Immersive and Interactive: Accessibility Theatre and LivingBodiesObjects

Podcast with Amelia DeFalco and Steve Byrne about Interplay Theater The Wellcome-funded project LivingBodiesObjects: Technologies and the Spaces of Health is currently partnering with Interplay National Sensory Theatre, an innovative theatre company that employs sensory engagement in ways that highlight the audience’s embodiment as much as the performers’. LBO and Interplay are exploring techniques and […]

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Lawand: From Voiceless to a Voice Representing the Deaf Community and British Sign Language (BSL)

Podcast Interview with Edward Lovelace Interviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, Global Health Film Fellow, and co-founder of ‘Medfest Egypt’. In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace and discusses his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’. The film is a rapturous portrait of a deaf […]

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Finding the Right Words, a book on Grief, Dementia, and Literature

Podcast with Cindy Weinstein In this episode, we get to speak with Cindy Weinstein, co-author of FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS, a memoir about losing a parent after a ten-year struggle with dementia. Weinstein is the Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of American Literature at the California Institute of Technology, where she has taught and written […]

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Body Talk: “Corporeal Pedagogies” with Dr Sally Waite and Dr Olivia Turner

Podcast with Dr. Sally Waite and Dr. Olivia Turner In this podcast episode, Drs. Sally Waite and Olivia Turner share what it means to do “corporeal pedagogy,” a form of learning and teaching that suspends conventional modes of Western education, particularly within a university setting, to facilitate embodied and haptic learning and productions of knowledge. […]

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Posthumanism and the LivingBodiesObject Project

Podcast with Stuart Murray and Amelia DeFalco in conversation with EIC Brandy Schillace Today we are pleased to speak with Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, and Amelia DeFalco, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities in the School of English, University of Leeds. We at Medical Humanities have been following a new project they […]

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Podcasting Builds Disability Culture

With funding from the Disability Visibility Project, disabled podcasters Cheryl Green and Thomas Reid are creating a space for Deaf and disabled podcasters and content creators to find each other and find audiences. The project, currently called POD Access, will host a database of Deaf and disabled podcasters and podcasts relating to deafness or disability, […]

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Global Health Humanities, a June Special Issue

Podcast: Brandy speaks to Narin Hassan and Jessica Howell about the June Special Issue: Global Health Humanities This timely special issue presents research in the emerging field of Global Health Humanities. Authors hail from different disciplinary backgrounds, including Medical Humanities, literary studies, film and visual media, the history of public health, rhetoric, women’s and gender […]

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Bradford Tales Authentically and Poetically Portrayed in Film by Clio Barnard

Podcast with Clio Barnard, multiple award-winning British Film writer, director and producer, in conversation with Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent In this podcast, Clio Barnard is in conversation with Khalid Ali revisiting her ‘Bradford Film Trilogy’; The Arbor (2010), The Selfish Giant (2013), and Ali & Ava (2021). The troubled life of British playwright […]

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LivingBodiesObjects with Stuart Murray

Podcast with Brandy Schillace and Stuart Murray LivingBodiesObjects is a 3-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust designed to test and extend the boundaries of Medical Humanities research. Wellcome’s three-year development grant will be used to further understand the relationship between the human body and technologies associated with health and disability. At the same time, the […]

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