{"id":618,"date":"2017-10-11T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-artistsbooks\/?page_id=618"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:07:15","slug":"symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists\u2019 Books and the Medical Humanities consisted of a symposium, exhibition and workshops. The symposium explored connections between artists&#8217; books, health, illness and medicine from interdisciplinary perspectives. You can read some of the speakers\u2019 presentations from <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/catalogue-preview\/\">the catalogue preview<\/a>. The day also included <a href=\"https:\/\/selfportraitwithoutbreasts.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/26\/illustrated-talk-for-university-of-kent-symposium-on-artists-books-and-the-medical-humanities-on-21st-april-2016\/\">a poetry reading by Clare Best<\/a> and a screening of the documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/videos\/\"><em>I Make Books<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following this symposium in the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.une.edu\/mwwc_conf\/2018\/day1\/3\/\">a panel on artists&#8217; books<\/a> featured in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dune.une.edu\/mwwc_conf\/2018\/day1\/\">Tell Me What Hurts: Storytelling and the Healing Arts<\/a>, a symposium in the US co-organised by the University of New England&#8217;s Maine Women Writers Collection and the University of Kent&#8217;s School of English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[pdf-embedder url=&#8221;https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1622\/2017\/10\/Artistsbookssymposium.pdf&#8221; title=&#8221;Artists&#8217;bookssymposium&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Symposium Programme<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[pdf-embedder url=&#8221;https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1622\/2017\/10\/artistsbooks-poster.pdf&#8221; title=&#8221;artistsbooks poster&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Symposium Flyer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Artists' Books Symposium and Exhibition Preview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98988283@N04\/albums\/72157668519951411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7741\/27238646415_ab3c9085b2_o.jpg\" alt=\"Artists' Books Symposium and Exhibition Preview\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Symposium Flickr Gallery<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\" align=\"center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists\u2019 Books and the Medical Humanities consisted of a symposium, exhibition and workshops. The symposium explored connections between artists&#8217; books, health, illness and medicine from interdisciplinary perspectives. You can read some of the speakers\u2019 presentations from the catalogue preview. The day also included a poetry reading by Clare Best and a screening of the documentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-618","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}