International Health Humanities Network: Blog Entries by Keyword

On April 4-5th, 2014, the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will host the working symposium "Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching." This exciting two-day event will bring together faculty, staff, students, and community members interested in the linkages among arts, health, and the humanities.

Keynote speakers include Paul Crawford (Nottingham, UK), Tess Jones (University of Colorado-Denver), Susan Squier (Penn State), Erin G. Lamb (Hiram College), Anna Willieme (Director of ArtMed inSight), and Maura Speigel (Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program).  

We encourage all participants (in-person and virtual) to actively engage with the symposium's events and speakers. If you're on Twitter, be sure to use our designated symposium hashtag: #UIHealthHum

 

The primary goals for the symposium are to:

• Appraise the current state of the subfield, especially in anticipation of two major “Health Humanities” collections forthcoming in 2014 (Jones et al. [Rutgers], Crawford et al. [Palgrave]).
• Critically assess the role of the humanities in the study of “health”—its hypothetical and demonstrated value in curricular initiatives and pedagogy, program-building, and the “health humanities” more broadly conceived and to envision greater engagement with arts and humanities departments.
• Improve understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and problems faced by researchers and educators in the health humanities, including grantsmanship; tenure and promotion; research and publication; curricular, (inter-) disciplinary, and institutional barriers.
• Generate dialogue and action plans for future interdisciplinary humanities initiatives, including postsecondary training for students and researchers in the humanities that translates effectively into other non-traditional sectors (such as medicine and the allied health professions).

A full description of the symposium’s goals, schedule, and speakers is available here: http://obermann.uiowa.edu/programs/health-humanities-building-future-research-and-teaching.

All events are free but registration is required. We especially hope you’ll sign up for the Saturday “agenda lunch” to generate ideas for future health-humanities collaborations and courses here at the UI.

Please register online by March 25th: http://obermann.uiowa.edu/health-humanities-building-future-research-and-teaching/registration

For more information on the symposium, contact symposium organizer Andrea Charise (andrea-charise [at ] uiowa.edu), or Erin Hackathorn for logistical assistance (erin-hackathorn [at] uiowa.edu).

We look forward to working with you in April!

 

Andrea Charise, Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence
Teresa Mangum, Director
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
University of Iowa