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SUMMARY:Disease and narrative: an interdisciplinary workshop
UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/213171
DESCRIPTION:From the nineteenth-century onwards, sensational tales of disease were galvanised by an exploding literary marketplace.\n
 From the nineteenth-century onwards, sensational tales of disease were galvanised by an exploding literary marketplace. Diverse print avenues made accessible to the masses meant that stories of disease could be routinely produced, consumed, (and even distorted), creating a culture of quackery which threatened to blur medical fact with fiction. \n
 This in-person interdisciplinary workshop will host University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ speakers from Psychology, Geography, Creative Writing, and Literature to consider questions of authenticity and authority, physical and psychological conceptions of disease, digital ‘bugs’, and narratives of contagion. \n

‘Karl Jasper and the First Biological Psychiatry’ - Professor Matthew Broome (Psychology)
‘Empathy, Storytelling, and Mad Cows’ - Dr Ruth Gilligan (Creative Writing)
‘Contagious Computing and the Millennium Bug’ - Dr Dorothy Butchard (English)
‘Expert Narratives of Digital Emotional Governance’ - Professor Jessica Pykett (Geography) 

 Students, staff, and colleagues from across disciplines are warmly encouraged to attend and embrace the opportunity for wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion. Refreshments will be served and registration is required. \n
Organisers
 Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Queensland, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡) and Dr Emily Vincent (University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡), both on behalf of the CHANSE/UKRI Media and Epidemics project. The event is also organised by the Nineteenth-Century Centre at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Â which provides a collaborative network for scholars working across traditional disciplinary, national, and temporal boundaries. \n
LOCATION:Arts 103
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
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