June 2025

 Chiara Punzi speaks on paranoia and how the need to give meaning to experience can become pathological. At IPUE Rome 2025, Intercultural Approaches to the Care and Treatment of Illnes. Chiara talked about EPIC and the case study on paranoia she worked on. 

 Wonderful news: project EPIC post-doc Alice Monypenny has been awarded the Maria Baghramian Early Career Prize for a research paper on testimonial smothering! Congratulations Alice 

 Chiara Punzi (Ferrara) presented the thesis for her specialisation in Psychiatry on the phenomenon of Epistemic Injustice in Paranoia, one of the EPIC case studies. 

 EPIC postdoctoral researcher Kathleen Murphy-Hollies talks about the metaphorical meaning of delusions and how we can give uptake to delusions at the Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice Conference 

 Lisa Bortolotti at the Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice Conference in Cagliari. Chairs Elisabetta Lalumera. The talk explores obstructions to the performance of expertise. 

 At the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy conference in Turin Elisabetta Lalumera discusses values and biases in science 

Lisa Bortolotti presents her work on epistemic injustice at a conference on expertise in mental health at Radboud University 

Ian James Kidd presents his work on epistemic injustice at a conference on expertise in mental health at Radboud University 

 Matthew Broome presenting at the PhenoLab

Jodie Russell presenting at the PhenoLab

 How has silence been medicalised in the context of depression? At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, EPIC researcher Dan Degerman discusses various ways in which silence has been associated with depression. 

 At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, EPIC postdoc Kathleen Murphy-Hollies discusses the case of epistemic injustice being harmful even when the report to be dismissed is false: she consider the importance of the speaker's perspective conveyed in the report of delusional beliefs. 

 At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, project partner Elisabetta Lalumera defends the importance of definitions in medicine, and presents a case of conceptual engineering in the revised definition of pain. 

Jodie Russell discusses work on intersectionality and mental health at the poster session during the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable. Interesting to see several posters centred on EPIC themes such as epistemic injustice, expertise by experience, and phenomenology of illness. 

 Great panel at INPP in Leipzig from the Birmingham and Bologna contingent of the EPIC project! Jodie Russell, Matthew Broome, Elisabetta Lalumera, and Lara Calabrese 

 Matthew Broome discussed Kraepelin’s work at The Royal Society of Medicine 

EPIC team photo from the Nottingham workshop on loneliness, metaphor and empathy

 One of our Birmingham postdocs, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, inTokyo, where she gave a talk on epistemic injustice and self-knowledge, at ‘Trajectories of Epistemic Injustice: Local and Global Perspectives 

 Matthew Broome participated in a session on delusion at SONEPSYN 2024, the Chilean society for neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery

Matthew Broome presenting project EPIC in Chile

 Matthew Broome presenting on the psychiatric interview at AESP in Paris 

 Great EPIC representation at the OZSW conference:  Kathleen distinguishing between two credibility assessments when listening to people who report false claims about themselves. 

 Great EPIC representation at the OZSW conference: Lisa arguing that epistemically unjust interactions are not good medicine