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"Medicine and Film" continues the discussion on productive interdisciplinary collaboration between medicine and the humanities that began in the 2025 summer semester in the lecture series "Medical Humanities: The Treatment of Illness in the Humanities". In the winter semester 2025/26, the focus will be on the representation of medicine and medical topics in film. Primarily, various dimensions on screen such as science and ethics, medical representations of healing practices and diseases, power relations between doctors, nurses and patients, and cultural notions of healthy/sick bodies will be foregrounded. From the perspective of cultural studies and medical humanities, the topic will therefore be examined through the relations of the body – from care, flesh, skin, cells and mind to the deep psyche. The FILM & TALK format frames the film screening with a guest lecture by an academic and an open discussion led by FHW students.

Any questions you may have about the event will be answered by the transSCAPE team () around Max Jokschus and PD Dr. Nora Pleßke.

On Thursday, 30 October 2025, the transSCAPE team cordially invites you to the fifth Town Hall Meeting. This open format brings together stakeholders from the the academic, urban, and cultural communities to actively shape the future of Magdeburg's Port of Science. The focus is on transfer formats and the question of how knowledge transfer and cooperation between the city, society, science and business can be successful. Registration is requested.

The event starts at 4 p.m. in the Old Town Hall in Magdeburg.  Visitors can expect a varied programme. After a keynote speech by Prof. Dr Christian Antz on the topic of "Magdeburg – nothing is impossible! Be a pioneer and shape the future", transfer formats can be experienced in direct exchange during a mini walk & talk. A mini film & talk concludes the event with an artistic look at teaching and knowledge transfer.

On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the transSCAPE team cordially invites you to the fifth Town Hall Meeting. This open format brings together stakeholders from the the academic, urban, and cultural communities to actively shape the future of Magdeburg's Port of Science.

A student agency will be created in the coming years as part of the transSCAPE workshop. This year, for the first time, its focus areas will be piloted: spatial localisation and forms of cooperation with partners outside the university.

The event starts at 5 pm on the site of historic ships in Magdeburg's Port of Science. Visitors will experience the current changes around the northern harbour area and discover the newly designed culture beds - an instrument created as part of the urban development funding in Magdeburg Neustadt that combines urban gardening with creative interim use. You can also look forward to the results of two semesters of transdisciplinary university teaching, including findings on the biodiversity of bean varieties and the question of how generations can learn together. Last but not least, you will gain insights into the history of the former commercial harbour, artistic stagings of its transformation as well as student project plans and visions for the future of a medical technology ecosystem in the Port of Science.

During the programme and after it closes at 7 pm, visitors can meet up in a relaxed atmosphere with cool drinks at Café Treibgut.

Since 2017, the Inklings-Gesellschaft für Literatur und Ästhetik e.V. (Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics) has been publishing a newsletter in irregular cycles, which is dedicated to the review of fantastic primary texts. The Inklings Society was founded in 1983 and is primarily dedicated to the study and dissemination of the works of the Inklings, a group of authors around J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton, but also to the analysis of the fantastic in literature, film and art in general.

From 2022 onwrds, the newsletter will be edited by Marthe-Siobhán Hecke, M.A., M.Ed. (University of Bonn), and Carsten Kullmann, M.A. (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg), offerering a platform for the review of newly published primary texts (e.g. literature, film, series, etc.) that belong to a genre of the fantastic (e.g. fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic, dystopia). The editors are currently looking for student reviewers who would like to become part of the editorial team and contribute (academic) reviews of such primary texts for the newsletter. The reviews can be written in German or English. Review copies of literary works will be provided if possible. If you are interested, please contact Carsten Kullmann (). An overview of past newsletter issues can be found here.