{"id":386,"date":"2021-03-22T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-03-22T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:25:41","slug":"dementia-feel-it-through-fiction-at-imagine-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/2021\/03\/22\/dementia-feel-it-through-fiction-at-imagine-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia: Feel It Through Fiction at Imagine Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Free online talk as part of the Imagine Festival <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">27th march: 1.00pm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginebelfast.com\/events\/dementia-feel-it-through-fiction\/#im21-23\">jump to tickets<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Has reading fiction ever made you laugh, cry, or feel\u00a0<em>something<\/em>? How can words on a page create characters and represent fictional experiences to such an extent that we not only believe, but are\u00a0<em>moved<\/em>\u00a0by them?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent \u2018boom\u2019 in fiction representing dementia has inspired QUB researchers to investigate how the language is used gives an insight into the experience of people living with dementia. This interactive talk explores how dementia is represented in fictional language, how readers respond to it, and why.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/jane-lugea\">Dr Jane Lugea<\/a>&nbsp;(Senior Lecturer of English Language at Queen\u2019s University Belfast), who specialises in Stylistics, the language of literature. Dr Lugea is Principal Investigator on an ongoing AHRC-funded project, \u2018Dementia in the minds of characters and readers\u2019, which investigates how dementia is represented in literary language and how it offers a window into understanding the condition. The project benefits from the expertise of Co-Investigators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/gemma-carney\">Dr Gemma Carney<\/a>&nbsp;(Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at QUB) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/paula-devine\">Dr Paula Devine<\/a>&nbsp;(Co-Director of ARK Ageing Programme), as well as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/carolina-fernandez-quintanilla\">Dr Carolina Fern\u00e1ndez Quintanilla<\/a>. Writer and older people arts facilitator,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jancarson.co.uk\/blog\">Jan Carson<\/a>, is curating a great range of outreach activities around the project\u2019s themes: dementia, creative writing and reading, and understanding each other better through the power of narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free online talk as part of the Imagine Festival 27th march: 1.00pm jump to tickets Has reading fiction ever made you laugh, cry, or feel\u00a0something? How can words on a page create characters and represent fictional experiences to such an extent that we not only believe, but are\u00a0moved\u00a0by them? A recent \u2018boom\u2019 in fiction representing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[98,95,97,94,96],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-belfast","tag-dr-jane-lugea","tag-festivals","tag-imagine-festival","tag-talks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}