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Kate
Forde is Curator of Temporary Exhibitions at Wellcome
Collection, and lead Curator of the Dirt exhibition.
Recently she has worked on exhibitions examining the mysteries of
sleep, the relationship between war and medicine, and the history
of anatomical waxworks. Kate is particularly interested in the
display of fine art within scientific institutions and the role
museums play in the shaping of cultural memory. |
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Steven
Connor is a writer, critic and broadcaster, and the
Academic Director of the London Consortium. He is the author of
books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce, ventriloquism, skin, flies and
other topics in literary and cultural history. His most recent
books are The Matter of Air: Science and art of the
ethereal (2010) and Paraphernalia: The curious lives of
magical things (2011). His website includes lectures,
broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress. |
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Maureen
Bloom has worked on the book review section of the
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute since 2000.
She studied Hebrew at the University of the Witwatersrand
(Johannesburg) and gained both her Master’s in Medical Anthropology
and PhD from Brunel University. She taught medical anthropology at
Goldsmiths, University of London and has published papers on
Durkheim and the ‘sacred’ and on dementia, disability and dignity.
Her book, Jewish Mysticism and Magic, was published by
Routledge in 2007. |
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Brooke
Magnanti is a researcher and author better known for
pseudonymously writing the blog Belle de Jour: Diary of a London
Call Girl. The blog was developed into a series of books, which
were adapted for the ITV show Secret Diary of a Call Girl,
starring Billie Piper. Dr Magnanti’s main research interests are
forensic science, biostatistics, and aetiology of disease. |
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Elizabeth Pisani has worked for the
Ministries of Health of China, Indonesia, East Timor and the
Philippines, and has provided analysis and policy advice to UNAIDS,
the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the US Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention and many others. She is the author
of The Wisdom of Whores, published by Granta Books in
2008. In 2010, she founded the public health consultancy
Ternyata. Watch Pisani's
TED talk or read her
blog. |
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Meena Varma has been Director of the Dalit
Solidarity Network UK (DSN-UK) since 2007. DSN-UK campaigns against
the atrocities, humiliation and poverty that over 260 million
Dalits suffer due to caste discrimination – one of the biggest
human rights abuses in the world today. DSN-UK lobbies political
leaders nationally and internationally, as well as putting
multinationals working in the Indian subcontinent under pressure to
acknowledge their responsibility to help tackle caste
discrimination. |
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Facilitator
Brian Dillon is an Arts and Humanities Research
Council Research Fellow at the University of Kent. He is the author
of Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives, which
was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. His first book,
In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for
non-fiction. He is UK Editor of Cabinet, a quarterly
magazine of art and culture based in New York, and writes regularly
for such publications as the Guardian, the London
Review of Books, the New Statesman, frieze,
Artforum and Tate etc. His novella
Sanctuary was published in 2010. He lives in
Canterbury. |
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