Workshops & Conferences
LIVV: Test out our pilot app for young people who hear voices
We’re looking for a group of young people (aged 18–25) with personal experience of hearing voices to test out a pilot version of our app LIVV.
Knowledge is Power: Helping people who hear voices to feel more empowered and overcome stigma
In collaboration with Rai Waddingham, Hearing the Voice are offering free workshops in Glasgow and London, which will explore the way in which we can use information and resources to help people distressed by their voices feel more empowered and reduce internalised stigma.
Voices and visions: Crossed views on hallucinations (24-26 October 2019)
We’re delighted to draw your attention to the ‘Voices and Visions, Crossed Views on Hallucinations’ symposium, which will take place on 24, 25 and 26 October at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris.
Hearing Voices: What do we need to know? (11 September, Newcastle)
Hearing the Voice (Durham University) warmly invites you to join a public event which asks ‘Hearing Voices: What do we need to know?’.
Registration now open! Personification Across Disciplines, Durham, 17-19 September 2018
Hearing the Voice warmly invite you to join us for Personification Across Disciplines 2018, an interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives. Keynote speakers include H. Porter Abbott (University of California, Santa Barbara) Guillaume Dumas (Institut Pasteur), Nev Jones (University of South Florida) and Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Call for Papers: Twenty-five years of Madness and Modernism (11 May)
A symposium to celebrate, interrogate and reflect upon the significance and wide-ranging influence of Madness and Modernism will be held at Durham University on Friday 11 May 2018, featuring Louis Sass in conversation with Patricia Waugh.
Public Lecture: Professor Tanya Luhrmann on ‘The Voice of God’ at Palace Green Library, Durham, 16 February 2017 from 5:30 – 7pm.
Hearing the Voice are delighted to announce this public lecture by Tanya Luhrmann, distinguished Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department.
‘Their voices made them do it? Media stereotypes, violence and voice-hearing,’ Palace Green Library Café, 14 December 2016, from 5 – 7pm.
When someone who hears voices commits a violent crime, it is often reported in the media as if the fact they heard voices is sufficient explanation. Is this true, or is there much more to the story? All are welcome to attend this free event.
‘Who can speak about voices?’, Palace Green Library Café, Durham, 16 November 2016, 5pm-7pm
Join our panel of experts for a lively discussion of the politics and ethics of representing unusual and often stigmatised experiences. Facilitated by Dr Angela Woods, Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at Durham University and Co-Director of Hearing the Voice.
Announcing the opening of ‘Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday’, Palace Green Library, Durham, 5 November 2016 – 26 February 2017
The world’s first exhibition to examine voice-hearing from different cultural, clinical, historical, literary and spiritual perspectives opens at Palace Green Library in Durham on Saturday 5 November 2016. The exhibition is supported by a dedicated website containing images of the key displays, audio features, and interactive presentations.