Narrative Acts / Community Action
A special narrative medicine event to find inspiration in the humanities and creative arts as a means to help navigate uncertain times.
Join us for a new narrative medicine virtual series to engage with our alumni, faculty and the global community as we explore through their work ways the humanities and creative arts are an actionable path toward community-centered change and responding to difficult times.
For this inaugural Narrative Acts/Community Action event, we will be joined by two distinguished narrative medicine faculty who will share their work and experience with the community. Together we seek to find inspiration in the humanities and creative arts as individual and collective means to help navigate uncertain times through self-reflection and processing, advocacy and visibility, and connection with others.
Dr. Sayantani DasGupta is a founder and faculty member in the MS in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, and also teaches in two undergraduate centers at Columbia: the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
Jenessa Abrams is a writer of literary criticism, culinary arts, fiction, literary translation, and a practitioner of narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, and anthologies including Off Assignment’s Letter to a Stranger (Algonquin, 2022).
Narrative Acts/Community Action will be a recurring event hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Narrative Acts/Community Actions is supported by live captioning. If you have any other accessibility needs or concerns, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu at least 10 days in advance of the event. We do our best to arrange accommodations received after this deadline but cannot guarantee them.
Joseph Eveld, Division of Narrative Medicine Program Manager
jhe2109@cumc.columbia.edu
