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WELCOME
Happy New Year!  We hope you had a wonderful and restorative Christmas break. Catch up in this newsletter with the recordings from our 2021 seminar and workshop series', sign up to the rescheduled Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 Seminar with Dr Tanisha Spratt, have a read of our latest blog posts and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more regular updates. If you have any feedback on our newsletter please email us, we'd love to hear from you.
SEMINAR SERIES
SCENES OF SHAME AND STIGMA IN COVID-19 SEMINAR SERIES*
Dr Tanisha Spratt (University of Greenwich) discusses ‘Understanding Racism-Induced Stress in the Context of COVID-19: Representations of Shame, Anxiety and Stigma in UK BAME Communities’ in this rescheduled seminar, on the 13th January at 14.00 UK. Sign up here.
WITH TALKS FROM
Prof. Robert Walker (Beijing Normal University) 
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster (McGill University) 
Dr Ray Earwicker (University of Exeter) 
Dr Hannah Farrimond (University of Exeter) 
Dr Tanisha Spratt (University of Greenwich) 

 
*The seminar series is organized at the University of Exeter as part of the UKRI-AHRC funded ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ project, and addresses the key role that shame and stigma have played in the COVID-19 public health crisis. 
RESPECT AND SHAME IN HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS WORKSHOP SERIES 
Catch up on all the recordings from this series on our website. We would like to thank all of our speakers for such insightful and interesting discussions throughout the series, and with particular thanks to Dr Supriya Subramani for organising it.

View the previous workshops in the series:
Luna Dolezal & Supriya Subramani
Vania Smith-Oka & Sarah Howard
Thomas Guttman & Vanessa De Luca
Peter Schaber & Katharine Cheston
Dan Zahavi & Maryam Golafshani

 
NEWS
SCENES OF SHAME AND STIGMA IN COVID-19 PODCAST SERIES
The Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 project are collaborating with Volume Podcasts on a podcast series which will be released in 2022. The series will address the issues of shame and stigma related to COVID-19 and will accompany their forthcoming book COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK, which will be published by Bloomsbury Academic Press.

PROJECT TEAM IN THE NEWS
Luna Dolezal's research, discussed in her article “Shame Stigma and HIV: Considering Affective Climates and the Phenomenology of Shame Anxiety”, argues that ensuring healthcare workers better understand the psychological, social and physical impacts of shame on HIV patients will help improve their medical treatment, has been featured in a University of Exeter research press release. 

CALL FOR DOCTORS & PATIENTS
We are keen to hear from Doctors and Patients who would like to take part in our research - to register an interest in taking part, visit www.samp.uk or contact Dr Stephen Williams at S.J.Williams@bham.ac.uk.
UPCOMING EVENTS
A two day workshop based at the University of Copenhagen and co-organized with the Centre for Subjectivity Research. Shame, Health and Lived Experience is an interdisciplinary workshop that will bring together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields to reflect on how experiences of shame may impact on health, wellbeing and medical practice.

The University of Exeter and the Shame and Medicine Project will host the British Society for Phenomenology’s Annual Conference in 2022, from 30th August – 1st September. The theme is “Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions and Sociality”, and there will be a panel on “Phenomenology and Shame Experiences” sponsored by the Shame and Medicine Project. The British Society for Phenomenology now invites abstracts for the conference with a submission deadline of 31st March 2022.

 

The Shame and Medicine Project in collaboration with the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, will run a seminar series over the next few years which will examine shame and stigma in the context of medical history.  More details to follow.

 
FROM OUR BLOG
Irene Geerts discusses the fascinating history of the movements to lift the stigma and shame associated with mental illness in The Netherlands in her blog post Hiding in Shame: The History of the Early Dutch Family Movement in Psychiatry.
Fred Cooper examines the experiences of guilt, blame and shame related to having (or not having) "common sense" in the pandemic in his blog Shame, ‘Common Sense’, and COVID-19: Notes from Mass Observation.
Katharine Cheston explores Shame, Blame, and Complex, Poorly-Understood Illness and the unspoken and unwritten shame that accompanies the prejudice, stigma and disbelief many women experience in relation to ME and CFS.
FEATURED ARTICLE
Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal discuss how political and media messages about the COVID-19 crisis were saturated initially with the language of wartime and shaded by an implicit or explicit nostalgia for the Second World War “blitz spirit.” They link the war metaphor to a sacrificial logic that manifests through the various forms of “othering”—as positive and negative stigma—experienced by health workers during the crisis thus far in their publication Stigma and the Logics of Wartime.

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