| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
| | | | | Postdoctoral Fellow
Performance Studies and
Medical Humanities & Bioethics |
. Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Recent moves toward narrative medicine offer new thinking about the presence of stories in medical encounters, but less attention is placed on the ways those stories are told. This lecture will explain some theories of performance, focus on the performance of stories in medical contexts, and reveal that you may already be performing.
. Wednesday, April 11, 2007 This lecture will feature selected works by artists who combine visual representations of significant scarring on the body with stories performed by the people who bear those scars. Be ready to re-think ideas of beauty and damage.
. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Some people with significant scars perform their scar stories very publicly, on a theatrical stage; others tell their stories in everyday settings that are, nonetheless, a site for performance. This lecture will share a few stories and explore the spectrum of what might be called performance. | | |
