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  1. Writing for Wellbeing Workshops with The Birchall Trust

    Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    30/09/2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  2. workshop on writing about pain

    Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Organiser)

    1/03/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

  3. Transplantation Metaphors and “Future”-Making in State Discourse and Science Fictions Of Vulnerable Donors

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    20/09/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  4. 'Translating Chronic Pain', Podcast with pain charity Pain Concern

    Wasson, S. (Speaker) & Lambert, Z. (Speaker)

    15/05/2019

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  5. The Twilight Saga and the Pleasures of Spectatorship: The Broken Body and the Shining Body

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    30/04/2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  6. Seventh Annual Gothic Postgraduate Conference and Research Training Day

    Wasson, S. (Keynote/plenary speaker)

    5/06/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  7. Served on the Judging Panel for a poetry competition for the charity Our Minds Leeds.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    05/2019

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  8. Sentient Ruins and the Ventriloquised Dead: Mervyn Peake’s Wartime Poetry

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    16/07/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  9. Science Fiction and Contemporary Organ Transplant Practice

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    24/09/2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  10. Representing Pain: Narrative and Fragments

    Wasson, S. (Organiser)

    17/08/2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  11. Recalcitrant Flesh: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control in Text and Film

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    6/08/2013

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  12. Plenary speaker. Paper title: ‘The National Work of Ghost Fiction on the Second World War British Home Front’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    5/06/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  13. Plenary speaker at the University Santiago de Compostela in Spain, international conference The Discourse of Identity II, held by the Faculty of Philology. Paper title: ‘Haunted Selves, Fractured Identities: Writing Chronic Pain in the Gothic Mode’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    07/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  14. Plenary speaker at the Medical Humanities and the Fantastic international Symposium, Liverpool University. Paper title: ‘Spectrality, Strangeness and Stigmaphilia: Chronic Pain and the Fantastic’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    19/07/2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  15. Plenary speaker at the international conference Embodying Fantastika. Paper title: ‘Slow Lacerations: Time in Tissue Transfer Fantastika.’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    10/08/2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  16. Plenary speaker at the international conference Embodying Fantastika (2019). Paper title: ‘Slow Lacerations: Time in Tissue Transfer Fantastika’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    31/08/2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  17. Placements to Enhance Employability in English, and Motivated vs. Transferable Skills

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    16/09/2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  18. Pain as Fragment, Moment, Glimpse: Flash Illness Writing

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    17/08/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  19. Narrative and the Uncanny

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    17/07/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  20. Medical Gothic: Organ Harvesting and Medicalised Abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    3/08/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  21. Led an AHRC-funded Creative Writing Workshop in Manchester

    Wasson, S. (Organiser) & Lambert, Z. (Speaker)

    24/02/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  22. Invited speaker, Queen Mary, University of London. Paper title: ‘Medical Gothic: Strange Times and Affective Transgression in Illness, Intervention and Aftermath’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    15/11/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  23. Invited speaker, Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Gothic Studies, March 2017. Invited to speak about my research on Gothic and medical humanities. Paper titled: ‘Narrative Disruption: Literature of Chronic Pain’ in the Gothic Mode’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    8/03/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  24. Invited speaker, Bristol University’s Centre for Environmental Humanities. Paper title: ‘Writing Extinction as the Memory of Loves: Flash writing of interconnections in ancient Celtic Oakwood Biomes’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    2/11/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  25. Invited speaker at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Paper title: ‘Making room for stories that don’t sound like stories: nuanced resilience in narratives of pain’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    6/10/2020

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  26. Invited speaker at Linnaeus University, Sweden, for a workshop on Gothic and the Anthropocene (June 2019). My paper title: ‘An Erotics of Nonhuman Encounter: Caitlín R. Kiernan and Queering the Weird’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    06/2019

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  27. Interviewed for an article on fan theories, '‘The Impossible Problems and Endless Opportunities of Fan Theories’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    1/05/2019

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  28. International Gothic Association: Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize (Event)

    Wasson, S. (Member)

    2017

    Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee

  29. II International Conference: The Discourse of Identity

    Wasson, S. (Keynote/plenary speaker)

    8/06/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  30. Guardian interview. ‘Twilight forever: how superfans kept the vampire critics at bay’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    11/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  31. Gothic and the Biomedical Imaginary

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    26/06/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  32. Ghostly Authorities & Vampire Fangs: Myths of Englishness revised in Anna Kavan’s Fiction

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    16/07/2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  33. Dark Ate the Outlines of the House”: Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Fiction and Gender Identity in British Interiors

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    29/06/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  34. Critical Stories: Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Humanities

    Wasson, S. (Participant)

    30/06/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  35. Creative Summit

    Wasson, S. (Organiser)

    21/10/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  36. Creative Summit

    Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    21/10/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  37. 'Complex Chaos: Temporality in Representations of Chronic Pain’. Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, ‘Critical Stories’, Keele University.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  38. Complex Chaos: Temporality in Representations of Chronic Pain

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    30/06/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  39. Collaboration with Museum of London: Perspectives of Destruction

    Wasson, S. (Contributor)

    27/01/2017 → 15/05/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

  40. Clinical Necropoetics: Cadaveric Donation in Medical Writing

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    18/06/2018 → 19/06/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  41. Bringing Conflict Home_ University of York

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    11/05/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  42. 14th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    31/07/2018 → 3/08/2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  43. 13th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    31/07/2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  44. Public reading/talk as part of the book launch for Uncanny Bodies (Luna Press, 2020), to which I contributed a chapter titled ‘Pain’s Uncanny’.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    11/2020

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  45. ‘Waiting, Strange: Temporality in Life Writing by Transplant Recipients.’ British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Conference, April 2021.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    05/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  46. ‘Vulnerable Bodies: Literary Fantasies of Organ Procurement and Economic Precarity’. International Gothic Association Conference, ‘Gothic Traditions and Departures’. Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Cholula, Mexico.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    18/07/2017 → 21/07/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  47. ‘Transplantation Metaphors and “Future”-Making in State Discourse and Science Fictions Of Vulnerable Donors’. Northern Network Medical Humanities conference (NNMHR), at the University of Leeds.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    20/09/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  48. ‘Torn Wings and Exorcism: Gothic Representations of Chronic Pain.’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    23/01/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  49. ‘Restless Ghosts: Fantasies of the Combatant Dead on the Second World War British Home Front’. University of York, ‘Bringing Conflict Home’ Conference.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  50. ‘Representing chronic pain with ‘flash’ short form writing’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    23/05/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  51. ‘Recalcitrant Flesh: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control in Text and Film’, Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques, Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, University of Surrey.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    08/2013

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  52. ‘Pain as Fragment, Moment, Glimpse: Flash Illness Writing’. Presented at Representing Pain: Narrative & Fragments, AHRC-Funded Symposium at Lancaster University.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    08/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  53. ‘Nurturing Student Confidence in Teaching Literary and Cultural Theory

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    7/01/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  54. ‘Interrogating Medicine: A Podcast on Humanities and Pain’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    05/2019

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  55. ‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the Politics of Lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s Wartime Poetry’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    8/07/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  56. ‘Clinical Labour in the Grey Zone: the biopolitics of transplant horror in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    31/07/2018 → 3/08/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  57. ‘Before Narrative’: podcast for the British Medical Journal BMJ Blog.

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    5/06/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  58. ‘“Tombstones or Crouching Things”: The Politics of Vampire Fiction on The British World War II Home Front

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    13/04/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  59. ‘“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: Death and Nation in Mervyn Peake’s Poetry of Second World War London

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    24/04/2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  60. ‘“Flash” future? The Potential of Fragments and Short-Form Writing in the project Translating Chronic Pain’. NNMHR: Northern Network Medical Humanities conference (NNMHR), at the University of Leeds. This is an annual conference with international reach

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    20/09/2018 → 21/09/2018

    Activity: Other activity types › Other

  61. ‘“Flash” future? The Potential of Fragments and Short-Form Writing in the project Translating Chronic Pain’

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    20/09/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

  62. ‘ “Undeath” or the Dreams of Plants? The Svalbard Global Seed vault, Human Melancholy and Lively Matter.”

    Wasson, S. (Speaker)

    26/07/2022 → 29/07/2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

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