Podcast: Why we talk to ourselves

by Hearing the Voice | Jul 10, 2018 | Cultural & Media Events, HtV Research, Interviews & Talks

Do you talk to yourself? Listen to Charles Fernyhough – PI and Director of Hearing the Voice – discussing the role of self-talk in our daily lives with WHYY’s Radio Times and NPR Sirius, a Philadelphia-based public affairs program. To listen to the...

Stranger things: how our expectations do (and don’t) shape what we hear

by Hearing the Voice | Jun 21, 2018 | Guest posts, HtV Research, Research

From time to time, all of us are likely to have an experience of seeing or hearing something and then finding that other people don’t share the experience. It’s quite common to think about those experiences as being a bit unusual – maybe like a hallucination, or an...

Crossing the (B)order of Immersion: Phantasmal Intersubjectivity, Co-Presence and the Emersivity of Literary Characters (23 May, Durham)

by Hearing the Voice | May 17, 2018 | Announcements, Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, Events, HtV Research, HtV team members

Wednesday 23 May | 5:30PM | Seminar Room (Hallgarth House) We are delighted to draw your attention to the next Inventions of the Text seminar, which will take place on 23 May (5:30PM) in the Seminar Room at Hallgarth House. This session is part of a wider series of...

New Project Shorts Published on Working Knowledge

by Hearing the Voice | Apr 19, 2018 | Announcements, featured, HtV Publications, HtV Research, Publications, Research

  Interdisciplinary research: intermittently theorised, frequently funded, increasingly valorised. But how is it actually done?   In 2015, HtV launched a project intended to provide answers to this very question. The result? Working Knowledge – a...

Mind and spirit: hypnagogia and religious experience

by Hearing the Voice | Apr 6, 2018 | Announcements, HtV Publications, HtV Research, Publications, Research

 A new HtV publication dares ‘to sport with common sense’! When describing one of the foundational supernatural experiences of the Mormon religion, in which an Angel visited the prophet Joseph Smith in his bedroom and disclosed the location of the ancient scriptures...

Charles Fernyhough at the British Museum: Reading Margery Kempe’s Inner Voices (9 March)

by Hearing the Voice | Mar 7, 2018 | Announcements, Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, Events, HtV Research, HtV team members, Interviews & Talks

Charles Fernyhough on how examining the life of Margery Kempe can inform what we think about our own inner voices today (British Museum, 2018). Friday 9 March | 13.30-14.30 | BP Lecture Theatre | British Museum | London Charles Fernyhough (Director of Hearing the...