Registration is open for the 4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine to
be held on Saturday 18th May 2013 in London at the Wellcome
Collection rooms on the Euston Road. The symposium will include poster
sessions, lectures, round table discussions and poetry readings (Hippocrates Awards judge Jo Shapcott) and the 2013
Hippocrates Awards will be announced at the end of the Symposium.
The
programme includes keynote lectures from Anne Hudson Jones from Texas,
USA and Hugues Marchal from Basel, Switzerland.
Listen to these speakers discussing poetry and medicine.
There will be sessions on historical and contemporary themes, illness and poetry, poetry as therapy, poetry in the education of medical students, nurses and doctors, and poetry as an aid to health professionals. The programme of lectures, round table discussions, poetry readings and the Hippocrates Awards Ceremony will be published on the Symposium website.
Listen to these speakers discussing poetry and medicine.
There will be sessions on historical and contemporary themes, illness and poetry, poetry as therapy, poetry in the education of medical students, nurses and doctors, and poetry as an aid to health professionals. The programme of lectures, round table discussions, poetry readings and the Hippocrates Awards Ceremony will be published on the Symposium website.
Oral abstract submission is open - deadline
28th February, 2013.
Poster abstract submission is open -
deadline 31st March 2013.
The
Hippocrates initiative was named winner of the Award for Excellence and
Innovation in the Arts in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards, announced
on 24th November 2011 in London. This award aims to recognise the collaborative
and interdisciplinary work that is taking place in universities to promote the
arts.
Entries
are open until 31st Jan 2013 for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine,
which is for unpublished poems in English.
The Hippocrates
poetry and medicine initiative was co-founded by a team from University of Warwick,
and has been supported by several external organizations interested in medicine
and the arts, including the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, the
Wellcome Trust, the Cardiovascular Research Trust and Heads, Teachers and
Industry.
We
are delighted that the National Association of Writers in Education is
supporting the inaugural International Hippocrates Prize for Schools
In
its first 3 years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 4000 entries from
45 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia.
With
a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates
prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In
each category there is also a 2nd prize of £1,000, 3rd
prize of £500, and 20 commendations each of £50.
Judging panel for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize:
- Jo Shapcott, winner of the 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- Theodore Dalrymple, doctor and writer
- Roger Highfield, science writer and Executive for the Science Museums Group.
- Jo Shapcott, winner of the 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- Theodore Dalrymple, doctor and writer
- Roger Highfield, science writer and Executive for the Science Museums Group.
For more on the 2012 Hippocrates Awards
and the Hippocrates initiative see update.
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