{"id":436,"date":"2017-08-23T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2017-09-03T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:51:58","slug":"acknowledgements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/body\/breastless-encounters-with-risk-reducing-surgery-by-clare-best\/acknowledgements\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgements (Clare Best, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am indebted to the following for their professional interest and support at various stages of my work on this multimedia project: Stella Bolaki, Deborah Bowman, Andy Brown, Dan Browne, John Davies, the late Sue Eckstein, Gareth Evans, Bobbie Farsides, Kate Gale, Irene Gammel, Margaretta Jolly, Eva Karpinski, James Mackay, Lyn Thomas, Corinna Wagner, James Wilby, John Wrighton.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to The Society of Authors for an Authors\u2019 Foundation grant in 2016, which enabled me to work on bringing all the existing material together and writing new material.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank the Fundaci\u00f3n Valpara\u00edso for a residency there in February 2017, which gave me time to focus on completing this project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright notice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the content here, including photos and poems, is copyrighted. Please contact Clare Best for permission to use any of the material. Thank you. <a href=\"mailto:clarepbest@me.com\">clarepbest@me.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links and references<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Clare reading some of the poems from <em>Self-portrait without Breasts <\/em>on SoundCloud.<\/p>\n<p>Clare Best\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/clarebest.co.uk\">clarebest.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laura Stevens\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurastevens.co.uk\">http:\/\/www.laurastevens.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short film about <em>Self-portrait without Breasts<\/em> made by Dan Browne and Irene Gammel: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/56054890\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/56054890<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clare Best\u2019s blog pieces for BMJ Medical Humanities Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?s=Clare+Best&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?s=Clare+Best&amp;x=0&amp;y=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stella Bolaki\u2019s essay about Clare Best\u2019s project \u2013 <em>&#8220;The Absence Doubled?&#8221; Photo-Poetic Narratives of Prophylactic Mastectomy<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/659104\/pdf\">https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/659104\/pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous publications by Clare Best<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Treasure Ground (HappenStance 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Excisions (Waterloo Press 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Breastless (Pighog Press 2011)<\/p>\n<p>CELL (Frogmore Press 2015)<\/p>\n<p>Springlines (Little Toller Books 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some recent conferences at which Clare has presented her work<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Sussex, June 2017, Life History and Life Writing Research: Critical and Creative Approaches. Keynote with Professor Lyn Thomas:\u00a0\u2018Life-writing, photography and the resilient body \u2013 Clare Best\u2019s <em>Self-portrait without Breasts <\/em>and Annie Ernaux&#8217;s <em>L&#8217;Usage de la Photo<\/em>.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Transatlantic Connections 4, Donegal, Eire (Drew, USA) 2017: presented on <em>Take Me With You<\/em>. Chaired panel: Facilitating growth and equality, and finding meaning in illness and disability.<\/li>\n<li>University of Kent, 2016, Symposium: Artists\u2019 Books and the Medical Humanities. Presentation: \u2018I am Book\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>University of Warwick, 2016, Symposium: The Ethics of Display: exhibiting vulnerable bodies. Presentation and reading from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>StAnza International Poetry Festival, 2016. Theme: Body of Poetry<em>.<\/em> Panel discussion. Poetry reading.<\/li>\n<li>Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, NJ, USA, Oct 2015. Illustrated talk with readings from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kings College London, 2015. Illustrated talk with readings from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Transatlantic Connections 2, Donegal, Eire (Drew, USA) 2015: presented <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts <\/em>on panel: Medical Humanities and Narrative.<\/li>\n<li>5<sup>th<\/sup> International Symposium on Poetry &amp; Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 2014: talk and reading from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>St Georges University of London, 2013, event in \u2018The Art of Medicine\u2019 series: talk\/reading and photo exhibition about <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>University of Glasgow, 2013. Presented on <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts <\/em>at conference: Attentive Writers: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority.<\/li>\n<li>University of Exeter, 2012. Event for launch of Medical Humanities project: Aesthetics and surgical experience. Presentation and exhibition of photos from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts<\/em> plus panel discussion.<\/li>\n<li>MLC Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 2012, illustrated talk with reading from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA, 2012, illustrated talk with readings from <em>Self-Portrait without Breasts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cuisle International Poetry Festival, Limerick, Eire, 2011. Poetry reading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am indebted to the following for their professional interest and support at various stages of my work on this <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/body\/breastless-encounters-with-risk-reducing-surgery-by-clare-best\/acknowledgements\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acknowledgements (Clare Best, 2017)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P90GIn-72","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/718"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/lifewritingprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}