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SUMMARY:Heroic Doctors?: From Medical Memoirs to The Pitt
DESCRIPTION:A hybrid talk by Danielle Spencer about the contemporary genre of physician-author memoirs and their representations in popular media. \n\n\n\n\nIn this hybrid talk we will first explore the contemporary genre of physician-authors’ memoirs. These Bildungsroman works tend to follow a narrative in which the young clinician is progressively debased by the rigors of training and exposure to illness and mortality until an epiphanic experience figures them—directly or by proxy—as a patient\, whereupon they recoup their understanding of their own essential humanity. It is the reverse of the speculative fiction plot twist in which a presumably human character is discovered to be a robot\, zombie\, clone\, or the like\, as here the interchangeable mask or white coat of the professional role is figuratively pulled aside to reveal—surprise!—a unique human being. What is at stake with such plots? \nIn addition\, we will discuss the way these themes are explored in television medical procedurals\, focusing on the current series The Pitt\, which is garnering tremendous attention and critical acclaim in the United States. How does the show depict its clinian characters\, and what is at stake in such plots? We will invite discussion and comparison with other representations of the healthcare context\, including TV serials in the UK. \nDanielle Spencer\, PhD\, is a faculty member in the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Graduate Program. Author of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity (Oxford University Press\, 2021) and co-author of Perkins-Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (OUP\, 2017)\, her scholarly and creative work appears in diverse outlets\, from The Lancet to Ploughshares. Her research interests include narrative medicine\, health humanities\, narrative ethics\, and media criticism. (www.daniellespencer.com) \nThis event is free to attend. The Zoom link will be circulated closer to the date.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/heroic-doctors-from-medical-memoirs-to-the-pitt/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:International Narrative Neurology Network Launch
DESCRIPTION:The International Narrative Neurology Network is delighted to invite you to its online launch event on June 10th from 2 to 4 pm. INNN aims to gather researchers (in the medical and health humanities\, neurology\, literary studies\, philosophy\, or any related field)\, as well as practitioners\, patient associations\, expert patients\, or any individual who might have been contributing or is looking to contribute to the intersection of narrative and neurology.\nThe organizing committee will briefly discuss why facilitating a space to think through Narrative Neurology is crucial. In person and online\, participants will have the opportunity to meet\, share their vision for the INNN’s scientific direction\, and discuss topics of interest to the network. \nOrganizing committee:\nClaire Jeantils\, network lead – Durham University\nRong Huang – Peking University and Durham University\nBenjamin Dalton – Lancaster University\nFrançois Tison – Bordeaux University \nThis event is free to attend. The virtual link will be shared closer to the date. \nThis online network launch is affiliated with the Narrative Practices Lab of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. The INNN lead is Claire Jeantils.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/international-narrative-neurology-network-launch/
LOCATION:CB0015 • Confluence Building • Durham University  Lower Mountjoy South Road Durham DH1 3LE\, Lower Mountjoy South Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Cap-Lit\, Cli-Fi\, and Vi-Fi by Diasporic Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:This event examines how diasporic millennial women writers Ling Ma\, Saleema Nawaz\, and Oana Aristide advance feminist and anti-capitalist critiques through speculative pandemic fiction. The paper’s first half analyses Ling Ma’s Severance\, a prescient cap-lit (anti-capitalism literature) narrative that critiques racial capitalism through the story of Candace Chen\, a Chinese American worker steering her way through corporate greed during a devastating pandemic. By exploring the intersections of labour exploitation\, global supply chains\, and neocolonial practices\, Severance contributes to debates on systemic inequities exacerbated by crises. An interlude on Saleema Nawaz’s Songs for the End of the World highlights corporate opportunism during disasters\, drawing eerie parallels to real-world responses to Covid-19. \nThe lecture’s second half explores Oana Aristide’s Under the Blue\, a haunting cli-fi (climate change) and vi-fi (virus fiction) narrative where environmental collapse and a universally lethal virus reshape the globe. Through vivid depictions of human vulnerability and resilience\, Aristide addresses themes of displacement\, survival\, and ecological reckoning. A second interlude revisits Songs for the End of the World\, interrogating climate grief and the ethical dilemmas around women’s reproductive rights in apocalyptic times. \nBy synthesizing cap-lit\, cli-fi\, and vi-fi\, this paper aims to show how feminist speculative fiction critiques extractive capitalism and ecological neglect while reimagining solidarities in the face of planetary crises. \nClaire Chambers is Professor of Global Literature at the University of York\, ​where she teaches literature from South Asia\, the Perso-Arab world\, and their diasporas. She is the author of ​several books\, including ​​​Britain Through Muslim Eyes (2015)\, ​​​​Rivers of Ink​: Selected Essays​ (2017)​\, and ​​​Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels (2019). She edited Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia (2021)\, co-edited ​​A Match Made in Heaven (2020)\, and co-authored Storying Relationships (2021)​​. Claire was Editor-in-Chief for a decade of the ​​Journal of Commonwealth Literature​\, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her upcoming book is Decolonizing Disease: Pandemics\, Public Health\, and Pathogenic Novels (Liverpool University Press\, spring 2026).
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/cap-lit-cli-fi-and-vi-fi-by-diasporic-women-writers/
LOCATION:CB0015 • Confluence Building • Durham University  Lower Mountjoy South Road Durham DH1 3LE\, Lower Mountjoy South Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Narrative Practices: Tarot as Method
DESCRIPTION:Tarot has often been coded as an ‘alternative’ practice\, relegated to the realm of the occult\, spiritual\, or pseudo-scientific. But what would it mean to reframe tarot as a viable\, valuable mode of meaning-making\, a narrative practice that meaningfully expresses experiences that are cast to the margins? \nThis hybrid event explores tarot as a tool for relaying embodied experiences and relational\, political commitments; we demonstrate how tarot has been used in various spaces to define and decipher connections to the individual and communal bodies. We will unpack the historical narrativisation of tarot before replotting its practice and politics within queer death and decolonial thought. These spaces are fundamentally concerned with subjectivity\, temporality\, and epistemology: who is seen as an agentive character\, what is our relationship to life and death\, and what is authenticated as knowledge? We will demonstrate how tarot – as a textual encounter – becomes a way of reclaiming the bodies and bodies of knowledge that a Western Cartesian and colonial worldview casts outside its purview of care. \nTo this end\, we will use the workshop as a space to radically imagine how tarot might be deployed within academic contexts to repair these relationships to knowledge and power. \nAbout the speakers \nLotta Petronella is a filmmaker\, artist and writer based on an island in Finland. She is co- founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and has worked with and on islands for nearly two decades. Since her internationally awarded film Själö – Island of Souls (2020)\, she has been leading a multidisciplinary collaborative research Själö Poeisis on the island of Seili. Her latest work Materia Medica of Islandswas previewed at Vallisaari\, Helsinki Biennial in 2023. In addition to her filmmaking and art practice\, Petronella is a devoted medicine and flower essence maker and tarot scholar. She also writes poems\, makes soundscapes\, and runs a podcast called Little screams. \nKelechi Anucha is a Lecturer in Literature and Environmental Justice at the University of Manchester\, and Programme Director of the MA in Arts\, Culture and Environments\, a course which addresses the complex context of the climate crisis through critical and creative practice. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities\, Durham University and Co-lead of the Wellcome Trust funded Black Health and the Humanities Network. \nArya Thampuran is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Medical Humanities\, Durham University and co-lead of the Black Health and the Humanities Network in her day job\, and a yoga instructor pre-sunrise/post-sunset. These roles capture her interests in mental health and healing\, engaging with communal knowledges and practices around wellbeing. Her work is broadly situated at the intersection of the medical humanities and critical race studies; she is interested in how creative practitioners in contemporary African diasporic contexts express distress and healing\, in ways that re-script prevailing psychiatric narratives of illness and wellness. Principally\, her work is committed to a decolonial and intersectional approach. \nThis event is hosted by The Narrative Practices Lab of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. \nThis hybrid event is free to attend. The zoom link will be shared closer to the date.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/reclaiming-narrative-practices-tarot-as-method/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image
DESCRIPTION:Hosted jointly by the Narrative Practices Lab and the Visual and Material Lab in Durham University’s Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Linköping University’s Division of Gender Studies\, Department of Thematic Studies\, the day will be themed around the intersection of genre and gender\, exploring ideas at the cutting edge of Literary Studies\, Art History and Visual Studies\, Film Studies\, Critical Theory\, Feminist Philosophy\, Queer and Trans Theory\, and Medical Humanities. We invite presentations on any aspect of the moving image: from visual social media content to moving image artworks to film and television\, and anything in between or beyond. \nWe look forward to exploring how gender and genre are co-constituted\, and how their inter-relations shapes ideas and experiences of health and illness. We hope to hear about how the visual and the narrative inter-relate\, how genre can both limit and enable the depiction of experiences of illness\, and how stories\, visual forms\, physical experiences\, and aesthetic modes can be gendered\, and can shape our experiences of gender. The day will explore the moving image as method in the medical humanities\, foregrounding the ways that the visual can open up what it’s possible to know\, to experience\, to express. The symposium brings together themes of embodiment\, power\, art\, story\, meaning\, knowledge\, and history to tie conceptual questions about the nature and politics of visual representation to tangible examples in our lives\, our bodies\, and our experiences of illness and disability. \nThe day will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines\, offering opportunities for connection and the possibility of future collaboration. We look forward to exploring together the future of the moving image in Medical Humanities\, and to considering new horizons for this field of work. \nThe panels will be as follows: \nPanel 1 \nSupernatural Horror\, Illness\, and Narrative Practices – Edyta Just \nInvoluntary childlessness and reframing failure in gynaehorror – Sally Campbell \nThe Hybrid Artistic Nudes of the Frankensteinian ‘Mad Scientists’: Organ Transplantation and Gender Performativity in contemporary cinema – Sara Damiani \nMissed Periods: Abortion Access\, Bodies\, and Cinematographic Uses of the Past in Period Drama – Melissa Oliver-Powell \nPanel 2 \nVoicing Objects – Olivia Turner \nFluid Borders: Creative Collaboration and Collective Care in Moving Image Practice – Emily Beaney \nGenrecripping human/non-human collaborations: the role of queerness and disability in Abi Palmer Invents the Weather – Cat Chong \nLabour as Labour: reading pregnancy and birth as professional practice in Lyndsay Mann’s As You Were – Fiona Johnstone \nPanel 3 \nGenre and Gender in Representations of Dementia in Contemporary Cinema – Malgorzata Bugaj \nHair Loss\, Gendered Trauma\, and the Politics of Representation: A Feminist Analysis of Cancer Narratives in Malayalam Cinema – Anjana Menon \nThe New Good Doctor: White Masculinity and the Post-Obamacare Medical Drama – Kristen Loutensock \nMoving Slowly: Drawing Attention to Slow Violence in the Domestic Everyday in Bhopal – Lynn Wray \nUncertain Surfaces: Running\, Writing\, Experimental Filmmaking and Parkinson’s – Janice Howard \nPanel 4 \nLetters from the “brain hospital”: visualizing illness in Lotta Petronella’s film Själö: Island of Souls – Marta Cenedese \nVisual representations of diet culture and generational conflict in the #almondmom trend on TikTok – Hester Hockin-Boyers \nMale Mental Health and Suicide in Contemporary Drama Film – Christina Wilkins \n“I’m telling you\, it actually happened”: Madness\, Unreal Realism & Speculative TV – The Mad Feeling Collective \nThe symposium is convened by the Narrative Practices Lab co-led by Veronica Heney\, the Visual and Material Lab led by Fiona Johnstone\, and Edyta Just from Linköping University. \nThis event is free to attend.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/gender-and-genre-medical-humanities-and-the-moving-image/
LOCATION:Tom Percival Annexe\, Brooks House\, Parsons Field\, Durham\, DH1 1PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices,Visual and Material
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SUMMARY:Narrative Interventions in Physiotherapy
DESCRIPTION:‘Using Narrative Perspectives in a Physiotherapy Intervention for Women with Fibromyalgia: towards an intervention of shared meaning-making’ \nIn this hybrid presentation\, Hedda will discuss her ongoing postdoctoral project\, which aims to develop and explore the significance of a narrative intervention for patients with long-lasting pain conditions. This project is being developed in collaboration with physiotherapists in primary healthcare settings. They particularly emphasize the importance of co-producing patient and therapy knowledge in practice as a means to generate new evidence. Another key principle of the project is that evidence is generated as the intervention evolves\, and vice versa. This indicates that the project is advancing beyond the mere implementation of evidence-based interventions to actively creating evidence through the intervention process. \nAbout the speaker: \nHedda Eik is a physiotherapist with extensive clinical experience\, particularly focusing on women’s health. She obtained her PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Oslo. Presently\, she serves as an Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University\, Faculty of Health Sciences\, within the Department of Rehabilitation and Health Technology. Additionally\, she holds a Postdoctoral position at theUniversity of Oslo\, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. \nHer primary research interest is women’s health\, with a focus on understanding the complexities of contested illnesses like fibromyalgia from the perspectives of both patients and physiotherapists. She draws inspiration from medical humanities and is intrigued by how theories and perspectives from other fields can offer fresh insights into illness\, treatment\, and the development of future healthcare services. \nThis event is organised in collaboration with the Moving Bodies Lab and Narrative Practices Lab as part of the Discovery Research Platform. \nPlease note that Zoom details for this event will be circulated closer to the event. \nThis event is free to attend.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/narrative-interventions-in-physiotherapy/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Moving Bodies,Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Storytelling for health scoping event: challenges\, barriers\, aspirations
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join an online engagement event for practitioners and researchers whose work focuses on storytelling in health. We will bring together a diverse group with whom we can both share the aims and aspirations for the newly-established Narrative Practices Lab and better understand the key challenges\, barriers and aspirations that you have in your work. This initial event\, which we hope will be the first of several opportunities for us to come together and focus on specific issues that arise\, will be led by our creative facilitators in the Institute for Medical Humanities. We will be recording themes and quotations from the plenary discussion in an anonymised and aggregated form to inform future research activities and we will also share this with all participants after the event. \nThe outline of the event will be as follows: \n\n2.00 – 2.20pm – Introduction to the Narrative Practices Lab by Laura Mazzoli Smith.\n2.20 – 2.30pm – Introduction to their Bridging and Curatorial Fellowships by Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner (Patient Voices).\n2.30 – 3.20pm – Initial break-out groups to start to discuss the main questions for the session: what is the power of storytelling in health? What are your key challenges\, barriers and aspirations with respect to storytelling in health?\nBreak\n3.30- 4.00pm – Further creatively facilitated exercises considering challenges of evidence and scale in particular\n\nAfter the event we will share with the group the outcome of the afternoon and start to consider what follow-up activities this suggests. \nAbout us \nLaura Mazzoli Smith is co-lead of the Narrative Practices Lab\, part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities at Durham University. \nPip Hardy is currently a Bridging Fellow and Tony is currently a Curatorial Fellow\, also in the Narrative Practices Lab. They are the founders of Patient Voices and the editors of Cultivating Compassion: How digital storytelling is transforming healthcare (2018) and they have published a number of other articles and book chapters\, including: ‘Humanizing Healthcare: A Conversation with Pip Hardy & Tony Sumner’\, in Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times\, edited by Joe Lambert and Brooke Hessler (2020); ‘Digital Storytelling with Users and Survivors of the UK Mental Health System’\, in Digital Storytelling: Form and Content\, edited by Mark Dunford and Trisha Jenkins. \nPlease note: this is open to practitioners and researchers who engage in any method of storytelling in health/healthcare. This event will be recorded for us to create a document exploring the themes and anonymised/aggregated content of the session\, but the recording itself will not be shared and will be deleted after this document is created. Signing up to this event will therefore mean signing up to the recorded session\, although you are of course free to withdraw at any time in the run-up to the event or during it. We will keep you informed about how the contributions from this engagement session are used and we will contact you to ask you if you would like to be involved in future developments in relation to this event. \nThe deadline for registering is Thursday 29 February 2024. In the following week\, we will contact you with details of a short pre-session activity. \nZoom details will be circulated in time closer to the event.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/storytelling-for-health-scoping-event-challenges-barriers-aspirations/
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Uncertainty\, language\, and care: Interpretation in creative methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Join Hazel Marzetti and Veronica Heney on Monday 11th March for a workshop exploring the possibilities and complexities of interpreting data in creative methodologies. Working creatively with research participants is often proffered as a way through which researchers can avoid imposing their own frameworks and language upon people’s experiences and epistemologies. However\, this often leaves untouched the issue of interpretation\, and the method through which such data will be written about\, described\, and disseminated. This workshop will explore this complexity\, allowing researchers to share\, discuss\, and collectively examine their own ways of working and responding to data. \nThe workshop will begin with a short presentation from Hazel Marzetti\, drawing on her work in the Suicide in/as Politics project\, where she used arts-based\, qualitative inquiry to explore how diverse community members respond to and make sense of political meanings and uses of suicide. The group will then engage in wide-ranging\, facilitated discussion on the issues brought forward in the presentation\, with opportunities to share experiences\, difficulties and questions and to think collectively about good practice and how to approach interpretation with care. \nThe workshop will be in-person only and booking is required. The workshop will be held in the atrium of the Institute for Medical Humanities\, in the Confluence Building\, Lower Mountjoy. The workshop will run from 3.30-5pm on Monday 11th March\, and tea\, coffee\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nAbout Dr Hazel Marzetti : \nI am an interdisciplinary\, qualitative health researcher working on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention\, with specialist expertise in LGBTQ+ suicide. My work is situated at the intersection of medical sociology\, psychology\, and critical public health\, with substantial experience researching sensitive subjects with marginalised communities. I enjoy using a range of qualitative research methods\, including creative\, arts-based practices using poetry and the visual arts. I currently work on the Leverhulme funded Suicide in/as Politics project\, but will shortly be commencing a five-year Wellcome Trust funded Early Career Award exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course. \nPhoto by laura adai on Unsplash.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/uncertainty-language-and-care-interpretation-in-creative-methodologies/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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SUMMARY:Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative Practice for Health & Social Care
DESCRIPTION:The Narrative Practices Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities invites you to an online and in-person seminar presented by Dr John Launer at the Institute for Medical Humanities\, Durham University\, on 8 March 2024. Lunch will be served from 12pm with the seminar starting at 12.30–1.30pm. \nConversations Inviting Change (CIC) is the name for an approach to training in narrative practice for professionals in health and social care\, first developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London for primary care staff in the early days of the Narrative Medicine movement. It is focused on the application of narrative ideas and skills to everyday encounters including consultations with patients and clients\, peer supervision and multiprofessional teamwork. Through activities from one day workshops to courses lasting a year\, CIC has been taught by accredited trainers to thousands of practitioners in the UK\, Europe and worldwide\, including the USA\, Australia the Middle East and Japan. \nIn this seminar\, Dr John Launer\, one of the originators of the approach and honorary president of the Association of Narrative Practice in Healthcare\, will present an account of the approach with examples of practice. For further information visit the CIC website and John’s recent article in The Polyphony. \nThis event will be chaired by Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith from the Narrative Practices Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. \n \nMissed this event? Not to worry\, you can catch-up via the recording below:
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/conversations-inviting-change-narrative-practice-for-health-social-care/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Narrative Practices Lab":MAILTO:imh.mail@durham.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Storying Later Life: Key Concepts in a Narrative Perspective on Ageing
DESCRIPTION:Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the Narrative Practices Lab warmly invite you to attend a seminar by Prof William Randall\, Emeritus Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick\, Canada. \nThe event will be available on a hybrid basis and include a light lunch for in-person attendees at 12:00. The online talk will start at 12:30. \nGerontology is a multi-disciplinary field that explores the complexity of aging from a variety of angles: psychological\, sociological\, physiological\, etc. The sub-field of narrative gerontology\, which draws on research in narrative psychology\, narrative therapy\, narrative medicine\, etc.\, is grounded in the conviction that we humans are hermeneutical beings\, that we make sense of our lives and our worlds through essentially narrative processes. Thus\, we age not just biologically but biographically as well. This presentation will outline key concepts in a narrative perspectives on later life. These include narrative development\, narrative challenges (e.g.\, narrative foreclosure)\, narrative environment\, and the importance of narrative care with older adults. \nAbout the speaker: \nWilliam (Bill) Randall is Professor Emeritus of Gerontology at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick\, Canada\, and a Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College\, Cambridge University (Lent 2024). He has authored or co-authored over 70 publications\, including ten books. Among these are: The Stories We Are\, Reading Our Lives\, The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life\, and most recently Things That Matter: Special Objects in Our Stories as We Age (University of Toronto Press\, 2023). See www.williamlrandall.com.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/storying-later-life-key-concepts-in-a-narrative-perspective-on-ageing/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Narrative Practices Lab":MAILTO:imh.mail@durham.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Decolonising Narrative: Creative Approaches to Black Healthcare in Britain
DESCRIPTION:This event brings two academics and artists from the Black Health and the Humanities Network\, Dr Yewande Okuleye and Rianna Raymond-Williams\, to reflect on the creative methods they engage with for healthcare education and empowerment in Black communities in Britain. Bridging art and advocacy\, Yewande draws on poetry as a liberatory practice\, working to dismantle stigma surrounding therapeutic psychedelic use; Rianna draws on the digital to raise awareness about sexual and reproductive health. This session will begin with Yewande and Rianna sharing snippets of their practice\, followed by a discussion session in which the audience will be invited to think with us about issues of race\, place\, and voice in healthcare and healthcare research ecologies. What does it mean to ‘decolonise’ narrative practice’; whose voices and what modes of expression are privileged in the production of knowledge about health? How might the stories we tell engage with the political realities of healthcare\, and what are the possibilities for policy change? How might we meaningfully attend to the diversity of embodied experiences? \nAll are welcome – we look forward to a rich\, generative discussion on narrative across different disciplinary positions and practices! \nThe seminar is free to attend\, although we ask you reserve your space via Eventbrite. \nA collaboration between the Black Health and Humanities Network and Narrative Practices lab at the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
URL:https://medhumsplatform.org/event/decolonising-narrative-creative-approaches-to-black-healthcare-in-britain/
LOCATION:Institute for Medical Humanities\, Confluence Building\, Stockton Road\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Narrative Practices
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Narrative Practices Lab":MAILTO:imh.mail@durham.ac.uk
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