Arts in Healthcare meetings & conferences

Child Life Council 32nd Annual Conference on Professional Issues

May 22-25, 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana

The Child Life Council (CLC), established in 1982, offers an unparalleled educational and networking experience for child life professionals. The annual conference program provides ideas on innovative resources and best practices in child life.

Established as a nonprofit organization in 1982, the Child Life Council represents a group of trained professionals with expertise in helping children and their families overcome life’s most challenging events. The Child Life Council membership is composed of nearly 5,000 individuals representing more than 600 organizations worldwide. Our members include child life specialists, child life assistants, university educators and students, hospital administrators and staff, school teachers, therapeutic recreation specialists, and others in related fields.

CLC provides members with professional development programs and resources, facilitates the exchange of professional knowledge and best practices, and distributes information about the needs of children experiencing stress and trauma.

14th World Congress of Music Therapy

July 8-12, 2014 Austria

The congress location will be in Vienna, (i.e., pre-congress seminars) and Krems/Wachau (i.e., opening, spotlight, concurrent, and closing sessions).

Please note that the major part of the congress takes place in Krems. Booking accommodation in Krems is strongly recommended since evening "cultural" events will all be in and around Krems.

The topic of the 14th World Congress of Music Therapy is “Cultural Diversity in Music Therapy, Practice, Research, and Education.”

Organiser and responsible for the content

Institute for Ethno-Music Therapy
Priv. Doz. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Tucek
www.ethnomusik.com

Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, 5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference

The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Sydney 2013
5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference
12 - 14 November 2013
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia

The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, 5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference, will present best practice and innovative arts and health programs, effective health promotion and prevention campaigns, methods of project evaluation and scientific research.

Conference Streams

Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care

Creative Ageing and Aged Care

Community Arts and Health

Health Promotion and the Arts

Education and Training for Health and Arts Professionals

Arts and Health Research and Evaluation

Who should attend?

Medical, nursing and allied healthcare professionals

Government decision-makers and policy advisers in health, indigenous affairs, arts, science, education and training, community health, veterans’ affairs, cultural tourism and local government

Executives in public and private hospitals, retirement villages, aged care and palliative care facilities

Representatives of arts organisations, visual and performing artists, writers, arts and health practitioners

Representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Local Government representatives from community cultural development, aged care and community health services

Education authorities, academics, teachers and medical and healthcare colleges

Researchers, particularly in the area of health and social sciences

Art and museum educators and curators

Art therapists (visual arts, dance, music, drama, expressive writing)

Media

2nd International Conference Disability Studies--The Art of Belonging

The 2nd International Conference Disability Studies “The Art of Belonging” will take place October 31 - November 2,  2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Keynote speakers are amongst others: Ann Turnbull, Simi Linton and Hans Reinders. They will highlight the art of belonging, a focus that traverses the tensions between disability experience, the art of living and belonging.

IASSIDD Academy preconference workshops will be held on Thursday afternoon 31 October 2013.

Art Exhibtion

During the conference art works of the artist Bert Janssen will be presented in several conference rooms. One of his paintings "True Colors" is used for the logo of the conference.

Contacts

For additional information and any questions you may have on 2nd Disability Studies International Conference 2013, please contact the conference office PAOG: paog@vumc.nl

Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference

June 24th - 26th 2013, Bristol, United Kingdom

Conference themes

Healthy and Creative Ageing

Global Health Inequalities and Culture

Culture and the Social Determinants of Wellbeing

With a particular focus on:

Research

The latest research and new methodologies

The dissemination of international research and evaluation

Practice

Museums and Health

Arts in healthcare settings

Arts and health promotion/prevention

Contact us

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing conference is being delivered by Arts & Health South West on behalf of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing with the support of the Royal Society for Public Health.

Arts & Health South West
PO Box 7515
Dorchester
DT1 9FX

+44 1305 269081
info@culturehealthwellbeing.org.uk

Progress in Motor Control IX

July 14-16, 2013 Montreal, Canada

Sponsored  by the International Society of Motor Control

The three-day meeting brings together experts in diverse areas of Motor Control including the performing arts, such as dance, circus arts and music. There will be two scientific plenary sessions per day addressing the following areas:

Cortical and spinal mechanisms of motor control
Variability and redundancy in motor control
Equilibrium-point control and perception-action coupling
Motor control of speech and language
Motor control and recovery from injury
Motor control and the performing arts

Contact information:

Email: pmcix2013@gmail.com

Association of Medical Illustrators 68th Annual Conference

July 17-20, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah

General Program
The conference will offer workshops and sessions in its general program in four areas:

Medical, Biomedical and Scientific Visualization
current major projects, innovative techniques, etc.

Biomedical Science and Technology
innovations in medicine, science, technology applications, etc.

Business Practices
current effective practices relating to the business of medical illustration, legal issues, marketing concepts, and strategic planning.

General Artistic Techniques
digital techniques, current software, traditional techniques, etc.

Themed Program

After the success of the themed days at the 2012 meeting, in addition to the general program we will offer a subsection of three themed program sessions, one on each day of the conference:

Professionalism and Business Development
Biomedical Sciences
Mobile Media

Melancholy Minds and Painful Bodies: Genealogy, Geography, Pathogeny

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 9-11 July 2013

One of the major developments in the study of melancholia over the last thirty years has been the rise to aesthetic and cultural prominence of varieties of negative emotions proposed and discussed as melancholy, including different conceptions, analyses, and portrayals from grief to insanity. Most recently, Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia(2011) happens to be the melodramatic adaptation of the concept fuelled by cinematic symbols. Correspondingly, often observed as ‘a central European discourse’, melancholia has resurfaced to embody complementary or paradoxical notions not merely in the literary analysis of texts and contexts, but it has also emerged to retrieve its historical categorization. The cultural and social history of emotions entwined with modern medical and psychiatric lexicalization has opened new pathways to provide relative definitions of melancholia. However, theories about the choice of analogies for melancholy, whether aesthetic, cinematic, religious, or medical, somehow fail to distinguish the connections between contrary factors involved in melancholia.

It is also noteworthy that theories of characterization, no matter of what kind, tend to reformulate and evaluate contrary factors for the sake of preserving ‘superiority’ according to prevalent taste at each moment in time. In Britain, for example, individual and collective melancholia has been appreciated as a sign of genius and national pride at one time and announced as a national malady at another. Analogous is the contemporary history of behavioural rather than cognitive attributes to grief, e.g. tearfulness. Pain, in comparison, is bodily and often mental distress which in the past was closely perceived in relation to melancholia, but today research on pain is divorced from depression let alone melancholy. Thus, we miss the ‘melancholy-pain bridge’ in contemporary scholarship of mental and physical suffering. On the other hand, while pain is seen through the lens of universality, with management models stretching from Chinese medicine to Latin America, melancholia has rarely been investigated beyond the Western borders with regard to its genealogy, pathology, pathogeny, and management. Whether this geographical focus is a matter of re-establishing pre-eminence or in want of psycholinguistic reference, thereby centred on a gap in universal scientific communication, it invites intriguing and challenging enquiries.

Possible topics

Diversity in the geography of melancholia and pain
The relationship between Western theories of emotions and Oriental conceptions
The European hypothesis of melancholia-pain in non-European cultures
Orientalism, grief, and abstinence
Emotionality as negativity
Gender attributes and tearfulness
Art history, muscle tension, and the painful posture
Interpretation, assumption, semantic relation
Fear, Pain, and melancholy dominance
Depression and pain
Paranoia, melancholia, and pain
Misconceptions; cyclothymia and bipolar disorder
Melancholy appropriation, ethnicity, multicultural perspectives
Cosmology and elegiac pain management
Cinematic symbols
Literary emotionality, fictive superiority
Embodied cognition
Anaesthetics, the relationship between medical management and other models
Lyric manifestation of melancholy and pain