Events
Cosponsors
- Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society - Medicine, Literature and Society, Columbia Univer
- Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University
Organizers
- Arden Hegele
- María González Pendás
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required. See details.
Care for the Polis is an online conference that exists in a multi-temporal and virtual space. The conference is designed to reimagine how medical humanities and public humanities shape, and are shaped by, the city and its diverse publics. In a series of weekly Z-Panels, our invited speakers will discuss the effects of health on the conception of cities and publics—including, in the context of pandemic, the foreclosure of public space and what it means to become an online yet domestic-bound public. Together, we will address emerging concerns such as economic impact and recovery, domesticity and democracy, public care and public reconstruction.
Click here to register for the Z-Panels.
Z-Panel Schedule:
Germ City Exhibition: A Conversation on Cities, Health, and Public Humanities
Friday, May 1st Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Rebecca Hayes Jacobs, Arden Hegele, María González Pendás
Thursday, May 7th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Rishi Goyal, Graham Mooney
Designs of Urban and Medical Exclusion
Thursday, May 14th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Alexandre White, Leslie Topp
Thursday, May 21st Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Meredith TenHoor, Camille Robcis
Urban Infrastructures of Violence
Thursday, May 28th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Amy Chazkel, Jonathan Metzl
Thursday, June 4th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Rachel Adams, Bryony Roberts
Thursday, June 11th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Samia Henni, Chisomo Kalinga
Thursday, June 18th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Kathryn Tabb, Joy Knoblauch
Speaking of Covid-19, Now and in the Future
Thursday, June 25th Z-Panel | 3:00PM
Rita Charon, Margaret Crosby-Arnold
Participants:
Graham Mooney, Associate Professor in the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University)
Leslie Topp, Professor of Architectural History (Birkbeck University)
Patrick Blanchfield, Associate Faculty Member (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Amy Chazkel, Bernard Hirschhorn Associate Professor of Urban Studies (Columbia University)
Meredith TenHoor, Associate Professor of Undergraduate Architecture (Pratt Institute)
Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French (Columbia University)
Chisomo Kalinga, Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow (University of Edinburgh)
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Columbia Mailman School of Public Health)
Alexandre White, Assistant Professor of Sociology and History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University)
Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry (Vanderbilt University)
Rebecca Jacobs, Trust Mental Health Curatorial Research Fellow (Wellcome)
Rishi Goyal, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Medicine, Literature and Society (Columbia University)
Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Columbia University)
Kathryn Tabb, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Bard College)
Joy Knoblauch, Assistant Professor of Architecture (University of Michigan)
Rita Charon, Executive Director, Program in Narrative Medicine; Professor of Medicine (Columbia University Medical Center)
Bryony Roberts, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia University)
Margaret Crosby-Arnold, Professor, Department of History, Southern University
Organized by Arden Hegele, Medical Humanities Fellow and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature (Columbia University) and María González Pendás, Coordinator of the Public Humanities Initiative and Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology (Columbia University)