News 2015-2014
Vampires and patient stories
Professor of German culture and literature at UiT the Arctic University of Norway Michael Schmidt has recently published an article in which he demonstrates how people used vampire stories as a supernatural rationalisation strategy to explain inexplicable epidemics in the early 1700s. The entire article, entitled "Vampyrisme som konstruksjon", is available in "Fortid. Historiestudentenes tidsskrift UiO" no 2/2015.
Funding for research assistant
In September 2015, HAS has been awareded NOK 20.270 from Department of Cultire and Literature (IKL). The funding will be used during spring 2016. It is stated in the allotment letter that the funding is primarily aimed for strengthening the department's research profile, with emphasis on publishing and potential applications for external funding.
A total of six applications were submitted, of which four received funding. The funding allotted to HAS will be used to hire a master's student to assist in the editorial work related to an anthology on patient stories containing articles written by HAS members.
HAS meetings autumn 2015
The meetings will take place Mondays between 13-15 hrs., starting with lunch in the HSL canteen at 12.30.
24 August: Presentation by May-Lill Johansen. Conference presentation by Marie-Theres.
28 September: Lise presents a draft of her MA thesis on Arnhild Lauvengs I morgen var jeg alltid en løve (2006). An authobiographical description of schizophrenia, emphasising language and use of metaphors.
1 October: HAS will meet in Bergen prior to the network meeting to discuss the international conference in January 2017.
30 November. Anita presents the register of exceptional illness narratives (RESF).
HAS involved in pilot project on research data
HAS publicastion 2015
In December 2015, Anita Salamonsen and Linda Nesby published the article "Youth blogging and serious illness" in "Medical Humanities". The article applies the terms intercommunication, implied reader, empowerment and agency in order to shed light on how the blog medium has potential for communicating illness. The article also seeks to discuss how the blog may contribute to making youth that experience illness prominent and significant disseminators of illness and health experiences.
Potentials and Limitations of Narrative in Medicine and Health Care 2015
Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November 2015, the common network meeting for Nordic Network for Studies in Narrativity and Medicine and Norwegian Network on narrative and health care was arranged.
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The meeting took place at Høskolen Bethanien (today VID vitenskapelige høgskole) in Bergen. Katarina Bernhardsson from Lunds Universitetet in Sweden - and member of HAS - gave the presentation “Perspektivetsvikt och berättelsens möjligheter: Sara Stridsbergs Beckomberga”.
Before the network meeting, (from left) Marie-Theres Federhofer, Linda Nesby, Katarina Bernhardsson and LIse-Mari Lauritzen met up for workshop and dinner.
Nordic Network for Studies in Narrativity and Medicine 2015
Several HAS members are connected to Nordic Network for Studies in Narrativity and Medicine, which will meet for a network meeting in Bergen 2-3 November 2015. HAS will meet in Bergen Sunday 1 November prior to the network meeting in order to discuss the forthcoming international conference.
HAS represented at national conference on the humanities 2015
The national faculty meeting for the humanities invites participants the the 2015 Conference on the Humanities, "Humaniora – tilbake til framtida". Anita Salamonsen and Linda H. Nesby have been invited to give a presentation of the research group "Health, Art and Society". The presentation is entitled "Pasienthistorier: Nyttige ogtverrfaglige" (Patient stories: Useful and interdisciplinary).
The conference takes place on May 11 at UiT and is open to everyone interested.
Potential material for HAS 2015
Monday 9 March 2015, Anita Salamonsen (The National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM)) and Linda Nesby (Department of Culture and Literature (IKL)) visited Nasjonalt senter for erfaringskompetanse innen psykisk helse (National Centre for Practical Compentence within Mental Health) in Skien. You may read more about our visit here.
Workshop «Health, Art and Society» 26-27 March 2015 Thursday 26 March:09.00-09.15: Welcome
09.15-10.00: Presentation of group members
10.00-10.15: Break
10.15-11.00: What do we want HAS to be? Strategic discussion
11.00-12.00: What should HAS be and how should we work together?
12.00-13.00: Lunch (Teorifagkantina Hus 1)
13.00-13.30: How to succeed in presenting interdisciplinary research to medical scholars? Presentation by director of studies, general practitioner and PhD Torsten Risør.
13.30-14.00: How to conduct research across disciplines and national borders? Presentation by Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities Anka Ryall about the NRC funded project "Arctic Modernities"
14.00 -14.15: Break
14.15-16.00: Potential application to Research Council Norway's FRIPRO fundingFriday 27 March 201509.00-10.00: Discusson regardig FRIPRO application and other possibilities for funding
10.00-10.15: Break
10.15-11.00: Interview with journalist Stig Brøndbo
11.00-11.45: New meeting platforms and international conference
11.45-12.00: Summary and next steps
12.00-13.00: Lunch (Teorifagkantina, Hus 1)
Potential material for HAS 2015
Monday 9 March 2015, Anita Salamonsen (The National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM)) and Linda Nesby (Department of Culture and Literature (IKL)) visited Nasjonalt senter for erfaringskompetanse innen psykisk helse (National Centre for Practical Compentence within Mental Health) in Skien. You may read more about our visit here.
Interview about HAS in "Tidsskrift for norsk psykologiforening" (Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association)
In December 2014, journalist Nina Strand conducted an interview with Anita Salamonsen and Linda Nesby about their work with the newly established research group Health, Art and Society (HAS). The interview was published in January 2015 under the title "La pasienten være førsteforfatter" (Let the patient be the main author). Among other things, Strand was interested in how patient stories related to mental illness might constitute part of the group's research material.
Guest lecture about the rade disease 2014
On Wednesday 22 October 11.15-1200, Associate Professor Anne Kveim Lie from University of Oslo will give a guest lecture on the rade disease.
The rade disease affected major parts of Norway, particularly the South-West in the 17 and 1800s. The struggle to combat the disease laid the foundation for the establishment of the public health service in Norway. From the 1950s, the rade disease was perceived by many as a variant of syphilis, with certain particular epidemiological and clinical features. An extensive literature on the rade disease exists, and Norway's first doctroral thesis was about the disease.
Anne Kveim Lie is trained as a medical doctor, but she has dedicated her entire career to her work as a medical historian at University of Oslo. In 2007 she defended her PhD thesis "Radesykens tilblivelse. Historien om en sykdom" ('The origin of the rade disease. The history of a disease')