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Encountering Pain: hearing, seeing, speaking

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FRIDAY 1st July
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09:00Registration 
09:30Welcome

Dr Deborah Padfield & Prof Joanna Zakrzewska

Prof Jonathan Wolff

Dean of Arts & Humanities, University College London (UCL)

09:45Opening PerformanceAnusha Subramanyam
09:55

Introduction to Pain: Speaking the Threshold (PSTT) project

Visualising Pain: Can photographs improve doctor-patient interaction in the clinic?

An artist's perspective - Dr Deborah Padfield
A clinician's perspective - Prof Joanna Zakrzewska
10:25How visual images can change the language of pain consultationsProf Elena Semino
10:40Poetry Reading The Tree, Spring and WellProf Sharon Morris
11:00COFFEE BREAK 
11:25Face2face participant testimonies: Patients' perspectiveLiz Aldous, Ann Eastman
11:35How images change the non verbal interaction in pain consultationsDr Amanda C de C Williams
11:50Panel discussion with Q&APSTT Team
12:20PerformanceAnusha Subramanyam
12:30LUNCH BREAK 
13:15KEY NOTE How to Listen to the Talk of PainProf Rita Charon
14:15Break out sessions: 
 Workshop 1A: Colour, Poetry and SelfDr Jennifer Patterson
 Workshop 1B: Photography Workshop
Transformations: photographing pain
Helen Omand,
Dr Deborah Padfield
 Workshop 1C*: Contemporary Dance's Impasse: A conversation about the utilization of pain within the choreographic process of a dance solo; Aversion and Transformation: Pain and renewal in organ transplantation; Practitioners encountering pain in children with complex needsCatherine Long & Doran George, Dr John Wynne & Tim Wainwright, Dr Joan Simons
 Workshop 1D*: Exhibiting Pain: The role of online exhibitions in sharing creative representations of persistent physical pain; Chronic pain within a family context: An art project informed by lived experience; A Patient Meditation: digital storytelling and the re-presentation of pain, Dealing with Pain: Visual and Linguistic Representation of (Self)Soothing in The Art Project Entitled "Body Texts"Susanne Main, Pat Walton, Pip Hardy, Dr Malgorzata Dawidek
15:15TEA BREAK 
15:45KEY NOTE "Hearing, seeing and speaking pain" from a psychology perspectiveProf Christopher Eccleston
16:35AnosisIsmene King
16:50Reflection Giskin Day
17:10Mindfulness/RelaxationsAdeline Crawford
 SATURDAY 2nd July
09:30WelcomeDr Deborah Padfield, Prof Joanna Zakrzewska
09:45A lecture performance Hardy Animal Laura Dannequin
10:15KEY NOTE "Me" and "My Pain": A History of the Language of SufferingProf Joanna Bourke
11:05PerformanceAnusha Subramanyam
11:10COFFEE BREAK 
11:40Break out sessions: 
 Workshop 2A*: Pain and the Playwright: Communicating unseen pain on stage; Pleurisy; Destroying and creating subjectivity through suffering and pain at the end of life with dementiaDr Sarah Jane Dickenson, Rebecca Goss, Natashe Lemos Dekker
 Workshop 2B: Tree of Life Liz Aldous
 Workshop 2C: Challenges in managing pain in India; Voicing and interpreting pain Autoethnographies of medical interpreting; Non English speaking pain patients - do images help?Dr Preeti Doshi, Dr Teodora Manea, Prof Joanna Zakrzewska
 Workshop 2D: MovementAnusha Subramanyam
12:40LUNCH BREAK 
13:30KEY NOTE The science of pain: why does it hurt so much?Prof Maria Fitzgerald
14:30Break out sessions: 
 Workshop 3A*: Black and yellow flags, brown envelopes and street level bureaucracy; Pain has an element of blank: Textual Spaces and Gaps in Military-Medical Caregiving Narratives; Theoretical And philosophical discussion of PhenomenologyDr Jens Foell, Marie Allitt, Dr Jennifer Patterson
 Workshop 3B: A chance to explore the PAIN CARDSAlison Glenn, Dr Deborah Padfield, Prof Joanna Zakrzewska
 Workshop 3C: Writing like a Reader/ Reading like a WriterProf Rita Charon
 Workshop 3D: Iconographies of Pain:
History of Art and Drawing
Dr Suzannah Biernoff, Onya McCausland
15:30TEA BREAK 
  A: Poster tour walkabout : Pain, Poetry, Prints, Science and Narratives - Let's Look at Posters!
 

Prof Brian Hurwitz

Oral Presentations:

Wendy French, Carlos Moreno-Leguizamon, Rebecca Pardo & Montse Morcate, Clare Plumley, Emma Sheppard, Dr Virna Teixeira

  B: Chronic pain and mental health - bringing together lived and clinical experience to develop innovative strategies to address both issues in primary careDr Jens Foell & Cath Lovell
  C: Images and Memes as Expressions of Chronic Pain on Social MediaDr Jen Tarr & Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo
16:20Film Screening followed by discussion Pain under the MicroscopeDr Deborah Padfield, Helen Omand
17:00MusicAnusha Subramanyam
17:05Panel Discussion drawing out themes from the conferenceGiskin Day
17:25Reflection and EvaluationGiskin Day
17:40ClosureAnusha Subramanyam
17:45 to 19:00Drinks Reception 

 * Paper Presentations