Date: 19th February
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: 23 Buccleuch Place (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships/Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society)
The Engagement of Literary Thought in Malawian Health Discourses
This seminar will explore methodological and pedagogical ways in which ordinary Malawians engage with storytelling about health and the shared or disparate themes in both traditional and modern representations of health and the body. From representations of the body, aesthetics of representing health and well-being, this discussion presents various forms of health narratives that have been excavated from my ongoing field studies across Malawi.
Dr Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome-funded postdoctoral fellow in the medical humanities at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her current Wellcome-funded project is titled ‘Ulimbaso ‘You will be strong again’: How literary aesthetics and storytelling inform concepts of health and wellbeing in Malawi’. Which engages how indigenous literary practices (performance, form and aesthetics) are used to address community health . Her research interests are disease (specifically sexually transmitted infections), illness and wellbeing, biomedicine, traditional healing and witchcraft and their narrative representation in African oral and print literatures.
The seminar is hosted by the team from the MSc Health Humanities and Arts, School of Health in Social Science https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling/postgraduate-research/mscr-health-humanities-and-arts.
Spaces are limited - so please do sign up at the eventbrite link above.