Unspeakable: Trauma, Memory, and Violence

Unspeakable: Trauma, Memory, and Violence

Please join us for this lecture by forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead, author of Unspeakable: Stories of Survival and Recovery from Trauma(Faber, 2026). In this lecture, Dr Adshead will discuss trauma and exposure to traumatic events as a...
Interdisciplinary AI

Interdisciplinary AI

What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves? The Narrative and Cognition Lab invites you to an afternoon of interdisciplinary conversation that brings narrative theory, philosophy...
Heroic Doctors?: From Medical Memoirs to The Pitt

Heroic Doctors?: From Medical Memoirs to The Pitt

A hybrid talk by Danielle Spencer about the contemporary genre of physician-author memoirs and their representations in popular media. In this hybrid talk we will first explore the contemporary genre of physician-authors’ memoirs. These Bildungsroman works tend to...