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Interdisciplinary health dialogues
02 June 2026, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Keynote lectures with Prof Elizabeth Roberts and Prof Neil Vickers.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
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Organiser
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Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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Elvin Hall (room 104)20 Bedford Way,LondonWC1H 0AL
Join two leaders in interdisciplinary research for an event exploring histories and practices.
Critique, Critical Theory and Systems Theory in the Medical Humanities: A Historical Note
Prof Neil Vickers (Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities, Kingˇs College London)
Making Better Numbers: Ten Years of Collaboration Between Ethnography and Epidemiology
Prof Elizabeth Roberts (Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan):
This is an in-person event. Places are free but limited please book early:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisciplinary-health-dialogues-tickets-1988981845241
About the Speakers
Prof Neil Vickers
Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at Kingˇs College London
My current research lies exclusively in the health humanities. In 2024-25 I was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust to write what I hope will be the first book-length history of the medical/health humanities. My latest book (co-authored with Derek Bolton), Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment, was published by Reaktion Books in 2024. It is about what major illness does to social belonging in the WEIRD world (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic).
More about Prof Neil VickersProf Elizabeth Roberts
Professor of Anthropology at University of Michigan
She investigates scientific and public health knowledge production and its embodied effects in Latin America and the United States. She is currently involved in a number of interdisciplinary collaborative projects with engineers, environmental health and life scientists in the United States and Mexico as part of “Mexican Exposures: A Bioethnographic Approach to Health and Inequality” (MEXPOS), a cluster of ongoing team-based projects in Mexico City that she directs.
More about Prof Elizabeth Roberts