'Global Medical Humanities': The Annual Conference of the Association for Medical Humanities. (360G-Wellcome-101101_Z_13_Z)

The application is for support towards the costs of the annual Association for Medical Humanities conference, to be held at the University of Aberdeen from 8 to 10 July 2013. The University has been at the forefront of the development of Medical Humanities in Scotland but this will be the first time that the Association has come to Aberdeen for its annual conference. The theme of the conference is 'Global Medical Humanities'. We anticipate that there will be over 100 participants in the confe rence with at least 60 speakers. The deadline for the submission of paper, panel and poster proposals is 1 February 2013. There will be a combination of student, early career academic, established academic, and professional healthcare practitioner speakers. We have invited five plenary speakers and five panel speakers. The invited speakers are from India, South Africa, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. We also have, to date (17/12/12), eleven confirmed themed panel sessio ns. Funding from the Wellcome Trust will be used towards invited plenary and invited panel speaker costs, and to defray the travel, registration, and accommodation costs for some student delegates. Aberdeen University will contribute to the costs of room and equipment hire.