Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning
| Dates: | 25 May 2018 |
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| Times: | 10:30 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | John Rylands Research Institute |
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| How much: | FREE |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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10.30-11am Tea/Coffee (Foyer)
11-11.50am Grief-Stricken: Medical and Psychological Models of Mourning
Naomi Baker (Manchester), Mourning Sickness: Is Grief a Disease?
Lesel Dawson (Bristol), Melancholy Caves: Grief and Early Modern Psychology
12-12.50pm Victorian Grief
Ingrid Hanson (Manchester), ‘Give me back what I have lost or give me nothing’: Victorian Literature of Grief and the Limits of Consolation
Jo Carruthers (Lancaster), Making Grief Visible: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Politics of Mourning in Mary Barton
1-2pm Lunch (Foyer)
2-3pm Early Modern Grief
Iman Sheeha (Warwick), ‘I came to chide you, but my words of hate/Are turned to pity and companionate grief’: The Grieving Woman in Early Modern English Domestic Tragedy
Annie Dickinson (Manchester), The Meanings of Grief in Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale
Clare Gittings (Bath), Grief and Grievance: Expressions of Grief in Portraits of Early Modern Widows
3-3.15pm Tea/Coffee (Foyer)
3.15-4pm Grief Ecologies
Tamsin Badcoe (Bristol), Saltwater Passions in Thomas Nashe’s Christs Teares Over Jerusalem
Douglas Clark (Manchester), Semper Eadem? Ecologies of Grief and Regenerative Poetics in Early Modern Verse
4-4.30pm Discussion
Free Registration.
Contact: Naomi Baker (Naomi.Baker@manchester.ac.uk) and Lesel Dawson (Lesel.Dawson@bristol.ac.uk)
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Christie Room
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
150 Deansgate
Manchester
Gtr Manchester
