Nine Minds: Narrating Neurodivergent Experience’: a guest lecture by Daniel

Name: Nine Minds: Narrating Neurodivergent Experience’: a guest lecture by Daniel
Start: 2024-10-08T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-08T15:15:00+01:00
Location: Walton Hall,Berrill Lecture Theatre,Kents Hill,MK7 6AA,GB

Schedule

Tue Oct 08 2024 at 12:30 pm to 03:15 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Walton Hall,Berrill Lecture Theatre,Kents Hill,MK7 6AA,GB | Milton Keynes, EN

Gifted autistic author Daniel Tammet explores neurodivergent experience.
‘Dreams, hopes, ambitions, passions. Our inner lives are what make us human, but it's only recently that society has begun to recognise the rich emotional and imaginative life of those on the autistic spectrum. Drawing partly on his own experience as a neurodivergent man, the writer Daniel Tammet ( Born on a Blue Day , Thinking in Numbers , Nine Minds ) has created a body of work that sheds a unique light on how we think, perceive and understand the world. In this talk, he'll explore the extraordinary diversity of talents on the spectrum and the importance of bringing neurodivergent stories to readers.'

Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning documentary The Boy with the Incredible Brain , as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi . He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day , and his writing has appeared in Esquire , The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian , among others. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012 and awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University in 2023.
You can learn more about Daniel on his Facebook page.
Relevant content for this lecture:
www.open.ac.uk/understanding-autism (English version)
OLCreate: PUB_3959_1.0 L'autisme: un cours aux perspectives multiples (open.edu) (French version)
F78 | MSc in Mental Health Science | Open University )
SK298 | Brain, mind and mental health | Open University
SD329 Signals and Perception: the Science of the Senses (open.ac.uk)
Learn more about Dr Ilona Roth:
OU People Profile
ORO Profile

If you're joining in person:
The lecture is in the Berrill Lecture Theatre at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. Directions on how to get to campus and a campus map are here: https://about.open.ac.uk/locations/milton-keynes-campus and https://about.open.ac.uk/sites/about.open.ac.uk/files/files/ecms/web-content/Campus-Map.pdf . When on campus, please use the Visitor Parking or East Parking.
If you're joining online:
Direct links to the event will be sent one day and five minutes before the start of the event. The lecture will be live-streamed on the OUSTEM Facebook page (if you follow the page, you'll get a notification when we go live) and the OUSTEM YouTube page .