Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities

An interdisciplinary collaboration between the Faculties of Arts and Medicine & Health at the University of Leeds

“Fiction Writes Back: The 2045 Initiative, Zero K, and the Immortality Industry” by Professor Teresa Heffernan

Please join us for the Centre for Medical Humanities Lecture “Fiction Writes Back: The 2045 Initiative, Zero K, and the Immortality Industry” by Professor Teresa Heffernan (Saint Mary’s University, Canada). … Continue reading

17 April, 2018 · Leave a comment

Leeds International Film Festival

As part of the Leeds International Film Festival, we’ve organised a screening of Regan Brashear’s fabulous documentary ‘Fixed: the Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement.’ It’s a really thoughtful and thought-provoking film … Continue reading

2 November, 2017 · Leave a comment

Work and the Posthuman

Augmenting the Body: Disability, Bodily Extensions, and the Posthuman A Sadler Seminar Series at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute   Seminar 4: Work and the Posthuman With Rebecca Randell and Stuart … Continue reading

22 March, 2017 · Leave a comment

Disability and the DisHuman

Monday 5th December 2016, 2pm Professor Dan Goodley and Dr Kirsty Liddiard (Sheffield) Dr Angharad Beckett (Leeds) How does disability enlarge and trouble the posthuman condition? How do bodily extensions … Continue reading

21 November, 2016 · Leave a comment

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