EPIC Summer School 2026

From July 14th to July 17th, 2026 project EPIC will host a Summer School at Ce.U.B (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro) in Bertinoro, Italy. The event is made possible by generous funding by Wellcome, which will also subsidise the delegates' subsistence costs.

Poster of the event

Information about the event will be regularly updated on this page and a detailed programme posted closer to the time. 

The Fortress in Bertinoro

Summer School morning sessions

There will be lectures by the investigators and partners on the project:

• Martino Belvederi Murri (University of Ferrara)
• Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham)
• Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham and University of Ferrara)
• Havi Carel (University of Bristol)
• Rabih Chattat (University of Bologna)
• Luigi Grassi (University of Ferrara)
• Ian J. Kidd (University of Nottingham)
• Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna)
• Michael Larkin (Aston University)
• Rose McCabe (City St. George's University of London) 
• Sheelagh McGuinness (University of Bristol). 

Topics for lectures will encompass perspectives from philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, history, legal scholarship, clinical practice, and lived experience:

• the ineffability of illness
• AI-enhanced healthcare and epistemic injustice
• phenomenological approaches to epistemic injustice in medicine
• the role of dignity and person-centred care in an epistemic just healthcare
• the importance of clinical communication for good and epistemically just medicine
• moral responsibility and epistemic injustice
• legal and clinical approaches to epistemic injustice
• the centrality of agency in youth mental health
• co-design and co-production as ameliorative strategies
• epistemic injustice in dementia, schizophrenia, and depression.

One of the meeting rooms at the venue

Summer School afternoon sessions

EPIC researchers Jodie Russell, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Dan Degerman, Fred Cooper, Ellie Byrne, Alice Monypenny and Michael Bresalier will also participate, leading reading groups and discussion sessions on recent journal articles and book chapters.

 

Topics for discussion will include: 

• uptake of delusional beliefs
• vaccine hesitancy and epistemic injustice
• silence and testimonial smothering
• loneliness
• affective injustice
• phenomenology and intersectionality.

Apply!

If you are interested in joining us, there is a form you can fill to apply. The deadline for applications is 1st March 2026 and the outcome will be made known to applicants by 2nd April 2026.

The project EPIC team is looking forward to seeing you in Bertinoro!