This Symposium will take place at Lancaster University, 9 – 5.30pm on Friday 17th August 2018. It is part of the AHRC-funded research network Translating Chronic Pain, which is exploring challenges pain experience poses to traditional narrative representation, and the value of rethinking narrativity or embracing unconventional or fragmentary narrative forms. The symposium will explore broad debates around narrativity in medical humanities, the potential of short-form narration or unconventional forms of illness narration, the positivity imperative in illness narration, challenges of chronic pain representation, and the way ‘entanglements’ with fields such as disability studies or trauma theory may enrich critical medical humanities approaches to these questions.
Speakers include Dr Angela Woods (Durham), Dr Stella Bolaki (Kent), Dr James Berger (Yale), Dr Megan Crowley-Matoka (Northwestern), Professor Ann Jurecic (Rutgers), Professor Brendan Stone (Sheffield), and Professor Javier Moscoso (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spain).
This Translating Chronic Pain network brings together people living with pain, academics, and pain charities to explore how short-form creative writing may support people living with pain, raise awareness, and enhance healthcare training.
Travel and accommodation bursaries are also available for six postgraduate students or early career researchers.
For more information please visit the project website or email Sara Wasson.