BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium DESCRIPTION:Please join us at this 2-day Medical Humanities conference that will take place on May 19-20\, 2023.\n\nFriday\, May 19\, 2023: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm PT\nSaturday\, May 20\, 2023: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm PT\nReception to fo llow for each day.\n\nRSVP\n\nThrough a series of panels by international a nd Stanford speakers we will discuss the implications of the COVID-19 pande mic for society today\, as well as ways to find a sense of tragedy and hope for the future. Artists\, practitioners\, and scholars will come together to converse about these issues and to find the most human aspects of such a historic medical crisis and its aftermath.\n\nSponsored by: Stanford Human ities Seed Grant\, Medicine and the Muse\, Stanford H&S Dean's Office\, and the Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages (DLCL).\n\nFor more information\, email Laura Wittman (lwittman@stanford.edu) and Sergio Marti nez Rey (smrey@stanford.edu).\n\nFriday 19 May (Medical School\, MSOBX303)\ n\nFriday 19 May\, 2:30-3:45 pm\n\n“Death\, grief\, and recovery in Covid T imes: Practices and Challenges”\n\nChristy Hartman (Stanford Medicine Medic al Humanities and the Arts)\, Chair\n\nShireen Heidari (Stanford Palliative Medicine)\n“Reflective Writing as a Tool for Healing: Creating Spaces for Vulnerability in Medicine”\n\nMichèle Lévy-Soussan (Pitie Salpêtrière Hospi tal)\n“Healing with our ghosts: How to think mourning for health profession als? Storytelling as a healing process. The journey and its remembrance.”\n \nMichelle Chang (UCLA Psychiatry)\n“#StopSanQuentinOutbreak: Incarceration as the Pandemic”\n\n \n\nBreak\n\n \n\nFriday 19 May\, 4:15-5:30 pm\n\n“De ath\, grief\, and recovery in Covid Times: Activism”\n\nSergio M. Rey\, and João G. L. Viana (both Stanford Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and L anguages)\, Chairs\n\nKristin Urquiza (Disaster and Equity Advocate)\n\nSar ah Senk (Department of Culture and Communication at California State Univer sity Maritime Academy)\n\nXimena Briceño (Stanford Division of Literatures\ , Cultures\, and Languages)\n\n“Marked by Covid Memorial Matrix: Bearing Wi tness and Archiving as Political Action”\n\nA Conversation about Covid\, Gr ief\, and Activism\n\n \n\nReception at CCSR Atrium\n\n \n\nSaturday 20 May (Medical School\, MSOBX303)\n\nBreakfast at CCSR Atrium\n\nSaturday 20 May \, 10:00-11:45 am\n\n“Social justice and bias in Covid Times"\n\nIsabela Fr aga (Stanford Humanities Center)\, Chair\n\nJean-Cassien Billier (Sorbonne Université\, Philosophy)\n“Is there a duty to remember the victims of epide mics?”\n\nKarine Berthelot-Guiet (Sorbonne Université\, CELSA)\n“Questions of Ethics\, Questions of Communication”\n\nLaura Wittman (Stanford Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages)\n“Solidarity\, Pandemics\, and the Narratives of Others”\n\nRona Hu (Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sc iences)\n“Mind over Media: Theatre and Medical Humanities against Discrimin ation\, Stigma\, Bullying\, and Suicide”\n\n \n\nLunch at CCSR Atrium\n\n \ n\nSaturday 20 May\, 2:30-4:30 pm\n\n“Death\, grief\, and recovery after Co vid: Artist and Practitioner Conversations”\n\nLuo Jia (Stanford Division o f Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages)\, Chair\n\nAudrey Shafer (Medicin e and the Muse Founder & Stanford and VA Anesthesiology)\n“Reflections on B eing Essential”\n\nMelanie Ambler (Stanford School of Medicine)\n“When COVI D brings out the music in us all”\n\nCatherine Fairbanks (Artist & UCLA Nur sing)\n“Glazing at the End of Life”\n\nJacqueline Genovese (Stanford Medici ne\, Medical Humanities and Arts Program)\n“Apart-Together: The COVID19 Rem embrance Project”\n\n \n\nReception at CCSR Atrium\n\n \n\nPainting flowers with Jacqueline Genovese\n“Telling COVID Stories One Petal at a Time”\n\n \n\nParticipant bios:\n\nMelanie Ambler\nMelanie Ambler is a second-year me dical student at Stanford School of Medicine\, a classical cellist and aspi ring physician-artist. She grew up in Redding\, CT and attended Brown Unive rsity\, earning a degree in Neurobiology with honors in 2019. She then move d to Caen\, France on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue a master’s in Neuros cience and study the effect of music on patients with dementia. She current ly plays weekly virtual concerts for critically ill patients as an “on call ” musician with the non-profit\, Project: Music Heals Us and hopes to conti nue integrating the arts into her medical and research career. Melanie is t he recipient of the 2022 Stanford Graduate Student Music Prize. She has bee n a member of the Rains Quartet\, under the direction of cellist Christophe r Costanza\, since 2021. They just recently received the 2023 Stanford Cham ber Music Prize and frequently perform on campus and in the San Francisco B ay Area.\n\nKarine Berthelot-Guiet\nKarine Berthelot-Guiet\, Doctor in ling uistics (Ph.D.)\, and Accreditated to supervise research in Information and communication sciences now is full professor of Information and communicat ion sciences\, Dean of CELSA Sorbonne Université\, graduate school for high er studies in communication and journalism of Sorbonne University. She is a lso former Director of the CELSA research group\, GRIPIC (Interdisciplinary Reaserach Group on Information and Communication processes). She is part o f Sorbonne University Board of Directors and Senior Jury of the Institut Un iversitaire de France. She is part of scientific commitees of major French speaking and European peer reviewed journals in Communication sciences. Sin ce 2019 she is head of human sciences research of SIRIC CURAMUS-Cancer Unit ed Research Associating Medicine\, University & Society. Curamus - that aim s to bring together and promote the synergy of its multidisciplinary teams around the AP-HP.SORBONNE UNIVERSITY hospital-university group in order to accelerate research and innovation in cancerology to improve care for the b enefit of patients\n\nJean-Cassien Bilier\nJean-Cassien Billier is Associat e Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of Sorbonne University\; he is also professor of ethics at Sciences Po Par is. He participated in the creation of the Master in Medical Humanities at Sorbonne University. His fields of specialisation are ethics (normative eth ics\, metaethics\, applied ethics) and philosophy of law. Among his main pu blications: Kant et le kantisme (Paris\, Armand Colin\, 1998)\, Le Pouvoir (Paris\, Armand Colin\, 2000)\; Histoire de la philosophie du droit (Paris\ , Armand Colin\, 2001) \; Introduction à l'éthique (Paris\, PUF\, 2010). He has held numerous administrative responsibilities at Sorbonne University\, notably as special advisor of the President. He chaired a consortium of ni ne French universities providing a university programme in Russia\, which h as been suspended since the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine. H e is now in charge of the cooperation of the Faculty of Arts of Sorbonne Un iversity with Ukraine.\n\nXimena Briceño\nXimena Briceño is Lecturer of Lat in American literature and culture at the Department of Iberian and Latin A merican Cultures at Stanford. She is coordinator of the research group mate ria on de-anthropocentric thought at Stanford since 2014. She has been a re search fellow at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin. Her teaching and writing areas include Andean and Latin American literatures and film\, animality theories and cultural consumption. Her most recent publications f ocuses on animality\, materiality\, loss and melancholia.\n\nMichelle Chang \nMichelle Chang (she/her) graduated from Stanford University\, where she c o-founded an abolitionist zine\, the Prison Renaissance Zine Project\, alon gside incarcerated artists and undergraduate students. She then completed a Fulbright Research grant in Norway\, studying sociocultural factors releva nt to collective grief. Michelle is now a doctoral student in Clinical Psyc hology at UCLA. Her research interests lie in racial disparities in the bur den of loss and grief over the lifetime\, as well as the intergenerational grieving practices that communities of color engage in to tend to loss thro ugh a healing justice framework.\n\nCatherine Fairbanks\nCatherine Fairbank s\, an artist and a nurse\, received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Ins titute in 2010 and has since attended national and international residencie s\, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the National Textile Institute in Iceland\, where she produced her solo exhibition Empa thomimesis\, and the Wool Factory in Barcelona. A recent important and grou nd-shifting work for Fairbanks was the premier of A Chimney Dances.\n\nJacq ueline Genovese\nJacqueline Genovese holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction W riting and a master’s degree in Medical Humanities. She leads a literature and medicine series at Stanford Hospital for physicians and at VA San Franc isco for health professionals and teaches writing and literature for Stanfo rd students who are veterans or military-affiliated. During COVID19 shelter in place order\, she teamed with Dr. Bryant Lin to create the Stanford Med icine Stuck@Home Concert series\, and the Apart-Together COVID19 Remembranc e Project. She also led the creation of a weekly MedMuse 4 U update. These projects were all recognized with Circle of Excellence Gold\, Silver and B roze awards by CASE. As Executive Director of the Medicine and the Muse Pro gram in medical humanities and the arts at the Stanford School of Medicine\ , she develops\, creates and coordinates multiple events\, workshops and mu ltidisciplinary education initiatives. She was the co-lead on Frankenstein@ 200\, a campus wide initiative recognizing the 200th anniversary of the pub lication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She is a writer for Scopeblog and a member of the Stanford WellMD/PhD committee. She has presented at numerou s conferences on her work at the intersection of literature\, the military and medicine\, including most recently at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Air Force Academy. She is co-author of an article with Dr. Jonathan Berek that appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology\, titled\, Can Arts and Commu nications Improve Physician Wellness and Mitigate Physician Suicide? http:/ /ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2015.65.1778?sid=2473f432-00ca-4564-b4b6 -0883ecbb4a58 Jacqueline received the Stanford School of Medicine Inspiring Change Leadership Award\, the Stanford University Amy J. Blue Award\, and an Award of Appreciation from the Stanford Undergraduate Veteran's Associa tion\n\nRona Hu\nRona J. Hu MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Sta nford University School of Medicine. She was Medical Director of the Acute Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital from 1998-2018\, and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Medicine 2020-2022. Her daily work is c aring for patients and teaching medical students and residents\, including in person in the hospital during the COVID pandemic. She has received nati onal recognition from the American Psychiatric Association for her teaching \, clinical care\, and advocacy work. \n\nDr. Hu's interests in the inters ection of Medicine with the Arts and Humanities includes founding an intern ationally acclaimed theatre group called CHIPAO (Communication Health Inter actives for Parents of Adolescents and Others) in response to suicide risk in teens\, advising for Netflix series "13 Reasons Why"\, advising\, writin g and acting for "The Manic Monologues" nominated for Best Digital Theatre 2021 by Broadway World and performed on four continents\, advising and acti ng in "Mariposa" a federally funded Spanish language telenovela to decrease stigma surrounding mental health issues\, advising and acting in chamber m usic ensemble Musikiwest in an innovative anti-bullying campaign\, and most recently helping in the wake of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay affecting immigrant Chinese and Latino farmworkers\, with both memorials for the vic tims and healing for the survivors. \n\nMichèle Levy-Soussan\n- Internist\ , Director of Palliative Care\, University Hospital la Pitié Salpêtriere\, Paris France.\n- Research Associate\, Laboratoire Sorbone Université « Scie nces Norme Démocratie ».\n- Co-director of Ethics and Patient care at the H umanities in Medicine Center of Sorbonne University.\n\nShireen Heidari\nSh ireen Heidari\, MD is a palliative care physician\, teacher\, and storytell er. She works as part of the inpatient palliative care team providing compl ex symptom management and support for patients and families facing any stag e of a serious illness. Dr. Heidari is the program director for the Stanfor d University Hospice and Palliative Fellowship. She has written about the i mportance of human connection and stigma around healthcare workers seeking help for their mental health in The New England Journal of Medicine\, The L ancet Respiratory Medicine\, and The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicin e. She hopes to continue being part of this conversation as we advocate for culture change in medicine. Outside of her clinical and mentorship work\, she is likely reading fiction\, writing creatively\, or outside chasing her border collie.\n\nJürgen Pieters\nJürgen Pieters is professor of literary theory at Ghent University (Belgium). His most recent book publication is L iterature and Consolation. Fictions of Comfort (Edinburgh University Press\ , 2021\, paperback 2023). Previous book-publications include Speaking with the dead. Explorations in Literature and History (Edinburgh University Pres s\, 2007) and Shakespeare. Auteur voor alle seizoenen (Lannoo\, 2016). He i s currently working on a new book on bibliotherapy and reading as self-care .\n\nSarah Senk\nSarah Senk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at California State University Maritime Academy a nd Memorial Matrix Team Lead. A scholar in the field of Memory Studies\, he r research and teaching focuses on the impact and representation of trauma and anxiety in contemporary literature and visual culture. More recently\, Senk has written on the National 9/11 Memorial Museum and other societal re sponses to mass trauma. In addition to her academic work\, her essays have appeared in Slate\, The American Prospect\, and The Washington Post.\n\nAud rey Shafer\nAudrey Shafer\, MD is Professor Emerit of Anesthesiology\, Peri operative and Pain Medicine\, Stanford University School of Medicine / Vete rans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System\; founder\, Stanford Medicine & t he Muse Program\, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics\; founder\, Biomedi cal Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration\; and co-founder of Pegasus Physician Writers. She completed her undergraduate studies at Ha rvard University\, medical school at Stanford\, anesthesiology training at University of Pennsylvania\, and research fellowship at Stanford. She is th e author of The Mailbox\, a children’s novel on posttraumatic stress disord er in veterans. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies.\ n\nKristin Urquiza\nKristin Urquiza\, MPA is the nation’s top disaster equi ty advocate\, with expertise in racial\, economic\, environmental\, and hea lth policy. After the death of her father to COVID\, Urquiza co-founded Mar ked By COVID\, the nation’s foremost community-led COVID justice and rememb rance movement with hubs in 12 states. Urquiza holds a B.A. from Yale Unive rsity and an MPA from U.C. Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and h as been trailblazing for twenty years with innovators like former Congressm an Henry Waxman\, Angela Glover Blackwell\, and U.S. PIRG. 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