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The Story of Pain

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday
Time
19:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

Free admission

Discussing the historical, social and psychological dimensions of pain.

How do we talk about pain and how has the way we do so changed over time? How hard is it to describe pain and how can putting pain into words impact on a person’s mental state? What is the public face of pain in a society at risk and in crisis? How do different disciplines—Medicine, Biology, History, Anthropology and Art History—refer to pain? What light can interdisciplinary discussion shine on pain?

The Onassis Stegi is staging a discussion on the historical, psychological, medical, artistic and social dimensions of pain to coincide with the publication of Joanna Bourke’s “The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers” by the Oxford University Press. The celebrated British historian and author heads the interdisciplinary Pain Project funded by the Wellcome Trust at Birkbeck College, London.
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Entrance to all the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle is free and on a first come, first served basis.

The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.

Simultaneous translation is provided in the case of speakers using a language other than Greek.

Speakers

  • Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

    Joanna Bourke

  • Professor of Art History, University of Athens

    Pepi Rigopoulou

  • Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Panteion University

    Athena Athanasiou

  • MD, specialized in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, with further expertise in Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Medicine

    Evangelos Panagiotakos

Moderated by Dimitris Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford

Curators

  • Director of Culture, Onassis Foundation

    Afroditi Panagiotakou

  • Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford

    Dimitris Papanikolaou

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