Time and date
The panel-led public discussion event will be held on Friday 14th of November from 1-2pm.
Venue
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH (accessibility information: Ashmolean Museum access page)
Description
An open panel-led public conversation involving academics, museum curators, and expert patient tutors (people living with chronic neurological diseases who co-deliver teaching sessions for the Medical School) as well as a self-guided museum trail at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford that the public will be invited to take before or after the panel discussion. It will involve experts from TORCH Medical Humanities Hub, the ANTITHESES Platform and the Uehiro Oxford Institute at Oxford in dialogue with the public.
This event is part of the Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 - 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see the Being Human Festival page.
Speakers
Introduction by Dr Jim Harris, Teaching Curator, Ashmolean Museum
Chaired by Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Deputy Director Uehiro Oxford Institute and Director of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford
Dr Victoria Bradley, Consultant in and the Clinical Lead for Palliative Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine
Dr Halina Suwalowska, Social Scientist and Researcher in Global Health Bioethics at the Ethox Centre
Eleanor Kerfoot, Historian and DPhil candidate at Balliol College
Booking
Please note booking is required to attend the panel discussion.
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