• 8:30am 9:15am
    Breakfast
  • 9:15am 11:00am
    Panel I: Medicine, Humanities, and the Human Sciences: A Historical Perspective

    This session will take place in Jerome Greene Annex.

    • Welcoming Remarks

      Eileen Gillooly

      Heyman Center for the Humanities

    • “Performing Authentic Cripples in 1300”

      Christopher Baswell

      Barnard College

    • "Medical Investigation and the Archive: The Case of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga (1562-1612)”

      Valeria Finucci

      Duke University

      Abstract: Valeria FinucciDownload

    • "The Medical Case across Cultures: Comparing the European Observatio and the Chinese Yi'An"

      Gianna Pomata

      The Johns Hopkins University

    • Moderator

      Rita Charon

      College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

  • 11:10am 11:30am
    Narrative Treatment

    This session will take place in Jerome Greene Annex.

    • A reading

      Marie Myung-Ok Lee

      Abstract: Marie Myung-Ok LeeDownload
  • 11:30am 1:00pm
    Panel II: Health and Truth in Social Justice Stories

    This session will take place in Jerome Greene Annex.

    • “Stories Are Actions: The Use of Personal Storytelling as an Advocacy Tool”

      Paul Browde

      New York University

      Abstract: Browde and NosselDownload
    • Murray Nossel

      Narativ

      Abstract: Browde and NosselDownload

    • "Bringing Human Rights Home: the Breakthrough Way”

      Ishita Srivastava

      Breakthrough

      Abstract: Ishita SrivastavaDownload

    • “The Criminal Justice System and the Role of Narratives: Resisting the Destruction of Self"

      Kathy Boudin

      Columbia University School of Social Work

    • Moderator

      Sayantani DasGupta

      Columbia University

    • Moderator

      Marsha Hurst

      Columbia University

  • 1:00pm 2:30pm
    Lunch Break
  • 2:30pm 4:00pm
    Keynote

    This session will take place in Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall, Barnard College.

    • Abstract: Jonathan WeinerDownload

    • Chair

      Judith Shulevitz

  • 4:10pm 5:40pm
    Panel III: Keywords: Toward a Critical Vocabulary of Disability Studies

    This session will take place in Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall, Barnard College.

    • "The Keywords Concept"

      Benjamin Reiss

      Emory University

      Abstract: Reiss, Serlin, AdamsDownload

    • "Representing Disability Studies"

      David Serlin

      University of California, San Diego

      Abstract: Reiss, Serlin, AdamsDownload

    • "Bridging Disciplinary Divides"

      Rachel Adams

      Columbia University

      Abstract: Reiss, Serlin, AdamsDownload

    • Moderator

      Elizabeth Emens

      Columbia University

  • 6:00pm 7:30pm
    Performance

    New Location!:  This performance will take place in Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center.

    • I Got Sick and Then I Got Better (Directed by James Lapine and Darren Katz)

      Jenny Allen

      Abstract: I Got Sick and Then I Got BetterDownload