Rob Fisher

Global Horror: Local Perspectives An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Sunday 14th March 2021 - Monday 15th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Horror pervades human experience. It affects us both as individuals and as members of social communities, it is recurrent in pop culture and arguably present...

Violence 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Sunday 14th March 2021 - Monday 15th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Throughout history violence has horrified and enthralled in equal measure, defining some of our most glorious and most distressing historical events. Debate continues about...

Experiencing Prison 7th Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Sunday 14th March 2021 - Monday 15th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Prison is used world-wide as a form of punishment or detention for men, women and children, within a functioning criminal justice system, and its use can be traced...

Nostalgia 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th Martch 2021 Lisbon, Portugal We have all probably had conversations with aged relatives and friends resulting in the oft repeated words “I remember when…”, spoken either as an illumination of the progress of...

Spirituality and Culture 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Spirituality recognises that there is more to reality than just the material world. The intuition that our lives have meaning and are part of something bigger is a...

The End of Life Experience 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal This global inclusive interdisciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying and ways...

Storytelling and the Body 2nd Global Inclusive Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Bodies of all kinds surround us. Glamorous bodies, modified bodies, healthy or unhealthy bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, in/visible bodies, dismembered bodies,...

Sport and the Power to Inspire Change: A Global Virtual Symposium with Danny Crates, Phil Davies, Derek Peaple and Karl Spracklen Tuesday 21st July 2020 - Wednesday 22nd July 2020 ‘Sport’, as Mandela famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the...

Nostalgia 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 3rd July 2020 - Saturday 4th July 2020 Bratislava, Slovakia We have all probably had conversations with aged relatives and friends resulting in the oft repeated words “I remember when…”, spoken either as an illumination of the progress of the...