April
20
Museum Walk with Ray Williams
Guest: Rafael Campo
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Blanton Museum of Art (200 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd // Austin, Texas 78701)
2016-17 Overview
Concluding Events
April
21
Poetry Reading
Speaker: Rafael Campo
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Blanton Atrium (200 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd // Austin, Texas 78701)
April
21
Keynote Lecture - Training the Eye, Hearing the Heart: Art, Poetry, and Healing
Speaker: Rafael Campo
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building (POB) in the Avaya Auditorium (Room 2.302) (201 E 24th St // Austin, Texas 78712)
April
20
Invitation Only: Free (Thinking) Lunch
Speaker: Rafael Campo
Time: 11:45am
Location: The Carillon
April
21
Invitation Only: Socratic Dialogue with the Health Science Scholars program
Speaker: Rafael Campo
Location: Joynes Reading Room
Past Events
March
1
Distinguished Visiting Lecture
Title: Cells, Genes, Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature
Speaker: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Time: 7pm
Location: Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building (POB) in the Avaya Auditorium (Room 2.302) (201 E 24th St// Austin, Texas 78712)
Co-Sponsor(s): HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Feb.
2
Alternate Reality Games: An Artist's Talk and Discussion
Speaker: Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Gates Dell Complex (GDC) in Room 6.302 (2317 Speedway // Austin, Texas 78712)
Details: English professor, digital humanist, and Co-Founder of Game Changer Chicago Design Group: Jagoda uses digital storytelling, videogames, and emerging new media forms to explore social, emotional, and sexual health issues with marginalized and sexual minority youth
Feb.
3
Gaming the Medical Humanities
Speaker: Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Gates Dell Complex (GDC) in 1.304 (2317 Speedway // Austin, Texas 78712)
Details: English professor, digital humanist, and Co-Founder of Game Changer Chicago Design Group: Jagoda uses digital storytelling, videogames, and emerging new media forms to explore social, emotional, and sexual health issues with marginalized and sexual minority youth
Nov.
11
Anthony Ryan Hatch presents: "Metabolic Syndrome and Genealogies of Racism in Bioscience"
Featuring: Anthony Ryan Hatch, Wesleyan University
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Location: Jackson Geological Sciences Building (JGB) in Room 2.218 (2305 SPEEDWAY // Austin, Texas 78712)
Details: Professor Hatch will be giving a talk drawn from his book Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). For more information, please visit the program page.
Nov.
11
CANCELLED DUE TO CAMPUS CARRY
Speaker: Karla Holloway, Duke University School of Law and Department of English
Cancellation details:
Oct.
28
Symposium on Disabilities Studies
Featuring: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley /// Nirmala Everelles, University of Alabama /// Alison Kafer, Southwestern University /// Julie Passanante Elman, University of Missouri
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Room 2.206 (multipurpose room), Gordon White Building (GWB) (UT Austin campus)
Sept.
21
Distinguished Visiting Lecture
Title: The Shock of Attention: Bodies, Stories, Healing
Speaker: Rita Charon, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; C.L. and Henriette Cline Centennial Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Time: 7pm
Location: Student Activity Center Auditorium (SAC 1.402)(2201 Speedway // Austin, TX 78712)
Details: The Director of Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, Dr. Rita Charon, gives the Distinguished Visiting Lecture to start our Symposium on Literature and Medicine.
Co-Sponsor(s): HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Sept.
23
Symposium on Literature and Medicine
Featuring: Rita Charon, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; C.L. and Henriette Cline Centennial Visiting Professor in the Humanities /// Alvan Ikoku, Stanford University /// Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine /// Andrea Charise, University of Toronto
Time: 9am - 4:30pm
Location: Room 102, AT&T Conference Center (1900 University Avenue // Austin, TX 78705)
Co-Sponsor(s): HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
May
12
Death as a Cultural and Medical Phenomenon
Speakers: Professor Alan Friedman, UT Austin /// Dr. Craig Hurwitz, M.D., UT Austin
Time: 7pm
Location: Humanities Texas (1410 Rio Grande St. // Austin, TX 78701)
Details: “Death as a Cultural and Medical Phenomenon” - a lecture by Professor Alan Friedman, UT Department of English, with a response by Dr. Craig Hurwitz, Chair of Palliative Medicine at UT Austin's Dell Medical School.
