3rd Annual Congress, 23rd-24th January, Programme
Below is the programme for the 3rd Annual NNMHR Congress, taking place on 23rd and 24th January 2020 at the University of Sheffield.
ON BEHALF OF THE NORTHERN NETWORK FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES, WE WELCOME YOU TO:
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research – 3rd Congress – Sheffield 2020
Generously funded by the Wellcome Trust
THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME IS PRODUCED ELECTRONICALLY TO SAVE PAPER AND RESOURCES.
Venues: Rooms 1-3: The Edge / Room 4: Halifax Hall
Panel Papers are 15 mins each, with the remaining time for questions .
Keynotes are c.40 mins with the remaining time for questions.
SCHEDULE IN BRIEF:
THURSDAY 23RD JANUARY
9-9.30 am REGISTRATION
9.30-10.30 am KEYNOTE ONE
10.30-11 am COFFEE
11 am-12.30 pm PANEL SESSION 1
12.30-2pm LUNCH
2-3.30 pm PANEL SESSION 2
3.30-4pm COFFEE
4-5pm KEYNOTE TWO
CONFERENCE CURRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BOOKED: AAGRAH, LEOPOLD SQUARE
FRIDAY 24th JANUARY
8-9 am EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER NETWORKING BREAKFAST
9-10.30 am PANEL SESSION 3
10.30-11 am COFFEE
11am-12 pm KEYNOTE THREE
12-1.30 pm LUNCH
1.30-3 pm PANEL SESSION 4
3-3.30 pm COFFEE
3.30-5 pm WRAP UP session
Full schedule
Thursday 23rd January 2020
9am-9.30am Registration (The Edge – Bar area)
9.30-10.30 Keynote 1 – Edge Room 1
Jo Winning ‘The Shadow on the Object: exploring physician burnout through object-relations theory’
10.30am-11.00am Coffee (Bar Area – The Edge)
11am-12.30pm: Panel Session 1
( ROOMS 1-3 AT THE EDGE, ROOM 4 NEARBY AT HALIFAX HALL)
Room 1 THE EDGE:
Leen De Vreese: ‘Experience and the goals of medicine. A reply to Alex Broadbent.’
Marian Peacock: ‘Experiencing a diagnosis of Non-epileptic Attack Disorder (NEAD) in neoliberal times; can
thinking sociologically help us?’
Maria Patsou: ‘Whose life is it anyway? Agency in collaborative, devised performance about mental illness’
Room 2 THE EDGE:
Amy Wilson: ‘The experience of mental illness in physicians’
Wendy French: ‘Writing the Memoir with Cancer Patients or Writing to know Oneself Better’
Kate McAllister: ‘Encounters, Experience, and Epidemic Encephalitis: a historical approach’
Anna Terje: ‘Experiences of the medical encounter in social prescribing: Narratives of patients in Scotland’
Room 3 THE EDGE:
Natalie Riley: ‘Nature Morte: Art and Dying in Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man (2009)’
Lianne Bakkum: ‘The Experience of Trauma from an Attachment-Theoretical Perspective’
Veronica Heney: ‘Troubling narrative experiences: sticking with self-harm’
Francesca Lewis: ‘From Clinical Gaze to Epoché: creative, counter-diagnostic explorations of borderline
experience through phenomenology’
Room 4 (Halifax):
Andy Holroyde: ‘Recovering Experience from the Archives: Disability and Sheltered Employment in Britain
c.1945-1979’
Marie Meier: ‘The Concealment of Mental Maladies: Exploring Secrecy and Changing Experiences of Mental Illnesses in a Welfare State Perspective’
Arianna Introna ‘Notes towards a transindividual cripistemology of the ill body
12.30pm-2pm Lunch (The Edge)
2pm-3.30pm Panel Session 2
( ROOMS 1-3 AT THE EDGE, ROOM 4 NEARBY AT HALIFAX HALL)
Room 1:
Elise Brault-Dreux: ‘ Experiencing hospitalization with Peter Reading’s C: poetic limit-situations’ .
Gabrielle King: ‘Loss, speech and Motor Neurone Disease: Taking a disease led approach to the experiences
of doing interview research’
Andrew Williams: ‘Thinking outside the box in clinical practice’
Lijiaozi Cheng: ‘Anxiety Related Disorders, Sub-optimal Health, And Their Diagnosis: A Phenomenological and Auto-Ethnographic Reflection’
Room 2:
Eleanor Byrne ‘Caveats of Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: The Case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis’
Julie Gottlieb ‘The Personal and Psychiatric Experience of Political Crisis: Britain 1938-39’
Ruby Rathbone ‘British Media Representation of Migrants and the NHS During the ‘Windrush Scandal’: A
Frame Analysis.’
Elena Teodora Manea “The voice without a body. Medical Interpreting in the NHS”
Room 3:
Irene Geerts ‘It’s all in the family: How experience shaped the Dutch movement of family members of
people with mental illness, 1964-1984
Fiona Malpass ‘Experiences of mental health care as depicted in clinical notes vs personal experiences and
recollections: disparities, contradictions, and paradoxes.’
Naomi Wynter-Vincent ‘Learning from Experience: The Work of Wilfred Bion’
Room 4 (Halifax):
Georgia Haire ‘Have You Tried Relaxing?’: The Experience and Treatment of Vaginismus as a Contested and Neglected Condition’
Sarah Skryme ‘Animating the illness experience’
Chelsea Saxby ‘Towards a history of The Urinary Infection Club: cystitis, self-help and experiential expertise in 1970s Britain’
Richard Cooper ‘Reflexivity across the qualitative health researcher career and implications for representations of experiences of healthcare.’
3.30pm-4pm Coffee
4-5pm Keynote 2: Edge Main Room
Havi Carel: ‘Organ transplantation: the shadow of illness in philosophy and literature’
Day 2
8am – 9am Arrival & Coffee
8am-9am: Early Career Research Networking Breakfast
This session is open to any researchers on fixed term / precarious contracts. As well as a chance to meet and share experiences, there will be very short presentations sharing tips and strategies around securing funding, and coping with precarity.
Chair : Marie Allitt. Speakers : Thomas Bray (Wellcome Trust), Chris Millard, Fiona Johnstone.
9am-10.30am Panel Session 3
( ROOMS 1-3 AT THE EDGE, ROOM 4 NEARBY AT HALIFAX HALL)
Room 1:
Tracey Loughran ‘Problematising Women’s Everyday Health Experiences: Intersectionality,
(Inter)subjectivity, and Oral History’
Alex Henry ‘In a “Time of Undiagnosis”: “Unexplained” Symptoms and Chronicity in Ali Smith’s Hotel World
(2001)’
Trenholme Jughans ‘“In/Visibilizing” “Patient Experience” in the Assessment of Orphan Drugs: The Dialectics of Inclusion and Marginalization’
Room 2 :
Elspeth Graham ‘The experience of care and the work of culture (or, empathy and its discontents)
Christopher Locke ‘From the margins to the mainstream: how the experience of political resistance shaped the professional culture of General Practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain’
Radha Bhat ‘Mental Health and Marginalisation in Children and Young People’
Alexandra Kaley ‘Affirming (inter)subjective disabled lives: A critical medical humanities approach’
Room 3 :
Marjolein de Boer ‘The political patient: The significance of patient’s experiences in health care politics’
Alistair Wardrope ‘Turning experience into evidence: testimonial injustice and the role of testimony in the clinical encounter’
Robin Boeré ‘Children and Experience at the End of Life’
Room 4 (Halifax) :
Ian Sabroe ‘Clinical experience and things not said, as revealed by study of narrative’
Arundi Mahendran ‘The adventure of affect: exploring the uncertain nature of clinical experience’
Sarah Spence ‘Accessing anorexia in Andrew O’Hagan’s novel Personality (2003)’
10.30-11am Coffee
11-12 Keynote 3 (AT THE EDGE)
Ankhi Mukherjee: Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India.
Lunch: 12-1.30pm
1.30-3pm Panel Session 4
(ROOMS 1-3 AT THE EDGE, ROOM 4 NEARBY AT HALIFAX HALL)
Room 1 :
Provocation Panel (further details at the bottom of this page)
Launch of ‘Thinking Through Things’ Project
Provocation 1 : ‘What is the reality of the situation?’ Olivia Turner
Provocation 2 : ‘Do the words need changing?’ Bentley Crudgington
Provocation 3 : ‘Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element’ Jacqueline Waldock
Provocation 4 : ‘Do the washing up’ Katherine Rawling
Discussion. Chair: Fiona Johnstone
Room 2 :
Emma Trott ‘Heart Surgery, the Posthuman Body, and the Materially Entangled Self’
Finola Finn: ‘The Heart and Experience in Seventeenth-Century England’
Rebecca O’Neal: ‘The “Rule of experience”: dissection, collaboration and metaphor in Thomas Willis’s Anatomy of the Brain’
Room 3 :
Tobias Dietrich ‘Experiences as Aesthetic Change’
Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose ‘Challenging the ‘Neutral’ Doctor: Considering Shame, Race and Gender in the
Medical Memoir’
Tamara Hervey & Matthew Wood: ‘Studying Experience and Marginalisation in post-Brexit health
governance’
Anna Kemball “It’s just a story”: Reclaiming Windigo Psychosis’
Room 4 (Halifax) :
Berkay Ustun ‘Can metaphysical experience be a clinical category?’
Alice Hall: ‘“Women Are News”: Women’s Experience, Work and the Carers UK Archive’
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira ‘In Search of the Spirit: Autohypnosis and the Realization of the Self in
Modern China, c. 1900–1949’
Jane Macnaughton: ‘“Dance Easy”: translating research on experience of breathlessness into a new
management approach’
3-3.30 Coffee
Final wrap up and discussion (Room 1)
Please note the conference is now full.
Additional Information:
Panel details for Day 2, Panel Session 4
Room 1, Provocation Panel:
Project Information
This panel will launch the research initiative ‘Thinking through things: object encounters in the medical humanities’. This project has been devised by a team of eight ECRs from the NNMHR, in response to an invitation from the Wellcome Collection to apply for a Discretionary Award to support a programme of activities that will stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue around Wellcome Collection’s holdings. By approaching selected objects in the Collection as ‘provocations to thought’ and ‘companions to our emotional lives’ (Turkle, 2011), the project will investigate how thinking and feeling ‘through things’ can generate new understandings of health.
Panel Abstract – Archival Imaginarium
Our Archival Imaginarium takes Wellcome’s digital Collection as its starting point, asking how the digital encounter influences the way medical humanities research is conducted. Researchers frequently describe experiences of a collection through notions of chance, in ‘happening upon’ or ‘discovering’ items. However, the organisational framework placed on the material is masked through catalogues, hierarchies and search terms. This invisible framework limits and governs the stories told by implicitly shaping the responses that researchers then formulate.
Our provocations use Brian Eno’s (1975) ‘Oblique Strategies’ as a serendipitous model for engaging with Wellcome’s digital Collection and ask how we might reimagine the archival experience with chance as our guide. By displacing the organisational framework, there is the potential to expose choices, exclusions, and gaps that are inevitable, but often invisible, in any collection.
An interdisciplinary panel of ECRs have each created a response to the same object, ‘Combined knife and fork’ (1914-1918), chosen at random using an Oblique Strategy as a non-hierarchical digital collection search tool. Each provocation uses an Oblique Strategy as title and prompt, and draws upon the participant’s particular disciplinary expertise. This highlights the diversity of potential modes of experiencing and understanding the archival medical object, and suggesting ways in which these multiple modalities of approach might shape original perspectives on health and its associated concepts.
Panel Information
Object of Enquiry:
Oblique Strategy for Wellcome Collection Search: ‘Mute and continue.’
Object: Combined knife and fork, Europe, 1914-1918.
Wellcome Object Description: ‘Eating a meal using only one hand can be difficult. The design of this combined knife and fork is known as a Nelson pattern, named after Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), the British naval hero who lost an arm during the Battle of the Nile in 1798…Many of the thousands of arm amputees from that conflict were issued with these Nelson knives as part of their rehabilitation. A simple but highly effective design, Nelson knives are still available today.’
Provocation 1 ‘What is the reality of the situation?’ Olivia Turner (Newcastle University) Duration: 10 mins
A performed creative text inspired by Katrina Palmer’s (2011) notion of ‘reality flickers’. It presents a fictionalised reality of the object, which by its very nature in the digital archive is unstable and contingent, quivering between being absent and present. This provocation highlights both the instability of the archival object and the role of language in re-contextualising, reimagining and redefining the experience of an object reality.
Provocation 2 ‘Do the words need changing?’ Dr Bentley Crudgington (Manchester University) Duration: 10 mins
What can a Gestalt design analysis of a digital archival object reveal about the potentiality of an experience; what agency does the viewer have to ensure meaning does not purely arise from the image, or text, but from an interaction of both? Are these words editing and stripping narratives from the visual resource by elevating the subject and repressing the viewer? What other experience could fill the empty sleeve?
Provocation 3 ‘Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element’ Dr Jacqueline Waldock (University of Liverpool) Duration: 10 mins
‘Noises have been the immediate raw materials of a divination (cledonomacy): to listen is, in an institutional manner to try to find out what is happening.’ (Barthes, 1985:247) This provocation will explore the sonic realities of the object. Sounding the object as a listening experience in the present and as a reimagined sonic performance. This provocation questions the ocular centricity of the archive and re-evaluates the sounding object.
Provocation 4 ‘Do the washing up’ Dr Katherine Rawling (University of Leeds) Duration: 10 mins
This provocation provides a historical analysis and contextualisation of the object and questions key concerns of power, agency, patient experiences and identities in relation to the object, the Wellcome Collection and wider cultural health. It also considers the place of technologies and adaptation in a particular historical moment.
Chaired discussion by Dr Fiona Johnstone (Durham University) Duration: 15 mins inc. Q&A
The chaired
discussion will collectively question the nature of interdisciplinary research
and experience in the Collection, how broad a concept ‘health’ can be, and
explore the tensions between the
singular disciplinary voice and a polyphonic approach to the experience of
medical humanities.