November workshop coming up
Our next dinner salon and workshop is coming up on Thursday, November 14. If you’d like to submit a text for workshopping, please contact the director. Image: Oleg Gapeenko, Vecteezy
Read MorePoetry performance / art exhibition explores scientific ideas
NeuWrite Nordic participant, doctoral researcher from the University of Helsinki’s Neuroscience Center, and internationally published writer, poet and visual artist Rakenduvadhana Srinivasan will perform her original poetry as part of the Surrealism Festival at Yö Gallery in Helsinki, where her art will be on sale and projected (see the neuroscience-themed work above). Titled “Inexorable filaments…
Read MoreSci-comm panel at Brain & Mind
On October 25, NeuWrite Nordic director Trevor Corson will discuss storytelling and creative writing in science as part of a panel discussion on science communication, during the concluding event of the Brain & Mind Symposium in Helsinki. The panel is scheduled for Friday afternoon at 4pm. More information and registration here.
Read MoreArticle about surgical fads and secret agents published
Perhaps it was a stretch to compare the rise and fall of medical techniques with the love life of James Bond, but that’s exactly the origin of one of the more memorable charts to have appeared in the British Medical Journal. For the first time, the full story of the comparison, and the connection to…
Read MoreOctober workshop: special guest
Photo: Tiina Jutila / Yle At our October 10 workshop meeting, we’ll have a special treat: Iida Turpeinen, one of Finland’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the transdisciplinary space between science and literature, will join us to discuss a section of the forthcoming English translation of her 2023 natural-history book Beasts of the Sea (Fin.…
Read MoreClimate action novel published
“Engrossing, insightful, and entirely credible.” —Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki Academy Professor and atmospheric scientist “Frighteningly believable.” —Kati Halonen, poet At NeuWrite Nordic we’ve workshopped several sections of a novel about climate change, in which dramatic scenes of destruction and chaos have stripped away the polite politicking of national leaders and climate scientists…
Read MoreThe bioethics of the brain-machine interface
Image: From “The Emerging Ethics of Innovative Brain Research” in UnDark; Getty Direct electrical/digital interfaces between human brains and machines are advancing rapidly while AI is suddenly infiltrating the process of human thinking at mass scale. Where are we headed? At our September meeting, we discussed a recent Best Science & Nature Writing article…
Read More“Hair-Power Performativity” published
An illustration called “Cut It Out” by the Italian artist Marco Melgrati in support of Iranian women’s protest (center image, above) was the inspiration for a draft text we workshopped at NeuWrite Nordic last autumn. The text, a collaborative hybrid of social-science and storytelling titled “Hair-Power Performativity,” was published this week in the Barcelona-based journal…
Read MoreDance first, think later
The number-one most-read article at the moment in the Finnish Medical Journal (Lääkärilehti) is a new column by NeuWrite Nordic board member Jussi Valtonen, award-winning novelist and a researcher in psychology at the University of Helsinki. Valtonen poses some very pointed questions for the medical establishment as he considers the results of a recent meta-analysis…
Read MoreNew film about reverse aging hits theaters
We’re thrilled that the new film Palimpsest, aspects of which were workshopped at NeuWrite Nordic, hits theaters in Helsinki this Friday, 12 April. A special screening with English subtitles will be held in Punavuori on Monday, 22 April, at 17:00. Screenwriter and filmmaker Hanna Västinsalo, a NeuWrite Nordic adviser and regular participant, has a PhD…
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