What Does the Writer Know?

Keynote lecture with Martin Glaz Serup.

Art in various forms has always had a place in the psychiatric system, but in recent years interest in art as a resource in the health care system has increased significantly. This includes interventions in writing workshops led by writers. What happens in the shared space of writing and reading in the rooms where people write and read together as part of a treatment program? Based on my seven years of experience as a teacher of writing groups in the Mental Health Service of Copenhagen, Denmark, I aim to suggest what kind of practice-based knowledge the author possesses – or in other words: What does the writer know?

Martin Glaz Serup is a writer and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.

This keynote lecture is a part of this year's European Summer School in Cultural Studies Epistemic Equity.

About the Summer School

What knowledge counts, and what counts as knowledge? This is the core question for this year's European Summer School in Cultural Studies. Doctoral and other researchers from eight universities across Europe will come together at the University of Copenhagen in the last week of August to address this urgent question through panel presentations, debate, exchange, and workshops in an invitation-only symposium. 

Four Keynote Addresses will be open to the public in the evenings. Each lecture will be given by a significant international researcher whose work is central to issues of epistemic equity.  You are warmly invited to attend any or all of these lectures, and to participate in the Q&A afterwards. This is an opportunity to hear significant speakers and at the same time to engage with early career researchers attending the ESSCS from Germany, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and beyond.