Time: 9.30 am - 6.30 pm
\nThis event will tackle the problem of how to map well-being during life-limiting illness: How is the sense of 'who I am' unsettled during life-limiting illness? What is the relationship between remorse\, loss\, guilt\, shame\, and fear to life-limiting illness? \;How can we accommodate new identities\, bodily shapes and somatic capacities at this time? Does chronic illness fit with the current disability model? Is chronic illness a relational or social condition?
\nThe workshop aims to attract a mixture of scholars and clinicians and will be open to the general public. \;Confirmed speakers include:
\nArthur W Frank - \;acclaimed author of \;At the Will of the Body \;(1991\, new edition \;2002)\; \;The Wounded Storyteller: Body\, Illness\, and Ethics \;(1995)\; \;and \;The Renewal of Generosity: \;Illness\, Medicine\, and How to Live \;(2004) \;- will give the plenary lecture.
\nClaire Colebrook \;is \;Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and the author of \;Milton\, Evil and Literary History \;(Continuum 2008)\, \;Deleuze and the Meaning of Life \;(Continuum 2010)\, and \;William Blake and Digital Aesthetics \;(Continuum 2011).
\n\nLiz Bentley\, 'sit-down comedienne'\, will entertain us with poetry\, music and stories. \;
There will be three panel sessions on broad-ranging and multi-disciplinary topics including: the phenomenology of illness\; reading and chronic pain\; creative embodiment and politics\; dementia and well-being. \;Full programme to be confirmed.
\nRegistration is free and will include lunch and refreshments\, but please email: \;