Wellcome Collection events

10 December 2008

Among the upcoming events at Wellcome Collection is ‘Changing Places’, part of a series of events exploring identity and change. The event, which takes place on 29 January 2009, will focus on ideas of gender and features two transsexual speakers who have undergone transitions from male to female and female to male: respectively, Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and Stephen Whittle OBE, Professor of Equalities Law, Manchester Metropolitan University.

On 30-31 January, join experts from the worlds of neuroscience, psychology, visual culture and history for the ‘Remembering War’ symposium. This will explore issues surrounding war and memory, including whether we should try to remember or forget experiences of war, and whether literature, film or art can ever truly reflect its horror. The event is in support of Wellcome Collection’s ‘War and Medicine’ exhibition.

Anyone can share their own war memories online - whether they are personal experiences or memorable movies - at the ‘Remembering War: Your memories’ website.