Health Humanities Research Seminars

The Health Humanities Research Seminar (HHRS) grew out of our 2018 Pop-Up Institute on Health and the Humanities. The HHRS convenes monthly during the academic year. Participants listen to a 30-minute presentation either from a UT researcher or from a distinguished guest and then engage with the speaker and one another in Q and A, discussion, and networking. To receive announcements and invitations for the HHRS, please sign up on our Health Humanities listserv. Space is always limited so be sure to reserve a spot if you would like to participate. (Note: All HHRS meetings will be held virtually during the Fall 2020 semester.)

Dr. Jewel Mullen addressing the Health & Humanities Research Seminar

Spring 2023

Health Humanities Research Seminar with Stephen Casper, "Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, and Concussion"

Monday March 6, 2023 • 4:00 PM CT
Multipurpose Room 207C in the San Jacinto Residence Hall, 309 E. 21st Street | Streaming

Fall 2022

Health Humanities Research Seminar: Panel Discussion on "Liberal Arts and Medical Practice”

Monday October 3, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
T-House Suite, Texas Union 3.312, 2308 Whitis Ave. | Streaming

Health Humanities Research Seminar with Bridget Goosby on “The Immune System and the Brain: What Can They Tell Us about Racism and Chronic Disease Risk?”

Monday November 7, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto Blvd. | Streaming

Spring 2022

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Susan Reverby on "How to Think, or Not Think, about the U.S. Public Health Service Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala"

Monday February 7, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Health Humanities Research Seminar: Panel Discussion of James Kyung-Jin Lee's “Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority”

Tuesday March 8, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Margo Sawyer on "Art, Medicine, and Healing"

Monday April 4, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Alan Schalscha and Nick Yagoga on "Dialogue in Health Care Leadership"

Monday May 2, 2022 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Fall 2021

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Columbia University's Sayantani DasGupta speaking on "Abolition Medicine"

Monday September 13, 2021 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Michael Mackert on "Engaging Fathers in Prenatal Health"

Monday October 4, 2021 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Kevin Thomas on "The 2014 Ebola Epidemic and it's Consequences in the United States and West Africa"

Monday November 8, 2021 • 4:00 PM CT

Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with James Pennebaker on "Tracking the Social and Psychological Footprints of COVID-19"

Monday December 6, 2021 • 4:00 PM CT
Zoom

Spring 2021

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Jewel Mullen on "Health Equity and COVID-19 Vaccinations"

Monday February 8, 2021 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar: Scott Graham on "The Opioid Epidemic and the Pursuit of Moral Medicine"

Monday March 8, 2021 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar: Nancy Tomes on “Managing the Modern Infodemic: How the New Social Media Complicate Old Public Health Problems”

Monday April 5, 2021 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Megan Hildebrandt and Robin Richardson on “The Aesthetics of Health: Illness, Art, Teaching”

Monday May 3, 2021 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Fall 2020

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley on "Optical Illusions & the Anatomy of Looking: Race, Disability, Slavery, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century."

Monday October 5, 2020 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. William Tierney on "Healing the Healer: When a Physician-Researcher Gets Cancer"

Monday November 2, 2020 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Rishi Goyal on "The Humanities in the Emergency Room"

Monday December 7, 2020 • 4:00 PM
Zoom

Spring 2020

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Luis Zayas on “How Immigration Detention Adds Harm to Asylum-Seeking Children and Families"

Monday March 2, 2020 • 4:00 PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Keri Stephens on “Disasters, Mobile Communication & Health”

Monday February 3, 2020 • 4:00 PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712

Fall 2019

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Tracie Harrison on “Aging Mexican Men, Broken Bodies, and Waning Ideals: The Phenomenology of a Masculine Evolution”

Monday November 18, 2019 • 4:00 PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Kirsten Ostherr on "AI and the Medical Humanities: An Emerging Field of Critical Intervention"

Monday October 14, 2019 • 4:00 PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Phillip Barrish on “Literature, Social Justice, and the Health Care System"

Monday September 16, 2019 • 4:00 PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712

Spring 2019

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Laurie Green, “'Hunger,' 'Malnutrition,' or 'Starvation'? The High Stakes of Language in the 1960s US"

Monday, May 6, 2019
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. William Sage, "The Innovative Potential of Medicare for All"

Monday, April 22, 2019
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Alison Kafer, "After Crip, Crip Afters: Ambivalence and Temporality in the Work of Disability Artists"

Monday, April 1, 2019
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. David Ring, “Hacking your Mind for Health”

Monday, March 4, 2019
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Lynn Harter, "Narratives, Health, and Healing: Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Storytelling in Health Contexts"

Monday, February 11, 2019
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Fall 2018

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Courtney Donovan, "Digital Health, Health Humanities, and Barriers to Care: Integrating Arts, Humanities, and Technology to Understand Health Disparities"

Monday, December 3, 2018
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Jewel Mullen, "You Can't Fill a Vessel at an Empty Well: Cultivating Empathy to Achieve Health Equity"

Monday, November 5, 2018
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Virginia Brown, “Psychiatric Advanced Directives, Patient Self-Determination, and Social Justice”

Monday, October 1, 2018
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Health & Humanities Research Seminar with Dr. Barbara Jones, “Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: Facing Loss, Finding Meaning, and Focusing on the Future”

Monday, September 10, 2018
4:00PM
University of Texas Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712

Spring 2018

2018 Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute Public Symposium

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
8:00AM
Health Discovery Building (Auditorium), 1701 Trinity St., Austin, TX 78712

2018 Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute Keynote Lecture: Jonathan Metzl, "Structural Competency, 5 Years On: Tracking a New Medical Approach to Stigma and Inequality"

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
12:00PM
Health Discovery Building (Auditorium), 1701 Trinity St., Austin, TX 78712

Audience members from the Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute Symposium.

Annie Brewster, "Putting Stories to Work: Why and How Sharing Stories Promotes Health"

Monday, May 21, 2018
12:00PM
Blanton Museum of Art Auditorium, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78701

James Pennebaker, "Expressive Writing and Health: How Putting Upheavals into Words Can Affect Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors"

Wednesday, May 16, 2018
12:00PM
CLA 1.302B, 305 E. 23rd St., Austin, TX 78712