Date: 2pm, Saturday 2 March 2019 Location: Paisley Abbey, PA1 1JG Live Jazz and Spoken Word recited without a voice box, Glasgow, UK. The cancer charities TRACTion Cancer Support and Shout at Cancer proudly announce their event with the Peter Edwards Trio: Outspoken Jazz, in collaboration with Peter Johnson (The Repeat Beat Poet) and Bruce Sherfield (Spoken… Continue reading
The Life of Breath Project is pleased to announce ‘Arts of Breath’, a series of lecture-performances exploring the role of breath in poetry, fiction, singing, dance and visual art. All events will take place in Durham. For more information see individual event pages below, or contact Sarah McLusky. Wed 29 Nov 2017: Visualising the Ephemeral: Breath in Visual Art with artist Jayne… Continue reading
Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures Date: Monday 3rd – Tuesday 4th April 2017 Location: Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LQ Organizing Committee: Dr Gavin Miller (Chair), Medical Humanities Research Centre/English Literature, University of Glasgow Dr Sofia Xenofontos, Classics, University of Glasgow Dr Cheryl McGeachan, Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow… Continue reading
Location: Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th September 2016 Deadline for proposals: Friday 3rd June 2016 Keynote speakers: Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University NY Andrew Kötting, artist and filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and foster collaborative… Continue reading
Location: Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University Date: Wed 27th – Thurs 28th July 2016 A two-day workshop hosted by MMU Medical Humanities, Aesthetics and Creativity and Disability Networks Convenors: Dr Lucy Burke (l.burke@mmu.ac.uk) and Dr Anna Bergqvist (a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk) Creativity is an area that many research councils and funding bodies recognise as a focal point for… Continue reading
CFP: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages Submit Abstracts by 12th Feb 2016 (1 week left!) 7th July-9th July 2016, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Scotland Keynote Speakers: Lynda Barry, Al Davison & Elisabeth El Refaie and a special workshop with Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon Theme: The theme of this year’s conference, Stages… Continue reading
Date: Friday 7th Nov 2014 Scottish Premier of ‘Equal Voices’ (Sally Beamish) and ‘An Equal Voice’ (Andrew Motion), in association with the RSNO. Equal Voices is a five movement work commissioned to mark the centenary of the start of WWI. The text is a found poem based on accounts of shell shock, drawing from psychiatric case notes and… Continue reading
