The Centre for Culture and the Mind at the University of Copenhagen is running a 4-day course for PhD students on ‘Cinema, Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century’, 21-24th of May 2024.

The PhD course will explore cinema’s emergence as a key instrument of medical training, scientific research and health education in the first half of the twentieth century. Guest lecturers include Andreas Killen, Janet Harbord, Pasi Väliaho and Julia Barbara Köhne.

Provisional programme: 

Day 1: 
9-11 am: Origins: Physiology, Neurology and the Cinematic Analysis of Human Movement
11-11.15 Coffee Break
11:15-1pm Guest seminar: Pasi Väliaho (University of Oslo), ‘Gesture, Thought, and Cinema circa 1900’
1-2 pm: Lunch
2-4 pm: Reading Medical and Scientific Films: (A practical session introducing students to the close analysis of different types of scientific and medical film)

Day 2
9-11: Medical Cinematography during the First World War
11-11.5 Coffee Break
11:15 Guest seminar: Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt University, Berlin), ‘Mental Wounds on Screen: Cinematographies of “Male War Hysteria” in both World Wars’
1-2pm: Lunch
2-4pm: Cinema, Observation and the Psy-disciplines in the Interwar Period: Case Studies from Germany and the US.

Day 3: 
9-11: Cinema, Audiences and Health Enlightenment
11-11.15 Coffee Break
11:15-1pm: Guest seminar: Andreas Killen (City College of New York), ‘Cinema and Psychiatry in Interwar Germany’
1-2pm: Lunch
2-4: The Hypnotic Screen: Film as Therapy

Day 4: 
9.15-11 Guest seminar: Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, UK): ‘The Autistic Gesture: Film as Neurological Training’ and film screening of Autism Plays Itself (2023)
11-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-1pm Student presentations: Session 1
1-2pm Lunch
2-3.30 Student presentations: Session 2
3.30-4pm Closing discussion

For further details about the course, please visit: 

https://phdcourses.dk/Course/112802

Students who would like to register on the course should send an email to the organizer, Anna Toropova ant@hum.ku.dk by 6^th of May 2024.