Regional Events

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Assembling Bodies: Art, Science and Imagination

FREDERICTON, NB, CANADA
- May 20-22, 2010. Narrative Matters 2010 Conference: "Exploring the Narrative Landscape: Issues, Investigations, and Interventions." Deadline for submission of proposals is NOVEMBER 2, 2009

HONOLULU, HAWAII
- Pacific Rim International 2010 Conference on Disabilities. Call for proposals.

IOWA CITY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- April 28-30, 2010. The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference. Deadline for submissions is Monday, December 7, 2009. Registration will open in January.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
- January 22- 24, 2010. Conference at UCLA: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder:Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment. Early registration: May 7 - November 13, 2009.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. Manchester Metropolitan University
- January 6-8, 2010. Conference: Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability. CFP deadline July 1, 2009.

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM
- October 24-February 7, 2010. Damien Hirst’s "Pharmacy" at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
- Through Jan. 10. "In the Next Room or the vibrator play." Comedy by Sarah Ruhl about Victorian ideas about sex. Lyceum.
- Sept. 12 previews begin. Play, "Hamlet," with Jude Law. Broadhurst Theater.
- Sept. 15-previews begin. Anna Deavere Smith in her new play, "Let Me Down Easy," about medicine and health care. Second Stage Theater.
- Sept 9 opening. Play, "The Bereaved." The Wild Project
- Nov. - Dec., Play, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." New York Theatre Workshop.
- Beginning Sept. 15, Arts, Literature and Humanities 2009 Series at the New York Academy of Medicine
- Performances into January, 2010. Play, "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. Barrow Street Theater.
- April 15 onward. Serious award winning musical play about mental illness, "Next to Normal". Booth Theater.
- June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010. Drawings by Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969). 39 works that chronicle the social, economic, and cultural realities of Inuit life in the Canadian North. George Gustav Heye Center, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
- Narrative Medicine Rounds at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Free and open to the public. Faculty Club, 446 P&S Building, 630 W. 168th Street. Most programs on first Wednesday of the month, 5-7pm
- Film screening, disTHIS! Film Series: disability through a whole new lens. Bringing festival quality movies about disability to new audiences, project of the Disabilities Network of NYC . Programs on first Wednesday of the month. $5 donation.
- Extended: Bodies: The Exhibition at the South Street Seaport

NOTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
- 1st International Health Humanities Conference: Madness and Literature to be held at the University of Nottingham August 6-8, 2010. Deadline for abstracts Oct 1, 2009.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
- April 24, 2009-January 3, 2010. Exhibit: Skin & Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor. Independence Seaport Museum.
- January 20-23, 2010. The Medical Film Symposium. Mutter Museum and elsewhere.
- May 19-20, 2010. Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Call for proposals. Deadline January31, 2010.
- ROANOKE, VIRGINIA
  - April 22-24, 2010. Conference at Virginia Tech: Gender, Bodies, and Technology. Proposal deadline September 15.
- SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (Dominican University)
  - June 27 - July 2, 2010. The Healing Art of Writing: A Creative Workshop For Poets and Writers, With a Focus on the Medical Experience. Contact The Foundation for Humanities in Medicine, 415.759.1162, idealmedicine@earthlink.net.
- WASHINGTON, D.C.
  - December 11 to early 2010. Strange Bodies. Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
  - Opening January 30, 2009. State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda. U.S. Holocaust Museum.

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