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Sleep In The City: A Participatory Art Project About Sleep in Aarhus, Denmark

1/2/2019

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New measures against rough sleepers in Paris

12/7/2017

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twitter.com/tvlofficiel/status/938409466881626112
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The Virtue and Necessity of Sleep

10/11/2017

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Two new books discussed in the New York Times.
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You Don't Need a Brain to Sleep

9/21/2017

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Lessons learned from jellyfish.
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Why Can't We Sleep? Conference

6/27/2017

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WHY CAN’T WE SLEEP?  Psychoanalysis and Insomnia
SATURDAY 8 JULY 2017

​10.00 am – 5.15pm (registration from 9.30 am)
Tuke Hall, Regents College Conference Centre,
Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4NS

Participants include: Chloe Aridjis, Vincent Dachy, Marie Darrieussecq,
Darian Leader and Anne Worthington

Complaints about the difficulty in sleeping have been skyrocketing in the last decade, with insomnia becoming the norm rather than the exception. Changes in the tempo and pressure of modern life no doubt play their part here, but what of the psychical sources of lack of sleep? What is it that allows us to sleep and what, then, can disrupt this? What role do dreams play as 'guardians of sleep' and what is it that wakes us up?

Entrance fee: £60 Concessions: £40
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Symposium on Wakefulness at Liverpool Hope University, 8 September 2017

3/28/2017

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Not Sleeping is a one-night symposium taking place at Liverpool Hope University on Friday 8th September 2017. Its aim is to examine the interaction between medical and cultural ideas about staying awake. We interpret “not sleeping” quite broadly, to include willed and unwilled wakefulness, sleeplessness and awakenings.
The symposium will run from the afternoon of Friday 8th, into the evening, night and morning of Saturday 9th September.

For further information, and the Call for Papers, see the symposium website.

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Roman sleep

1/27/2017

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Dr Laura Nissin of the University of Helsinki has recently completed a major project on sleeping areas and sleeping arrangements in the ancient Roman house. Laying fascinating emphasis on the Roman cubiculum as a predecessor to the modern bedroom, Nissin's work represents a welcome extension of sleep studies into the cultures of classical antiquity.
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Does sleep have a history?

5/11/2016

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In a series of fascinating blog posts, the historian Sasha Handley explores the "culture of sleep management" in early modern England, and explains -- amongst other things -- why people once took their bed-sheets with them when they travelled and why sleeping on one's back was once thought to herald an early death.
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Smelly bedrooms and teenagers' sleep

4/4/2016

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A recent piece in The Independent on research by the Oxford sleep expert Professor Colin Espie on the impact of smelly, poorly ventilated bedrooms on the sleep -- and general well-being -- of teenagers.
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Warhol's Sleep re-visited

3/29/2016

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A piece from Van Winkle's on the impact, significance and legacy of Andy Warhol's movie Sleep (1963).
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