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Mona Baie

@monabaie.bsky.social

MD + PhD candidate in Comparative Literature @unifr.bsky.social researching clinical spaces in German- and English-language literary prose of the 20th and 21st centuries. #medicalhumanities https://www.unifr.ch/med/en/section/staff/all/people/372221/61f36

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · yesterday

The paper I co-wrote with Martina King about medical technology in Swiss hospital narratives was recently published in 'Humanities.' It’s open access (yay!), and we hope it contributes to more work at the intersection of the medical humanities and science & technology studies doi.org/10.3390/h150...

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited and honored to be presenting at this conference on clinical spaces in Magdeburg tomorrow. Looking forward to conversations with medical historians, hospital planners, and visual artists, among other fields and professions!

Conference flyer for a workshop on clinical spaces March 19 and 20, 2026, in Magdeburg. Map showing the location of Haus 64 with parking areas marked and contact details for Dr. Christian Vogel alongside photos of clinical spaces and a waiting area with chairs.

Program for the conference can be found here: https://get.med.ovgu.de/workshop_gesundheit_gestalten.html

Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social · 7mo ago

besonders Beiträge zu somatischen/körperlichen Krankheiten sind sehr erwünscht 😊 #medicalhumanities #gamestudies

AKGWDS@akgwds.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Noch bis Ende Januar suchen Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social und Stefan Heinrich Simond für ihren Fortsetzungsband "Krankheit in digitalen Spielen 2" Abstracts. ▶️Details zu Formalia und Inhalten: languageatplay.de/2026/01/13/c...

Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

best. class. ever. :)

Institute of the History of Medicine at JHU@histmedjhu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Graduate students in Dr. Mary Fissell's course on Material Histories of Science, Medicine, and Technology practice bandaging on each other, using examples from classical antiquity and a 19th century textbook.

Alex Parry, Ph.D.@safetyworkhstm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m thrilled to announce that the Injury Studies Network website is now online! We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries. Visit the site to learn more and connect! #Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies

Injury Studies Network – The Injury Studies Network is an international community of researchers, practitioners, and artists committed to the study of injuries.

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Alina Boy @alinaboy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Neu erschienenen: Der Band „Heilorte“ fragt nach der soziokulturellen und topografischen Verortung von Krankheit und Heilung in der Literatur von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart. Vielen Dank an alle Beitragenden und den Rombach-Verlag @nomosverlag.bsky.social! Infos: www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/heilort...

Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Vor ein paar Tagen ist 'Mental Health in Literatur, Populärmedien und Medizin' erschienen, hg. von @marcellafassio.bsky.social. Ich durfte auch ein Kapitel beisteuern, in dem es um Behinderung & Resilienz in Denton Welchs 'A Voice Through a Cloud' geht. OA hier www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

„I thought of rosy sunset mists, of pink froth at a horse’s mouth”

„I thought of rosy sunset mists, of pink froth at a horse’s mouth” was published in Mental Health in Literatur, Populärmedien und Medizin on page 143.

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · last yr.

This looks excellent! It was a pleasure to be one of the speakers at a #MedHums event in Fribourg a couple of years ago - the team there is doing great work.

Mona Baie@monabaie.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!

Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration.

Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · last yr.

A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme Friday 4th July

9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction

1. Section: Medical spaces across time
10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities
10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry

12:45-14:15 Lunch

2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital
14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation

19:00 Conference Dinner

A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme, Saturday 5th July

3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization
9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK
10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980
11:00-11:30 Coffee

4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces
11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature
12:15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949)
14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries
15:30-16 Coffee
16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film

16:45-17:30 Final discussion

Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature:

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.

Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · last yr.

Promotionsprojekt LitWiss/Medizingeschichte/Medical Humanities: Bei uns am Lehrstuhl für Medical Humanities in Fribourg ist eine Promotionsstelle (100%, 4 Jahre) im neuen SNF-Projekt von Prof. Martina King ausgeschrieben. Es geht um ärztliche Schriftkommunikation aus narratologischer Perspektive:

Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · last yr.

Ich freue mich sehr, dieses Semester bei der Vorlesungreihe „Literary Disability Studies“ des Offenen Hörsaals der FU Berlin mit einem Vortrag zu klinischen Räumen in der Literatur dabei zu sein. Mehr Informationen zur Reihe (& den Link zum Livestream!) gibt es hier: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/offene...

Literary Disability Studies

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote about GTE and medical humanities in Germany, and what this example might tell us about naming practices and linguistic hegemony in the medical humanities more broadly. Thanks to Jordan McCullough for the invitation and for being the best editor out there! thepolyphony.org/2024/11/28/g...

What’s in a Name? GTE and Medical Humanities in Germany

Mona Baie considers the significance of naming practices and the pitfalls of linguistic hegemony in the medical humanities through the example of the German teaching and research field GTE (History…

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Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social · 2y ago

Job: 0,75-1 Akad. Mitarb. (m/w/d) "Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin" (Univ. Tübingen) http://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-142912 Tübingen, , Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.05.2024

0,75-1 Akad. Mitarb. (m/w/d) "Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin" (Univ. Tübingen)

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · 3y ago

I wrote for The Polyphony! :) Read my review of the three-day conference ‘Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: British and Continental Perspectives’, and why we need *multilingual* literary and cultural disability studies, here 👇 thepolyphony.org/2023/12/18/m...