Health Humanities lezingenreeks: Health and the Natural Environment

This year’s lecture series explores the entangled relations between nature and health. Bringing together perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability studies, colonial studies, and environmental humanities, the talks examine how ideas of nature have shaped—and have been shaped by— practices of care, control, and coexistence. Topics range from the rise of disposable medical technologies and their environmental costs, to colonial disease management at the cattle frontier, and from the ambivalent role of “nature” in the lives of people with disabilities to contemporary debates on the restorative effects of natural environments. The series also turns to the microbial world, challenging human exceptionalism and rethinking health as multispecies interdependence rather than biological mastery. Together, these lectures invite critical reflection on sustainability, vulnerability, and care, and offer new ways of imagining health in a world where human and nonhuman lives are profoundly interconnected. Join us online and on campus, at KU Leuven, for a series of inspiring health humanities talks.

Onze gerenommeerde sprekers zullen een reeks onderwerpen behandelen, waaronder:

  • 5 March 2026
    Talking Trash: The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics​​

    Bruno Strasser

  • 19 March 2026
    Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar

    Samuël Coghe

  • 23 April 2026
    Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure

    Samantha Walton

  • 30 April 2026
    “Anyone, regardless of birth or social status, can become a Scout. There are already some deaf Scouts” – Nature and Disability through the lens of the scout camp in 1950s Sweden

    Jonathan Schlunck

  • 7 May 2026
    What Makes Nature Restorative? Evidence, Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward​​​​​​

    Yannick Joye

  • 21 May 2026
    Thinking with Microbes

    Kristien Hens

Hier kan je meer informatie vinden.

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PRAKTISCHE INFO

  • DATUM
    05 maart, 2026
  • LOCATIE
    icon Alle lezingen vinden plaats in Aula Vorlat of Bibliotheek Tweebronnen, in het centrum van Leuven, maar het is mogelijk om ze online bij te wonen, met live interactie.

    3000 Leuven
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  • DOELGROEP
    PhD postdoc ZAP
  • TAAL EVENEMENT
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