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Sleep is an enormous part of our lives and has fascinated scientists, artists and writers for centuries: Why do we sleep? And why do we sometimes struggle to sleep?
Join UCL Grand Challenges for a day of informal talks - with perspectives on sleep and
sleeplessness from biologists, historians, artists, medics and cultural
critics - and continued discussion over drinks in the evening.
Speakers:
Professor Matthew Beaumont (UCL Urban Laboratory / UCL English)
Professor Nick Franks (Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences)
Dr Guy Meadows (The
Sleep School)
Kimberley Whitehead (UCL Department of Neuroscience)
Professor Simon Morgan Wortham (Professor of English, Kingston University)
Dr Fran Knight (UCL Institute
of Education)
Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner (Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical
Humanities, University of Kent)
Dr Sasha Handley (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, The
University of Manchester)
Andrew Carnie (artist)
Dr Sofia Eriksson (National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery)
