The Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theater
The Ohio State University
Come learn why medical students and practitioners are turning to the humanities (especially narrative studies of literature, film, and comix), and why the humanities in turn are honing in on the stories of patients, doctors, and other health care practitioners. This series and this conference will unpack the mantra of this exciting new movement: narrative competence enhances medical competence even as medical experiences reshape narrative forms. Because the conference will feature the perspectives of leaders in the field, including Rita Charon, Arthur Frank, and Elizabeth Leake, it promises to help shape the future course of the still-emerging field of narrative medicine.
- 'We are accruing evidence that narrative training is helpful for health professionals and students, but we are at the very beginnings of understanding what really happens when one offers them these methods.' (Rita Charon, 'Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention, and the Body')
- 'Illness narratives may be seen as an extreme test case that highlights some limitations of narratology.' (Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, 'What Can Narrative Theory Learn from Illness Narratives?')
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Rita Charon, Columbia University
Dr. Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary
Dr. Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University
Sponsored by:
The Wexner Medical Center, The College of Medicine, An OSU Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Grant, Student Health Services, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Department of Classics, The Department of English, Project Narrative, The Department of French and Italian, The Medicine and Arts Board, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Office of Student Life, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Humanities Institute, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Center for Ethics and Human Values, The Digital Storytelling Program-a cooperative effort of the Digital Union and University Libraries, The Film Studies Program, Popular Culture Studies, Disability Studies-a program of DISCO.
For more information, contact Julia Hawkins (nelson-hawkins.1@osu.edu), Jim Phelan (phelan.1@osu.edu), Dana Renga (renga.1@osu.edu), or John Vaughn (vaughn.7@osu.edu) and visit our facebook page.
Narrative Medicine: A Film and Comix Series
The Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theater
March 6 - April 9, 2013
Registration is now available and is free of charge.
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If you have questions concerning access, wish to request a sign language interpreter or accommodations for a disability please contact Renga.1@osu.edu. Early requests are encouraged, a week will generally allow us to provide seamless access.
Conference Program
8:30am
Registration, Wexner Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby
9:00-9:15
Opening Remarks
Dr. Daniel M. Clinchot, M.D., Vice Dean for Education, Wexner Medical Center, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Mark Shanda, Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University
9:15-10:45
Panel: Classics and Narrative Medicine
Organizer: Julia Nelson Hawkins, The Ohio State University Chair and Respondent: Fritz Graf, The Ohio State University
1. Daniel King, University of Exeter, ‘Rufus as Storyteller: Rufus of Ephesus and Narrative Medicine in the Second Century AD’
2. Helen King, Open University and the Peninsula Medical and Dental School, Truro, UK, ‘Narratives of Dissection: Antiquity to the Present’
3. Julia Nelson Hawkins, The Ohio State University, ‘Narrative Medicine vs. Narrative Genocide: Who Controls Narratives of Illness?’
Coffee Break
11:15-12:45
Plenary Session
Rita Charon, Columbia University ‘An Expansive Care of the Sick’ Chair and Respondent: James Phelan, The Ohio State University
12:45-1:45
Lunch (provided for panelists and invited guests, lobby to the Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center for the Arts)
1:45-3:15
Roundtable: From the Page to the Bedside
Organizer: John Vaughn M.D., Student Health Services, Department of Family
Medicine, The Ohio State University
Chair and Respondent: Catherine Belling, Northwestern University
Participants:
1. Elinor Brown, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Class of 2014
2. Lorraine Canham, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Class of 2014
3. John Vaughn M.D., Student Health Services, Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University
Coffee Break
3:45-5:15
The Conference So Far
Arthur Frank, The University of Calgary Chair and Respondent: Julia Hawkins, The Ohio State University
5:30-6:45
Reception, Open to the Public, Lobby to the Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center for the Arts
7:00
Screening of Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995) followed by Q & A with: David Filipi, Director of Film/Video, The Wexner Center for the Arts and Brad Prestwich, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Class of 2014
*Tickets free of charge to conference panelists and invited guests, all others should
purchase a ticket at the Wexner Box Office ($8 regular admission $6 student)
8:30am
Registration, Wexner Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby
9:00-10:30
Panel: Graphic Narrative Medicine
Organizer: Jared Gardner, The Ohio State University Chair and Respondent: Robyn Warhol, The Ohio State University
1. Michael Moon, Emory University, ‘Madness, Mental Illness, and the Everyday: Darryl Cunningham’s and Other Graphic Narratives’
2. Michael Green, Penn State University, ‘Graphic Medicine’
3. Jared Gardner, The Ohio State University, ‘Imaging and Narrative’
Coffee Break
10:45-11:15
Panel: The Work of Gregg Bordowitz
Chair and Respondent: David Filipi, The Wexner Center for the Arts
Bill Horrigan, Curator at Large, The Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Living with HIV: Gregg Bordowitz Tells His Story’
11:30-1:00
Panel: Narrating Trauma and Disability
Organizer: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Chair and Respondent: John Davidson, The Ohio State University
1. Rachel Adams, Columbia University, ‘The Politics of Storytelling or, Why the World Needs Yet Another Disability Memoir’
2. Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, ‘Mafia as Malady’
3. Laura Wittman, Stanford University, ‘Memory, Vision, and the Unmaking of the Self’
1:00-2:00
Lunch (provided for panelists and invited guests, lobby to the Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center for the Arts)
2:00-3:30
Roundtable: Disability and Digital Storytelling
Organizer: Leigh Neithardt, The Ohio State University Chair and Respondent: Brenda Brueggemann, The Ohio State University
Participants:
1. Mira Assaf, The Ohio State University
2. Leigh Neithardt, The Ohio State University
3. Bea Staley, The Ohio State University
4. Elizabeth Zaleski, The Ohio State University
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30
Plenary Session
Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, ‘Disability Studies: Theoretical Considerations’ Chair and Respondent: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
5:30-5:45
Closing Remarks
Julia Nelson Hawkins, The Ohio State University
James Phelan, The Ohio State University
Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
John Vaughn M.D., Student Health Services, Department of Family
Medicine, The Ohio State University
7:00
Conference Dinner for Panelists and Invited Guests, Ray’s Living