Events

We are delighted to announce two events to be held by our Visiting Fellows at The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in October 2012.

Pain as Emotion; Emotion as Pain: Perspectives from Modern History

Public conference, 26 October 2012

Organised by Rob Boddice, Ph.D (Languages of Emotion Cluster, Freie Universität, Berlin)

Programme and registration details to be announced in June

Funded by the Wellcome Trust

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Pain and Old Age: Three Centuries of Suffering in Silence?

Public conference, 27 October 2012

Organised by Lynn Botelho, PhD (Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Abstracts due by 1 June 2012. Call for Papers

Funded by the Wellcome Trust

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There is no fee to attend these conferences but you will need to register. Further information for the October events will be available in June 2012 online at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/.

Past events

Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections

Held on Saturday 21st May 2011

This conference explored the complex phenomenon of pain from the eighteenth century to the 1960s.

Podcasts

ProfessorJoanna Bourke (Chair, Birkbeck College)
Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections.

Dr Lucy Bending (University of Reading)
Translating Pain: Overcoming the Ineffability of Pain

Dr Anna Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester)
Cultures of Pain: The Political, Social and Sexual Provocations of War Wounds

Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Cambridge)
The Distinction between Mental and Physical Pain

Professor Sander Gilman (Emory University)
Seeing Pain

Professor Javier Moscoso (Spanish National Research Council)
The Topics of Pain and the Anthropology of Experience

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