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[logo.jpg][HofM-01-cmyk.jpeg] The Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce dates below that may be of interest for our 2012 Public Engagement events and supported by the Wellcome Trust's Centre Strategic Award; Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine. Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us, or for more information please see our web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/ Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth from the 1950s to Present, Dr Laura King: 12 and 13th June 2012: Productions of Babakas' Our Fathers (in association with Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate Theatre) with expert panel discussions: Panel 1 - 12th June: Father Figures Through Time How perceptions of fatherhood have changed through the 19th and 20th centuries, the persistence of stereotypes and the transmission of ideas through family generations. Panel 2 -13th June: Thoroughly Modern Dads? How fathers interact with their children today, through pregnancy, childbirth and infancy; the rise of stay-at-home dads, gay parenting; and new birth technologies. Saturday 16th June 2012 - Exhibition of Creative Writing Workshop Publication, Poetry Readings and 'Make a Father's Day Card' at the Coventry Mysteries Festival, Coventry City Centre [Fatherhood-Postcard-lowres-draft.jpg] War, Memory Trauma, Dr Sarah York: 23rd June 2012: War, Memory, Trauma exhibition and launch events at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday 23rd June, 10.00am - 16.00pm. The exhibition explores the emotional and psychological impact of modern warfare on soldiers, from the emergence of shell shock to more recent debates on post-traumatic stress disorder. Alongside the exhibition, there will be object handling sessions, a poetry reading and memory exchange which includes oral history presentations from veterans of recent conflicts. A public lecture, 'Memories and Emotions: Discovering the Soldiers' Perspective of War' will be presented on Tuesday 21st August (12.30-13.30pm) at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Saturday 16th June 2012 - Exhibition of Creative Writing Workshop Publication, at the Coventry Mysteries Festival, Coventry City Centre [wae, memory, trauma.bmp] Mrs Tracy Horton Administrator Centre for the History of Medicine Room H449a. Humanities Building University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: +44 024 765 72601 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> P Please consider the environment; do you really need to print this email? The HISTORY OF EMOTIONS email list is run by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions The Centre also hosts the History of Emotions Blog http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/ To modify your subscription to this list, or to unsubscribe, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/historyofemotions