Representing Pain: \u00a0Narrative and Fragments\u00a0A symposium at Lancaster University, Friday 17 August 2018, 9:00 am -5.30 pm<\/p>\n
I am delighted to announce this Symposium to explore challenges pain poses to traditional narrative representation, and the way it may require rethinking narrativity or embracing unconventional or fragmentary narrative forms.<\/p>\n
The Symposium is part of the AHRC-funded research network Translating Chronic Pain,\u00a0which is especially exercised by the way that conventional illness narrations (long form autobiography\/memoir) don\u2019t always lend themselves well to chronic pain experience. \u00a0We will explore the broad debates around narrativity in medical humanities, the potential of short-form narration or unconventional forms of illness narration, \u00a0the positivity imperative in illness narration, challenges of chronic pain representation, and the way \u2018entanglements\u2019 with fields such as disability studies and trauma theory may enrich critical medical humanities approaches to these questions.<\/p>\n
Dr Angela Woods (Durham), Dr Stella Bolaki (Kent), \u00a0Professor James Berger (Yale), Dr. Megan Crowley-Matoka (Northwestern), Professor Ann Jurecic (Rutgers), Professor Brendan Stone (Sheffield), Professor Alan Bleakley, and Professor Javier Moscoso (Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spain).<\/p>\n