Upcoming epic events
Critical Approaches to Like and Dislike in Medicine, Law, and Society
15.10.25
9:30am - 5:30pm
Programme:
9.30. Registration/coffee
10.00. Fred Cooper and Sheelagh McGuinness, Law, University of Bristol. Critical approaches to like and dislike.
10.20. Lucy Series, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Keynote speech: On smiling less.
11.10. Break
11.30. Panel 1:
Alessandro Guardascione, Philosophy, University College Dublin. The Normativity of Likeability: Towards A Phenomenological Approach.
Eleanor Byrne, Philosophy, University of Nottingham. High-stakes emotional expression in functional neurology.
Paula Muhr, Transdisciplinary Studies, Brand University of Applied Sciences. Functional Seizures and the Persistence of Historical Stereotypes of the ‘Difficult’ Patient.
13.00. Lunch
14.00. Panel 2:
Pravajya Pandey, Independent researcher. Masked and Unlikeable: Affective Injustice and Epistemic Erasure in ADHD Women.
Sandra Duffy and Abs S. Ashley, Law/English, University of Bristol. Can the neurotrans person speak?
Noemi Paciscopi, Cristina Ganz and Mara Floris, Philosophy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Likeability, Silence, and Power: Affective and Epistemic Injustice in Obstetric Care.
15.30. Break
15.50. Panel 3
Barry Lyons, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. Like/Dislike and the Consequences of Adverse Events in Medicine.
Davy Tennison, Science and Technology Studies, UCL. “How can you stand those women??”: understanding the dislike of fibromyalgia patients as both epistemic injustice and epistemic dysfunction.
Hugh Robertson-Ritchie, Philosophy, University of Kent. Unlikable Responses to Medical Uncertainty: Evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
17.20. Closing remarks and reception.
Upcoming epic events
EPIC summer school 2026
14.07.26 - 17.07.26
Ce.U.B (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro) in Bertinoro, Italy.
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Hybrid: 27.06.25
Keynote speakers
Professor Susan Hogan - Event Chair
Professor of Arts in Health, University of Derby, and IMH Fellow
Dr Oihika Chakrabarti
Decolonising the Curriculum in Art Therapy in India
Director of the Manahkshetra Foundation and Chair of The Art Therapy Association India (TATAI)
Professor Suranjan Das
Decolonising
Hybrid: 27.06.25
Keynote speakers
Professor Susan Hogan - Event Chair
Professor of Arts in Health, University of Derby, and IMH Fellow
Dr Oihika Chakrabarti
Decolonising the Curriculum in Art Therapy in India
Director of the Manahkshetra Foundation and Chair of The Art Therapy Association India (TATAI)
Professor Suranjan Das
Decolonising the Knowledge System: The Way Forward
Vice-Chancellor, Adamas University
Dr Ranjita Dhital Developing Arts-Based Transdisciplinary Public Health Alcohol Research in Nepal
Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Health Studies, University College London
Dr Ellie Burne and Dr Alice Monypenny - Epistemic Injustice, Affective Injustice and Mental Health
University of Nottingham
Mental Health, Methodology and Hermeneutical Injustice
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Date: 10.04.2025
10:30 tea & coffee
11:00: Jae Ryeong Sul (Bristol): What Are Phenomenologists Doing in Psychopathology?
12:00 Lucienne Spencer (Oxford): Hermeneutic Injustice & Ontic Power in Mental Health
13:00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14:30 KomarineRomdenh-Romluc (Sheffield): The Problem of Authority in Hermeneutic Injustice
3:30 close
Philosophy and Mental Health
Decolonization, Reflexivity and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health and Therapeutic Arts
Loneliness, Metaphor and Empathy
Date: 21.03.2025
In this webinar chaired by Lisa Bortolotti we will look at how the notion of epistemic injustice (emerged in philosophy at the intersection of ethics and epistemology) can help us recognise the importance of seeing the mental health patient as a person, an agent, and a collaborator. Of interest to mental health researche
Date: 21.03.2025
In this webinar chaired by Lisa Bortolotti we will look at how the notion of epistemic injustice (emerged in philosophy at the intersection of ethics and epistemology) can help us recognise the importance of seeing the mental health patient as a person, an agent, and a collaborator. Of interest to mental health researchers, clinicians, healthcare service users, carers, and people working for mental health organisations.
Panelists include:
· Michael Larkin (Aston University): “Feeling and Being Understood in Young People Seeking Help.”
· Rose McCabe (City, University of London): “Improving Relational and Communicative Practices Amongst Mental Health Professionals.”
· Luigi Grassi (University of Ferrara): “Preserving Dignity and Epistemic Justice in Palliative Care for Patients with Serious Mental Health Problems.”
Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna): “Ameliorating Epistemic Injustice with Digital Health Technologies.”
· Rabih Chattat (University of Bologna): “Promoting Good Living and Social Health in Dementia.”
Loneliness, Metaphor and Empathy
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Loneliness, Metaphor and Empathy
Date: 21.01.25
Fred Cooper (Bristol)
The Naked Terror: Joseph Conrad, 'true loneliness', and the inability to know.
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Birmingham)
Giving uptake to metaphorical meaning
Eleanor A. Byrne (Nottingham)
Ground empathy: a fundamental dimension of empathy?
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Date: 23/34.09.25
Research within distributed cognition and affectivity emphasises the essential role of other people in realising various cognitive and affective states. Similarly, work on epistemic injustice in healthcare has drawn attention to the influence of other people on our practices of cultivating, sharing, and communicating know
Date: 23/34.09.25
Research within distributed cognition and affectivity emphasises the essential role of other people in realising various cognitive and affective states. Similarly, work on epistemic injustice in healthcare has drawn attention to the influence of other people on our practices of cultivating, sharing, and communicating knowledge about our bodies.
In this workshop, we aim to pursue interesting possibilities for future research at the intersection of these research areas. Some researchers have begun to look at the “dark side” of distributed cognition, scaffolding, and other distributed cognitive and affective practices to develop more socio-politically situated analyses.
Early career women in Philosophy on epistemic injustice
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Understanding oneself through others: Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare X Distributed Cognition
Date: 04.07.25
10:00-10:45 WHAT GIVES MEANING TO DELUSIONS? ROSA RITUNNANO
10:45-11:30 THE BURDEN OF THE STORY SALLY LATHAM
11:30-12:15 AFFECT, UPTAKE AND EXISTENTIAL FEELING ELEANOR BYRNE
13:00-13:45 EPISTEMIC HYPERVIGILANCE AND THE PSYCHIATRIST ELEANOR PALAFOX-HARRIS
13:45-14:30 EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AS CARE IN TRAUMA-SHARING KATHLEEN MURPHY-HOL
Date: 04.07.25
10:00-10:45 WHAT GIVES MEANING TO DELUSIONS? ROSA RITUNNANO
10:45-11:30 THE BURDEN OF THE STORY SALLY LATHAM
11:30-12:15 AFFECT, UPTAKE AND EXISTENTIAL FEELING ELEANOR BYRNE
13:00-13:45 EPISTEMIC HYPERVIGILANCE AND THE PSYCHIATRIST ELEANOR PALAFOX-HARRIS
13:45-14:30 EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AS CARE IN TRAUMA-SHARING KATHLEEN MURPHY-HOLLIES
14:30-15:15 WHY PLURALISM OF MODELS DOESN’T LEAD TO A MORE FEMINIST PSYCHIATRY JODIE RUSSELL
15:30-16:15 TACTICAL TESTIMONIAL SMOTHERING AND EPISTEMIC AGENCY ALICE MONYPENNY
16:15-17:00 HUMAN RIGHT TO SCIENCE: TRUTH AND EPISTEMIC (IN)JUSTICE FRANCESCA BELLAZZI
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Date: 10.06.24
11.Giorgio Mazzullo (Nottingham Philosophy) - On Trauma and Psychological Trauma
12.Ian James Kidd (Nottingham Philosophy) - Depression and Hermeneutical Injustice
1.lunch (own arrangements - we'll go to Portland)
2.30. Henry Taylor (Birmingham Philosophy) - Should Psychiatric Kinds Be Eliminated?
3.30. Ellie Palafox-Harris
Date: 10.06.24
11.Giorgio Mazzullo (Nottingham Philosophy) - On Trauma and Psychological Trauma
12.Ian James Kidd (Nottingham Philosophy) - Depression and Hermeneutical Injustice
1.lunch (own arrangements - we'll go to Portland)
2.30. Henry Taylor (Birmingham Philosophy) - Should Psychiatric Kinds Be Eliminated?
3.30. Ellie Palafox-Harris (Birmingham Philosophy) - Epistemic Hypervigilance and the Psychiatrist
4.30. end.
Screening of 'The Unequal Pandemic'
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Date: 30.05.24
The Unequal Pandemic (Good Guys Productions Ltd, 2024): a short film that lays bare the long term institutional, societal and governmental failures that led to one of the highest excess Covid death rates in the developed world.
After the screening, a panel of experts reflected on its key themes from their own unique research
Date: 30.05.24
The Unequal Pandemic (Good Guys Productions Ltd, 2024): a short film that lays bare the long term institutional, societal and governmental failures that led to one of the highest excess Covid death rates in the developed world.
After the screening, a panel of experts reflected on its key themes from their own unique research and professional perspectives.
The panel featured: Prof Havi Carel (UoB), Prof Josie Gill (UoB), Prof Christina Gray (Director of Communities and Public Health, Bristol City Council), Dr Habib Naqvi MBE (director, NHS Race and Health Observatory)
Co-hosted by the Centre for Black Humanities and the EPIC project.
EPIC LAUNCH EVENT
Trauma, Depression, and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Silence and Psychopathology: Philosophical Perspectives
Date: 13.05.24
3:45pm: Arrival and Welcome Drink
4pm: Welcome talk from EPIC project Principle Investigator, Havi Carel
4:10pm: Talks from EPIC project Co-Investigators Lisa Bortolotti, Matthew Broome, Ian Kidd and Sheelagh McGuinness
4:25pm: Talks from EPIC specialist staff member Michael Bresalier and EPIC postdocs Ellie Byrne, Fred Cooper,
Date: 13.05.24
3:45pm: Arrival and Welcome Drink
4pm: Welcome talk from EPIC project Principle Investigator, Havi Carel
4:10pm: Talks from EPIC project Co-Investigators Lisa Bortolotti, Matthew Broome, Ian Kidd and Sheelagh McGuinness
4:25pm: Talks from EPIC specialist staff member Michael Bresalier and EPIC postdocs Ellie Byrne, Fred Cooper, Dan Degerman and Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
4:50pm: University singers perform world premiere of EPIC commissioned piece
5:15pm: Networking
6pm: Close
Silence and Psychopathology: Philosophical Perspectives
Silence and Psychopathology: Philosophical Perspectives
Silence and Psychopathology: Philosophical Perspectives
Date 01.09.23
Hosted by Dan Degerman at University of Bristol.
'Trauma' Event
Silence and Psychopathology: Philosophical Perspectives
'Trauma' Event
Date 29.11.23
Co-Hosted by the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science and the EPIC project.
