First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading. This three-day interdisciplinary research conference on literature, history, medical humanities & ethnography will be held 1-3 December 2011 in Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
This Research Conference is part of the 2011 programme of Strategic Activities of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation. It is an exercise in interdisciplinarity in relation to the fields of history, literature, medical humanities and ethnography with a common interest in a certain kind of textual material.
A limited number of subsidies of a flat sum of €300 or £265 each, to be used for travel, accommodation and/or conference fee, will be offered to early-career researchers (research students or scholars within 10 years of completion of a PhD, whether currently in an academic post or not).