8th International Health Humanities Meeting
The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
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Schedule Overview

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Plenary Speakers
MK Czerwiec, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving. She is the Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy & Media Engagement. MK has been making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse since 2000. She co-runs GraphicMedicine.org, a website devoted to the intersection of comics and health. Her most recent book is Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 which was selected as JAMA‘s “Best of Graphic Medicine” for 2017.
Anand Prahlad, University of Missouri
Anand Prahlad is the author of two books of poems, Hear My Story and Other Poems, and As Good As Mango, and an award-winning memoir, The Secret Life of A Black Aspie.He has also published critical articles and books on black folklore and the proverb, including Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music and African American Proverbs in Context, and he edited the three-volume set The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore and the one-volume The Greenwood Student Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. His most recent works, which includes creative writing, songwriting, and scholarship, focus on disability, and especially the intersections between disability, race, and genderfluid identities. Prahlad is a professor in the English Department, at the University of Missouri, where he is the Director of the Creative Writing Program, and teaches courses in folklore, film, creative writing, and disability studies.
Bess Willamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dr. Bess Williamson writes about the intersection of design and social movements, including attention to race, gender, disability, environment, and labor concerns. Her book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (NYU Press, 2019) charts the way that the cause of Disability Rights changed definitions of design and access in the U.S. As Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she teaches classes on design history, theory, and politics, and directs the M.A. Program in Modern and Contemporary Art History.
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Thursday, 28 March
Posters
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Friday, 29 March
Times |
Panel Number |
Session Name |
Presenters |
Room |
8-8:30 |
BREAKFAST |
Lobby |
8:30-10 |
PLENARY |
Disability, Race, and the City of Imagination |
8005/Overflow in 8010 |
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Anand Prahlad, University of Missouri
Introduced by Lise Saffran |
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10-10:30 |
BREAK |
Lobby |
10:30-12 |
Session III |
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Panel III.A |
Refiguring the Cultural Contours of Embodiment: Recent Work in Disability Arts |
8005 |
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Ann M. Fox |
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Carrie Sandahl |
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Sandie Yi |
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MK Czerwiec |
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Aly Patsavas |
Panel III.B |
The Environments and Contexts of “Medical” Versus “Health” Humanities |
8002 |
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Julia Knopes |
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Melissa Pompili |
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M. Ariel Cascio |
Panel III.C |
The Role of Doodling for Healthcare Researchers in Enhancing Self-Awareness and Attention While Reducing Anxiety and Depression |
8009 |
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Carol Nash |
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The Place of Music in Stress Management among Obafemi Awolowo University Community Members |
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Olusegun Stephen Titus |
Improvisation in Navigating Self-Care and Health Care Environments |
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Matt Elwell & Nicole Buras |
Panel III.D |
Problematic Language: How the term “burnout” limits attempts to assist struggling physicians |
8010 |
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Stephanie L. Shively |
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Transforming LaCombe’s “Playing God” into the Confessional Narrative it Should Be |
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Julie Aultman |
A discourse analysis of parallel chart narratives: emotional attitudes and role expectations adopted by medical trainees |
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Roxana Delbene |
Panel III.E |
Chrysalis: Storytelling for Life Transitions |
8012 |
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Laura Biagi |
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A Psychotherapy Narrative |
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Hilary Offman |
Narrative-based education for worsening prognosis and end-of-life conversations: clinical implications for learning and practice |
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Deborah Love |
12-1:30 |
LUNCH AVAILABLE |
Lobby |
12:15-1:15 |
HHC Members Business Meeting |
8005/Overflow in 8010 |
1:30-3 |
SESSION IV |
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Panel IV.A |
Intersections in Bioethics and Environmental Ethics |
8005 |
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Nese Devenot |
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Eileen Anderson-Fye |
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Kerri L. Slatus |
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Rachel Bracken |
Panel IV.B |
Teaching in the Borderlands of Healthcare Education: Can the Humanities be Relevant without Reductionism? |
8002 |
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Nate Johnson |
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Nicole Piemonte |
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Erica Fletcher |
Panel IV.C |
Operationalizing Donna Haraway’s Cyborg through My Cancer Narrative |
8009 |
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Jay Baglia |
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The Influence of Time on Meaning: Cancer Family Caregiver Stories |
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Anna-leila Williams |
Panel IV.D |
Health professionals’ practices of writing as a technology of the self: values and procedures in contemporaneity |
8010 |
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Ana Zimmermann |
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‘Healthcaring’: Learning to Resist the Logic of Letting Go through Arts-Based Curriculum in a Student-Run Free Clinic |
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R. Amerisa Waters |
Historicizing and Problematizing “Do Everything”: A Verbal Artifact Excavated at the Bedsides of Critical and Palliative Care Patients |
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Susan Lamb |
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Michel Shamy |
Panel IV.E |
‘We uncertain step’: Dickinson, Blindness, and Physical Education |
8012 |
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Jess Libow |
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The Psychiatrist’s Tragedy: Hereditary as an Experiment in Biological and Supernatural Horror |
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Catherine Belling |
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The Deaf Gene’ as Narrative Claim to Heredity: A Discursive Exploration |
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Rachel Kolb |
3-3:30 |
BREAK |
Lobby |
3:30-5 |
SESSION V |
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Panel V.A |
None of us is as smart as all of us: Working together to create positive outcomes |
8005 |
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David G. Thoele |
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Sheri Reda |
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Susan Cotter-Schaufele |
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Panel V.B |
Story RX: Storytelling in the Medical Humanities in Practice |
8002 |
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Pablo Romano |
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Laurel Braitman |
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Candice Jeehae Kim |
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Noemie Catherine Levy |
Panel V.C |
Dating Websites and Disability Identity: Presentations of the Disabled Self in Online Dating Profiles |
8009 |
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Teresa Milbrodt |
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Disabling Surroundings: Exploring Physical Difference in Graphic Novels |
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Madalina Meirossu |
Risks of Disability Aesthetics |
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Andries Hiskes |
Panel V.D |
Hildegard of Bingen |
8010 |
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Katherine Burke |
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The Journey of the Wandering Soul: Philosophy, Painting, Dance, and the Question of Personhood |
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Peter Steeves |
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Danielle Meijer |
Photography and Bioethics |
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Tod Chambers |
Panel V.E. |
Narratives of the other in dominant social consciousness: Radical redefinitions of experience in the everyday |
8012 |
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Em Rabelais |
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Medicine’s Strange Encounters with Patients and Texts: A Feminist Phenomenological Intervention in Health Humanities |
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Maryam Golafshani |
The trouble with teaching Wendell Berry: Health, land, community, limits, and why we might, like, care |
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Brian Volck |
5-6:30 |
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HHC Curriculum & Assessment Working Group |
8002 |
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Saturday, 30 March
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Maps

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WiFi
- Connect to “depaul”, choose “Guest Wifi”, choose “Conference Guest”, enter Conference ID “healthhum@nities19”, enter your name and email
- If you have an eduroam account, you can connect via that account as well, connect to “eduroam”

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