Transdisciplinary lecture series on the topic of “hospitals”
In this lecture series we gather perspectives from writers, medical historians, ethicists, and hospital architects.
All lectures are open to the public and will be delivered in hybrid format (in person and on Zoom).
Friday 15.03.2024 (5-7pm) – Saal Henri Dunant
― Alfons Labisch
The clinical ward in medical history: spatial climax of multiple interrelations (DE)
Alfons Labisch, author of the classic Homo hygienicus, talks about hospital sickrooms from the perspective of medical history – using unpublished image and text material. This will result in exciting, new approaches to the still largely unwritten cultural history of patients’ rooms and wards.
Room 036 Saal Henri Durant, PER 17
Chem. du Musée 18, 1700 Fribourg
Wednesay 06.09.2023 (5-7pm) – Pavillon vert
― David Wagner
Sickrooms, corridors, hospital wards:
on the psychogeography of the hospital in ‘Leben’ (DE)
The prize-winning Leben (2013), a captivating autobiographical novel by the German author David Wagner, evokes the hospital as an unsettling labyrinth of spaces, sceneries, and sensory impressions. In the lecture and following discussion, we will delve into the poetical intricacies of this work.
Pavillon Vert
Chem. du Musée 10, 1700 Fribourg
