# Event Details - **Event Name**: Reading Words and Worlds - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm – Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 05:30 pm - **Event Description**: A hybrid seminar about how creative writing responses highlight, enact, and enhance the creative process of reading.About this EventReading has long been recognised as a highly creative, imaginative act, emerging from a complex trans-action between reader, text, and environment. And nowhere is this cocreative process more apparent than in the reading of lyric poetry, with its intense economy of language and resultant wealth of ambiguity and implication. Yet a widespread assumption persists that reading is primarily a passive act or a matter of dispassionate deciphering, decoding, or discovering a singular, stable meaning inherent but somehow ‘beneath’ or ‘within’ language.In this interactive talk, poet, translator, and transdisciplinary researcher Dr Patrick Errington will introduce his new, large-scale research programme funded by the UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowship: ‘Rewriting Wor(l)ds’. Bringing together literary and creative theory with neuroaesthetics, cognitive psychology, and literacy education research, as well as community participatory methods and organisation partnerships, this project is exploring how creative responses to poems (imitation, erasure, translation, versioning, performance, etc.) can help young people enhance reading’s active, co-creative nature. Whilst the project is focused on devising real-world interventions, aiming to codevelop a mobile app that encourages creative poetry engagement for young people around the world, the talk will showcase Patrick and his colleagues’ underlying theories and empirical studies, which indicate how the tasks we are taught to do in response to works of literature shape and constrain how we conceive of those works, and conceive of reading itself.To conclude the talk, audience members will be invited to see, discuss, and try out their own co-creative responses to an existing poem, offering guests a hands-on demonstration of how co-creative reading/writing can highlight, enact, and even enhance the inherent creativity of reading.Please note that this hybrid seminar is free to attend.The Zoom link will be circulated closer to the event.This event is organised by the Narrative & Cognition Lab of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, led by Marco Bernini.Please get in touch with us at imh.events@durham.ac.uk if you have any access requirements. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/durham/reading-words-and-worlds/100001977379357889 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Durham - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Institute for Medical Humanities • Durham University - **lat**: 54.7676493 - **long**: -1.5709339 - **full address**: Institute for Medical Humanities • Durham University, Confluence Building, Durham, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Reading Words and Worlds - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/4fcd214c5682d3a3a0eddc918ef7cd45dea10cfc92aebca6a30a4655f36e2f47-rimg-w1200-h607-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1766570672 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Reading Words and Worlds being held? - **A:** Reading Words and Worlds takes place on Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm to Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 05:30 pm at Institute for Medical Humanities • Durham University, Confluence Building, Durham, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Reading Words and Worlds? - **A:** Reading Words and Worlds is organized by Institute for Medical Humanities. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Reading Words and Worlds is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Durham, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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