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Past events in this series:

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Live discussion on Wednesday 18 November, 6pm

This event brought together a diverse range of speakers to discuss the Henry Moore Institute's current exhibition, Paloma Varga Weisz: Bumped Body, in dialogue with Clarissa Pinkola Estés' renowned cult classic and revisionary feminist study, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman (1992).

Pre-recorded talks cover psychoanalysis, metamorphosis, embodied storytelling, fairy tales and gender. A live discussion with speakers Dr Catriona McAra, Rachel Goodyear and Hannah Buckley took place online on Wednesday 18 November, and will be available to watch online soon.

Wild (Wo)men, Commodified Forests: Matter and Myth in German Sculpture

Live discussion on Wednesday 2 December, 6pm

Dr Ruth Ezra's talk looks at limewood sculpture produced north of the Alps half a millennium ago, journeying into the forested hinterlands of Nuremberg in search of trunks to carve, traditional materials and the stuff of myth.

A live discussion with Dr Ruth Ezra, with questions submitted by the audience, took place online on Wednesday 2 December, and will be available to watch online soon.

Sculpture, History, Curve: Paloma Varga Weisz

Live discussion on Wednesday 16 December, 6pm

Explore the history of the aesthetic, cultural and religious use of limewood in sculpture, from medieval sculptors to Paloma Varga Weisz's use of the material in the present day.

A live discussion with Professor Patricia Allmer, with questions submitted by the audience, took place online on Wednesday 16 December, and will be available to watch online soon.