Workshop Reminder

Phenomenology and the Vulnerable Body: the Experience of Illness


Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity - University of Hull, UK



WORKSHOP: 6-7th May 2010



Sponsors:

AHRC (as part of: The Concepts of Health Illness and Disease, Research Network - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml)

Faculty of Health University of Hull

Hull York Medical School (HYMS)

Royal institute of Philosophy

Department of Humanities, University of Hull





Aims and Objectives:

This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary set of speakers to look at the experience of bodily vulnerability and consider its implications for the understanding of embodiment and selfhood. The resources of phenomenology will be put into conversation with accounts of the lived experiences of those living with illness, pain or other kinds of bodily vulnerability. Contributions will be made from, philosophers, health practitioners, medics and others.



Programme:

FIRST DAY 6th May 2010

1.00- 2.00 Opening Public Lecture

Fredrik Svenaeus Illness as Unhomelike Being-in-the World: Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Medicine

2.00-2.45 Matthew Ratcliffe Feelings of Hopelessness

2.45-3.00 Tea Break

3.00-3.30 Jack Wilson Sartre: Illness and the Experience of the Body

3.30-4.00 Carol Eastwood Towards a Phenomenology of Endometriosis

4.00-4.15 Break

4.15-4.45 Minae Inahara The Sound of Pain: Embodied Subjectivity and Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese

4.45-5.30 Lisa Folkmarson Kall Pain Embodied in Expressive Space.

5.30-6.00 Tea Break

6.00-7.00 Evening Public Lecture

Deborah Padfield LABYRINTH: Reflections on a Language for Pain (including slides of her work)



SECOND DAY 7th May 2010

9.00-9.45 Havi Carel Developing a Phenomenological Toolkit for Patients

9.45-10.00 Break

10.00-10:30 Patricia McGettigan Falling: from the Perspective of Patients

10.30-11.00 Julie Jomeen Women's Lived Experience of Their Pregnant Bodies

11.00-11.30 Michael Gillan Peckitt Limping After Leder and House

11.30-11.45 Tea Break

11.45-12.15 Annabel Howe “I've been playing in the house of ages”: Dementia, Advance Decisions and Embodied Experience

12.15-12.45 Lesley Jones & Robin Bunton Recruitment and Resistance in Narratives of Being and Becoming Deaf

12.45-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.15 Katherine J. Morris Chronic Pain in a Phenomenological-anthropological Perspective

2.15-2.45 Diane Pitt The Role of Phenomenology in Clinical Diagnostics: the Experience of Women with Heart Disease

2.15-3.00 Tea Break

3.00-3.30 Anthony Wilde Levinas and the Vulnerable Body

3.30-4.15 Stephen Burwood Torture

4.15-4.30 Closing





To register:

Please email Minae Inahara (M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk) to reserve a place for this workshop

(There is no registration fee.)



For maps and directions:

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/the_university/directions_to_the_university/directions_to_hull.aspx

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/pdf/2D_hullcampus_2009.pdf

(Staff House is indicated by the number 53 on the campus map)





Organising committee:

Kathleen Lennon K.Lennon@hull.ac.uk

Minae Inahara M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk

Stella Gonzalez Arnal S.Gonzalez-arnal@hull.ac.uk

Gill Jagger G.Jagger@hull.ac.uk

Diane Pitt D.Pitt@hull.ac.uk