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Weir, K. (2025, September 1). What happens in the brain when we experience art. Monitor on Psychology, 56(6). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/09/art-mind-brain

Key points

Research shows people engage with the arts in a variety of ways, sometimes reporting transformative experiences.

When interacting with art one finds meaningful, the default mode network-a brain region associated with introspection-is engaged.

Aesthetic experiences may promote positive outcomes such as empathy, social connection, and cross-cultural understanding.

The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, is a spare, still space. Lining the walls of the octagonal room are 14 enormous canvas panels painted in solid purplish black by the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. The artist envisioned the nondenominational chapel as a place where viewers could engage directly with his art. Rothko died in 1970, a year before the chapel was completed. But he succeeded in his vision.

Matthew Pelowski, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Vienna who studies transformative art experiences, has combed through volumes of the chapel's visitor logs. Time and again, people wrote of being transformed by the experience, of confronting their innermost selves. "It's just purple paint," Pelowski said. "It doesn't move or change or do anything to them outwardly, but amazing things are going on in their bodies and minds."

Artistic expression dates back to our prehuman ancestors, and philosophers have long puzzled over the significance of art and beauty to the human experience. Now psychologists and other scientists in the field of neuroaesthetics are going deeper, learning what happens in the brain when we are moved or even transformed by art-and how to harness its power for personal growth and social change.

"Artists, philosophers, and children have always known the power of the arts. It's innate and intuitive, yet we've marginalized the way we've thought about the arts as a form of entertainment," said Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, an applied neuroaesthetics initiative at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "In fact, the science shows we're neurobiologically wired for these kinds of experiences, and they contribute to our health and well-being."

Art and change

Through music, theater, literature, visual arts, and more, our species has surrounded itself with the arts. Those aesthetic experiences can improve health and well-being in a dazzling variety of ways, as described in a recent World Health Organization report. Art therapy and engagement with the arts have been shown to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, ease pain, help people heal from trauma, protect against cognitive decline, and enhance social cohesion, among other benefits. Listening to music can promote language development in children and foster new neural pathways in adults after a stroke. In people with neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease, dance has been found to improve balance and functional mobility ( Fancourt, D., & Finn, S., What Is the Evidence on the Role of the Arts in Improving Health and Well-Being? A Scoping Review, World Health Organization, 2019).

The arts also have the power to change the way we see the world, said Edward Vessel, PhD, a computational cognitive neuroscientist at the City College of New York who studies visual aesthetic valuation and liking. And in recent years, scientists have moved away from classic philosophical questions of beauty to explore the processes by which art can transform us. After all, art is more than just a pretty face. We can be moved by a painting of a brutal battle scene or inspired by an avant-garde melody made from discordant sounds. Like beauty, however, art is in the eye of the beholder. "Any of us looking at a particular artwork might take something different from it," Vessel said. "You can really only understand why art has an impact if you get inside the person's head."

People who measure high on the trait of openness are more likely to engage with art and, in turn, are more likely to have meaningful experience with it, as Pelowski, Marta Pizzolante, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, and colleagues described in a review of the transformative power of aesthetic experiences. People with greater empathy are also more likely to connect with the arts on an emotional level and to experience new insights and understanding (Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 15, 2024). Experience matters, too. Someone who grew up in a city exposed to graffiti might have a different understanding of its symbolism than someone from an area where spray-painted artistry is uncommon. And compared with nonbelievers, religious people experience greater feelings of personal communication and empathy when viewing religious art ( Iosifyan, M., et al., Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2025).

As researchers begin to peel back the layers on these transformative encounters, they have had to create a system for measuring aesthetic experiences. Anjan Chatterjee, MD, a professor of neurology, psychology, and architecture and founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues created a taxonomy for describing the appearance and impact of visual aesthetic experiences. Using semantic network analysis, they identified 17 distinct dimensions related to the appearance of an artwork (including concepts such as colorful, controversial, balanced, and unimaginative) and 11 dimensions relating to the ways a piece of art made viewers think or feel (such as anger, calm, and pleasure). Those 11 impact dimensions could be distilled into four broad categories, Chatterjee said: positive affect, negative affect, a feeling of immersion, and transformative experiences (British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 114, No. 2, 2023).

Pelowski and his colleagues have undertaken a similar effort to categorize interactions with the arts, interviewing hundreds of museumgoers in Europe and the United States. Their experiences clustered into five patterns, with results quite like those Chatterjee identified (Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2025). Some visitors reported they were bored or unmoved by a particular work. Some reacted negatively, feeling uncomfortable or challenged by the art. Others reported a "harmonious" response, similar, perhaps, to Chatterjee's feeling of immersion. "Something about the piece just resonated with them, and they felt really good afterwards," Pelowski said.

The final two groups both reported transformational experiences, but they took different shapes: "small transformations" and "big transformations." Those who experienced small transformations felt they had learned something or found meaning, though they did not feel like a profoundly changed person. They were more likely to report positive emotions, Pelowski said. Those who described big transformations felt changed by the experience-yet they were also more likely to report negative feelings as a result of having their worldview turned upside down. The results suggest art that elicits small transformations might be a sweet spot for boosting well-being and personal development, he said. On the other hand, the more conflicted responses of big transformations could lead to revelatory experiences that result in greater personal growth. "If you don't put anything of yourself out there and feel a bit of a challenge, then nothing very exciting can happen," Pelowski said. "If you want to actively change people's worldview or change their actions, transformative engagement is a good vehicle for that."

Making meaning

To find out what makes art experiences so powerful, scientists are peering under the hood. According to a framework developed by Chatterjee and Oshin Vartanian, PhD, a psychological scientist at the University of Toronto, aesthetic experiences arise from an interaction of three brain systems, collectively dubbed the aesthetic triad. The sensory-motor system perceives sensory features such as color or movement. The emotion-valuation system is concerned with feelings of reward and liking. And the knowledge-meaning system involves the prior knowledge and personal experiences that allow someone to find significance in the artwork (Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2014).

That last system is what makes artwork more than just an object or sensory experience. When people are moved by a powerful piece of art, they are deriving pleasure from their ability to make sense of the experience-what Vessel calls "pleasure from understanding." That pleasure seems to come from within. His research has shown that when people interact with visual arts such as paintings, architecture, and sculpture, the brain's default mode network comes alive (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 6, No. 66, 2012; PNAS, Vol. 116, No. 38, 2019). "This was actually somewhat surprising," he said.

Typically, when people are looking at or listening to the world around them, the default mode network goes quiet. It becomes engaged when people are focused instead on inward-facing tasks like daydreaming, future planning, and introspection. "But in rare moments, we can have a change in brain network dynamics where both systems can be engaged," Vessel said. "Our work shows that this can happen with aesthetic experiences, and there's increasing evidence that it may also be important in creativity." In fact, he has found that interacting with aesthetically moving artwork can prime people for a state of creative inspiration (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023).

The involvement of this introspective brain system may be why our responses to art are so personal. A song that moves one person to tears can spur another to change the radio station. Vessel has shown that the more personally relevant the art, the greater its appeal. He and his colleagues surveyed participants about their cultural backgrounds, lifestyles, and autobiographical experiences. Then the researchers prompted an artificial intelligence (AI) program to create synthetic artwork tailored to each participant's life and interests. The participants later rated the AI-generated art that was designed specifically for them more aesthetically appealing than AI art that had been created for the other study participants (Psychological Science, Vol. 34, No. 9, 2023). "When something relates to our own self construct, it acts like a road map to go deeper," Vessel said.

But art does not just act as a mirror for people who experience it. It can also act as a window into an artist's inner world. Pelowski asked professional artists about their own emotions and intentions as they created installation art, then assessed the emotions and understanding of observers as they viewed the finished pieces (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2020). In many cases, observers could guess what the artist intended to convey, though that ability did not predict the observer's enjoyment or sense of understanding of the work. Often, though, viewers described emotions similar to what the artist reported they had actually been feeling when making the work, even if it was not an emotion they consciously aimed to convey. Those shared emotions between artist and observer led to deeper engagement, Pelowski found. "If people actually feel the way the artist was feeling-regardless of whether that was the artist's intent-they say they like the artwork more and think it's more meaningful," he said. "It has to be felt."

Using art for good

Visits to museums and performing arts centers are often social activities, and in a society where loneliness is an increasing concern, the arts could bring people together. But creating beneficial arts experiences might require intentional efforts to facilitate social interactions around art. Researchers have found, for example, that when museumgoers viewed art together and discussed the works, they reported greater well-being and more social connectedness than participants who viewed the paintings side by side without talking ( Igdalova, A., et al., Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, advance online publication, 2025).

Aesthetic experiences might also be tools for encouraging prosocial attitudes. The arts have long been a medium for commentary and activism, and researchers are exploring how the arts might lead to lasting changes in beliefs and behaviors. In one study, Pelowski and his colleagues assessed the attitudes and opinions of participants who viewed an exhibit focused on the acceptance of refugees. The results were mixed, though participants' reports did suggest increased empathy and prosocial thoughts shortly after viewing the installation. But those changes lasted only a day (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, advance online publication, 2024).

Under the right circumstances, however, art might lead to more enduring changes. Ellen Winner, PhD, a professor emerita at Boston College who studies the psychology of art, asked study participants to read either a literary memoir written by an undocumented immigrant or a news-style expository account on the same topic. Those who read the literary work had significantly greater empathy for immigrants, particularly if they had initially been unsympathetic toward the group. In some cases, the effect was still measurable a month later (Scientific Study of Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, 2022).

To harness art for public good, it may be important to provide the right framework for understanding. People typically prefer artworks from their own cultures, but the right information can help people see unfamiliar art in a new light, Chatterjee found. He and his colleagues showed participants from North America and India images of representational art from each of those regions, then asked participants to rate the works for beauty, complexity, and how much they liked them. Providing viewers with information about the content, artist, and technique reduced participants' bias for art from their own culture, especially among North American participants with low art experience (Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024). "Art, with a little context, could potentially be a vehicle to bridge cultural divides," Chatterjee said.

To realize such benefits, we need to slow down, Chatterjee said. One oft-cited study found that visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art spent an average of 27.2 seconds looking at each artwork ( Smith, J. K., & Smith, L. F., Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2001). An advocate of a movement known as slow looking, Chatterjee asks his students to examine one work of art for 15 minutes, devoting 5 minutes to each of the three components of the aesthetic triad: What are its sensory features? What emotions does it evoke? What associations and knowledge does it stir up? When doing this exercise, students are more engaged and more likely to have a meaningful experience. "We live in such a manic, transactional world, and we don't know how to be present. Art can get people to slow down and can be a tool for self-discovery," he said.

Others are catching on to the idea of using art for good. Since the 1980s, health care providers in the United Kingdom have used "social prescribing" to refer patients to a range of beneficial services, including arts experiences like museum visits for depression or dance programs for people with movement disorders. Health care providers in the United States are now experimenting with the model. Through an arts prescription program launched in Massachusetts in 2020 by the Mass Cultural Council, medical providers prescribed activities like dance classes or community theater performances that were offered to participants at no cost. A pilot study of the effort found participants enjoyed their arts experiences and believed they had a positive effect on their well-being ( Golden, T. L., et al., Frontiers in Public Health, Vol. 10, 2022). "It's a drumbeat that has gotten louder and louder, and the momentum is increasing," Magsamen said.

Unfortunately, traditional arts venues like museums and opera houses have not historically felt welcoming to people from all backgrounds, and the arts can seem intimidating to people with little experience of them. "People sometimes feel that the arts are intrinsically good for them, and if they don't understand something or find it pleasurable, they feel they failed in some way," Pelowski said. He urges educators and health care providers to help people understand that there is a range of normal experiences and ways to engage with the arts. "There's a lot that can be done by validating people's experience and letting them know that there's no right way to respond to art," he said.

Meanwhile, researchers continue to study the conditions that foster positive arts experiences. "One of the most exciting things about the psychology of aesthetics is how many unanswered questions there still are and how much room there is for more research in this space," Pelowski said. To aid that effort, the International Arts + Mind Lab recently launched the interdisciplinary Neuroarts Resource Center, an online platform that connects researchers, artists, practitioners, funders, and others interested in the arts.

As researchers seek to learn more about the arts, they are also helping to answer broad questions about cognition. Aesthetic judgments are informed by a person's background, emotions, and experiences, Vessel said, and the tools researchers have developed to study those judgments will be helpful for unraveling other aspects of subjective experience. "When we find something aesthetically appealing, it's not just some mistake of evolution," he added. "These experiences are critical."

Further reading

Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism
Christensen, A. P., et al., Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2025

Your brain on art: How the arts transform us
Magsamen, S., & Ross, I., Random House, 2023

How art works: A psychological exploration
Winner, E., Oxford University Press, 2018

The Routledge international handbook of neuroaesthetics
Scov, M., & Nadal, M., (Eds.) Routledge, 2023

The need for robust critique of research on social and health impacts of the arts
Clift, S., et al., Cultural Trends, 2021

The science behind creativity
Weir, K., Monitor on Psychology, April/May 2022

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What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the feature length film “Imprint” we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant, healthy future. A personal and poetic investigation into what it means to be fully human in the age of the Anthropocene. A co-production between Campfire Stories and the Swedish Transition Network.

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A[]RTS: Artificial intelligence, artistic intelligence & possible futures for the arts - a2ru

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Join us on November 14: Walking the Drew Labyrinth

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Join us on November 14: Walking the Drew Labyrinth

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Featuring Erin Sheehan,
Adjunct Professor of Contemplative Studies
Please join us on Friday, November 14, 3-5 p.m. ET, for a lecture led by Erin Sheehan, followed by a visit to Cultivate well-being, care, embodied presence, reflective insight, and professional identity. Integrate inner work with professional and societal impact.

The labyrinth, located on the northeast side of campus between the Hall of Sciences and Madison Avenue, was laid out in 2014 by Gabriele Hiltl-Cohen, a stone carver. The design is based on the medieval labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France, and the material is reclaimed bluestones. This afternoon, we connect our learning and research with contemplation, we are invited in a space that cultivates awareness, emotional regulation, somatic intelligence, and moral clarity-capacities essential to ethical leadership.

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Walking the Drew Labyrinth, November 14, 3-5 PM

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Featuring Erin Sheehan, Adjunct Professor of Contemplative Studies Please join us on Friday, November 14, 3-5 p.m. ET, for a lecture led by Erin Sheehan, followed by a visit to Cultivate well-being, care, embodied presence, reflective insight, and professional identity. Integrate inner work with professional and societal impact.

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Nicole Alston, DMH candidate, will moderate a Webinar on 10/10 on the Documentary "Before a Breath".

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Nicole Alston, DMH candidate, will moderate a Webinar on 10/10 on the Documentary "Before a Breath".

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https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/webinars/

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A while ago, we posted a dall for participants “The Role of Visual Arts in Hurricane Recovery”. Now, this research is well underway.

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A while ago, we posted a dall for participants “The Role of Visual Arts in Hurricane Recovery”. Now, this research is well underway.

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Consider joining Crystal King Wallner's research on post hurricane art. She completed her dissertation and will continue her research. The Post Hurricane Art Network is an online educational repository featuring visual artworks from those living in hurricane-impacted communities.

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We are seeking participants to complete interviews about the role of visual arts in hurricane recovery. Questions relate to the following topics: your role and connection to hurricane-impacted areas, the impact of the storm on your community, compounding circumstances and recovery, post-hurricane material culture, and your connection to art-making, social arts, professional arts, and virtual arts engagement.

Participant Qualifications: Adult Participants ages 18+ with a direct connection to a hurricane-impacted area, including self-identified artists, non-artist community members and stakeholders who have a role in decision-making, recovery, care, or research of hurricane-impacted communities.

o Artists: Self-identified artists, either in a personal or professional capacity, in all visual art mediums (excludes performing, literary, and musical arts, unless interdisciplinary) who live/lived in a hurricane-impacted area.

o Non-Artist Community Members: Those who do not identify as an artist and who live/lived in an hurricane-impacted area.

o Stakeholders: Those who work in initiatives and/or research surrounding hurricane response and recovery or arts in health who live/lived in an hurricane-impacted area. May or may not identify as an artist.

Please utilize the calendar below to schedule an interview. All interviews require that you review a consent form to participate and to a consent to record the interview. All data remains anonymous and non-identifiable. Interviews are conducted remotely via ZOOM.

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We are seeking participants to complete interviews about the role of visual arts in hurricane recovery. Questions relate to the following topics: your role and connection to hurricane-impacted areas, the impact of the storm on your community, compounding circumstances and recovery, post-hurricane material culture, and your connection to art-making, social arts, professional arts, and virtual arts engagement.

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About the Journal

Perspectives on Arts in Health is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing practice and research in the arts in health discipline. Recognizing that knowledge is created in many ways, this engaging multimedia journal aims to share best practices with artists, students, and individuals working at the intersections of arts, culture, community, health, and well-being.

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Perspectives on Arts in Health is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing practice and research in the arts in health discipline. Recognizing that knowledge is created in many ways, this engaging multimedia journal aims to share best practices with artists, students, and individuals working at the intersections of arts, culture, community, health, and well-being.

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A great resource for MedHum scholars and practitioners

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A great resource for MedHum scholars and practitioners

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MedHum addresses issues that impact people, whether through illness, health, societal upheavals, and trauma. We are committed to the idea that literature and the arts can enhance our lives and provide new perspectives on what it is to be human

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https://tqr.nova.edu/

And Upcoming workshops on interviewing and analysis: https://tqr.nova.edu/2025/07/24/qualitative-interviewing-as-meaning-making-theory-methods-and-practice-kathryn-roulston-january-16-2026/

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The Qualitative Report - Research Journal Community - A qualitative research community promoting articles, jobs, news, conferences, calls, software, resources, and more!

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Method Behind the Madness: Behind the Scenes of and Best Practices in Qualitative Methods - Laura Lemon Peterson - December 1, 2025

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Call for papers: The role of qualitative and mixed methods in advancing medical research

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Call for papers: The role of qualitative and mixed methods in advancing medical research

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BM Medical Research Methodology is calling for submissions to a Collection on innovative, interdisciplinary methodologies that bridge the gap between numerical data and rich, narrative insights, ultimately advancing evidence-based practices, policy development, and person-centered care.

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Call for papers: The role of qualitative and mixed methods in advancing medical research

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NARRATIVE AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NARRATIVE AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH

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2026 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)

6 March – 8 March 2026 (online)

The 2026 ISAN will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience levels an opportunity to present their autoethnographic and personal narrative projects and to participate in dialogue and sociability with scholars across a variety of disciplines.

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Call for Proposals 2026 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) 6 March – 8 March 2026 (online) The 2026 ISAN will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience…

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2023 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) January 2-5, 2023 Given the continued prevalence of Covid-19, travel restrictions, rising international conflict, and the uncertain financial constraints faced by many scholars and organizations, the 2023 ISAN will continue as a fully online event. The symposium will occur via Zoom on January 2-5, 2023. Eastern Standard … Continue reading Call for proposals: 2023 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)

Education in a Pivotal Time: The Moment for Inspiration, Innovation, and Change We are welcoming manuscripts for the Spring 2023 publication about innovative and inspiring research and practices at any level of education. We are anticipating articles which open possibilities for inclusive, equitable and socially just spaces for teaching, learning, and change. We encourage submissions … Continue reading Call for papers: Learning Landscapes

This special issue seeks to elaborate on the theme of contemporary challenges and opportunities in rural education. Authors are free to engage the theme discretely or simultaneously. Why do contemporary challenges and opportunities in rural education matter? There is a long history of considering rural spaces as lacking. Rural spaces are unique unto themselves and … Continue reading Call for papers: “Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Education”

The MAXQDA #ResearchforChange Grants provide financial support and methodological training for early career scholars whose research aims to investigate, support, and raise awareness of empowerment initiatives. As a contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5 "Gender Equality", this year's MAXQDA #ResearchforChange Grants program is dedicated to the empowerment of women and girls in … Continue reading Call for applications: MAXQDA #ResearchforChange Grants

Post-qualitative approaches to research challenge our understandings of concepts that we typically take for granted. In this blog post, I bring together some initial definitions from authors for concepts that you will see in writing about new materialisms. You'll notice that I've focused on concepts that Karen Barad has written about, which I’ve listed in … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to concepts used in post qualitative research

Older researchers like I am are likely to have numerous boxes or filing cabinets filled with records from prior research projects. These boxes or file folders include printed transcripts, fieldnotes, or drafts of manuscripts writing up findings, and copies of published articles relative to the topic. For scholars in 2022, however, records are likely to … Continue reading Tips for organizing a qualitative research project

This week's screencast and blogpost are authored by Ana Soler. Ana Soler is the Chairperson of the National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages (NAETISL: https://naetisl.org/). She completed her degree in Social Work at Georgia State University, her Master’s Degree in Public Health at Emory University, and is a Ph.D. in Special Education … Continue reading Using Photovoice in Qualitative Research

This week's guest screencast and blogpost are authored by Dr. Jaleesa Reed. Dr. Reed is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. Her primary research interest is in millennial Black women’s beauty culture and beauty retail spaces. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on connecting human geography, feminist studies, and merchandising in … Continue reading What is covert research?

Call for Abstracts to a Special Issue with the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. The title for the Special Themed Issue is: Rising from the Margins: Critical Research on the Language and Literacy Pedagogies of Transnational Families of Color. This issue is meant to highlight the work that transnational families of color are doing every day … Continue reading Call for abstracts: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education

Uwe Flick (Freie Universität, Berlin) completes his set of handbooks on qualitative research this year with the publication of the two-volume set, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (Flick, 2022a, 2022b). At over 1,200 pages, this volume is much larger than either of the two prior handbooks on qualitative data collection (Flick, 2018) and … Continue reading Qualitative Research Design

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Examining the world through qualitative inquiry

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Reproductive Ethics and Death: Creating Life at the End of Life

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Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of some of the most ethically complex frontiers in modern medicine. Posthumous Sperm Retrieval:…

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Creating Healthy Communities Convening will bring together more than 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development.

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Engage in thought-provoking conversations with renowned authors. Join us for captivating discussions that spark inspiration and intellect.

Talk With Authors is committed to uniting book enthusiasts and intellects with distinguished authors by presenting stimulating moderated conversations. With more than three decades of experience, the mission of our President, Roxanne Black, revolves around leveraging author events to create an enriching experience for all participants. Join us in exploring the world of words and ideas.

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This event was inspired by Roxanne's three-year journey as a caregiver for her beloved husband Leo who battled gliobastoma, a Stage IV brain tumor. A portion of proceeds will go to support caregiver programs.

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Discover New Worlds Discover New Worlds Discover New Worlds Engage in thought-provoking conversations with renowned authors. Join us for captivating discussions that spark inspiration and intellect. Talk With Authors is committed to uniting book enthusiasts and intellects with distinguished authors by presenting stimulating moderated conversations.

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The Narrative Practices Lab examines and critically appraises the way we tell stories about health and illness.

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From June 5-7, 2025, the Carework Network is taking this opportunity of its 25th anniversary to reflect on the histories and futures of carework research and the study of care more broadly during a bilingual (Spanish and English) three-day conference bringing together researchers and advocates from around the world.

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From June 5-7, 2025, the Carework Network is taking this opportunity of its 25th anniversary to reflect on the histories and futures of carework research and the study of care more broadly during a bilingual (Spanish and English) three-day conference bringing together researchers and advocates from around the world.

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Fourth Global Carework Network Summit Learn More Labor Rights for Au Pairs Even with new labor protections in place, Massachusetts au pairs still find themselves vulnerable due to the lack of agency supervision and the program’s emphasis on family membership and “cultural exchange.” CAREWORK NETWORK AWARDS Call for Nomitations LEARN MORE Carework Network YouTube Chanel […]

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Volume 25 Special Issue 1.0 Editorial Volume 25 Special Issue 1.1 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.2 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.3 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.4 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.5 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.6 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.7 Volume 25 Special Issue 1.8 Volume 25 Special Issue

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Check out our newest Padlet on Transforming Health through the Arts

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Check out our newest Padlet on Transforming Health through the Arts

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10th Annual Narrative Medicine Conference The Evolving Practice of Narrative Medicine: The Healing Power of Stories

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10th Annual Narrative Medicine Conference The Evolving Practice of Narrative Medicine: The Healing Power of Stories

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This conference will demonstrate the power of narrative for those who give and receive medical care. The day will include inspirational talks by experts in the field, with interactive experiences to improve communication and reduce stress in healthcare settings. Using narrative for lifelong medical education will help health practitioners provide more compassionate and empathetic care to patients, help patients communicate better with practitioners, and reduce stress and burnout for all.

This conference is being held in-person and virtual.

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Join the MHH Bookclub on Tuesday, November 28, 6PM EST

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Join the MHH Bookclub on Tuesday, November 28, 6PM EST

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Virtual Meeting Link: https://drew.zoom.us/j/96604612537?pwd=MWorUnFLczdweGhaakljR0YxbTdEZz09

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes; The only way to survive is to open your heart. The # 1 New York Times Bes...show more

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club (A Novel) by Gail Honeyman on Bookclubs, the website for organizing a bookclub

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Nancy Gross will speak with Kathleen Watt, author of REARRANGED: AN OPERA SINGER’S FACIAL CANCER AND LIFE TRANSPOSEDBy Kathleen Watt(Heliotrope Books, October 10, 2023)

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Nancy Gross will speak with Kathleen Watt, author of REARRANGED: AN OPERA SINGER’S FACIAL CANCER AND LIFE TRANSPOSEDBy Kathleen Watt(Heliotrope Books, October 10, 2023)

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The Medical Humanities Blog welcomes guest submissions on a rolling basis, and recommends that each submission is accompanied by at least one image or other figure. References are included in the word count total. Posts may concern specific developments in medical humanities themes of interest to the journal, and may also include health policy, conference reports on proceedings, and other scholarly and critical materials that advance the conversation of medical humanities in meaningful ways. Submissions may be keyed to thematic elements of the journal, such as: global health, public engagement, film and media, illness narrative, arts in medicine, etc.

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The Medical Humanities Blog welcomes guest submissions on a rolling basis, and recommends that each submission is accompanied by at least one image or other figure. References are included in the word count total. Posts may concern specific developments in medical humanities themes of interest to the journal, and may also include health policy, conference reports on proceedings, and other scholarly and critical materials that advance the conversation of medical humanities in meaningful ways. Submissions may be keyed to thematic elements of the journal, such as: global health, public engagement, film and media, illness narrative, arts in medicine, etc.

All submissions are subject to editorial review and should be directed to the editor with the words BLOG SUBMISSION somewhere in the subject line.

Submissions may be written in the following formats:
Reviews
Books for review may be suggested by contributors or selected from our Good Reads feed through consultation with the blog editor. The review should represent the opening gambit in an academic conversation regarding the themes raised by the book and should be clear about what the book has to offer the field of medical humanities, and particularly the journal's contribution to the field. Situating the book with reference to current research in the field is welcome, as are the use of enriching hyperlinks and other media. Reviews of other media (e.g. exhibitions) will also be considered.

Word count: 500-700
Interviews
Engaging with popular or academic medical humanities writing, research, media, and film, interviews will be chosen for their contribution to a debate which will be actively framed by the interviewer. The interview should be introduced with a paragraph that speaks to the issues raised in the interview, demonstrating their relevance to the field and particularly to the journal's contribution to the field. Suggested interviews may be submitted for the attention of the blog editor in both typescript and audio form.
CFPs and Conference Reports
Relevant CFPs and Conference reports may be submitted to the blog editor for review. Reports offer an opportunity to provide highlights of ongoing topics in the field and summaries of conference proceedings.

Word count: 400
Provocations
These blog posts should argue a point of contention within the field, either taking a new perspective on existing issues or suggesting a new approach to a problem. These contribute a field-shaping voice by providing a place for scholars to stake a claim on new research areas. Responses are encouraged, either as comments or as subsequent provocations.

Word count: 500-700
Essays/Guest Blog Posts
Guest blog posts offer an open format for contributors to engage with medical humanities in innovative or unexpected ways, or to develop an existing conversation in new directions. Any submission that engages with the field in a scholarly and original way will be considered, as will posts that draw reader's attention to important resources or issues.

Word count: 300-800

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Call for Blog Posts for Medical Humanities-BMJ | H-Net

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Social Upheaval & Medical Humanities Tickets, Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite

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Social Upheaval & Medical Humanities Tickets, Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite

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As a transdisciplinary field, the medical humanities offers an ideal platform to explore the relationship between health and social upheaval. To delve deeper into this, our panel will examine three Latin American case studies, questioning how medical practices and values are impacted by social upheavals and how medicine, in turn, influences these events and their aftermath.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC081fwCDU6Me_5zpU5xY7nA

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MHH Book club continues this Summer! Open to all!

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MHH Book club continues this Summer! Open to all!

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Please join us this summer on the following Thursdays at 5:30pm EST: June 22, July 27, and Aug 24. We will read a variety of graphic novels and non-fiction works this summer, beginning with 'Tangles' by Sarah Leavitt. In July we will read 'You can stop humming now' by Daniela Lamas. For the Aug 24 meeting, we will discuss both the graphic novel 'Sobriety' and the memoir 'Broken' by William Cope Moyers. We have two options to choose from this month, since 'Sobriety' might be hard to find/purchase for some; both deal with the topic of addiction and recovery. We hope you can join us for one or all the sessions this summer!

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Call for Graduate Students. Join us to expand your network and explore pressing ethical challenges in US and European healthcare today!

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Call for Graduate Students. Join us to expand your network and explore pressing ethical challenges in US and European healthcare today!

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QRSI's 20th Anniversary

ResearchTalk celebrates 20 years of the Qualitative Research Summer Intensive. QRSI brings together researchers from across industries, disciplines and career stages who are committed to learning from lived experience and from data that elevates the collective human voice and individuals' life-worlds.

We are honored to participate in and contribute to the knowledge journeys of so many researchers from across the globe. Together with our extraordinary scholars and our QRSI participants, we are part of the continued growth and intentional movement of qualitative inquiry. We are grateful to be present in this space and to share this remarkable anniversary with all of you.

ResearchTalk is extremely proud to continue our 11-year partnership with UNC's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science in building and carrying out the Summer Intensive.

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QRSI's 20th Anniversary ResearchTalk celebrates 20 years of the Qualitative Research Summer Intensive. QRSI brings together researchers from across industries, disciplines and career stages who are committed to learning from lived experience and from data that elevates the collective human voice and individuals' life-worlds.

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Please join us this summer on the following Thursdays at 5:30pm EST: June 22, July 27, and Aug 24. We will read a variety of graphic novels and non-fiction works this summer, beginning with 'Tangles' by Sarah Leavitt. In July we will read 'You can stop humming now' by Daniela Lamas. For the Aug 24 meeting, we will discuss both the graphic novel 'Sobriety' and the memoir 'Broken' by William Cope Moyers. We have two options to choose from this month, since 'Sobriety' might be hard to find/purchase for some; both deal with the topic of addiction and recovery. We hope you can join us for one or all the sessions this summer!

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" All Events

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Ann E. Wallace, CLA '92, PhD, graduated from Drew with a degree in Art History and Studio Art. She is the 2023-2024 Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. A survivor of ovarian cancer, woman with multiple sclerosis, and COVID longhauler, she has written on the experience and rhetoric of illness. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, Good Morning, America, Fox News Radio, and others. Wallace is Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is author of the poetry collection Counting by Sevens (Main Street Rag, 2019) and of a recently completed manuscript Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID's Long Haul. She hosts and co-produces Saturday Morning Poetry for her local Native Plant Society on Instagram @npsnjhudsoncounty. Her published creative work can be found at AnnWallacePhD.com.

The readings will be followed by a Q&A and light refreshments. For those driving by car, you may park in the Tilghman lot, shown as "K" on the lower right side of the campus map, and walk to Mead Hall.

Check out Writers@Drew for past events.

For more information, please email Launch Event Coordinator Katey DePinto.

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" All Events - 5:15 pm Ann E. Wallace, CLA '92, PhD, graduated from Drew with a degree in Art History and Studio Art. She is the 2023-2024 Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. A survivor of ovarian cancer, woman with multiple sclerosis, and COVID longhauler, she has written on the experience and rhetoric of illness.

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Join us at the Graduate Student Workshop: IRB

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Join us at the Graduate Student Workshop: IRB

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Addiction: a Humanistic Medicine Perspective, Tuesday, April 25 at Overlook

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Addiction: a Humanistic Medicine Perspective, Tuesday, April 25 at Overlook

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March 15, 6:00 PM: Conversation with Data Analytics colleagues about abstract mining and its impact on medical research, featuring research from Dr. Ellie Small and her colleagues from the Data Analytics Program at Drew

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March 15, 6:00 PM: Conversation with Data Analytics colleagues about abstract mining and its impact on medical research, featuring research from Dr. Ellie Small and her colleagues from the Data Analytics Program at Drew

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Friday, April 14, at 5:00 PM EST. Zoom link

Friday, May 19, 5:00 PM EST. Zoom link.

The Q-METHODS-LAB will support your qualitative research and make it work for you in everyday situations of your practice. You can drop in and connect with renowned qualitative research fellows with extensive research and evaluation expertise to share your work and ask questions. Q-METHODS-LAB is about creative puzzling, support, and sharing examples of the shapes that research takes these days and how it may contribute to your studies and beyond. [Don’t be surprised to hear: “The choice of method isn’t the most important question.”]

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The Medical Humanities Book Club: Spring Schedule 

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Join us for the Medical Humanities Book Club on Zoom, 4pm EST. All meetings fall on a Tuesday. Check out our Instagram for announcements: @mhbc_drewu, or join us on BookClubs.com to become a member!  https://bookclubs.com/clubs/5966308/join/cb45d9/

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About the journal

The International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) One Health (OH), an open access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly online by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), that promotes original research and perspectives related to One Health. IJID One Health will feature updates, commentaries, and scholarly work from key leaders, visionaries, and organizations using a One Health approach. The aim of IJID OH is to advance scientific knowledge related to the connections between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. As a platform for the presentation and discussion of scholarly one-health information, the scope of IJID OH traverses domains of human, clinical and veterinary diagnostics, surveillance, epidemiology, public health responses, innovations and interventions. The Journal will function as a repository of of high-quality research which is multi-disciplinary, within countries, regions, and on a global scale. IJID OH will help further our combined efforts as the global community prepares for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of international significance while addressing the endemic challenges of today.

The International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) One Health (OH), an open access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly online by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), that promotes original research and perspectives related to One Health. IJID One Health will feature ...

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Dr. Lucille Blumberg, MD

National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service; Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria; Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town; Right to Care South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

More opportunities to publish your research:

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The International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) One Health (OH), an open access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly online by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), that promotes original research and perspectives related to One Health. IJID One Health will feature updates, commentaries, and scholarly work from key leaders, visionaries, and organizations using a One Health approach.

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The nation's first hospitality hospital house, celebrates 50yrs. Here in the medical corridor of Buffalo.

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The nation's first hospitality hospital house, celebrates 50yrs. Here in the medical corridor of Buffalo.

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Join us on March 2 on campus/hybrid: Launch Contemplative Professional Initiative

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Join us on March 2 on campus/hybrid: Launch Contemplative Professional Initiative

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Krystyna Gurstelle's Dissertation: Uneven Paths to Health and Healing. Medicine, Politics and Power in 19th Century America.

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Krystyna Gurstelle's Dissertation: Uneven Paths to Health and Healing. Medicine, Politics and Power in 19th Century America.

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Uneven Paths to Health and Healing: Medicine, Politics and Power in 19th Century America

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Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

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The ninth Graduate Theological Conference at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is seeking creative artifacts and scholarly essays on the theme, "Syndemic and Shifts: Theological and Practical Responses in a Time of Compounded Violence and Disruption," for a conference that will be held on Friday, April 14, 2023 in HyFlex modality with the option of in-person or digital attendance.

Syndemic, the layering of biological and social endemics, is a generative framework which addresses the overlaying of COVID-19 with the violent social realities of systemic inequality and injustice. Together, these have brought about significant shifts in social and religious life. In view of the disparate experiences of syndemic which overlays intense disruption and shifts on the individual and social level, there is a need for theological and practical responses that promote justice and assist persons and communities in navigating change.

Generative approaches to the topic might include but are not limited to:

What new perspectives are emerging or needed in order to address the overlaying of violent social realities, or endemics, with the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent disruptions?

How might we bear witness to the violence of syndemic and the responses of communities in the still unfolding aftermath of COVID-19?

What are the theological and ethical implications of syndemic? How might theology provide an interpretative lens for syndemic, and how might moral imagination be deployed in response?

How might our understanding and experience of sacred texts, symbols, rites, and rituals continue to be shaped by syndemic?

How might we understand connection and disconnection after quarantine and lockdown?

How might adaptive religious practices bring about new theological perspectives and ethical models?

Submissions of creative artifacts and an accompanying critical response of no longer than 1,000 words on how the work engages the topic may include but are not limited to visual arts, both 2D and 3D, mixed and multi-media, and literary contributions.

Submissions of essays are encouraged from a wide array of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives including but not limited to biblical studies, church history, theology and ethics, sociology of religion, anthropology, and practical theology.

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I am a seventy-year-old Jewish grandma and a retired women's health nurse and educator. I've enjoyed many blessings.

And I had an abortion in 1974.

Three months ago, the constitutional right to abortion was reversed. Reflecting on that Supreme Court decision led me to share my own experience. I hope my story will help other women considering an abortion to know that they are not alone.

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In our first week of neonatology, my third-year classmates Jay, Em and I donned PPE and filed like ducklings into an operating room on the birthing unit.

A young woman sat slouched on the operating table, her unbuttoned hospital gown revealing the S-curve in her spine. Her name, we learned, was Elise.

Beside her stood the anesthesiologist, Dr. Lane. He put a hand on her shoulder.

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In 2015, while walking with my wife, Jody, in our neighborhood, I suddenly found myself bent over and taking tiny, rapid, repetitive steps. I knew I was moving too fast, but could not stop myself. Jody thought I was kidding-until the moment I fell down on a neighbor's lawn.

A passing driver slowed down to ask if I was okay. I was all right, but thought the experience odd.

I'd never heard the word "festination" (a walking gait characterized by involuntary acceleration) until I saw a neurologist friend a week later.

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Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th Century & 20th Century

Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th Century & 20th Century

This special issue for the Journal of Medical Humanities explores how the art of storytelling and narratives can inform our understanding of the role materials play in care and how the art of care has evolved from the nineteenth to twentieth century, specifically, in terms of its caregiving objects. In Essential Care: An Ethics of Human Nature, Leonard Boff describes the myth of Goddess Cura who takes up clay while crossing the river and gives it a proper shape. Jupiter sees her engrossed in the task of shaping a figure and grants Cura’s wish to breathe life into her creation. Once the creature comes to life, Cura, Jupiter, and the Earth start fighting over its ownership. The fight is only resolved when Saturn states that Cura shall be with the creature as long as they live, and Jupiter shall receive the spirit after the creature’s death. The creature is named Homo Sapien after the Earth – who offered the creative material to Cura. In this myth, materiality plays a role in demonstrating how care shapes the entire human lifespan. Taking storytelling and narratives as a starting point, our special issue will probe the role and representations of materials and objects in clinical care communication and caring relationships.

This issue will include articles that engage with the interdisciplinary analysis of the narratives about the objects of care from the nineteenth and twentieth century. As DeFalco (2016) writes, ‘[n]arrative representation shows its readers care in action’ (8). In some narratives, these actions are mediated and illuminated by materials and objects, in others a narrative might be told through unconventional materials and objects. Narratives might even be created in what is not said, as Samuel Beckett (1951) writes in Molloy: ‘to restore silence is the role of objects’ (13-14). For Gordon (1997), fictions can ‘play an important role in [making our social world] for the simple reason that they enable other kinds of sociological information to emerge’ (25). By fictions, Gordon does not only mean literature but an ‘ensemble of cultural imaginings, affective experiences, animated objects, marginal voices, narrative densities and eccentric traces of power’s presence’ (25). As such, we intend to invite abstracts for papers that focus on the interdisciplinary understanding of the materiality and objects of care. We are interested in bringing together disciplines that broadly centre narrative in multiple ways, be that through texts and archives, aesthetics and artistic production, medical and clinical practice, and social sciences. Interdisciplinary approaches might see writers and artists employ a performance studies lens to shape anthropological arguments about clinical care objects; visual artists using a medical lens to explore the role of arts in health; or literary studies using a lens of medical sociology to examine objects of care. We wonder: can objects themselves provide care? How do medical practitioners practically use novels, narratives, and storytelling in their work? And can creative methods help ameliorate the patient experience, and improve the process of care in the clinical setting?

Objects and materials inform many parts of clinical care: the interaction of the patients with clinical spaces begins at the waiting rooms wherein they fill up their forms, spend hours meditating on their anxiety and fears about the clinical condition, staring at the paintings on the walls, or the plants in the corner of the room, absorbing the smell of the environment thinking whether they need to get used to it. The ‘Materialities of Care’ network has explored how fields including museum studies, architecture, activism and design centre objects and artefacts to represent, understand, and mediate everyday experiences of health and social care. As Buse, Martin and Nettleton (2018) suggest ‘materialities are not merely a backdrop for care interactions, but play an active role in constituting relations of care.’ Turning to literary and cultural narratives, we further explore the representations and uses of such objects and artefacts in the imaginative realm, to understand how the sensory experience of a materiality of care can impact the caregiver and the care-recipient in the clinical and non-clinical care environment. In this issue, we intend to ask the following questions: (1) Can objects be efficient caregivers? (2) How does technology enrich our understanding of relational care with reference to the caregiving objects? (3) How might objects of care (technological or non-technological) change our perception of care and care relationships? (4) What are the limitations and strengths of exploring the materiality of care and its narrative representations?

Topics included here are not limited to:

Novels and literary narratives that centre and represent objects of care

Examining case-histories as literary objects of care

Examining books as objects of narrative care

Interpreting literary representation of surgical procedures, surgical instruments, etc.

Examining the representation of the materiality of care in newspapers, radio and television programmes, etc. For instance, evolution of pediatric prosthetics after the Thalidomide tragedy, history of contraceptive pills, etc.

Analysis of the archives on the history of objects of care.

Artistic narrativization of objects of care. For instance, sculptures or paintings of objects of care.

Why do we talk about the materiality of care in the first place, to what extent are we relying on objects?

Are objects replacing human care?

Narratives of shame and stigma for using certain objects of care. For instance, sanitary napkins for menstrual hygiene, vibrators for sexual care, etc.

Ethical questions about using some objects of care. For instance, usage of Copper T, etc.

How do medical practitioners use literature in their practical work? Can Narrative Medicine help ameliorate the patient experience,and  improve the process of care in the clinical setting?

Examining narratives about the objects/ materials used by the medical practitioners for self-care.

Narratives of objects of care in the medical museums turning museums into spaces for care

Understanding tactile care in relation to objects in world literature, folk songs, art works, etc.

We are looking for abstracts of 250 words, 4-6 keywords and a short bio by 30th September. Once the authors receive the formal acceptance they will be invited to write the articles of 6000-7000 words excluding references and abstract by 1st February. Send abstracts to Swati Joshi and Jade E. French at objectsofcare@gmail.com

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Housing through the lens of care: an interview with Joan Tronto

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Housing through the lens of care: an interview with Joan Tronto

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1 Joan Tronto dans le champ de la philosophie, Odet Galor dans le champ de l'économie et Patrick Bouc (...)

1Cet entretien s'est déroulé le 28 octobre 2021, à Louvain-la-Neuve dans le cadre de la Semaine des doctorats honoris causa décernés par le secteur des sciences humaines de l'Université catholique de Louvain. Parmi les trois personnalités honorées de ce titre cette année 1, Joan Tronto (n. 1952) politologue féministe américaine, professeure émérite des universités de New York et du Minnesota, qui a politisé et théorisé l'éthique du care à la suite des travaux de la philosophe et psychologue Carol Gilligan ( In a Different Voice, Harvard University Press, 1982).

2 Joan C. Tronto, Berenice Fisher, " Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring ", in Emily K. Abel and Marga (...)

2La notion de care, difficilement traduisible, englobe une série de concepts tels que le soin mutuel, la bienveillance, la sollicitude, l'attention. Joan Tronto et Berenice Fisher la définissent comme toute " activité générique qui comprend tout ce que nous faisons pour maintenir, perpétuer et réparer notre " monde ", de sorte que nous puissions y vivre aussi bien que possible. Ce monde comprend nos corps, nous-mêmes et notre environnement 2 ", déclinés en quatre différents aspects :

1. Caring about, " se soucier de " : constater l'existence d'un besoin, reconnaître la nécessité d'y répondre et évaluer la possibilité d'y apporter une réponse.

2. Taking care of, " prendre en charge " : assumer une responsabilité par rapport à ce qui a été constaté, c'est-à-dire agir en vue de répondre au besoin identifié. La responsabilité est ici entendue comme une forme d'efficacité.

3. Care giving, " prendre soin " : opérer la rencontre directe d'autrui à travers son besoin, réaliser l'activité dans sa dimension de contact avec les personnes.

4. Care receiving, " recevoir le soin " : pour le " donneur " de soin, reconnaître la manière dont celui qui le reçoit réagit au soin.

3Dans les travaux de Joan Tronto, le care est à la fois une disposition (un état à donner de l'attention ou du soin) et une pratique.

3 Caroll Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development , Harvard Univer (...)

4Son approche se démarque de celle de ses prédécesseurs 3 par l'élargissement des limites de la sphère du care, de la morale vers la politique, de la raison au monde des sentiments, de la sphère domestique à la sphère publique. Le care devient alors un concept politique, dépassant les hiérarchies de mutualisations collectives et encourageant les coopérations démocratiques. Le care invite à accepter et construire un monde nouveau pensé à partir de nos vulnérabilités communes, de l'acceptation que nous avons tous et toutes besoin de soin et que nous sommes interdépendantes.

5Comment cette notion de care peut-elle questionner l'architecture, l'espace ? Ou à l'inverse, comment l'architecture peut-elle être regardée au prisme du care ? En tant que pratique, le care est forcément spatialisé. Quel rôle joue l'espace dans le déploiement du care ?

6Plusieurs liens sont possibles entre care et espace... Nous pouvons par exemple nous questionner sur l'espace comme objet d'attention, de soin, mais aussi sur l'espace comme support de soin. Dans le premier cas, nous pourrions dire que toute pratique d'entretien, de maintenance, de restauration, de réhabilitation du bâti relève du care. Ces pratiques supposent une connaissance fine et donc une attention portée au bâti et à l'espace mais aussi aux conditions de production de cet espace : conditions de travail des ouvriers, provenance des matériaux de construction, respect du site d'implantation. Dans le second cas, nous pouvons émettre l'hypothèse que certaines conditions et configurations spatiales facilitent ou entravent le développement de pratiques du care : le palier généreux et éclairé naturellement serait-il plus propice à la rencontre de voisines dans un immeuble de logements collectif par exemple.

4 Michel Lussault, " Porter attention aux espaces de vie anthropocènes. Vers une théorie du spatial c (...)

5 Joan C. Tronto, " Caring Architecture ", in Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasky (eds), Critical Care, arc (...)

6 Michel Lussault, " Porter attention aux espaces de vie anthropocènes... ", op. cit.

7Bien que la question du soin et de l'attention portés à toutes et tous en architecture et dans l'urbanisme ne soit pas nouvelle, la transposition de la notion théorique du care, notion apparue dans les années 1980, à l'espace est assez novatrice. Seuls quelques travaux la mentionnent, comme ceux de Michel Lussault 4 ou des publications récentes de Joan Tronto sur le sujet comme cette interview donnée sur une architecture de la sollicitude 5. Tenant compte de ces préalables, nous avons préféré concentrer l'échange sur l'habitat, compris ici dans une multiplicité d'échelles, depuis la planète anthropisée 6 jusqu'au logement en passant par les espaces publics, intermédiaires et collectifs. C'est la vision de Joan Tronto à propos des liens entre espace et care que nous vous proposons dans cette retranscription.

Audrey Courbebaisse (AC): Dear Joan Tronto, many thanks for accepting to sit for this interview about space and care. How should we look at spaces as objects of care? What should we look at? What should the researcher pay attention to and which methodologies should they employ?

7 Il s'agit du projet de recherche CTRL + H (Care-taker/support : Résilience Laboratory of Housing), (...)

Joan Tronto (JT): Thank you. Congratulations to you all for receiving a grant to do your research. 7 It's very wonderful. And this is really important work that I know nothing about. Nothing. This is the funny thing about care. It's everywhere, and so I often speak to scholars who have specialties far removed from my own. And so you'll forgive me if I say stupid things. Okay. Because I do that a lot.

So we start with this first question, how do you care for the space itself? And I will give you what I think is an honest but unsatisfactory answer, which is, that depends. You really need to know the context of how the space exists, to know the values of the people who are using the space, or the ways of life of the plants and animals, and rocks and rivers that are using the space. And you need to be responsive to what their needs are, and how they use the space. In New York City in the last two months, we've had very heavy rains. And twice, several of the subway stations became filled with water. And then a geographer wrote and said: do you know these are the subway stations which are located exactly where there were streams in the island of Manhattan before humans built it up? Why does this surprise us? But it does!

So if we had been attentive to the way the water naturally moved through the island, we wouldn't have built a subway there. So the first thing we need to do is be as attentive as possible to the environment. So humans then have very different desires and needs for the space they create, though and since you're an architect, you're talking more about, well, you're also talking about that kind of space. So humans can create space that is clean and attractive and welcoming. Or they can create space which is dangerous and dirty and unwelcoming. And it takes resources to create either of those kinds. Yes. And it also takes some intention to make the needs of the people or the needs of the users of the space fit the space. This works especially well for rich people, and not so well for people who are less well off.

AC: And, do you have some ideas of methodologies we can apply to observe this?

JT: It's easier to see the mistakes than the successes, isn't it? It's easy to see which subway station is in the flood. And it's easier to see which neighborhoods are poorly maintained. But, no, I think the method has to be observation, you have to just really be close observers of what's going on. And on as many levels as possible. What's interesting about space is that it's multi-dimensional, and it's been used constantly, in many dimensional ways. Does that make sense? And so you need to be thinking about different types of dimensions that you can be looking at all at once.

Chloé Salembier (CS): Do you mean different scales?

JT: Different scales, but also different users, different levels, as in: the natural world, the plant world, the animal world, the human world, all of those.

AC: My second question is connected to the relationship between space and care. What would be the characteristics of a space conducive to care practices? What role does space play in the deployment of care?

AC: We understand from your writings that care is both a disposition and a practice. So we understand that dispositions can be generalized while practices remain necessarily circumscribed to a precise and unique context. Thus, if an analysis demonstrates spatial and social conditions for the deployment of care, does this remain localized or can we envisage reproducing these conditions in other socio-spatial contexts?

JT: This is a hard question, and a good question. I wouldn't characterize disposition and practice as one is universal, and one is particular. They're both universal, and they're both particular. And as a result, it becomes a little easier to recognize that practices can be moved from place to place, or not. And they can also be scaled up or scaled down. So usually, when we're talking about care, we start to think from very private, personal, small scale, but in fact, care is operating all the time at all levels. So the university here has a way of caring, it may not be a very good way, or it may be a way that is, in some ways, contradictory to itself, as frankly, are all our care practices. And as a result, we could penalize the practice of how the university cares for its students. And we would see lots of complications with legal and economic and we've got to attract more students, all those kinds of issues, contradicting perhaps: we need to keep them safe, we need to keep standards. I mean, every care situation brings with it lots of complicated dilemmas. So you don't want people to just take a practice from one place and say, Look, that will work there too. It won't. But what you can do is learn a little bit about other people's practices, or about other forms of practice, and adapt them.

Caring dispositions, I think, grow out of practice: you can't really be caring if you've never done it. You can think you are, which is even more dangerous, perhaps. But then to be able to care, you have to know something about the actual care-giving process. And then, what happens over time is you become more alert. My favorite example of this: my mother was a nurse, and I remember once we were buying some gasoline at a stop on the road and we went into the little place to pay and we left, and my mother said, "Did you see that poor woman?" "No, what, I saw some people, what?" She said, "she is a battered woman, her husband beats her." I said, "How did you know... really?" She said, "Yes, didn't you see the bruise on her face and the way she was walking?" And no, I hadn't. But my mother, as a nurse, was tuned in to notice these things. And as a result, she picked up on a really serious thing that I was completely oblivious to. All of us are oblivious to some needs and see others. But all of us can be trained to be more observant. And it's in that training to become more observant that we deepen our appreciation of care.

And if, you know, some spaces are clean, and some spaces are dirty, I often think it's probably a result of things as simple as: which people just expect there to be dirt on the ground and papers thrown around, and therefore they don't even see them, and which people it would be unusual for them to see some paper on the ground, and so when they do see it, they pick it up. Now, maybe some people like having papers on the ground. But if you would want to change that disposition - you could do it - but you'd have to convince people to start picking up the papers and convince them that if they did, others would as well, and further convince them that if they and others did, they'd all feel a little better about it. So does that answer this question? So practices are always going to be complex and multi-dimensional.

AC: The observation of care practices is carried out in relatively small spheres, and situates inhabitants and communities at the heart of systems of care. How can we envisage the link to public policies? What interventions can authorities provide to facilitate and create preventive care? What should be the role of public authorities and cite some helpful practices in terms of governance?

JT: That's a lot, let's start at the beginning again

AC: How can we envisage the link with public authorities?

JT: Well, it's interesting because public authorities should think they do have a sense of what they should be doing with space, right? They think they know how to build a public housing project, build a subway station, build a bridge, they know how to do that, or so they think. But then it becomes, it's so interesting, that they then often build things that the community is furious about, you know, why did you put that ugly building in our neighborhood? Why did you put that bridge there? It's dangerous for our children to have it there. Right? And this happens all the time. So that's the kind of thing you're talking about, how do we fix these problems? And the answer is, you have to go back again to the beginning, which is, you have to be thinking about the entire context before you act. And public authorities, although they have some expertise, also need some patience, and need to deal with the people around the project in order for them to do it correctly.

Some thoughts where my head had gone were: some scholars in Germany have prepared a care manifesto. There are about four really wonderful care economies - care manifesto, care manifesto from the Global South, the Germans "care now project" - that list a whole series of steps we can take to make the world more caring. But the one that I want to talk about now is the one from this German research group, where they say we need to mainstream caring the way we mainstream gender. So any government policy now that doesn't explain how it addresses gender issues gets sent back, right? So too we could say, anytime you have a government policy that doesn't explain how you thought about the interaction with the caring issues in the community gets sent back. And after a few were sent back, I think they would then figure out a way to start asking people about care. Now, they'd probably do it badly, right? They'd probably give people a questionnaire and say, "Will this affect the way you walk your children to school?" "No?" "Okay, we're done." But then this, at least, opens the avenue for people to begin to interact and transform the way these decisions get made.

CS: And do you think that the starting point for designing spaces that mainstream care should be to begin with the needs of the most vulnerable?

JT: That would be ideal. It's not what's going to happen. The people who are most articulate will be the ones whose voices are heard. The question is then, how do you make the voices of those who are less articulate heard so that they're included in the first place? And what that often will entail is dislocating the voice of those who are already proficient at expressing themselves.

CS: To what extent can the ethics of care help us think about fairer and more resilient habitats?

8 Agie Galicy est doctorante en architecture dans le projet CTRL + H, rattachée à la cellule de reche (...)

JT: If you start from people's needs, you will end up with fairer and more resilient habitats. And so that, to me, seems to be the first starting point. What do people need? Okay, it's not that simple, because of another thing. There's a difference - I am so slow at thinking, it's taken me decades to realize this - but there's a difference between needs, wants, and desires. And it's appropriate to care in different ways depending on the situation. If your beloved partner only was concerned with your needs and not your desires, you would have a very unhappy life. If the state tries to tell you what your desires should be, it's a really bad state. And so there are different levels at which we would engage needs, wants and desires differently. Speaking environmentally, or speaking in terms of permanent structures, we'd want to be most responsive to needs. But we wouldn't want to leave out the possibility that the space could be altered, changed, transformed, adjusted, used in a way that met people's wants and their desires as well. And sometimes we might want to be most responsive to their desires in creating spaces. Agie, 8 I think this is what your work on queer spaces does, right, it looks first that, desire is part of the very design of the space. If it isn't, it ain't queer. To me, anyway. And so as a result, you would want in that situation to be more attentive to those sets of needs as well, those sorts of concerns as well.

CS: In my ethnological research, I conduct a lot of interviews with inhabitants, but because we are living in an individualistic society, when you ask people what they need, their responses are often guided by immediate things such as security and the requirements of a nuclear family. How do you reach the real needs? Because the dominant discourse is not very close to these human needs?

And so then the question becomes, how do you dislodge people from immediately jumping into "what's in my interest?" And to think really honestly about their needs? For environmental questions, I think this is a really serious question, we're going to have to face how we do this. And the task of asking people to draw what they thought the neighborhood should look like, or what they thought the neighborhood did look like, was a way to open up people. Nobody's thinking "What is my interest" in this drawing, it kind of takes us off guard. And so people were much more honest. And then when you looked at these very different pictures, the people from the white social workers drew very frightening pictures of the neighborhoods they thought they were going to be working in - which is kind of a really scary thought. Whereas the people who live there drew beautiful pictures of the neighborhoods. And so that gave them a basis to discuss. But it also let the white students see visibly their fear, their prejudice, which they would, if you would ask them, they would have denied they had, right. So asking people directly, interviewing people, you're going to get a cognitive answer. You want to try to also get non-cognitive, desirous, childish, stick figure drawing answers to the questions you want to ask. So I don't know if that technique in particular will help you. But once you start to think about, let's find modes of getting people to express themselves, other than words, it might be interesting to see what kinds of results you can get.

CS: What you are describing is really challenging to the profession of architects, because it implies more of a co-design position. So if you had a lesson to give to architects to be more receptive to co-designing spaces, what would those lessons be?

JT: So I watch a lot of home improvement programs on television. Come on, don't laugh at me. Nobody gets hurt. No one is murdered. So, it's amazing how quickly people have developed the vocabulary of contemporary high design and use it to the "Oh, look at this open concept kitchen." "That Island isn't big enough." Oh, come on people! Your grandma's kitchen didn't look like this. Why does yours have to? It really tells us that what happens often in architectures we think we're co-designing, but in fact, the ideas have already filtered down from the top. And so the question of asking people to start from their needs, how do they move through space? Is this enough space to move through? How many times a day in your current residence do you bump into another person? Is that too many? There would be a different way of starting from the ground up to ask people what kind of space they needed. Mostly architects are getting paid by people who have relatively good economic circumstances.

CS: The architects are also creating, designing social housing...

JT: Yes, they are. From their perspective, yeah, yeah.

And so what would be really useful is to do a deep dig into what people in social housing would like. My guess is, and again, here then we have to think about the human life cycle. And here are some things that are happening at [CALICO], the building we went to yesterday, are very useful. Families with small children often need other people to help them watch the children. They don't need a professional psychologist. They need somebody to watch this child for two hours while they go outside. And having a neighborhood or a building where that can be facilitated is really useful for small children. It's not so useful for the "I want to be an individualist and look at my beautiful shiny things in my little space" person. But that's okay. By the time people reach older age, they also become more frail and need architectural accommodations which are going to help them. The principle of universal design is really an important one, I think, for making it possible for different age groups to live together. And if you leave that out, if you don't make it comfortable and appealing, [providing] proper amount of light, not too many steps, etc., etc., then you can produce these mixes. One of the challenges to me comes from something a scholar of anthropology told me some years ago. We were at a conference, she had done a dissertation where she'd gone to a hairdressing salon where older ladies mostly got their hair done. And most of the older ladies had wigs. And it was fascinating. When the wig was off the woman's head the hairdressers didn't speak to the woman, it was as if she wasn't there, because she would not want to be seen in public without her wig. And so they didn't see her. So the hairdressers made such wonderful accommodations to people's sense of dignity. But one hairdresser also made a passing observation that just stuck with me. She said, "In our society, we hardly know any older people very well, except for the ones who are in our families." And what a loss for children not to know wise older people, and what a loss for wise older people not to have children to speak with. So somehow finding ways to integrate people across and outside of family unit is another way, I think, to make social housing more appropriate. It's expensive, because it takes space.

CS: And most of the time the spaces are designed, but we don't have money to manage them, to have those caretakers.

JT: To have it cleaned up. And once the space becomes dirty, no one will want to use it. So.

JT: Well, we already know what a society driven by risk looks like, yes, gleaming clean towers for rich people, and mess for everybody else. I live in New York. And increasingly, they are putting up these huge, expensive condominium buildings just in the middle of a block, no attention to the neighborhood at all. Why do they think they don't have to pay any attention to the neighborhood at all? And the answer is simple: they've built a garage under the building. The people who get in their cars and leave, there are now so many delivery services, they will never put their feet on the street. Except when they want to walk out to get in a cab to go to the opera. So that's what a city of risk looks like. The risk is so unevenly distributed. Some people have protected themselves entirely from everything and others are at great risk. Literally living on the street, in front of that building. So that's what a risk society can look like.

What would a care society look like? Here, it's awfully close to the city that we now have too. And that is if everyone has some adequate levels of care, people are - I'm a deeply pluralistic person - and, one of the things about the city - this is in Iris Young's book, called Justice and the Politics of Difference published in 1990. The last chapter is called "The City". And in it, she writes that one of the things that she liked so much about the city is that it's anonymous, you don't know your neighbors, you're going to run into something you've never seen before, every day. It's risky. She calls the city erotic because of all of the things you don't know. I taught this to students and they said, "Erotic?" Really seriously, they were more conservative young men. "I don't understand how the word erotic fits here" It was very unhappy. But it is right, that's part of the joy of being in a city. On the other hand, if we're going to talk about utopian housing, we have to go back for a moment to Thomas Moore, the first utopian of modern times. And in , I don't know if you remember this, all of the housing is distributed by lottery and redistributed by lottery every ten years. So each family has a house. But after ten years, they have to move. And I would sometimes say to my students, so imagine that every ten years you could end up in the best house or the worst house? What would the housing look like? And certainly, nobody would build the cities we have now, if you threw a lottery, we're going to end up in the worst house. Everybody would make sure the housing was adequate. Now what the utopians also did, and this was the only place where more allowed competition in the entire society, was in the gardens. And he said, "Each house had a garden," and the people would all contribute to their garden and compete to make their garden the most beautiful.

CS: In terms of services, what do we imagine as common services in caring city?

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JT: So in a caring city, that would be the basic services that people need: really good public transit, adequate safety, universal design. You'd have police who were actually there to help people rather than chase them down, you would have health facilities nearby. Italians in the 1980s, feminist Italians, began talking about the time of the city, and mentioned the fact that all of the city's offices were closed during the times when women had free moments to go out. How does that work? (So, you would organize) In Bogota, Colombia, the mayor Claudia Lopez 9 is just a real visionary about care in the city. What she's done is to create care districts and make sure that city services are available to everybody within a 15 minutes' walk of their home 10 so that whatever you need from the city is there. One of my neighbors was telling me about her family: in New York City, if you are older, you can get a pass on the transit that makes the price half. But you have to go to this office in Southern Manhattan and wait, maybe four hours, to get a picture taken and a form stamped so you can have this pass. Now, you know, when Anna and I moved back to New York, we said "tomorrow we're going to get this." But for some people, they literally never in their lives bothered to make this trip because it's just too much trouble. And actually, in some places, it's two hours one way on public transit to get there. That's stupid, right? That's the kind of thing that you could fix very easily and it would make the lives of people materially better. So the idea of putting the services near people, simple as that sounds, is already something that needs to be accomplished. Now, to talk about time for a moment, in addition to space. Another thing that would really be helpful in redesigning or rethinking services is to think about the ways in which, if time is out of sync in people's lives, it creates enormous problems for them. So here's one of the things I'm thinking about: the school. Well, we were just experiencing this yesterday. The school day ends midday here on Wednesdays. Now. Okay, if you're a full-time working parent, what do you do with your kids? On Wednesday afternoon?

JT: House, I mean, really, why are work and school, so out of sync with each other? It's such a simple thought. But it's so difficult to change. But those are the kinds of things that if we were really committed to starting over again, with "where would care be," we would start there, such a simple thought. But it's so difficult to change. But those are the kinds of things that if we were really committed to starting over again, with "where would care be," we would start there.

CS: And, you know there is also this movement towards the digitization of services. Do you think that some services should be digitalized or do services need to really stay human to be caring?

JT: I don't think digitization necessarily pushes further from humans. Some things, it's nice to do without humans. Not many, but some. On the other hand, the problem with digitization is that you need to make sure everyone has access to the digital systems. Another thing that's happening in Bogota: they asked the women "What would you like? We want to help support you as caregivers, what do you need?" And the poor women, in these, you know, really far out boroughs of the city said "We need to learn to use computers". And so they set up these centers for women, among other things to learn to use computers, because not everyone knows how. So, the digital divide is still a problem.

CS: The last question is more about your personal and professional history. We would like to know how you started working on the issue of care. Might the fact that your mother is a nurse be part of the answer? What was the initiating event that encouraged you to work on this issue?

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JT: So, I finished my dissertation in 1981 on Is political rationality possible? A critique of political control in Hobbes, Smith and Weber , and then I was at Hunter college, 11 and we had a seminar of feminist scholars to think about how to integrate new scholarships on women into the curriculum.

And one of the new pieces of scholarship we read was Carol Gilligan's book that had just been published. And reading it, I thought, "two ethics, look, this is not new, this is the replay of late 18th century Scottish Enlightenment Moral sentiment versus quantum universalism." There is something going on here that is much bigger. So that was the impetus to think about it.

But at the same time, as a feminist I was really worried. I described it to my students then as the feminist nightmare, that what would result of all the activity of feminist women in the 1970s and 1980s was that upper middle-class women would break cast barriers which kept them in low jobs. For the most part women became teachers, librarians, nurses, they did not become physicists and so on. My seventh-grade algebra teacher was actually a woman who, during WW2 - I'm old - worked on the Manhattan project which developed the atomic bomb. She was a physicist in a lab and working on developing the atomic bomb. And then she ended up teaching me algebra. "What a waste of her talent," we could say on one level. And on another level, we could say, "How lucky was I to have this really smart woman teaching me algebra!" But now she wouldn't be teaching me algebra, right, she would be doing something else.

As a result, it became clear to me that what was going to happen was, women like me - I didn't become a teacher, I became a college professor - were going to rise up in the professional ranks, leaving behind all the care work, because nobody was talking about how to change how we do care work. And what we would have instead is people of color, women who are poor, coming to do the work, the care work, that had previously been done by the professional women in their own homes. And frankly, that's what's happened, and the class divide has grown larger, and it's not a good thing. So, those were the things that led me to think about care.

CS and AC: Thank you very much.

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L'espace au prisme de l'éthique du care Cet entretien s'est déroulé le 28 octobre 2021, à Louvain-la-Neuve dans le cadre de la Semaine des doctorats honoris causa décernés par le secteur des sciences humaines de l'Université catholique de Louvain. Parmi les trois personnalités honorées de ce titre cette année, Joan Tronto (n.

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Call for papers for a special issue on Narratives of Care

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Call for papers for a special issue on Narratives of Care

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Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th Century & 20th Century

Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th Century & 20th Century

This special issue for the Journal of Medical Humanities explores how the art of storytelling and narratives can inform our understanding of the role materials play in care and how the art of care has evolved from the nineteenth to twentieth century, specifically, in terms of its caregiving objects. In Essential Care: An Ethics of Human Nature, Leonard Boff describes the myth of Goddess Cura who takes up clay while crossing the river and gives it a proper shape. Jupiter sees her engrossed in the task of shaping a figure and grants Cura’s wish to breathe life into her creation. Once the creature comes to life, Cura, Jupiter, and the Earth start fighting over its ownership. The fight is only resolved when Saturn states that Cura shall be with the creature as long as they live, and Jupiter shall receive the spirit after the creature’s death. The creature is named Homo Sapien after the Earth – who offered the creative material to Cura. In this myth, materiality plays a role in demonstrating how care shapes the entire human lifespan. Taking storytelling and narratives as a starting point, our special issue will probe the role and representations of materials and objects in clinical care communication and caring relationships.

This issue will include articles that engage with the interdisciplinary analysis of the narratives about the objects of care from the nineteenth and twentieth century. As DeFalco (2016) writes, ‘[n]arrative representation shows its readers care in action’ (8). In some narratives, these actions are mediated and illuminated by materials and objects, in others a narrative might be told through unconventional materials and objects. Narratives might even be created in what is not said, as Samuel Beckett (1951) writes in Molloy: ‘to restore silence is the role of objects’ (13-14). For Gordon (1997), fictions can ‘play an important role in [making our social world] for the simple reason that they enable other kinds of sociological information to emerge’ (25). By fictions, Gordon does not only mean literature but an ‘ensemble of cultural imaginings, affective experiences, animated objects, marginal voices, narrative densities and eccentric traces of power’s presence’ (25). As such, we intend to invite abstracts for papers that focus on the interdisciplinary understanding of the materiality and objects of care. We are interested in bringing together disciplines that broadly centre narrative in multiple ways, be that through texts and archives, aesthetics and artistic production, medical and clinical practice, and social sciences. Interdisciplinary approaches might see writers and artists employ a performance studies lens to shape anthropological arguments about clinical care objects; visual artists using a medical lens to explore the role of arts in health; or literary studies using a lens of medical sociology to examine objects of care. We wonder: can objects themselves provide care? How do medical practitioners practically use novels, narratives, and storytelling in their work? And can creative methods help ameliorate the patient experience, and improve the process of care in the clinical setting?

Objects and materials inform many parts of clinical care: the interaction of the patients with clinical spaces begins at the waiting rooms wherein they fill up their forms, spend hours meditating on their anxiety and fears about the clinical condition, staring at the paintings on the walls, or the plants in the corner of the room, absorbing the smell of the environment thinking whether they need to get used to it. The ‘Materialities of Care’ network has explored how fields including museum studies, architecture, activism and design centre objects and artefacts to represent, understand, and mediate everyday experiences of health and social care. As Buse, Martin and Nettleton (2018) suggest ‘materialities are not merely a backdrop for care interactions, but play an active role in constituting relations of care.’ Turning to literary and cultural narratives, we further explore the representations and uses of such objects and artefacts in the imaginative realm, to understand how the sensory experience of a materiality of care can impact the caregiver and the care-recipient in the clinical and non-clinical care environment. In this issue, we intend to ask the following questions: (1) Can objects be efficient caregivers? (2) How does technology enrich our understanding of relational care with reference to the caregiving objects? (3) How might objects of care (technological or non-technological) change our perception of care and care relationships? (4) What are the limitations and strengths of exploring the materiality of care and its narrative representations?

Topics included here are not limited to:

Novels and literary narratives that centre and represent objects of care

Examining case-histories as literary objects of care

Examining books as objects of narrative care

Interpreting literary representation of surgical procedures, surgical instruments, etc.

Examining the representation of the materiality of care in newspapers, radio and television programmes, etc. For instance, evolution of pediatric prosthetics after the Thalidomide tragedy, history of contraceptive pills, etc.

Analysis of the archives on the history of objects of care.

Artistic narrativization of objects of care. For instance, sculptures or paintings of objects of care.

Why do we talk about the materiality of care in the first place, to what extent are we relying on objects?

Are objects replacing human care?

Narratives of shame and stigma for using certain objects of care. For instance, sanitary napkins for menstrual hygiene, vibrators for sexual care, etc.

Ethical questions about using some objects of care. For instance, usage of Copper T, etc.

How do medical practitioners use literature in their practical work? Can Narrative Medicine help ameliorate the patient experience,and  improve the process of care in the clinical setting?

Examining narratives about the objects/ materials used by the medical practitioners for self-care.

Narratives of objects of care in the medical museums turning museums into spaces for care

Understanding tactile care in relation to objects in world literature, folk songs, art works, etc.

We are looking for abstracts of 250 words, 4-6 keywords and a short bio by 30th September. Once the authors receive the formal acceptance they will be invited to write the articles of 6000-7000 words excluding references and abstract by 1st February. Send abstracts to Swati Joshi and Jade E. French at objectsofcare@gmail.com

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Call for Abstracts: FRETS, AND FUTURES: UNCERTAINTY AND NEW ECOLOGIES FOR POST-COVID HEALTHCARE Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) Annual international conference 2022 in collaboration with the IAS, UCL 13th – 16th September 2022

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Call for Abstracts: FRETS, AND FUTURES: UNCERTAINTY AND NEW ECOLOGIES FOR POST-COVID HEALTHCARE Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) Annual international conference 2022 in collaboration with the IAS, UCL 13th – 16th September 2022

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Welcome to The Shape of Care, a dynamic podcast that explores the world of caregiving!

The Shape of Care illuminates the costs, financial and otherwise, of hiring (caregivers), the toll on the caregivers, and the need for a rethinking of a widening hole in the infrastructure of American health care. – Phoebe Lett, The New York Times

Season 2 begins with intimate stories of care workers and the people they care for. But their issues are larger than just one story. We connect these personal and compelling stories to the broader policy landscape – through interviews with nursing home leaders, policymakers, union activists, and more. And we ask:  What kinds of long term care policies do we need so that anyone can receive quality, affordable care?

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Season 2, Episode 3: Nursing assistants: the heart and soul of nursing care

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The Shape of Care: A Podcast about Caregiving

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A podcast that explores the world of caregiving featuring innovators, care workers and activists in implementing a progressive national care agenda.

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Apply now for the Vera Institute of Justice, for students of color

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Apply now for the Vera Institute of Justice, for students of color

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The Vera Institute of Justice is excited to announce that applications for the next cohort of the Graduate Students of Color for Justice Collective (GSOC) are now open!

Rooted in the commitment to center diverse voices and invest in emerging leaders in the movement to end mass criminalization and transform the justice system, the Vera launched GSOC in 2019. This fall, we will bring together approximately 20 graduate and professional students of color studying in New York City and the surrounding areas to join the next cohort of the GSOC Collective – the core of GSOC’s network. Learn more about the program in the attached one-pager.

We'd love it if you could share this information with your potential network of graduate students of color studying in the New York City area, inviting them to apply today! Applications will close on Monday, August 31.

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This Friday: our next Art & Care Session on Ecological Intimacy with Keren Moscovitz

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This Friday: our next Art & Care Session on Ecological Intimacy with Keren Moscovitz

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The crises of our time demand an ecological intimacy. In her studio practice and scholarly research, Keren Moscovitch investigates the role of intimacy in social and political upheaval and suggests that radical intimacy can help reframe our relationship to ecology, the body, and Nature. In this Art & Care session, Moscovitch explores object-oriented philosophical frameworks through the lens of contemporary ecological art practice. According to Timothy Morton, “[e]cology includes all the ways we imagine how we live together. Ecology is profoundly about coexistence.” By questioning subjectivity through the tenets of object-orientation, and inviting us into close, radically intimate contact with the object world, the ecological thought—“a thinking that is ecological, a contemplating that is a doing”—requires a praxis of subversion, perhaps even of perversion, of ideological thinking. Moscovitch will present a selection of contemporary artworks, ranging from land art to ecosexuality to body art to artificial intelligence, through which feminists subvert ideological notions of Nature while maintaining an ethos of radical care towards the ecological. These anarchic gestures subvert the archicideologies of subjectivity and Nature in favor of radical ecological intimacy.

(quotes are from Timothy Morton's The Ecological Thought)

Keren Moscovitch is a New York City-based multimedia artist and scholar exploring radical intimacy through collaborations, scholarship and practice-based research. She holds a PhD from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts; an MFA in from the School of Visual Arts in New York City; and a BA from Georgetown University. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City. Her film One More Way to Sink Into My Heart premiered in 2019, and won Best Documentary Feature at the Sydney World Film Festival. Notable exhibitions and performances have taken place at Experimental Forum in Los Angeles, Blow Up Film Festival in Chicago, LABA House of Study / 14th Street Y Theatre, Satellite Art Fair in Miami, Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Grace Exhibition Space, The New School for Social Research, X Anarchist Art Fair, Leiden International Festival of Photography, United Photo Industries, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, I-20 Gallery, Foley and Sasha Wolf Galleries, SLAG Gallery, Studio 150, Vlepo Gallery, (the) Slap and Tickle (me) Gallery and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. She has been featured in publications such as Der Spiegel, The Huffington Post, Playboy, Policy Mic, New York Magazine, Descry, Time Out New York, The Kansas City Star, Quest, Visual Arts Journal, Peek, Domino, Zeek and Industry. As a writer, she has been a contributor to ARTPULSE magazine.

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To register, please go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/359533409130026
or send your name and email to medicalhumanitiesevent@gmail.com

The event is part of a series including examples of best practices impacting society, through the lens of creative research and care ethics.
The series is led by Dr. Elena Cologni, Artist and Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, and Dr. Merel Visse, Director Medical and Health Humanities at Drew University (US) and Associate Professor at the University for Humanistic Studies in The Netherlands.

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New episode on Care Ethics with Inge van Nistelrooij and Merel Visse -- HighTheory, a podcast by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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New episode on Care Ethics with Inge van Nistelrooij and Merel Visse -- HighTheory, a podcast by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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Merel Visse and Inge van Nistelrooij talk with Kim Adams about Care Ethics. Dr. Adams just taught a summer course on Health and Social Equity for our Medical and Health Humanities students, and it was great to meet her in this other (podcast-)space! Over the course of the episode, we discuss works by many care ethicists and other philosophically inclined thinkers.

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Join Jesse Miller's upcoming Healing/Arts Events

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Recently, Dr. Jesse Miller was a guest lecturer during our Medical and Health Humanities Seminar. He introduced us to reading as a healing practice. He is also the founder and organizer of Healing/Arts: a free, virtual event series that brings together creative practitioners from literary studies, medical humanities, disability justice, and performance for virtual talks and workshops on the relationship between the arts and health activism.

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Dr. Elena Cologni (Cambridge School of Art Anglia Ruskin University, UK) and Dr. Merel Visse (Director Medical and Health Humanities , Drew University, US) facilitate a conversation on shared concerns in creative research and care ethics and practices:

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Fast-Forward Movie - Premieres March 24 10/9c on PBS

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THE STORY

Fast-Forward:
An Award-Winning Documentary That Helps You Change Your Life

FAST-FORWARD follows four millennials and their parents as they travel through time to meet their future selves. Wearing an MIT-produced "aging empathy suit" and working with professional make-up artists, they grapple with the realizations, conversations and mindset required to age successfully. Ultimately, the families learn they have more control over how they age than they thought.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
"If I knew now what I'll know then, would I change anything?" The most common answer to this, an opening line in Fast-Forward, is a resounding "Yes!" For most, however, getting older is a reality out of their control. This film endeavors to show people that taking a pragmatic look into your family's future is possible and can help you age more successfully.
"As we developed the film, in speaking to experts about the primary drivers of successful aging, we learned that intergenerational family dynamics play a key role. While we knew bringing millennials and boomers together to have "the conversation" would be an underlying dynamic of our film, we still needed something to jolt our cast into an exploration of their greatest aging fears and expectations. Using M.I.T.'s immersive A.G.N.E.S. aging suit as a starting point, we brought their futures to life.

We designed 360 degree experiences for our cast; effectively creating an aging boot-camp that galvanized and led them to work through tough issues together.

Every family's aging story is different. In Fast-Forward, we hope to inspire viewers to embark on their own time travel experiment to explore how they - and their families - are set up to age together."

FLX ENTERTAINMENT

In a media environment flooded by reality TV, our documentaries and series seek to explore the depths of the human psyche with style, using ethical production methodologies. FLX Entertainment is a platform agnostic media and entertainment corporation that invites audiences to discover the answer to the question: What are you made of?

For more information, visit www.flxentertainment.com.

Major funding for this program provided by:

The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three areas of emphasis: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care.

For more information, visit www.johnahartford.org.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation fosters path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.

Visit Moore.org and follow @MooreFound.

CO-PRODUCTION PARTNER

Twin Cities PBS (TPT), the PBS affiliate for Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, is a prominent content producer for the national public television system. TPT's most recent documentaries for PBS include Going to War, The Dictator's Playbook, and When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time. Other films include the Emmy Award-winning The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's, Peabody Award recipient Depression: Out of the Shadows, and 2012 Sundance Film Festival selection Slavery by Another Name. TPT also co-produced the classic feature documentary Hoop Dreams, a Peabody and Sundance Film Festival winner.

The amazing team at TPT is the presenting station for the Fast-Forward movie.

For more information, visit www.tpt.org.

PARTNER

Next Avenue is public media's first and only national journalism service dedicated to America's booming 50+ population. Its mission is to meet the needs and unleash the potential of older adults through the power of media. More than 70 million people have visited www.nextavenue.org since it launched in 2012 and millions more have connected with its content through a national network of media partners and nonprofit allies. Twin Cities PBS produces Next Avenue for the PBS system.

For more information, visit www.nextavenue.org.

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THE STORY Cast members wearing A.G.N.E.S. suits Fast-Forward: An Award-Winning Documentary That Helps You Change Your Life FAST-FORWARD follows four millennials and their parents as they travel through time to meet their future selves. Wearing an MIT-produced "aging empathy suit" and working with professional make-up artists, they grapple with the realizations, conversations and mindset required [...]

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Rosemarie Gelber - HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT - Gems Gathered From The Everyday

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Rosemarie Gelber - HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT - Gems Gathered From The Everyday

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Congratulations, Rosemary, on your upcoming Hidden in Plain Sight exhibition at www.monmouthmuseum.org.

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School of Visual Arts | SVA | New York City

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School of Visual Arts | SVA | New York City | Events & Exhibitions | In Their Own Words: The Legacy of Black and African American Artists

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This intergenerational panel of multidisciplinary Black/African American artists will develop a dialogue focused on their lived experiences.