Saturday 21st September 2013
To express interest in attending email the organisers
Registration includes:
- morning and afternoon refreshments during the workshop
- Saturday evening workshop dinner.
Excludes travel, accommodation and lunch. Lunch will be at a restaurant near the Palazzo.
Standard rate: £120
Hippocrates Society member: £96
Dinner only: £40
Programme
Saturday morning, 21 September
Session I
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.10 - 1. Poetry and medicine – a special relationship?
Presentation by Wendy French and Jane Kirwan
Chairs: Donald Singer and Michael Hulse
Panel: Damiano Abeni, Wendy French, Jane Kirwan
10.20 - Coffee
10.30 - 2. Finding a voice for medical conditions
Presentations by Joanna Sedgwick (signing and deaf poetry) and Laura Salisbury (aphasia)
Chair: Laura Salisbury
Panel:Femi Oyebode, Joanna Sedgwick, C. K. Stead
11.40 - Coffee
11.50 - 3 Poetry in health education
Chair: Wendy French
Presentations by Kelley Swain and Bella Madden
Panel: Dennis Linder, Bella Madden, Femi Oyebode, Kelley Swain
13.00 - Lunch
Session II
Saturday afternoon, 21 September
14.40 - 4 Medicine as a theme in poetry
Chair: Michael Hulse
Presentations by Tatiana Svetlana (Pushkin and the health of the aristocracy) and Michael Hulse/ Damiano Abeni (how poetry handles medical subjects), followed by practical criticism, led by Mora Egan
15.50 - Coffee
16.00 5. Poetry arising from life under threat
Reading by C. K. Stead
Introduction by Michael Hulse
17.10 - Close
19.30 - Dinner
Session III
Sunday morning, 22 September
9.00 - Coffee
9.10 - 6. Managing life through poetry
Readings/presentations by Moira Egan (menopause) and Femi Oyebode (psychiatry)
Chairs: Donald Singer and Kelley Swain
Panel: Moira Egan, Clare Wilmot
10.20 - Coffee
10.30 - 7. The language of poetry
Chair: C. K. Stead
Presentation by Wendy French and Alex Josephy (the language of hospital and the profession) followed by practical criticism, led by C. K. Stead
11.40 - Coffee
11.50 - 8. Challenges and priorities
Chairs: Donald Singer and Michael Hulse
a) Challenges in assessing impact of poetry on medicine
b) Priorities and next steps
13.00 - Close of workshop
