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Network meetings and newsletters

The Nordic Network for Narratives in Medicine organises network meetings/conferences and sends out newsletters to the network members 4-6 times a year.

More than 120 members across the Nordic region subscribe to the Nordic Network for Narrative Medicine's newsletter. The newsletters contain information that the members have sent in about ongoing events, conferences, newly published books, calls for appointments at Nordic universities and colleges, etc.  The newsletter is sent out about twice per semester and is in Swedish.

Do you want to receive the newsletter? Or do you have information that you want to spread to others? Email Asa [dot] Thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Asa[dot]Thormahlen[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)

Newsletters from 2022-2023 in PDF format on our Swedish webbsite

Network meetings

Approximately every 1.5-2 years we invite our members to network meetings. These meetings are scientific conferences, open to researchers, teachers and students, as well as to representatives from the health care system. Conference contributions are preferably in Danish, Swedish or Norwegian, but we also welcome papers in English for non-Scandinavian speaking members and audiences.

Next network meeting in Copenhagen 10-11 June 2025

Our next network meeting on the theme: "Educational Aspects in Medical and Health Humanities" will take place in Copenhagen. The call for papers is now open:

Nordic network for narratives in medicine welcomes papers from scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and specialties within the medical and heath humanities as well as the social and psychological aspects of medicine and healthcare. For the network meeting, we invite papers on the theme of “educational aspects in medical and health humanities” studied within many different areas, including but not limited to:

  1. Didactic reflections on humanities courses about health topics
  2. Didactic reflections on humanities elements in medical and health educations
  3. Creativity as a method and practice in medical and health humanities courses
  4. Health-related interventions outside university education which promote learning in medical and health humanities
  5. Studies or reviews on the benefits and challenges of courses, seminars etc. in the intersection of humanities and health

Please send an abstract of max 200 words to asa [dot] thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Thormählen) by 15 February, 2025. Each presenter is allotted 15 minutes, followed by a short discussion. Presenters will be notified of the acceptance of the abstract at the latest on 15 March. We encourage presentations in any Scandinavian language or in English.

Read the call for papers on Copenhagen University Website: 
Call for papers: Educational Aspects in Medical and Health Humanities – Københavns Universitet

Keynote speakers at the network meeting

  • Rishi Goyal, MD, associate professor, Department for Medical Humanities and Ethics, Columbia University
  • Astrid Pernille Jespersen, professor, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
  • Tine Høeg, artist, writer-in-residence at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

Registration is open too

Do you want to join the network meeting without holding a paper? You are more than welcome! 

Link to registration for network meeting in Copenhagen 10-11 June 2025 on Copenhagen University's website

Previous network meetings: 

2024 in Trondheim on the theme: "Care and Community in the Arts of Narrative Medicine"

2022 in Lund on the theme "Ranges of proximity: approaching narratives in medicine"
Conference program for the network meeting in Lund (PDF, 870 kB, new window)

2021 (online) on the theme "Storytelling in the Arts of Narrative Medicine"

Contact

Åsa Thormählen
Coordinator
Asa [dot] Thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Asa[dot]Thormahlen[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)