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Censoring William James

Does it matter that some eminent scientists and intellectuals have firmly believed in ‘psychic’ phenomena? Or should we just accept vocally dismissive statements on these matters by scientifically …

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I am thrilled to share that I have been awarded the Royal Asiatic Society Bayly Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Asian Studies completed at a British or Irish university in 2023/2024! www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-luis... @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

Check out our latest blogpost for a recap of our annual Collections Evening held earlier this month and an introduction to the winners of the 2025 Bayly Prize. Congrats to Dr. Luis Junqueria @luisfbjunqueira.bsky.social, Dr.Xiaoqing Wang and Dr Junda Lu! royalasiaticsociety.org/collections-...

Collections Evening and Bayly Prize

Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s im...

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We were delighted to welcome a full audience to the 2025 Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder's Lecture, on Monday 17 March. Leading scholars Professor Rana Mitter and Professor David Daokui Li presented a fascinating discussion about the future of relations between China and the West.

A huge thanks to our incredible contributors: Emily Baum, Peter Skrivanic, Huang Xinzhe, Yang Yi, Renata Palandri Sigolo, Christina Lee, Pamela Runestad, Fábio L. Stern, Nathan Jishin Michon, Victoria Ten, Michael Wharton and Loretta Lou.

The volume explores how, since the 1960s, communities worldwide have invoked and reimagined the therapeutic and spiritual cultures of China, Japan and Korea to defy biomedical views on health, healing and illness.

I am absolutely delighted to announce the recent publication of 'Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries', a volume I co-edited alongside my colleagues Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University), Avery Morrow (Brown University) and Sang-yun Han (Tohoku University). www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries

In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised notion of ‘East Asia’ has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst for new connections, extending beyond the geogr...

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Sophie Nicholls introduces the Feeling Planet framework and its creative tools for exploring and harnessing climate emotions. thepolyphony.org/2025/03/05/f...

Feeling Planet: Emotion-focused tools for wellbeing and climate action

Sophie Nicholls introduces the Feeling Planet framework and its creative tools for exploring and harnessing climate emotions.

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Some thoughts on the history of hydrotherapy and mental health from me: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Matthew Smith: Hydrotherapy (The History of Using Water to Treat Mental Illnesses)

Podcast Episode · THERAPY+ · 03/05/2025 · 13m

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The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field 27 Feb 6:15–7:30 pm UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field

UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities.

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Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities Apply by 16 Feb 2025 We invite an artist / writer to develop their creative practice on a theme related to the health humanities. We're offering £5,000 to work on a project linked to our core research themes. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities

The UCL Centre for Health Humanities, together with The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus is seeking a creative fellow to work with us in Spring 2025.

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Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky

I am truly honoured and absolutely delighted to be named one of the winners of the 8th Dissertation Prize of the Division of History of Science and Technology, International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST)! dhstweb.org/archives/1269