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Register for the Symposium and the Hippocrates Awards
4th International Symposium on Poetry & Medicine and Hippocrates Awards
Saturday 18th May, 2013
Henry Wellcome Lecture Theatre
183 Euston Road, London NW1 2B
09.00 REGISTRATION
09.30 Introduction: the Hippocrates initiative
on poetry and medicine
Donald
Singer and Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
MEDICAL THEMES IN POETRY (1)
09.40 The plague of Thebes:
an
historical epidemic in Sophocles’ drama Oedipus
Rex
Antonis A. Kousoulis, Imperial
College, London
10.00 “Saturn
hath the Left Eare, Jupiter the Right”:
poetry
and the place of astrology in medicine
John Riddington Young, Bideford
KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 1
10.20 Pills
for the Muses: poetry and medical trade in the 19th century
Hugues Marchal, University of Basel,
Switzerland
10.50 Speaker panel - Question and answer session
11.10 Coffee & Posters
MEDICAL THEMES IN POETRY (2)
11.40 “The rest of me here on the bed”:
landscapes of pain in
Dorothy Molloy’s cancer poetry
Luz
Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo, Spain
KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 2
12.00 "Poetry and Resilience
in Medical Education and Practice"
Anne Hudson Jones, University of
Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
12.30 Speaker Panel - Question and answer session
13.00 Lunch and Posters
GUEST POETRY READING
14.00 Philip Gross, University of Glamorgan
POETRY IN THERAPY
14.25 Walking
back to words: poetry from stroke survivors with aphasia
Andrew McMillan, John Moores University,
Liverpool
14.50 Illuminating
the present: poetry and dementia
Cheryl Moskowitz, London
15.15 Speaker panel - Question and answer session:
15.35 TEA and POSTERS
HIPPOCRATES AWARDS SESSION
16.00 Poetry Reading: Jo Shapcott
16.20 Remarks on behalf of the Judges:
Jo Shapcott
Clare Pollard
Young Poets award: Paul Munden, NAWE
NHS awards: Dr Theodore Dalrymple
Open awards: Roger Highfield
Readings from the 7 winning poems
HIPPOCRATES PRESS BOOK LAUNCH
17.30 Wendy French and Jane Kirwan, Born in the NHS
17.50 RECEPTION
19.00 CLOSE
