Health Humanities Lecture Series 2025-2026: Health and the Natural Environment (KU Leuven)

From March to May, the KU Leuven organises its annual Health Humanities Lecture Series. This year’s theme is Health and the Natural Environment.

The six lectures explore 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. Together, these talks 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 online and on campus at KU Leuven, for a series of inspiring health humanities talks. Visit the KU Leuven website for more information on the lectures and how to register.