Date / Hour
01/08/2017 - 02/08/2017
All day

Place
University College Cork

Categories

• Research

The UNIMA Research Commission in collaboration with Cork Puppetry Festival, University College Cork, and Mary Immaculate College, are proposing a two-day symposium exploring the ways puppetry intersects with disability and health. We invite academics and practice-based researchers to propose papers, provocations, and particularly discussions about or presentations of practice-based research.

Tuesday August 1st 2017

• 12.30 Registration
• 1.15 Welcome and introduction (Cariad Astles)
• 1.35 Keynote: Dr Melissa Trimingham: Puppetry and autism

WELLBEING PANEL

• 2.25 Moira Jenkins: Puppetry as a human right: relational citizenship
• 2.50 Andrea Markovits: Puppet therapy and traumatic memory in Chile post-dictatorship
• 3.10 coffee
• 3.30 Yasuko Senda: Heart-warming Smile Puppet Association
• 3.55 Oscar Goldszmidt: Social inclusion through puppetry: a case study with cerebral palsy
• 4.20 Caroline Astell-Burt: Closeness, touching and kinaesthesia
• 4.45 Antje Wegener: Therapeutic puppetry in Germany
• 5.05 Questions and discussion

Wednesday August 2nd

• 9.00 Registration
• 9.30 Keynote: Dr Persephone Sextou: Puppetry in hospitals, clinics and healthcare settings

Disability panel

• 10.35 Emma Fisher: The Broken Puppet: puppetry and disability
• 11.00 Corina Duyn: Life outside the box: puppetry, ME and disability
• 11.25 Roberto Ferreira De Silva: puppetry with disabled participants
• 11.45 Questions and discussion

Hospitals and care settings panel

• 1.10 Riku Laakkonen: Performing objects in palliative care
• 1.35 Matt Jennings: Acts of caring: puppetry in person-centred nursing
• 2 Gibdel Wilson: Puppets talk, communities listen
• 2.25 Poupak Azimpour: Listener dolls: a case study of women recovering from cancer
• 2.45 Questions and discussion
• 3.05 coffee

Mental health panel

• 3.25 Marisa Latimer: Shadow puppetry and dramatherapy
• 3.50 Kate James-Moore: Puppetry as a creative tool: struggle, control, power
• 4.15 Joni-Rae Carrack: Objective and Subjective: puppetry and mental health
• 4.40 Aaron Jean Crombé: Self-acceptance and puppetry
• 5.05 Lesley Burton: final reflections
• 5.30 Questions and discussion