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Reading Bodies Workshop II, University of Exeter, 23 May 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 31/05/2024
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Thanks to all our wonderful speakers from the Universities of Belfast, Boston (USA), Cambridge, Exeter, Kent, London and Sheffield, for our second international Reading Bodies workshop, hosted by the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. The workshop was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies) and Dr Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher). Prof. Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Chair of Romance Studies at Boston University) delivered a brilliant keynote on Health, Disease, and Society in the Early Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The programme included specialists in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and German, and a hybrid Roundtable on interdisciplinary approaches to Reading Bodies in Literatures and Cultures.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Gender, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Mental Illness

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Reading Bodies Exeter Workshop – 23 May 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 10/05/2024
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We’re looking forward to our second international workshop, hosted by the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. All are welcome to attend – please reserve your place here.

Highlights include speakers across 4 languages, a keynote by Prof. Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Chair of Romance Studies at Boston University), an interdisciplinary Reading Bodies Roundtable, and a Stage Rehearsal of Multilingual Medical Humanities (with Ants!). There will also be a short talk about Bibliotherapy by Exeter City of Literature. For more information about the programme, please visit our events page.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities

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Reading Bodies Workshop at the ILCS, Senate House, 26 April 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 29/04/2024
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Thanks to all our fantastic speakers, chairs, and Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (University of Kent) for a wonderful keynote lecture. Thanks also to members of the research network and all attendees who came along on 26 April 2024 to support our first academic workshop, contributing to stimulating conversations about Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in Spanish and European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s). The workshop was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies) and Dr Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher). A recording of selected papers from the workshop is available on the ILCS website.

Tags Illness and Gender, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Multilingual Medical Humanities, Performance Art, Visual Studies

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Creative Writing Workshop on Burnout, Overload and Resilience – 14 June 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 26/03/2024
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We are hosting a Creative Writing Workshop on Burnout, Overload and Resilience on 14 June – you can find more information on our events page and below.

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Reading Bodies Workshop 2 – University of Exeter – 23 May 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 14/03/2024
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The second academic workshop for this project will be held at the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. All are welcome to attend – please reserve your place here. For more information about the programme, visit our events page.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Gender, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities

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Bibliotherapy with Exeter City of Literature

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 07/03/2024
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On the benefits of reading for wellbeing and bibliotherapy in the community, take a look at Exeter City of Literature’s Bibliotherapy Skills programme. Their website includes a literature review on bibliotherapy produced by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.

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Reading Bodies Research Network

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 29/02/2024
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The Reading Bodies Research Network has met regularly since November 2023 to discuss our project research questions, updates on our chosen topics, and development of shared interests which are grouped into 3 themes: gender and the body; society, illness and representation; transnational and decolonial perspectives. For more information, please visit our Network and People pages.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Gender, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies

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Reading Bodies Workshop at the ILCS – 26 April 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 23/02/2024
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The first academic workshop for this project will be held at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies in Senate House, London on 26 April 2024. Registration is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information and a link to reserve your place, please visit our events page.

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‘Reading Bodies in European Literatures and Cultures’ – published in The Polyphony

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 20/02/2024
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By Katharine Murphy, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter, and AHRC Principal Investigator for the ‘Reading Bodies’ project.

Prof. Katharine Murphy has published an invited piece on ‘Reading Bodies in European Literatures and Cultures’ in the Multilingual Medical Humanities series of The Polyphony, hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.