Dear colleagues,
Anybody working on pain, and/or arts-based methods might be interested in a one-day conference on 18 September at the LSE in London.
Communicating Chronic Pain: Creative approaches, interdisciplinary frameworks
What kind of a thing is pain? Where is it located? What kind of work is needed to address
it? How do the temporal aspects of
chronic pain and chronic illness affect their expression? What forms of communication are enabled
through arts-based methods? And what are
the ethics of working in and around pain and illness?
This interdisciplinary conference emerges from the NCRM/ESRC
project Communicating Chronic Pain,
which has aimed to explore chronic pain communication through digital and
arts-based methods. The conference brings into dialogue diverse perspectives
from the arts, humanities, social sciences and medicine around chronic pain,
chronic illness, science and health communication. Speakers include:
Gillian Bendelow, University of
Brighton
Chronic pain and the mind/body problem in health
& illness
Lucy Bending, University of
Reading
S. Weir Mitchell, pain and literary
production
Mette Høst,
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Visualizing the non visible: Phenomena in physics and the challenges of
expressing both physical and emotional states from a visual art and science
approach
Lisa
Folkmarson Käll, Linköping University
Intercorporeality, bodily boundaries and sharability
of pain
Yasmin
Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths, University of London
Diasporic neurologies: Slow pain and social suffering
Sarah Goldingay, University of
Exeter
‘And
the pain just disappeared into insignificance’: Disciplinary difference,
reflexive commonality and the importance of sharing Claire’s story about chronic
pain
Cathy Price, University Hospital
Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Pain services: Moving forwards
Sue Ziebland, University of
Oxford
Chronic Pain Online: How might sharing
experiences of chronic pain online affect people’s health?
