Schedule

Friday, November 2, 2018
  • 8:30 AM
    Coffee, pastries, fruit
  • 9:00
    Welcoming Remarks

    Massimo Ciavolella, PhD (CMRS Director; UCLA)
    Rinaldo Canalis, MD (Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)

  • 9:15
    SESSION I ~ Moderator: Massimo Ciavolella, PhD
  • 9:15
    “Pondering the Perimeters: Towards a Definition of Medical Humanism”

    Donald Beecher, PhD, FRSC (Department of English Language & Literature; Carleton University)

  • 10:00
    Break
  • 10:15
    “The Humanities in Medicine: A Tautology or a Necessity?”

    Francis Wells, FRCS (Consultant Surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital; Cambridge University)

  • 11:00
    Break
  • 11:15
    “The New World Opened by Madness. Philosophy and Psychiatry”

    Remo Bodei, PhD (Department of Italian; UCLA)

  • Noon
    Lunch Break
  • 1:30
    SESSION II ~ Moderator: Rinaldo Canalis, MD
  • 1:30
    “The Bio-Turn in History Writing: Death, Last Wishes and Lasting Wishes”

    Valeria Finucci, PhD (Romance Studies; Duke University)

  • 2:15
    Break
  • 2:30
    “The Flesh of Wax—the Use of Scientific Collection in Medical Humanities”

    Roberta Ballestriero, PhD (Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design; University of the Arts London)

  • 3:15
    Break
  • 3:30
    “Palaeopathology of the Renaissance: the Art of Combining Sources ”

    Francesco M. Galassi, MD (Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University )

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    Giovanni Spani, PhD (Department of Modern Languages & Literatures; College of the Holy Cross)

  • 4:15
    Break
  • 4:30
    “Collecting in Support of the Medical Humanities”

    Russell Johnson, PhD (Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library; UCLA)

  • 5:00
    Exhibition
Saturday, November 3, 2018
  • 8:30 AM
    Coffee, pastries, fruit
  • 9:00
    Morning Remarks
  • 9:15
    SESSION III ~ Moderator: Rinaldo Canalis, MD
  • 9:15
    “Disease and the Problem of Evil in the Novels of Thomas Mann”

    Stephen Meredith, MD PhD (Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Neurology; University of Chicago)

  • 10:00
    Break
  • 10:15
    “Impostures of Personality: Deictic Shifts and the Healing of ‘Renee’”

    Sowon Park, DPhil (Department of English and Cognitive Science, UCSB)

  • 11:00
    Break
  • 11:15
    “Teaching Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Film: The Case of Peter Weir’s 'Fearless'”

    Romy Sutherland, PhD (Department of Comparative Literature; UCLA)

  • Noon
    Lunch Break
  • 1:30
    "The Physicians' Examination", a Spanish interlude by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano (1632)

    Performance by Les Enfans Sans Abri (directed by Sharon King, PhD; CMRS Associate)

  • 2:15
    Break
  • 2:30
    SESSION IV ~ Moderator: Efraín Kristal, PhD (Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA)
  • 2:30
    “The Plague as a Narrative Engine from Boccaccio to Manzoni”

    Roberto Fedi, PhD (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali; Università per Stranieri di Perugia)

  • 3:15
    Break
  • 3:30
    “Ethical Aspects of the Responsibility in the Caring Relationship”

    Manuela Gallerani, PhD (Department of Education Studies, Alma
    Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna)

  • 4:15
    Break
  • 4:30
    “Compassionate Care in Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust: The Challenges Physicians Face When Giving Bad News”

    Béatrice Grandordy, Docteur en Médicine, Pharmacologie et Sciences Humaines (Hôpital Cochin, Paris)

  • 5:15
    Closing Remarks