Making Sense Workshop 2: Reading

Based at Durham University, we are the UK's first Institute for Medical Humanities. Our research explores human experiences of health and ill-health using an interdisciplinary arts and humanities approach.

Institute for Medical Humanities

We bring together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on keywords that relate to our interest in affect, emotion and embodiment.

Institute for Medical Humanities • Durham University

<a href="https://medhumsplatform.org/labs/affective-experience/" title="https://medhumsplatform.org/labs/affective-experience/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Affective Experience Lab</a>’s ‘Making Sense’ workshops bring together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on keywords that relate to our shared interest in affect, emotion and embodiment.Our second Making Sense Workshop will examine ‘Reading’. We will revisit one of the foundational studies of the cultural sociology of reading, Janice Radway’s ethnography Reading the Romance (1984). Revisiting this seminal work allows us to consider how our disciplinary assumptions about reading, feeling and community have changed in the forty years since the text’s publication.We will focus our discussion on Chapter 2 (The Readers and Their Romance) and Chapter 3 (The Act of Reading the Romance: Escape and Instruction). The book is available online via <a href="https://discover.durham.ac.uk/permalink/44DUR_INST/k3s6qp/alma991010376992707366" title="https://discover.durham.ac.uk/permalink/44DUR_INST/k3s6qp/alma991010376992707366" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Durham University Library</a>, or by contacting Fraser Riddell (<a href="mailto:f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk" title="mailto:f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk</a>).You may also like to read this <a href="https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ijcs/article/29929/galley/138272/view/" title="https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ijcs/article/29929/galley/138272/view/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Interview with Janice Radway</a> by Loren Glass (from the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2009).Note: Light lunch will be provided.The workshop is hosted by the Affective Experience Lab, led by <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/c-j-saunders/" title="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/c-j-saunders/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Corinne Saunders</a> and <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/f-i-riddell/" title="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/f-i-riddell/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fraser Riddell</a>.

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