The Research Centre for Culture and Health at the University of Turku is organising a research seminar programme for Spring-Summer 2024.

Seminars will be hybrid, held at the University of Turku and online, on Tuesdays from 14:00-16:00 (EET). The provisional timetable for these seminars is as follows:

JANUARY 16, 2024

Anna Ovaska, Tampere University
“Reading Chronic Pain: Narrative and (In)Visibility”

Henni Alava, Tampere University
“Finnish Sisu, Finnish Pain: What (if anything) is Culturally Specific in Pediatric Pain and its Care in Finland?”

This event will be hybrid. Participants may attend in Arcanum B356 Kare (University of Turku Campus) or online via Zoom. Register for this event online here.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Per Mendoza, University of Iceland
“Isolated Narratives? Narrative Ethics, Affectivity, and Spatiality in Johanna Holmström’s Själarnas ö”

Mathieu Bokestael, University College Dublin
“What is a Caring Historiography? Lessons from Sarah Moss’ Night Waking (2011)”

MARCH 12, 2024

Keith Meadows, Health Outcomes Insights Ltd
“Explaining Cause in a Single Case Response to Patient-Reported Outcomes Data: Quality of Life Research”

Luis de Miranda, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku
“Philosophical Health: Thinking as a Way of Healing”

APRIL 9, 2024

Johanna Jämsä, University of Turku
“Nature’s Eudaimonic Wellbeing Benefits, and When Nature Doesn’t Help: Using Creative Methods to Grasp Deep Values of Nature”

Ranjana Saha, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku
“Milk, Nation, and Empire: ‘Scientific’ Motherhood Advice in Colonial Calcutta”

MAY 14, 2024

Christina Slopek, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
“Against Psychiatric Imperialism: Diversifying Psychology in African Fiction”

Silja McNamara, Tampere University
“The Effect of Dance Movement Therapy Interventions on the Quality of Life and Body Image of Bereaved Widows/Widowers”