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INTERDISCIPLINARY VOICE-HEARING RESEARCH
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Welcome to the Spring Edition of the Hearing the Voice (HtV) newsletter.
The HtV newsletter is a bi-monthly publication which contains information about the progress of our research, forthcoming workshops and conferences, and other project-related activities. If you would like to hear from us on a more regular basis, you can subscribe to our blog or follow us on Twitter.
We welcome information about relevant activities or events in your area for inclusion in this newsletter. Please forward your suggestions to the Communications, Engagement and Impact Assistant, Rebecca Doggwiler.
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Working Knowledge
Launched at the Wellcome Trust in February 2015, Working Knowledge is a collection of accessible and user-friendly guides to the practical ins and outs of interdisciplinary research.
We are delighted to announce the following recent additions to the series:
More useful resources from Working Knowledge can be found online. To request hard copies, please contact Jane Abel.
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Symposium: 25 Years of Madness and Modernism
A symposium to celebrate, interrogate and reflect upon the significance and wide-ranging influence of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought - the magnum opus of the distinguished clinical psychologist and phenomenologist of psychopathology Louis Sass - will be held at Durham University on Friday 11 May 2018. Opening with Louis Sass in conversation with Patricia Waugh (modernist literary critic, intellectual historian and co-investigator on HtV), the programme will also feature Åsa Jansson, Joel Krueger, Elizabeth Barry and Matt ffytche.
Registration for this free event is now open here.
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Integrated Voices: Can you help us build a new web resource on voice-hearing?
Elisabeth Svanholmer (voice-hearer, mental health trainer) and Rufus May (Hearing Voices group facilitator) are currently working with us to develop content for Integrated Voices, a new website for voice-hearers and the friends, families and workers who support them. They are particularly interested in hearing from people who would like to share coping strategies, practical information, and personal perspectives on the everyday experience of living with voices. If you would like to contribte to this projact, you can fill in this online questionnaire or contact Elisabeth to arrange an interview or visit to your Hearing Voices group.
Elisabeth and Rufus will also be holding Living with Voices focus groups in London (Thursday 3 May) and Manchester (Friday 4 May). More information about these events, including details on how to register, can be found on the blog.
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Waddington Street Centre Events
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HtV have teamed up with the Waddington Street Community Centre to produce a new, four-part series of events exploring voice-hearing and other unusual experiences.
The next session - which takes place on Thursday 10 May - will be an interactive opportunity to share coping strategies, tips and techniques for dealing with distressing voices, and to hear about Integrated Voices from Elisabeth Svanholmer. All welcome. For more information, see the flyer.
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2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival
We are delighted to be heading to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August to produce a series of literary and cultural events exploring the inner voices of writers and readers. Our panel discussions and interactive workshops will be accompanied by an installation based on the 'Literary Voices' section of our recent exhibition on voice-hearing, Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday. More information about this exhibition can be found here.
The EIBF programme goes live on 7 June 2018, so watch this space for more information ...
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Conference: Personification Across Disciplines
Attracting significant interest and over 70 applications, the submission deadline for 'Personification Across Disciplines' (PAD) has now passed. Taking place at Durham University between 17-19 September 2018, this interdisciplinary conference aims to explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives. Keynote speaker include H. Porter Abbott, Guillaume Dumas, Nev Jones and Marjorie Taylor. The full programme will be announced at the end of May.
To find out more, visit the conference website.
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- Welcome to HtV -
A warm welcome Tehseen Noorani, who joins us as a COFUND Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology. Tehseen is an interdisciplinary medical humanities scholar, with a PhD in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Bristol and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Drug Dependence Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is a co-founder of the Authority Research Network.
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External Workshops
If you're interested in voice-hearing research, you may wish to attend the following events:
To discuss featuring your event on the blog or in the newsletter, please contact Rebecca Doggwiler.
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Visiting Speakers
Over the last few months, we have enjoyed visits from Dr Hélène Loevenbruck and Prof. Dr Sabine Koch. Dr Loevenbruck gave a talk on 'Cognitive Neuroscience Tapping Inner Language: Prediction and Perception' and Professor Koch spoke on 'Movement and Meaning: the Embodiment of Rhythm, Space, Time and Relation'. We very much enjoyed discussing our mutual research interests and would like to thank both speakers for their visits.
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