Workshops & Conferences
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).
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
read more 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.
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Prediction and Hallucination Workshop, St Chad’s College, Durham, 7–8 July 2016
A warm welcome to everyone joining us today for our workshop on Prediction and Hallucination at St Chad’s College, Durham University. Organised by Ben Alderson-Day and Sam Wilkinson, this two-day workshop brings together philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, hallucinations researchers and clinicians in order to share current theories, opinions and findings on predictive processing framework (PPF) approaches to hearing voices and other unusual experiences.
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So what do you believe? Reflections on ‘An Exchange of Minds’, Durham University, 28-19 September 2015
Last month Hearing the Voice welcomed delegates from the Academy of Finland’s Human Mind programme to a two-day workshop entitled ‘An Exchange of Minds: So what do you believe?’, which took place at the Palatine Centre at Durham University on 28-29 September 2015 …
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Voices, Visions & Other Extraordinary Experiences: The Challenges of Being a Mental Health Nurse, 9-10 April 2015
VOICES, VISIONS AND OTHER EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES: THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A MENTAL HEALTH NURSE Thursday 9 – Friday 10 April 2015 2pm – 5.30pm Thursday 9 April (panel discussions open to the public) 9am – 4pm Friday 10 April (workshop for experts in mental health...
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Two-Day Workshop: ‘Inner Voices, Inner Music: The Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal and Musical Hallucinations’, Durham University, 17-18 September 2014
Holgate Conference Centre Grey College, Durham University “Voice-hearing”, or auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), refers to the experience of hearing a voice or voice-like sound in the absence of an external stimulus. AVHs are reported by individuals with a range...
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