Violence, Care, Cure Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter

MartäLaura Cenedese is UKRI (MSCA Horizon Guarantee) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Marta is a literary scholar specialising in postcolonial literatures, memory studies, critical medical humanities, queer death studies, and decolonial feminism. She is the author of Irène Némirovsky's Russian Influences: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov (2021) and editor of Written on the Body: Narrative (Re)constructions of Violence(s) (2023). Her research has been published in Comparative Literature, Storyworlds, Journal of Medical Humanities, Modern and Contemporary France, and elsewhere. Marta was an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin (2020-2024) and has been a visiting fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Humboldt University Berlin (2020) and at the Centre d'Histoire, Sciences¿o Paris (2023).

Clio Nicastro is a researcher in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Film Studies affiliated with Bard College Berlin. She studied philosophy at the University of Palermo, where she completed her PhD in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts. She was DAAD postdoctoral fellow as well as fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, where she held an additional one¿year postdoctoral position research thanks to a VolkswagenStiftung grant. She is the author of La Dialettica del Denkraum in Aby Warburg (2022) as well as the co¿editor with Cristina Baldacci and Arianna Sforzini of the volume Over and Over and Over again. Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory (2022). She is a member of the board of directors of the Harun Farocki Institut.