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SUMMARY:Sleep\, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives - Brigitte
  Steger (University of Cambridge)\, Megan Leitch (Cardiff University)
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DESCRIPTION:Abstracts:\n\nBrigitte Steger (University of Cambridge): “At
  night I lie in bed but cannot sleep” - Insomnia and loneliness in early
  Japanese literature \n\nIt is easy to think that the widespread problem o
 f insomnia today is due to the stress of our hectic lives and the 24-hour 
 nature of our societies\, whereas in pre-industrial times people naturally
  went to bed when it got dark and got up with the sun after a sound night
 ’s sleep. However\, Japanese literature of the Heian and Kamakura period
 s (9th to 14th century) depicts men and women of the nobility spending man
 y hours awake at night—on duty at the palace\, sitting on verandas admir
 ing the moon\, receiving visitors\, taking turns to tell stories\, playing
  music\, travelling on pilgrimages and in a myriad of other settings. Besi
 des such voluntary sleeplessness\, the aristocratic men and women of the c
 apital Heian (present-day Kyoto) suffered from insomnia. Complaints about 
 sleeplessness due to uncomfortable beds\, extremes of temperature\, commun
 al sleeping arrangements and houses that provided little protection agains
 t the weather and intruders\, however\, are all noticeable by their absenc
 e. The cause of their insomnia was overwhelmingly emotional. In this prese
 ntation I will demonstrate how it was the death of a parent\, an emperor
 ’s illness\, the absence of close friends and family and—above all—n
 eglect by a lover that robbed people of their sleep\, and how in poetry\, 
 novels and literary diaries\, a reference to one’s inability to sleep co
 uld also be employed metaphorically to express depth of feeling and aesthe
 tic sophistication.\n\n \n\nMegan Leitch (Cardiff University): ‘Sleeping
  it Off: Sleep\, Wellbeing and the Emotions in Middle English Literature
 ’\n\nThis paper explores the interrelations of sleep\, wellbeing and the
  emotions in later medieval English literature. In the humoral theory of t
 he body\, in which health and well-being were determined by an individual
 ’s fluctuating economy of liquids with emotional attributes\, sleep had 
 a powerful role to play in generating balance by transforming food into th
 e four humours during digestion. Thus\, while sleep was important for phys
 ical health\, sleep was also significant for mental health\, offering reli
 ef from the ‘unhealthful’ humours of melancholy and choler. While medi
 eval mentalities did not distinguish mental health from physical health in
  the same terms we do today\, in pre-Cartesian conceptions of the interrel
 ations of mind and body\, holistic views of health meant that the implicat
 ions of a bodily act such as sleep for emotional well-being were well reco
 gnised. Although this scientific paradigm was shared across medieval Europ
 e\, the literature of medieval England engages with it in distinctive ways
 .  \n\nAs a form of sorrow-making and anger-management\, sleep shapes subj
 ectivities and judgements in English romances\, cycle plays\, and dream vi
 sions. Attending to the ways in which sleep parallels\, as well as differs
  from\, swooning as an expression of strong emotion in medieval English re
 presentations helps to deepen our understanding of the emotive scripts to 
 which these two forms of unconsciousness contribute. Here\, sleep both off
 ers treatments and bodies forth truths about individuals that are cultural
 ly determined.  \n\n \nSpeakers:\nBrigitte Steger (University of Cambridge
 )\, Megan Leitch (Cardiff University)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (Colin Matthew Room)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6G
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SUMMARY:Charles Spurgeon and Wintering in Menton - Professor Sally Shuttle
 worth (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221110T193000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The next Friends of the Angus Autumn 2022 'Opening the Angus' 
 online seminar will take place at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday the 10 of November
 \, when Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) will be giving
  a talk entitled 'Charles Spurgeon and Wintering in Menton'.\n\nTo registe
 r for a link\, please contact Friends of the Angus at "$":fota@regents.ox.
 ac.uk \n\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:The Contagion Cabaret: Post-show Decontamination Discussion - Prof
 essor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)\, Professor Sunetra Gupta 
 (University of Oxford)\, Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Ox
 ford)
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DESCRIPTION:Join TORCH for a live 'Post-show Decontamination Discussion' w
 ith Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Diseases of Modern Life\, Oxford Univers
 ity) and Anna Tolputt (Performer) following the release of the film\, The 
 Contagion Cabaret. Professor Shuttleworth and Anna Tolputt will be joined 
 by Oxford University contributors Professor Sunetra Gupta (Department of Z
 oology) and Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Faculty of English). \n\nYou 
 can watch the post-show discussion live on the TORCH YouTube channel: http
 s://youtu.be/xc3duyyoUgM\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Sally Shuttleworth (Univers
 ity of Oxford)\, Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford)\, Professo
 r Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Invalids on the Move - online event - Professor Sally Shuttleworth
  (University of Oxford)\, Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Bi
 g Tent...Big Ideas!\n\nMedical Humanities Week\n\n \n\nLive Event: Thursda
 y 16th April 2020\, 5.00pm-6.00pm\n\nWatch the live event here:  https://w
 ww.youtube.com/watch?v=B2rYcCIb2b4&feature=youtu.be\n\n \n\nAt a time when
  we are all locked down in our homes\, Sally Shuttleworth and Erica Charte
 rs take a look\, both serious and light-hearted\, at the treatment of heal
 th and disease in the past\, and particularly the period from the eighteen
 th to nineteenth centuries when invalids were actively encouraged to trave
 l.   The discussion will explore the creation of the health resort\, and w
 hat life was like for invalids living in towns devoted to the sick.  We wi
 ll look at a range of diseases\, both real and imagined\, from tuberculosi
 s and professional burnout to clergyman’s throat.   We will also conside
 r what happened in resorts when\, in the 1880s\, it was discovered that tu
 berculosis was infectious.  How did hotels respond to the fact that invali
 ds and non-invalids were happily eating and socializing together?  \n\n \n
 \nBiographies:\n\n \n\nErica Charters \n\nErica Charters is Associate Prof
 essor in Global History and the History of Medicine at the University of O
 xford\, where she is also Director of Oxford’s Centre for Global History
  and the Oxford Centre for the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technol
 ogy.  Her research examines how war and disease intersect with state forma
 tion and state power\, particularly in colonial contexts.  Her monograph D
 isease\, War\, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of British Armed Forces
  during the Seven Years War (Chicago\, 2014) was awarded the George Rosen 
 Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine\, and the Te
 mpler Medal for Best First Book by the Society for Army Historical Researc
 h. To read more on Erica's research please visit https://warhistory.blog/ 
 or follow @EricaCharters.\n\n \n\nSally Shuttleworth\n\nSally Shuttleworth
  is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.  She work
 s on the inter-relations of medicine\, science and culture\, and between 2
 014-19 ran the large ERC research project\, ‘Diseases of Modern Life: Ni
 neteenth-Century Perspectives’\, https://diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox.ac.
 uk/  Her most recent book is the co-authored Anxious Times: Medicine and M
 odernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019).  \nSpeakers:\nProfessor Sal
 ly Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)\, Dr Erica Charters (University of 
 Oxford)
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SUMMARY:CONFERENCE: Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence\, Literature\, and Ment
 al Health
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190517T093000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190517T180000
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aac0268c-54cf-4d86-b3f3-1de3d46ae854/
DESCRIPTION:Can literature and narrative improve the lives of young people
 ?\n \nThis one-day programme of talks and workshops will bring together li
 terary and humanities scholars with service users and practitioners in the
  field of child and adolescent mental health. Together we will ask questio
 ns about the role of literature as a point of therapeutic engagement in ca
 ring for children\, adolescents\, and young people.\n\nWe are interested i
 n how literature might play a role when we experience pain\, trauma\, and 
 stress\, as well as the ways in which literature might be employed as a to
 ol to improve communication and foster understanding between medical learn
 ers\, healthcare providers\, service users\, and family members.\n\nProgra
 mme\n9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and Registration \n10.00 – 10.10 Welcome and
  Introduction\n10.10 – 11.10 First Keynote Address\nJoanne Dunphy (Vice 
 Principal\, Oxford Spires Academy)\, 'Being Heard'\n11.10 – 11.30 Coffee
  Break\n11.30 – 1.00	Presentations\nDr Mina Fazel (Associate Professor i
 n Psychiatry\, University of Oxford)\, 'Adolescence and Authority:\nExplor
 ing the Contradictory Messages Young People Navigate in Mental Healthcare'
 \nDr Gordon Bates (MBChB\, MMedSc\; PhD Candidate at the University of Bir
 kbeck)\, '"A Lot of You Cared\, Just Not Enough": Teen Suicide in Popular 
 Culture'\nDr Edward Harcourt (Faculty of Philosophy\, Oxford and Director 
 of Research\, AHRC)\, 'Emotional Self-Regulation and Autonomy'\n1.00 – 2
 .00	Lunch\n2.00 – 3.10	Presentations\nDr Gaby Illingworth and Dr Rachel 
 Sharman (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)\, 'The\nTeensleep 
 Study: Sleep Education in UK Schools'\nStudents from Oxford Spires Academy
 \, 'Poems from a School"\n3.10 – 3.40	Coffee\n3.40 – 4.50	Presentation
 s\nDr Jacqueline Yallop (Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing\,
  Aberystwyth University)\, 'Writing\nPain Wales: Working with Creative Wri
 ting and Chronic Pain'\nProfessor Brendan Stone (Deputy Vice-President for
  Education\, The University of Sheffield)\, '"I Travelled Deeper into the 
 Heart of an Extraordinary World": Reflections on Entering into "Psychosis"
 '\n4.50 – 5.50	Second Keynote Address\nDr Barbara-Anne Wren (Consultant 
 Psychologist\, Royal Free London NHS Trust)\, 'Paying Attention to\nMeanin
 g: Using Narrative to Understand the Experience of Caring for Children and
  Young People'\n5.50 – 6.00	Closing Comments\n6.00	Drinks Reception\nSpe
 akers:\n Various Speakers
LOCATION:St Anne's College\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
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SUMMARY:Richard Doll Seminar - The emergence of epidemiology and public he
 alth campaigns in Victorian Britain - Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Univer
 sity of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180130T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxfor
 d)
LOCATION:Richard Doll Building (Lecture Theatre)\, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
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SUMMARY:Stress\, Strain\, and Overwork in Historical Perspectives - Profes
 sor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171123T123000Z
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UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/41832a94-94f2-44e7-aea7-97544b444540/
DESCRIPTION:In this talk on Stress\, Strain\, and Overwork in Historical P
 erspective Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and L
 iterature) will look at discussions of stress and overwork in both educati
 on and professional life in the Victorian era.  Although we are clearly li
 ving in a radically altered world\, there are nonetheless startling simila
 rities in the ways the problems of overwork have been framed and debated\,
  then and now.   \n\nRegistration is free. Booking essential.\n\nClick her
 e to register for your free ticket.\n\nLunch from 12.30pm. Talk from 1pm.\
 n\nThis event is part of UK Disability History Month 22 Nov-22 Dec.\nSpeak
 ers:\nProfessor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (Seminar Room)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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