Past Narrative Medicine Rounds

An archive of past rounds events.

  • November 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "WHY WE LOOK: COVID and LOSS, PHOTOGRAPHY and CONSOLATION," a talk with Marvin Heiferman
    Marvin Heiferman Headshot

  • October 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice," a talk with Judith L. Herman
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  • September 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "The People's Hospital," a talk with Ricardo Nuila
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  • May 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "The Real World Impact of Story," a film screening and discussion with Cinque Northern
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  • April 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Anna DeForest: A History of Present Illness"
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  • March 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us," a talk with Rachel Aviv
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  • February 2023 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Vagina Obscura: A Scientific Journey Into the Female Body," a talk with Rachel E. Gross
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  • December 2022 Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Creativity and the Arts in Social Justice, Repair, and Forgiveness," a talk with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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  • November 2022 Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "True Biz," a talk with novelist and instructor of Deaf studies Sara Nović
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  • October 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss and The Lessons of Anna Freud"
    Vivian Heller Headshot

  • September 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness," a talk with Meghan O’Rourke
    Meghan O'Rourke

  • May 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "What Can the Work of Theater of the Oppressed Bring to Healthcare? Animating the Self & Relationships Through Body Language"
    Headshot of Kayhan Irani

  • April 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "ONE FRIDAY IN APRIL: A Story of Suicide and Survival," a conversation moderated by Dr. Michael Devlin
    Headshot of Donald Antrim

  • March 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "THE FAMILY ROE: An American Story," a conversation moderated by Dr. Carolyn Westhoff.
    Headshot of Author Joshua Prager

  • February 2022 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Empire of Pain: The Sackler Family and the Opioid Crisis," a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe moderated by Carl Erik Fisher.
    Patrick Radden Keefe

  • December 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "DIRTY WORK: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America," a talk with Eyal Press about his book.
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  • November 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) 1987-1993," a talk with Sarah Schulman about her book and the history of ACT UP and American AIDS activism.
    Headshot of Sarah Schulman

  • October 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "We Talked to Hundreds of People About Sex. Here’s What We Learned," a talk with authors & collaborators Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg
    Illustration of Shaina Feinberg and Julia Rothman taking notes

  • September 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “An Hour with Reginald Dwayne Betts: Prison, Law, Poetry”
    Headshot of Reginald Dwayne Betts

  • June 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "a performance and semi-collaborative learning experience with members of the FLS Academy"
    Logo for Freestyle Love Academy in Black and White

  • May 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Between Two Kingdoms," a talk with writer and speaker Suleika Jaouad
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  • April 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Dual Dialogue: Reflections on Narrative Medicine and TV writing," a talk with screenwriter Jase Miles-Perez
    Headshot of Jase Miles-Perez

  • March 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World," a talk by humanist-in-tech Sara Hendren
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  • February 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Homo Irrealis," a talk with writer André Aciman about his new essay collection
    Andre Aciman is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar

  • January 2021 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All,” a talk by social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove
    Professor Mindy Fullilove will speak at January 2021 Narrative Medicine Rounds

  • December 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Police Violence as Public Health Threat: Exploring the Alternatives,” a talk by author and professor Alex S. Vitale
    Alex S. Vitale will speak at December Narrative Medicine Rounds

  • CANCELED: November 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,” a talk by author and professor Saidiya Hartman
    Author and professor Saidiya Hartman

  • October 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • "Having and Being Had," a talk by writer Eula Biss about her new book, an interrogation of work, leisure, luxury and capitalism
    Writer Eula Biss will speak at October Narrative Medicine Rounds

  • June 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland,” a talk with Jonathan M. Metzl
    Portrait of Jonathan Metzl

  • September 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity,” a talk by writer Danielle Spencer, PhD
    Headshot of Danielle Spencer, PhD in black and white.

  • August 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” a talk with writer and professor Nicole R. Fleetwood
    Headshot of Nicole Fleetwood

  • May 2020 Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds

    • “Passing for Human: Writing Comics from Life,” a talk by cartoonist Liana Finck