Painful Bodies: Visual and Literary Representations of Suffering Tuesday 16 April, 4pm-6pm Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities (enter via the School of English foyer) A double bill of research presentations co-hosted by the School of English Critical and Cultural Theory Research Group, the Postcolonial Research Group, and the Leeds Centre Read more…
Now it’s your turn to set the agenda and ask the questions you want to. You might want to demand better pain management services, or ask, why in the 21st century are there so many people living with pain? Should we do more for people in Africa who don’t have Read more…
The Pain Conference Tuesday, 18 June – Thursday, 20 June 2013 Philosophy, University of Glasgow Pain is ubiquitous. But it continues to be poorly understood. Scientific advances have led to increasingly subtle and complex models of pain, but not yet consensus. Both in science and in philosophy, pain continues to Read more…
Could medicinal plants manage pain? ‘It’s a Pain’ Public Engagement Lecture Ross Menzies Thursday 28th February, 7pm Calman Main Lecture Theatre (Durham University, City campus, DH1 3LE)
‘Pain and its Meanings’ – Catch up with the event ‘Pain and its Meanings’ was a two-day symposium held by the Birkbeck Pain Project in collaboration with Wellcome Collection on 7-8 December 2012. Through poetry, film, music, talks and discussion we set out to explore how and why people give Read more…
The Institute of Art and Ideas presents: The Agony & the Ecstasy The Issue: We take it for granted that eradicating pain is desirable. And since De Quincey remarked that a quarter of human misery was toothache, remarkable strides have indeed been made. But is it possible, and do we Read more…
“It’s a Pain Series” 6th December 2012, Stockton Arts Centre, 7.00-8.15pm Free entry and no booking required ‘EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE’- THE NORMAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CHRONIC PAIN Professor Stephen Morley, University of Leeds What’s this lecture about? What has psychology got to do with pain? I suspect that psychology is associated Read more…
4th Global Conference Making Sense of: Pain Thursday 9th May – Saturday 11th May 2013 Prague, Czech Republic What is pain? What is the meaning of pain? How can we attempt to make sense of it – and should we? Pain is a complex multi-layered, multi-levelled phenomenon. Standard definitions of Read more…
‘It’s a Pain’ Public Engagement Lecture Series Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University How the brain is wired for pain Dr Michael Lee Calman Main Lecture Theatre (Durham University, City campus, DH1 3LE) Thursday 18th October 6.30pm for a 7pm start No booking necessary How subjective is Read more…
Is she really in pain? An Experiment on Internalism and Externalism about mental content in Clinical Practice Anke Maatz Eidos Talk, Durham Philosophy Department Seminar Room Thursday 5 July 2012, 7.30pm Experimental philosophy is concerned with exploring how ordinary people think about central philosophical issues. In this paper, I will Read more…