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Date: 18/11/2020
Location:: Online event
Description: Men and boys get eating disorders too. Join us for an informative session, open to all, where we aim to bust myths about eating disorders in males.

Date: 29/04/2019
Location:: B1 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description: A free one-day workshop reflecting on the ways in which different forms of digital, visual and textual representation can support health.

Date: 30/04/2019
Location:: University of Nottingham
Description: An event with local secondary schools including a reading of The Year I Didn't Eat (Zuntold: 2019, author: Sam Pollen) by Elaine Bousfield (Zuntold and Kooth) and a workshop with Dave Chawner, author of Weight Expectations (Kinglsey: 2018).

Date: 18/05/2018
Location:: Universiity Park
Description: Writers of poetry – in English or any other language (ideally with a 'translation note') are encouraged to submit their own poems for inclusion on the Hungry for Words: An interdisciplinary approach to articulating, communicating and understanding male anorexia nervosa website. £100 will be awarded to the author of the poem considered most suitable and £50 each for the two runner up poems.

Date: 02/03/2018 - 20/04/2018
Location:: Institute of Mental Health
Description: A series of mostly candid images that express a sense of dislocation and a deep longing for being elsewhere, both physically and mentally.

Date: 26/01/2018
Location:: B2 Hemsley
Description: Please join us for the book launch of Petra M. Bagley, Francesca Calamita and Kathryn Robson (eds), Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity, Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018)

Date: 26/01/2017
Location:: Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB
Description: This event, for year 11 and 12 pupils and their teachers, is part of a wider research project on wellbeing, mental health issues and eating disorders.

Date: 26/01/2018
Location:: The Hemsley (Room B2)
Description: Join us for a workshop articulating, communicating and understanding male eating disorders with particular focus on anorexia nervosa: approaches by charities, academia, psychotherapy, medicine and science.

Date: 25/01/2018
Location:: Portland building University Park Campus
Description: Dr Heike Bartel, Associate Professor of German, Principle Investigator AHRC research network "Hungry for Words" hosts a stand-up comedy gig by Dave Chawner. Dave is an award-winning comic, published author and mental health campaigner. He is also an ambassador for the eating disorders charity Men Get Eating Disorders Too and will be a delegate at the Friday workshop.