Arthur Frank has been writing about illness and the body since the late 1980s, when he wrote his first book At the Will of the Body, a memoir of critical illness, while also writing an omnibus review article Bringing Bodies Back In published in Theory, Culture, Society and subsequently expanded in Featherstone, Hepworth, and Turners seminal collection, The Body. Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol and also teaches at Bristol Medical School. She is...

This talk is chaired by Prof Anna Furse who is currently embarking on a creative collaboration with Prof Nicola Clayton. This event promises to be of interest to arts/science collaborators in particular.icola Clayton is a Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Clare College. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010. She is also Scientist in Residence at the Rambert Dance Company. live Wilkins is a fine art...

The Centre of the Body was delighted to host Theatre Director Jenny Sealey MBE and Live Artist Noemi Lakmaier for our third interdisciplinary dialogue Disability and the Artists Presence, supported by the Wellcome Trust.ealey and Lakmaier, each from a very different approach to performance, make significant and imaginative contribution to inclusive presence in live work for audiences today. Sealey co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and continues as Artistic Director of...

The second event in the series focuses on science and philosophy, inviting inspirational scientist and Nobel Laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, and leading philosopher of science, Professor Samir Okasha, to explore whether philosophy has a role in inspiring scientific innovation, and whether cultural perceptions shape the questions that scientists ask themselves, or the directions in which they seek their answers.

Crossing Neuroscience and the Humanities is the first event in the Exploring theBody: Interdisciplinarity in Practice series of the Centre of the Body. Nikolas Rose (Kings) and Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths) discuss how we should or might respond as scholars of the humanities to the rising prominence of the neurosciences? Does this open up the opportunity for collaboration and if so, what kinds of collaboration might be possible? If the humanities are undergoing a critical re-appraisal of the...