The editors of the literary journal Reflexions and the Student Advisory Board of the Program in Narrative Medicine proudly present Creative Rounds, a monthly writing and creative seminar open to all members of the CUMC community. This informal writing and visual arts seminar will give students, house officers, faculty, and staff an on-going seminar at which to represent their clinical experiences, read or show to one another what they have created, and learn what can only be learned by telling of experiences. All are welcome to share stories, poems, art, or photography reflecting patient experiences, although all topics of interest are fully encouraged. Even if you don't bring anything to share, please come to see, listen, and reflect. OPEN TO THE ENTIRE CUMC COMMUNITY Creative Rounds will begin again next September! Please contact Paula Brady at pcbrady@gmail.com. |
| Upcoming Conferences & Classes |
New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking, a program that focuses on the interface between psychoanalysis and writing, is currently accepting applications for next year's class. To find out more about New Directions, which is offered under the auspices of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, visit the following website: http://www.washpsa.org/new-directions.asp. Life Drawing for Medical Personnel Writing the High Country: A Fiction Workshop Intensive on a Western Cattle Ranch Have you ever wanted to spend the morning on horseback and the afternoon writing about the quiet pull of a mountain range? Here’s your chance: a week long fiction workshop intensive located on a working cattle ranch near the Snake River in the Idaho Tetons. We will read a selection of classic and contemporary western writing, discussing both the legacies of the mythical “old west” and the realities of the “new west” as they play out in literature. Ranching activities (trail rides, round-ups, camp fire yarns) and a rodeo will be interspersed throughout the workshop schedule. Each participant will emerge from the week with a piece of short fiction. Readings from Wallace Stegner, William Kittredge, Richard Hugo, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Johnson, Barry Lopez, Annie Proulx among others. The Location: A working cattle ranch, Granite Creek Ranch is located in the Snake River valley in Ririe, Idaho, halfway between Jackson Hole, WY and Idaho Falls. The ranch is on a five-acre lake, surrounded by magnificent mountain vistas. Yellowstone & Teton National Parks are nearby. Accommodations are in rustic cabins. For more info go to: www.granitecreekranch.com. Dates: July 9-15th, 2006. Space is limited to twelve participants. Cost: $1250. (The cost of the workshop includes all meals, lodging, and activities. Participants are responsible for their own transportation.) About the Instructor: Reif Larsen is a writer, filmmaker, and teacher. He has taught writing workshops in South Africa, the UK, and New York City. He has shot a number of documentaries throughout the world and recently wrote and directed “The Waiting Room,” a short film due to be shown at film festivals this year. He currently teaches writing at Columbia University. He is working on a novel based in Montana about cartographers, cowboys, and scientists. For more information and an application, please email: ril2104@columbia.edu
Doctors, nurses, psychologists, physician assistants, ethicists, medical students, other health professionals... . The seventh annual Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals will run this summer from August 6-12, 2006. The Writing Retreat is held at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House, just a short walk from the Taos plaza. Pursue your writing in an environment that provides maximum space for personal exploration and growth. Bring along work-in-progress (scholarly, professional, and/or creative). Experiment with new ways of writing - screenplays, novels, short stories, poems, personal accounts of difficult medical passages, ethical dilemmas, significant encounters with patients. Or simply bring a desire to write. Co-founding co-directors David Morris and Julie Reichert run a daily three-hour morning workshop, and participants have afternoons free for writing, relaxing, and one-on-one personal conferences with the directors. Cost: $1,995 per participant. Includes six nights lodging (attractive private room with bath), three meals per day, and materials. A spouse or adult companion is welcome to share the room, at an extra cost of $25/day for meals. (The morning workshop, however, is for participants only.) Space is limited to 15 participants. Reserve early. A non-refundable deposit of $750 will secure your registration. Late registration (after June 23) is $2,095. For additional details, see www.taoswritingretreat.com. Paths To Recovery: Putative neurocircuits mediating diverse treatments for major depression--Helen Mayberg, M.D. Presented by The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and The Department of Psychiatry The NYS Psychiatric Institute and Columbia College of P&S Thursday September 21, 2006 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Location: New York State Psychiatric Institute Sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute. http://www.investigatingthemind.org/speakers.html#mayberg HELEN S. MAYBERG is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. She received her B.A. in Psychobiology from University of California, Los Angeles and the MD degree from the University of Southern California. Following an internship in Internal Medicine at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and a Residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Mayberg has held academic positions at Johns Hopkins, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, and was the first Sandra Rotman Chair in Neuropsychiatry at the Rotman Research Institute and the University of Toronto. The central theme of her research program is the use of functional neuroimaging methods to define critical neural pathways mediating normal and abnormal mood states in health and disease. Converging findings from a series of studies has led to a neural systems model of major depression. This model provides the foundation for ongoing experiments examining mechanisms of standard antidepressant treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy as well as development of novel surgical interventions for treatment resistant patients. Since her move in 2004 to Atlanta, these studies have been expanded to further address neurobiological markers predicting treatment response, relapse and resistance as well as depression vulnerability, with a goal towards developing imaging-based algorithms that will discriminate patient subgroups and optimize treatment selection in individual patients. |
| Calls for Papers |
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies Storytelling, Self, Society is a bi-annual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to storytelling as interpersonal, performance, or public discourse. Papers may represent disciplines including but not limited to storytelling, folklore, cultural studies, communication, English, education, library science, health care, business, peace studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture, theater and performance studies. For more information on the journal, we invite submitters to visit our web site: www.fau.edu/storytelling/journal.htm For consideration in the Fall 2005 issue, please e-mail a completed manuscript as an attached Word file by March 1, 2005, to: Caren S. Neile, MFA, Ph.D. Managing Editor c neile_at_fau.edu M anuscripts (headings and in-text citations), abstracts, references/works cited, figures, and tables must conform either to: (a) the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, Fifth Edition) guidelines, or (b) to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003, Sixth Edition, Modern Language Association of America). Contributors are encouraged to follow the guidelines of these manuals for avoiding bias in language. Each submission should include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page, preceding the manuscript. Submittors should indicate whether their submissions conform for MLA or APA style, and include in the letter to the Managing Editor the history of the manuscript (conference paper, Master¹s Thesis, Dissertation, part of a larger study, to name a few). By submitting to SSS, authors warrant that (a) they will not submit their manuscript to any other publication while the manuscript is under review with SSS, (b) the work is original and not previously published in any form, and (c) appropriate credit has been given to other contributors, including students, to the project. Manuscripts should be no more than 20 double-spaced pages (excluding references, tables, figures, or appendixes; 12-pt. Times New Roman, 1-inch page margins all around). Manuscripts that do not conform to the mission of the journal, or do not comply with the submission guidelines, will not be reviewed. In submitting, authors agree to assign copyright of their CFPmanuscripts, if accepted, to SSS For more information, please contact: Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A. CALL FOR PAPERS Hiram College Center for Literature and Medicine in partnership with June 22-25, 2006, at Hiram College, Hiram, OH, 44234 Symposium coordinators: Carol Donley, Ph.D. and Martin Kohn, Ph.D. Hiram College; Isaac Mwase, Ph.D. Tuskegee University; Eric Juengst, Ph.D.,Case Western Reserve University Faculty-to-date: Lorraine Bonner, M.D., Oakland, CA.; Gilbert Doho, Ph.D.; Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D., and Chris Simon, Ph.D, CaseWestern Reserve University David Hilfiker, M.D., Washington, D.C. Richard Selzer, M.D., New Haven, CT Drama, music, and dance: Performances by Verb Ballets: Cleveland's National Repertory Dance Company. Others to be announced. Questions to be addressed: What are the political, economic, historical and cultural challenges facing attempts to address health disparities/inequalities around the world and in the United States? What resources does the world's cultural heritage of drama, music, and literature offer to those striving to address problems of global and national health care justice? In what ways do efforts to address health care disparities/inequalities and health justice in the U.S. and the rest of the world inform one another? Paper proposals (500 word abstract/reading time 20 minutes) and panel proposals (1000 word abstract/hour and a half presentation time) should be submitted by March 15, 2006 to joerightta@hiram.edu. Acceptance notification by April 15, 2006. All accepted presenters must register for the symposium. A graduate course connected with the symposium will run June 19-21, 2006 at Hiram, followed by participation in the symposium. Graduate students may get room and board on campus for the whole week if they wish. Information on the graduate course will be posted on our website by February 1. For questions about the graduate course, email donleycc@hiram.edu or call 330-569-5380. Participants in the symposium will be housed in an air-conditioned dorm on Hiram's campus. (Space is limited, however, so early registration is recommended.) Fee for the symposium is $195 by 5/1/06, $245 thereafter. Fee for room and board is $240 by 5/1/06, $290 thereafter. Go to http://litmed.hiram.edu for more information.
We are interested in essays that explore the intersection of health and human rights. What questions are currently being asked at that juncture, and how and why might we ask them through the study of literature (broadly conceived)? We welcome essays that consider narratives about health and human rights as well as the narratives that structure the concepts of health and human rights. Essays might explore why certain stories have dominated the field (for example, narratives of heroism and/or atrocities) and with what effect? What other stories could be told and what might be the outcome of those retellings? We would welcome essays that take a literary critical or cultural analytic approach to non-literary texts, exploring the language and images through which the concepts of health and human rights are currently imagined. We are especially interested in essays with a concentration on global health and the discourse of human rights and on questions of justice and access. This special issue is motivated by our sense that, in significant ways, health and human rights are reconstituting each other, and we believe that a study of this dynamic could yield important insight into contemporary understanding (and deployment) of both terms. Ars Medica. A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities. Ars Medica is a new quarterly literary journal that explores the inteface between the arts and medicine, and examines what makes medicine an art. Writing and healing have always been intrinsically linked. To submit or subscribe, contact arsmedica@mtsinai.on.ca.Please visit http://www.mtsinai.on.ca/arsmedica/ Society for the Social History of Medicine, 2005 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. The Society invites submissions. This prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine submitted to the competitiona s judged by the SSHM's assessment panel. For more information go to http://www.sshm.org or email competition@sshm.org. Call for papers and op-eds for the Journals of Hospice and Palliative Care and Cancer Integrative Medicine. Both are peer-reviewed. Visit www.pnpco.com. Papers and op-eds should be e-mailed as attachments (chris_rowland@pnpco.com) or mailed to Christopher V. Rowland, Jr., M.D., Editor, Prime National Publishing Corporation, 470 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493. (781) 899-2702 X 115.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS "Anatomy in the Gallery," a rotating exhibition program at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, showcases contemporary art with medical themes such as anatomy, body image, disease, disability, and healing. In the past, the program has featured art by medical practitioners reflecting on their discipline, survivors of disease making sense of their experiences, and artists using medical imagery in part of their oeuvre; however, the theme is open to all for interpretation. "Anatomy in the Gallery" is currently accepting proposals for its 2007 exhibition calendar. Exhibition Calendar for 2007 Qualifications Work in any medium is acceptable. Artists working in sculpture, installation, or electronic media should inquire about special display and equipment needs. The museum welcomes site-specific work. Please note in your submission if you are only applying for particular exhibition dates. Submissions must be postmarked by March 1, 2006. Submission Materials Please send submissions to: For complete details and archives of past exhibitions, see www.imss.org/anatgallery.htm. If you have any questions, e-mail lindsey@imss.org or call (312)642-6502 ext. 3118. |
