Available	2026-03-05 – 2026-05-03
Contact person	Erika Sigvardsdotter, employed at Institutionen för idéhistoria

Join us in Uppsala at the Humanities Theatre on 5–6 November 2026 for an international conference on current research at the forefront of medical humanities.

The interdisciplinary field of medical humanities moves beyond the idea that the humanities, along with the arts and social sciences, are either supportive of or oppositional to medicine. Instead, the current critical wave within the field recognises that health, illness, and medicine are produced through entangled social, cultural, political, and material processes, without which they cannot be fully understood (Viney et al. 2015; Fernyhough 2024). This understanding of the dynamics between medicine and the humanities creates an interdisciplinary space in which contributors from different disciplines can inform and challenge one another (Engebretsen, Fraas Henrichsen & Ødemark, 2020). Working across sites such as clinics, laboratories, and policies, critical medical humanities seeks not only to analyse medicine but to participate in its ongoing making and unmaking. This conference aims to explore how emerging scholars are shaping the future of the field of medical humanities.

The deadline for submissions is 23 April 2026, and a notice of acceptance will be given in early May.
Participation in the conference is free of charge. Definite program will be available in September.