2018 Pop-Up Institute

The Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute (PUI) concluded with a public symposium, hosted in May 2018. The PUI was a collaboration between the Office of the Vice President of Research and the Humanities Institute. The Symposium featured panels of research faculty and staff and a keynote lecture, "Structural Competency, 5 Years On: Tracking a New Medical Approach to Stigma and Inequality," by Jonathan Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Participating research faculty:

Phil Barrish, PhD, Associate Director, Humanities Institute

Virginia Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Population Health, Dell Medical School

Ted Held, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dell Medical School 

Daniel Jaffe, PhD, Vice President for Research

David Ring, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care, Dell Medical School

Suzanne Seriff, PhD, Lecturer in Anthropology

Steve Steffensen, MD, Chief of the Learning Health System, Dell Medical School

Pauline Strong, PhD, Director, Humanities Institute, College of Liberal Arts

Chelsi West Ohueri, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Health, Dell Medical School

Community participants:

Rachel Blair, Chief Operating Officer, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM)

Amber Fogarty, Chief Goodness Officer, Mobile Loaves and Fishes

Matthew Hinsley, DMA, Executive Director, Austin Classical Guitar

Celia Hughes, Executive Director, VSA Texas

Charlie Lockwood, Executive Director, Texas Folklife

Travis Marcum, PhD Director of Education, Austin Classical Guitar

Amissa Miller, Interactive Theatre Specialist, UT Voices Against Violence

Gabriel Solis, Executive Director, Texas After Violence Project

Kelley Worden, Executive Director, Art from the Streets

 

Humanities Institute support was provided through the Holloway Centennial Lectureship, the Hoffman Centennial Lectureship, the Kidd Centennial Lectureship, and the Ho Distinguished Lecture in China Studies Endowment. Additional support came from the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English, and the Dell Medical School.