Events

E.g., 06/28/2020
E.g., 06/28/2020

  • “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland,” a talk with Jonathan M. Metzl

    Wednesday, June 3, 2020
    5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    Online Event
    • COVID-19
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    • Journalism
    We are excited to announce that we will hold our June Narrative Medicine rounds with Jonathan Metzl live via Zoom!

    For our June virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Jonathan M. Metzl, MD PhD, who is the Frederick B. Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

    He will speak about some of the issues and reporting his most recent book "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland" covers in light of our current health crisis. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Deepu Gowda, Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Progam in Narrative Medicine.

    His other books include "Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality," "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease" and "Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs."

    Dr. Metzl hails from Kansas City, Missouri, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. These events are free and open to the public.

    For information and registration, go to: https://www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/our-divisions/division-narrative-medi...

  • The ELSI Virtual Forum: 30 Years of the Genome: Integrating and Applying ELSI Research

    Monday, June 15, 2020 to Tuesday, June 16, 2020
    (All day)
    Online Event
    • Law
    • Social Sciences
    • Research
    • Healthcare
    We are pleased to invite you to join us for the ELSI Virtual Forum, an online meeting on June 15 and 16, 2020, being held in place of the 5th ELSI Congress, now scheduled for March 2021. The Forum will include eight keynote, plenary and panel presentations over the two days, each followed by a half-hour Q&A – we look forward to an enriching discussion!

    Attending the ELSI Virtual Forum is free, but registration is required. To register, please go to https://elsicon2020.exordo.com. For organizing purposes, we appreciate your registering by June 10, 2020.

    Since its founding in 1990, the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has supported empirical, analytical and conceptual research to anticipate and address the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics. Researchers, scholars, community members, and others interested in ELSI research convene for a multi-day, multi-disciplinary meeting, known as the ELSI Congress. The latest in this series of international conferences will take place June 15-17, 2020 at Columbia University in New York.

    Feel free to share this link with others who may be interested!

    Follow us at @ColumbiaEthics #ELSIvirtual

  • Narrative Medicine & The Creative Impulse: A Basic Narrative Medicine Workshop

    Friday, October 23, 2020 to Sunday, October 25, 2020
    1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
    William Black Medical Research Building, 650 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032 Alumni Auditorium
    • Basic Health Sciences
    • Clinical Health Sciences
    • College of Dental Medicine
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    • Columbia Nursing
    • Communications and Media
    • Education
    • Government and Public Policy
    • Global Programs
    • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    • Healthcare
    • Humanities
    • International and Public Affairs
    • Journalism
    • Law
    • Mailman School of Public Health
    • Music
    • Other
    • Religion
    • Political Science
    • Research
    • School of Social Work
    • Social Justice
    • Teaching and Learning
    • Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
    • Careers
    • Arts
    Early Bird Registration of $50 off tuition through September 18!

    Standard Registration Open through October 16, space permitting.

    NARRATIVE MEDICINE & THE CREATIVE IMPULSE
    Narrative Medicine is, at its core, a creative act. Acts of perception and attention ignite our narrative practice. Seeing, hearing, sensing, taking in that which we witness begins the process toward healing, and creative thinking fostered by narrative medicine training attunes us to those skills within ourselves. Creative Director of Narrative Medicine novelist Nellie Hermann has been our leader and inspiration in locating creativity at the heart of what we do.

    The creativity of narrative medicine goes far beyond a reliance on fiction and film as convenient “case histories” of patients, or paintings as observable depictions of diseased bodies, or musical compositions as evidence of a composer’s psychopathology. Instead, narrative medicine recognizes the aesthetic capabilities of its practitioners as fundamental instruments necessary for effective care. We grow toward our own powers to attend to our patients through the schooled avenues of close reading, deep listening, and concentrated witnessing of works of art.

    This workshop features world-renowned writers, artists, cinema scholars, and musicians who can reveal to us how to get the news from stories, images, and sounds. Join us in engaging interactions with works of art in varied forms and genres. Join us too in the creation of art—not only for the pleasure this brings but for the community-building that cannot but follow from it. Narrative medicine is a radical practice with art and beauty at its center, not to distract us from the suffering we face but to make the suffering visible, audible, and palpable so as to ease it.

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
    This intensive workshop will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative competence, and provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of narrative medicine. These practices are then applicable to unlimited clinical and non-clinical settings. Participants will gather for plenary presentations by the founders of the Division of Narrative Medicine alternating with small-group seminars and guest lectures by Robert O’Meally and Rika Burnham. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation, and reflective reasoning. Plenary presentations by faculty open up themes of how stories and art work, exploring concepts such as creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others. Close reading is an integral part of the workshop as is short prompted writing and discussion. Participants will gain access to our online resource page prior to the start of the workshop where all information necessary to prepare for the weekend is provided, including literary texts, film, visual art and seminar articles in the field of narrative medicine by leading educators.

    The Workshop will be held on Friday 1pm-7:30pm, Saturday 8:30am-4:45pm, and Sunday 8:30am-4:00pm with full schedule below. For additional information, email Joseph Eveld at jhe2109@cumc.columbia.edu or call the Division of Narrative Medicine at 212-305-1952.

    TUITION
    $1000 for participants with income over $100,000/year
    $850 for income between $45,000 and $100,000/year
    $500 for income under $45,000/year
    (Tuition includes meals during workshop hours, and select readings). Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodations.

    DISCOUNTS FOR COHORTS
    We also offer a discount of $100 on the tuition for each individual who attends within a cohort of two or more.If you plan to come with a cohort, reach out to Joseph Eveld at jhe2109@cumc.columbia.edu for more information on how to register for the discount.

  • “Passing for Human: Writing Comics from Life,” a talk by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck

    Wednesday, November 4, 2020
    5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    Columbia School of Nursing, 560 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032 7th floor
    • Arts
    For our November Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome cartoonist Liana Finck, whose work appears regularly in the New Yorker and on her Instagram feed. Her most recent publications include a graphic novel entitled Passing for Human, and the cartoon collection Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints and Notes to Self.

    In a review of Passing for Human in The Guardian, writer Rachel Cooke points out: “There is a resonant truth at the heart of this book, and it soars above everything else, however distracting; it has to do with life, and all the loneliness it involves.” About Finck’s graphic novel, Vogue writer Julia Felsenthal said in a profile: “Drill down through its many layers, and Passing For Human seems fundamentally to be about the tension between eccentricity and assimilation, about the exhausting experience of constantly calibrating oneself against some external measure of normal (‘an exploration,’ says Finck, ‘of what it means to feel weird, rather than to be weird.’) It's also a bildungsroman about an artist trying to understand her lifelong compulsion to make art.’’

    Liana Finck is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Tablet magazine. Her first book, A Bintel Brief, was published in 2014.

    Photo by Jorge Colombo