PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Literary Arts and Health Humanities:

Today and Tomorrow

 

CONFERENCE POSTPONED

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

 

https://lahhiconference.wixsite.com/lahh

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

 

5-6:15pm        PANEL A:     I was diagnosed with…  

          

           Eftihia Mihelakis and Lucille Toth present a co-creation with a workshop

 

6:15-8pm        RECEPTION

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

 

9-10:15am      PANEL B:     Somebody almost walked off wid’ alla my stuff:” Reclaiming our Health

                                               Narratives in African American Women’s Literature & Culture

          

           Reema’s Boy and the Limits of Western Narratology: Re-Thinking Ethnographic Practice and

           Medical Narratology in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (Esther Jones, Clark University)

 

           Neglecting Hester’s Health: Suzan-Lori Parks’ critique of African American Women’s Healthcare

           Encounters in In the Blood (Phyllisa Deroze, United Arab Emirates University) 

 

           Oral Narrative Practices of African American Women as Counterhegemonic Health Practice

           (Sheri Parks, Maryland Institute College of Art)  

 

10:15-10:30am       COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

10:30-11:45am       PANEL C:     Raging Bodies, Post-Human Narratives and Awkward Politics: Re-Worlding

                                                       Dis-Eased  and Erased Breasts
          

           Disrupted by Illness: An Opportunity for Re-worlding Bodies and Discourses (Dorothy Woodman, 

           University of Alberta/Concordia University)

 

           Re-Marking the Body: Online Representations of Mastectomy Tattoos as Breast Cancer     

           Memorialization (Reisa Klein, University of Alberta)

 

           Writing Rage and Narrative Repair: The Difficult Lessons of Living with Cancer (Emilia Nielsen,

           York University)

 

11:45AM-1pm        LUNCH BREAK

 

1-2:15pm        KEYNOTE SPEAKER Sander Gilman

                        

           Health, Illness, and Representations or Does Studying ‘Medical Humanities’ Make You a Better Health

           Care Professional?

 

2:15-3pm        PANEL D:    Black Women’s Migration Narratives as Stories of Subjectivity and Selfhood

 

           African American Women, Ordinary Writing, Extraordinary Hope, and Survival After 1970

           (Rhonda Gonzales and Jocelyn Moody, The University of Texas at San Antonio)

          

           Archival Intertextual Interpretations of Black Women’s Social Health (Alexis McGee, University of  

           Alabama)  

 

3-3:15pm        COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

3:15-4:30pm       PANEL E:     Failing Care Relationships: The Discursive Obstacles to the Other in the 

                                                   Writings of Nelly Arcan, Hervé Guibert and Marie-Claire Blais

 

           Nelly Arcan: Prostitution, Psychoanalysis,  Projection, Transfer (Léonore Brassard, Université de

           Montréal)

 

           Hervé Guibert: The Serial Embodied Experiences of Failure (Benjamin Gagnon Chainey, Université

           de Montréal/Nottingham Trent University)

 

           Care and Power Dynamics in Marie-Claire Blais’s Soifs Series (Stéphanie Proulx, The University of

           Toronto)

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

 

8:30-10:15am   PANEL F:     Institution and Health

 

           “Tu ne m’as rien donné pour guérir”: Vulnerability and Hospitality in Contemporary Poetry by

           Women in Quebec (Dominique Hétu, The University of Alberta)

 

           "Hot-beds of Vice": The Narrativization of Mass Psychogenic Illness in Girls -School Fictions (Maria             Alexopoulos, The University of British Columbia)

 

           “Non-compliance” as a legitimate way of living one’s illness (Aude Bandini, Université de

            Montréal)

 

           Picturing the Postcolonial Publics of Public Health: Making up People in the Pages of Malawi’s

           Moyo Magazine (Anna West, Haverford College)

 

10:15-10:30am      COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

10:30-12pm       PANEL G:     Art, Language, and Health

 

           The Cold War Biopolitics of Disability in John Okada’s No-No Boy: Racialized and Gendered

           Ableism of American Society in the 1950s (Chang-Hee Kim, Yonsei University)

 

           La visibilisation de la santé: Health in the Streets in Senegalese Urban Arts (Julie Van Dam,

           University of Southern California)

 

           The Dysmorphomanic Language in Vladimir Sorokin’s Works (Katerina Pavlidi, Cambridge

           University)

          

           Endometriosis as a Social Problem: Activism, Medicine, and the Relevance of Gender (Alekszandra

           Rokvity, Karl Franzens University of Graz)

 

 

12pm-1pm       LUNCH BREAK

 

1-2:15pm          KEYNOTE SPEAKER Sarah de Leeuw

                           Anticolonial Feminist Poetics and Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Conversation with                              Health and Medical Humanities

 

2:15-3:30pm    PANEL H:    Thinking from the I

 

           Positive Status/Positive Classroom:  The Opportunity of Disclosure (Eric Jorgensen, University of

           Wisconsin—La Crosse)

 

           A Diabetes Diary: Towards A Daily Phenomenology (Jonathan Garfinkel, The University of Alberta)

 

           Transmitting It (David Caron, University of Michigan)

 

3:30-3:45pm       COFFEE/TEA BREAK

          

3:45-5:45pm    PANEL I:      Auto-patho-graphies

                

          “Nobody ever died from heroin who did not start by smoking hash!” : How a popular novel      influenced the heroin debate in The Netherlands in the 1980s (Irene Geerts, Open University of The

           Netherlands)

 

           Scaling Pain: The Dark Side of Pain as the 5th Vital Sign (Audrey Shafer, Stanford University)

 

           Storytelling as Atypical: Graphic Medicine as the Intersect between Medical Self-Writing and

           Literary Analysis as Seen in Georgia Webber’s Dumb (Rolando Rubalcava, The Ohio State

           University)

          

           Understanding Illness: Wrong Impressions in the Midst of Epidemic (Steven Kurtz, University of  

           Michigan)

 

 

6-9pm             BANQUET

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SUNDAY, APRIL 19

 

9-10:15am       PANEL J:      Living with and in Illness: Dis/artful Becomings

 

           Living with and in Disability and Illness: Dis/artful theorizing (Patty Douglas, Brandon University)

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           Multimedia Storytelling and Disability Arts: Reclaiming Ill Bodies (Carla Rice, University of Guelph)

 

           Re-visioning Illness Experience as Dis/Artful Becomings (Areej Sidiqui, University of Guelph)

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10:15-10:30am   COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

10:30am-11:30pm       PANEL K:     The Medicalized Body and Literature

 

            Your Brain on Fiction: A Bridge between neuroscience and humanities (Fernanda Pérez-Gay

            Juarez, McGill University)

 

           African Comics and Medical Discourse: A Study of Benjamin Kouadio’s Le sida tue et alors as a

           Narrative Pathography (Richard Oko Ajah, University of UYO)

 

           The “Villainous Obstinacy and Ugliness” of Dr. William Beaumont’s “Special Pet”: Representations             of Alexis Saint-Martin in A. Myer’s The Golden Page (1977) and J. Karlawish’s Open Wound (2011).                 Novels on the “Father of Gastric Physiology (Raymond Bock, Université de Montréal)

 

11:30-1pm       LUNCH BREAK

 

1-2pm        Panel L:         The “Future” of Storytelling

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           Acting Out or Working Through: Trauma, Pedagogy, and ‘Feminist’ Crime Fiction (Melissa Jacques,             The University of British Columbia)

 

           The Otherness of Fat:  An Intersectional Psychotherapy Story (Hilary Offman, The University of                   Toronto)

        

           Writing New Bodies: Building a Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy (Megan Perram, The               University of Alberta)

 

2-2:30pm    CLOSING REMARKS/FUTURE DIRECTIONS

 

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Dr. Melissa Jacques, The University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus

Dr. Daniel Laforest, The University of Alberta

Dr. Eftihia Mihelakis, Brandon University

Dr. Lucille Toth, The Ohio State University

 

Practical Information

 

To plan your trip, please follow the three steps below:

 

1. Booking your room at the Banff Centre:

 

Participants are responsible for make their own room reservation by March 15, 2020. We will not be able to ensure you have a room at the Banff Centre after this date. Please follow this link to book and pay for your room ($150 per night/single; $160/night double) for the three nights of the conference:

https://book.b4checkin.com/chameleon/banffcentre/rlp/UOA2004

 

Do keep in mind that shared lodging in the Professional Development Centre (PDC) is an option. There is a limited number of rooms held for our conference, and so it would be best to act quickly. Conference participants may contact the Banff Centre Reservations Department if they have questions or if they prefer to reserve via phone: 1-800-884-7574.

 

If you want to know how to get to the Banff Centre from Calgary International Airport or for other practical information: https://lahhcconference.wixsite.com/lahh/practical-information

 

2. Registering:

 

These fees must be paid in full by April 1, 2020 and include the welcome reception.

-          Regular: $150 

-          Postdoctoral/Graduate/Precariously Employed/Artist: $75 

A registration and payment link with all the details about the conference and travel to Banff, Alberta is available here: https://lahhiconference.wixsite.com/lahh/registration

 

3. Setting up your meal plan at the Banff Centre:

 

Guests can pay onsite to access Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner in the Vistas dining room – these charges can be billed to your room(s) or you can pay via cash/card at the Vistas dining room upon arrival. Menus and information: https://www.banffcentre.ca/vistas-dining-room.