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Illness, narrative and phenomenology (Workshop, Bristol, 9 July 2013)

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Research Summary: Illness, Narrative and Phenomenology Workshop

Event Type: Medical Humanities Cluster Workshop
Date & Location: 9 July 2013, University of Bristol, Verdon-Smith Room, Institute for Advanced Studies
Primary Topics: Illness narratives, phenomenological approaches to medical experience, embodied recovery, and clinical relationships in palliative care
Key Sessions: Five sessions covering unconscious illness progression, narrative schizophrenia, aphasia, institutional critique, and disability phenomenology; keynote on James Parkinson's foundational medical text
Featured Speakers: 11 scholars from UK institutions including King's College London, Oxford, Durham, and others examining illness through humanities frameworks
Thematic Focus: Integration of narrative medicine and phenomenological inquiry to understand subjective experiences of illness and recovery across conditions including schizophrenia, palliative care, aphasia, and old age
Registration: Free attendance; places limited; registration required via organisers Dr Havi Carel and Dr Ulrika Maude
Support: Funded by University of Bristol Faculty of Arts, Department of English, and Institute for Advanced Studies; lunch and coffee provided

Medical Humanities Cluster Workshop, 9 July 2013
ILLNESS, NARRATIVE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
University of Bristol

9.30-10:00 Coffee

10:00-11:00 Session 1

  • Anthony Lesser (University of Manchester), Can the progress of an illness be unconsciously controlled?
  • Karin Eli (University of Oxford), ‘The body remembers’: embodied reconciliations of disorder and recovery

11.00-12.00 Session 2

  • Victoria Bates (Exeter & Bristol), ‘This murderous maternal creature’: mothers and Münchausen Syndrome by proxy in American crime fiction
  • Michael Flexer (University of Leeds), Death of the memoirist: schizophrenia, semiotics and the illusion of illness narratives

12.00-1.00 Session 3

  • Ian James Kidd (University of Durham), Experiences of Illness and Narratives of Edification
  • Antonio Casado da Rocha (University of the Basque Country at San Sebastián), Narrative oncology and the modeling over time of clinical relationships in palliative care

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Session 4

  • Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College, London), Aphasia: a language for illness from a confusion of tongues
  • John Foot (UCL & Bristol), Negated institutions? The anti-asylum movement in Italy, 1961-1972

3.00-3.30 Coffee

3.30-4.30 Session 5

  • Arianna Introna (University of Stirling) ‘Living in so comfortable a cell’: escaping the bare life of illness and disability in William Soutar’s Diaries of a Dying Man
  • Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick), ‘I’ve been waiting for it all my life’: Samuel Beckett and the phenomenology of old age

5.00-6.15 Keynote Brian Hurwitz (King’s College, London), Sentiment and spectatorship in James Parkinson’s An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)

6.15 Drinks & dinner

We thank the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Arts, Department of English and Institute for Advanced Studies for supporting the workshop. Workshop venue: Verdon-Smith Room Institute for Advanced Studies Royal Fort House University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1UJ

The workshop is free but places are limited and registration is essential. Lunch and coffee will be provided. To register, please email both organisers, Dr Havi Carel and Dr Ulrika Maude.

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