International Health Humanities Network Membership

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style>

Elif Sezen, PhD, MA, BFA, Dip A.Th, is a multidisciplinary artist, bilingual writer/poet and researcher. She was born in Melbourne in 1981: She lives and works in Melbourne. Elif obtained her PhD in Fine Art from Monash University. In her doctoral research she explored various ways of reconceptualising memory traces emerging from trauma and loss. She researched potential new models of constructing the self through visual and poetic images, ranging from various media including artist’s books, painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, printmedia, photography, digital projection, and poetry.

Her recently published books include Universal Mother (GloriaSMH Press, 2016), and A Little Book of Unspoken History (Puncher&Wattmann, 2018). In her multidisciplinary practice Elif speculates upon reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial, personal and collective trauma and loss. This explorative process leads her to a restorative and even a celebratory notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming. Elif is a lecturer at AIST (Australian Institute for Science and Technology), where she is currently preparing courses which she will teach in the fields of Arts in Health & Wellbeing, and Visual Art. Her website: www.elifsezen.com   Email: elifszn@yahoo.com