Borrowed Time symposium

Speakers for this event

• Bayo Akomolafe

  Bayo Akomolafe

  Bayo is visiting professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, and has taught in universities around the world (including Sonoma State University California, Simon Frasier University Vancouver, Schumacher College Devon, Harvard University, and Covenant University Nigeria – among others). He is a consultant with UNESCO. Bayo has authored two books, ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story!’ and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’, and has penned forewords for many others.

  URL www.bayoakomolafe.net

• Beatrice Allegranti

  Beatrice Allegranti

  Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre

  Dr. Beatrice Allegranti is an independent choreographer, filmmaker, UKCP registered dance movement psychotherapist, and Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Choreography at the University of Roehampton, School of Arts. Beatrice’s choreography and film work has toured internationally (France, U.S.A, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, The Netherlands), and her clinical experience includes private practice and the UK National Health System (adult mental health and dementia services), and consultancy (Arts for Peace, Irish Defense Forces, Wellcome Trust). Across her artistic, clinical, and scholarly work, Beatrice’s transdisciplinary feminist new materialist focus involves an ethical re-visioning of the way we relate with/in the world through the lens of our intersectional body politics (gender, race, sexuality, age, class) in human and more-than-human ways. Beatrice is currently working on her second book (with Routledge) about the Moving Kinship project. www.beatriceallegranti.com

  Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre

• Dr Rachel Clarke

  Dr Rachel Clarke

  Author, NHS Doctor

  Dr. Rachel Clarke has achieved international acclaim not just for her outspoken and fearless advocacy for her fellow NHS Junior Doctors during their national strike in 2016, but for her subsequent publications Dear Life, a doctor’s story of love and loss (2017), Your Life in my Hands: a Junior Doctor’s Story (2020) any most recently Breathtaking: inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic (2021). The Sunday Times says that Rachel ‘writes with a tender, lyrical beauty; The Guardian in a similar vein describes her words as ‘brimful of love, grace and kindness’.

  URL http://doctoroxford.com

  Author, NHS Doctor

• Francis Gene-Rowe & Erica Masserano

  Francis Gene-Rowe & Erica Masserano

  Passing Latitudes: What kinds of maps might be needed to navigate the end of a life? What does time feel like when we’re dying, caring, hoping or grieving? What pasts and futures are made unavailable to us by contingency, and how do we make them available again? Passing Latitudes is a board game which attempts to model experiences and affects around death and dying through the association and disassociation of events, feelings and interruptions. Through player collaboration, the game becomes a space in which states that may be difficult to access or process can be discovered, witnessed and held. The game’s aesthetics are rooted in star and constellation motifs, as well as the metaphor of illness as shipwreck (c.f. A. W. Frank, The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, 1995). At the start of a game of Passing Latitudes, players select from a list of positions representing people and roles in an end of life scenario (Dying, Caring, Loving, Knowing, etc.). Together, they play through three phases (Dusk, Dawn and Night), each taking place on a different board. Players take it in turns to play cards drawn from two decks, an Events deck and a Connections deck, in so doing creating a matrix of interrelations, caesuras and endings. The game changes pace to allow for a variety of experiences of time, with play proceeding in a non-linear fashion, such that connections and interruptions emerge both ‘horizontally’ within a single board and ‘vertically’ between different boards.

• Gwen Stevenson

  Gwen Stevenson

  Gwen Stevenson is a socially engaged artist/engineer working across the disciplines of art, technology and behavioural science to create highly sensory installations, environments and experiences that promote wellness and healing and that contribute towards positive change for a fairer and more sustainable world. Many agencies across Northern Ireland have commissioned her work with communities, organisations and individuals on difficult issues of a social, political, or environmental nature including the Public Health Agency, Arts Care NI, Health & Social Care Trusts, Local Government, Women’s Aid, Youth Action NI and Community Arts Partnership Gwen has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions in South America, Russia and Ireland. In 2006, she was joint overall winner of the Claremorris Open Exhibition and was awarded the Embassy of Ireland, Argentina, Estudio Abierto Award. In 2003, she was awarded the Higher Education and Training Awards National Prize for the Most Outstanding Student

• Ieva Stončikaitė

  Ieva Stončikaitė

  Ieva Stončikaitė is an early career researcher. Her PhD (2017) focuses on the intersection of ageing, sexuality, body politics, and the literary creation in the works of Erica Jong. She has co-taught as assistant lecturer at the Department of English and Linguistics at the U of Lleida (Spain), and has presented her research in national and international conferences. Ieva has published articles in journals such as Societies, Life Writing, and Educational Gerontology, and in book collections of articles. Her current research interests include cultural gerontology, leisure tourism, and artistic expressions and ageing. Ieva is also founder of NGO InterAGE that deals with social inclusion, intergenerational dialogue, and international youth mobility.

• Kali Carrigan

  Kali Carrigan

  Researcher

  I am a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the program group Political Sociology. My doctoral project concerns the discourse of choice in end-of-life care in Europe, particularly the phenomenon of suicide tourism to Switzerland as a new kind of "chosen death". I am also a member of the OPEN Foundation, an independent not-for-profit NGO, based in the Netherlands, whose focus is to stimulate academic research into therapeutic applications of psychedelics, the MIND Foundation based in Berlin, and the Rotterdam Psychedelic Science Collective. It is my aim to merge my academic research on the experience of death and dying in the 'West' with the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy to address the existential concerns of dying today.

  URL https://aissr.uva.nl/profile/c/a/k.carriganchavez/k.carrigan- chavez.html?origin=z4MFHDBAQwe20yC1es3Ppg

  Researcher

• Margaret Doherty

  Margaret Doherty

  Margaret Doherty is the Director of Centre for the Art of Dying Well - St Mary’s University. She has a background in communications at a senior level and was the former press secretary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Margaret is also a trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and a governor at St Joseph’s independent preparatory school, Gravesend. Margaret is also a trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and a governor at St Joseph’s independent preparatory school, Gravesend.

  URL http://www.artofdyingwell.org

• Sophie Pierce

  Sophie Pierce

  writer

  writer