Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Global Histories of HIV/AIDS Campaigning in South Africa – Deadline 16 March 2025

Applications are invited for a UKRI-funded position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. The role holder will examine the history of the global connections of HIV and AIDS activists in South Africa, particularly with HIV and AIDS activists in Western Europe, including the UK, but also other parts of the world, like other sub-Saharan African countries, and South Asia. The advertised position is offered as part of the project “AIDS Campaigning between the Global South and Western Europe since the 1980s”. This project is funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF; Grant Reference: MR/Y015878/1), commenced in September 2024 and will be led by Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis (University of Stirling). The successful applicant will be based in the Division of History, Heritage and Politics at the University of Stirling. They will need to be based at Stirling for at least nine months per year and spend the remainder of the year doing archival research or conducting interviews in South Africa, and any other location required for the programme, as well as participating in conferences in and outside of the UK.

The Project

The project is anticipated to involve a group of five researchers led by Nikolaos Papadogiannis. Each researcher will focus on a different part of the globe. Overall, the project will help recalibrate the study of social reactions to HIV and AIDS and, more broadly, modern epidemics and show the importance of ideas from the Global South for relevant campaigns in Western Europe. The project also aims to co-shape the agenda of HIV organisations, making health campaigns in the UK more inclusive in terms of involving on an equitable basis activists from black and queer communities in the UK and the Global South. The project aims to produce various outputs, from co-authored journal articles to a research-based comic. For more detailed information on the project, please see at the bottom of the page the Further Particulars document attached.

Candidates are welcome to contact the Project Lead, Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis (nikolaos.papadogiannis@stir.ac.uk) for more information.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview via Microsoft Teams. The interview questions will be pre-circulated.

You can find the link with full details here.

International Medical Humanities Call for Papers

CFP: Medical Humanities in an African Context

Hosted by Chancellor College University of Malawi, 24 & 25 August 2017

Chancellor College is pleased to announce a 2-day international medical humanities conference to be held at the college’s Great Hall in Zomba, on 24th & 25th August 2017. In Europe and North America, medical humanities is understood as an emerging discipline which explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. This conference offers a formal space to further our understanding of how illness, wellbeing, medicine & treatment intersect with the arts and humanities and to encourage discussions about what these concepts mean in an African context. It provides a highly interdisciplinary platform for a diversity of perspectives and inquiries into African concepts of health and wellbeing. Malawi’s own scholars–the late Professors Steve Chimombo and Chris Kamlongera–were pioneers in bringing the arts into conversation with health, community and development. We aspire to showcase the vibrant, contemporary medical humanities research within Malawi and throughout the African continent.

We invite 20-minute papers on the following subjects including, but not limited to:

• The history of medicine and healthcare
• Medical ethics
• Medical anthropology
• Literature, poetry and medicine
• Visual and performed arts and the body
• Representations of illness and treatment
• Communication in health care
• Religious/spiritual perspectives on health

• Sociology of medicine
• The caregiver/patient relationship
• Healthcare architecture and design
• Disability studies
• Medicine and the law
• Globalisation and healthcare practices

Please send an abstract (approximately 300 words) and short biographical note to the conference organisers by no later than Friday 21 April 2017. Proposals and all enquiries should be addressed to the Proposal Review Committee at malawimedhumsnetwork@gmail.com.

Conference details and updates will be posted to https://malawimedhumsnetwork.wordpress.com.

This conference is hosted by the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities at Chancellor College University of Malawi with funding from the Wellcome Trust and collaborators at University College London and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies.