Dr Dieter Declercq，讲师Film and Media， Dr Michael Newall，艺术史和高级讲师Nicola Shaughnessy教授， 戏剧和戏剧系表演教授，正在组织由英国美学学会主办的会议，并得到美学研究中心的支持。会议主题是“艺术、美学和医学与健康人文”，将由艺术学院主办，时间为2020年2月7日星期五至2月9日星期日。这次会议将把分析美学和医学与健康人文学科结合在一起。这些学科共享重要的核心关注点，并且彼此有很多可以提供的东西。医学和健康人文学科探讨人文学科——尤其是艺术——在医学、医学教育和卫生保健中的作用。在这个过程中，他们涉及到许多分析美学的核心主题，包括叙事、创造力、想象力、共情、情感、艺术价值、价值互动和感官知觉。该会议旨在促进关于艺术和美学与医学、医学教育、医疗保健以及促进健康和福祉之间联系的对话。

主题演讲将由教授Rita Charon(哥伦比亚大学)，教授Paul Crawford(诺丁汉大学)，教授Sheila Lintott(巴克尼尔大学)开云体育主頁(欢迎您)大学)，教授JeneferRobinson (辛辛那提大学)，以及博士Julie Anderson<开云体育app客服/a>(肯特大学)，博士Stella Bolaki(肯特大学)， Eileen john博士(华开云体育主頁(欢迎您)威大学)and Matthew Kieran教授(利兹大学开云体育主頁(欢迎您))。组织者邀请论文报告，探讨艺术、分析美学和医学与健康人文之间的联系。会议支持对艺术和美学的广泛理解，从美术到大众媒体和日常生活的美学。 Similarly, the organisers encourage exploration of a broad range of contributions that the arts can make to health and wellbeing, including in the delivery of healthcare, the education of healthcare professionals, as well as the advancement of health and wellbeing in the broadest sense. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Narratives, storytelling and narrative medicine
• (The decline of) empathy in healthcare
• The role or place of imagination, emotion or sensory perception in healthcare
• Art, aesthetics and disability
• Health in relation to other values of art
• Art and aesthetics in healthcare education
• Comedy, humour, health and wellbeing
• Graphic medicine

Proposals are invited in two formats:

1. 20-minute presentations (with 10 minutes for Q&A). These are traditional research papers. Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words for blind review.
2. 5-minute ‘reverse presentations’ (with 10 minutes for audience response). These are designed for presenters to pitch a new research topic which they consider of interest to both Analytic Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities. This format is designed to give presenters suggestions and ideas about how their topic can be tackled from the perspective of both disciplines. Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words for blind review.