosophy, public health, sociology, STS, and visual arts.

 

The Summer School will be held between 8-10 September 2026, in beautiful Vadstena, close to Linköping, Sweden. It is coordinated by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

 

 

For information about practical details, bursaries, and how to apply please visit the summer school website.

 

Application deadline 16^th of February 2026.

 

	____________ Jelmer Brüggemann, on behalf of the organising committee Associate professor
	Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and social change s-581 83 Linköping Visiting address: Campus Valla, T-building Please visit us at liu.se Latest publications: Brüggemann, J., Nedlund, A. C., & Guntram, L. (2025). Working the boundaries of ‘whining’–how patients and care professionals make sense of informal complaining practices. Social Science & Medicine, 118112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118112 Brüggemann, J. (2024). The darker sides of care. Geografier 8, 37-39. https://geografier.se/2024/11/08/mork-text-2/
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