Stanford Medicine and the Muse

Stanford Medicine, including Medicine and the Muse, and the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life partnered to create the COVID-19 Remembrance Project, which honors the numerous lives lost during the past year to the coronavirus. https://www.stanforddaily.com//remembering-the-victims-of/

Deadline: June 4, 2021 The Art of Science Competition celebrates the aesthetics of research and explores the interconnected nature of science and art. A virtual exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place at the early Summer Quarter. All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. https://form.jotform.com/210787342468160

Join the Medical Humanities, a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop, for Conversation and Q&A with Rebecca Lester. Wednesday, May 5 at 5:30 PM Register here: https://stanford.zoom.us//tJwrc-CpqT0sHtFkiqlPPLf1g9dJ-Kqi

Come support your classmates and colleagues at this year’s Medicine and the Muse Symposium today! The live portion of the symposium will be taking place via Zoom on Saturday, April 24th from 11am-12:30. Please register here: https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_W4-9dFI0RsK__JaWIWvFrA Our asynchronous online gallery of creative and scholarly work in medical humanities is now open. Come take a scroll! https://med.stanford.edu//Medi/virtual-symposium-2021.html

The Center for the Study of the Novel invites you to their final event of the Winter quarter. Jeanne-Marie Jackson(JHU, English), Talia Schaffer (CUNY, English), and Abraham Verghese (Stanford, Medicine) will join us for a panel on *fictions of care*. From the role of medical writings in literary innovation and the formation of objectivity in early twentieth century West Africa to collective practices of authorship in Victorian fiction and novelistic representations of medica...l treatment, our three speakers will offer a panorama of care in literary studies, creative writing, and medicine. Professors Jackson, Schaffer, and Verghese jointly ask: what kind of relationships does care require, and how does caregiving coexist with a discourse of professional authority?Further, by considering the endeavors of doctors and authors, our speakers explore cases in which care offers a creative alternative to usual ways of understanding success. The panel will take place online on Tuesday, February 23, from 12 to 2 pm PST. You can register here: https://stanford.zoom.us//tJwtdOyrqTMrGNeqNRuejQbWbzmWNzpx

Please join us for our upcoming free UNAFF in Libraries and Camera as Witness Special Screenings below! ********************************************************...***** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2021 at 7:00PM - Silicon Valley Reads Valentine's Zoom panel discussion with the filmmaker Ann S. Kim, Stanford Professor Dr. Lawrence M. McGlynn MD, and Stanford Assistant Professor Dr. Aarthi Chary MD Email [email protected] with the subject "LOVESICK" to R.S.V.P and obtain the free film link and password to see the documentary prior to the discussion (FREE and open to the public) LOVESICK (India, 74 min) Directors/Producers: Priya Desai, Ann S. Kim ************************************************************* and ************************************************************* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2021 at 7:00PM - Camera as Witness Zoom panel discussion with filmmakers Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir, and Nancy Spielberg Email [email protected] with the subject "PICTURE OF HIS LIFE" to R.S.V.P. and obtain the free film link and password to see the documentary prior to the discussion (FREE and open to the public) PICTURE OF HIS LIFE (Canada/Israel/Mexico/US, 75 min) Directors/Producers: Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin Executive Producer: Nancy Spielberg ************************************************************* and ************************************************************* If you love what we do please send us your SUPPORT at http://www.unaff.org/2021/support.html *************************************************************

Join a virtual workshop featuring award-winning short films, mindfulness activities, & panel discussion with students & mental health resources. Thursday, Feb 4 6-7:30PM PST About this Event: Movies for Mental Health (Online) is a 2-hour virtual workshop that uses the power of film to unite folks in community, connection, and conversation. This interactive, online experience will feature an anonymous, chat-based discussion on mental health, the stigma that frequently surrounds mental illness, and media portrayals of mental health issues. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-university-presents-m

Gentle reminder! Dec 1 is the final day to submit your work for the Kalanithi Writing Award. Please share your voice. Submission details here: https://thepegasusreview.submittable.com//2020-kalanithi-w Paul Kalanithi was a physician writer and neurosurgery resident at Stanford University. In the final years of his training, he was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. His memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, beautifully chronicles his reflections on living with illness and legacy. The Paul Kalanithi Award was created in his memory.

Special Thanskgiving message via highlight video from our Nov. 19th Stuck@Home Concert. Wishing everyone a peaceful and safe Thanksgiving! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6FinKyAEM&feature=youtu.be

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just ...lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. Lightly, lightly It’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered. ~ Aldous Huxley

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in New York. This doctor fought and survived Ebola, and now he's on the frontline of the pandemic in NYC. This is a day working in the ER, as told by Dr. Craig Spencer.

The next event in the Medical Humanities workshop series happening TODAY at 5:30 PM. Please join us in conversation with Matthew Kohrman (Anthropology), Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology), and Laura Wittman (French and Italian) as they discuss career and carving a life path. "What Matters to Me" is an opportunity for us to get together and explore those questions we have all had about life in and out of academia. You do not want to miss this talk! This discussion is intended for a graduate audience, but is open to all. Please email Elix directly at elcolon[@]stanford.edu to RSVP and receive a Zoom link to the event.

US healthcare providers can watch UNREST, an award-winning documentary about myalgic encephalomyelitis, and receive continuing education credits through the American Medical Women’s Association and Indiana University School of Medicine. If you watched our short screening last night, and want to learn more, get CE credit, by following the steps at this link. https://www.unrest.film/cme

Shoutout to Ken Browne's film "Why Doctors Write" hosted earlier this year at Med Muse Symposium. The film will be shown again at the UNAFF 11-day festival, which kicks off on October 15th, featuring 60 documentaries dealing with climate change, the refugee crisis, women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ issues, racism, and more. This year’s theme is THE POWER OF EMPATHY: Documentaries that will change your view of the world. Celebrate the importance of human rights with the 23rd @UNAFF, now online! Learn more at http://www.unaff.org/2020/films.html

Medicine & the Muse is pleased to (virtually) present, The Manic Monologues. "The mental illness version of The Vagina Monologues." Register today to reserve a ticket! The show is free and open to the public.

Oct 9. Staff physician and Stanford professor Diana Farid discusses her poetic and visually captivating work, When You Breathe. What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath--the very air, stardust, the grand molecules of the universe--blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world. (Ages 3+) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-with-professor-dia

Check out the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence // Coded Bias Film & Discussion 9/30, 4pm PST. CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stanfordhai/register

It's autumn & CFP season. Here's a round-up of contests and conferences to CHECK OUT if you're a med writer! Now Accepting Submissions for William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition: neomed.edu/medicine/fcm/about/poetry-competition/ The Health Humanities Consortium virtual conference in March 2021 has put out a call for papers: https://healthhumanitiesconsortium.com/... The Rutgers Journal of Bioethics welcomes submissions from studentsundergraduate, graduate, and professionalas well as teaching instructors, full-time researchers, and professors. https://sites.rutgers.edu/bioethics-society/journal/ Lastly, our very own Kalanithi Writing Award, inspired by the life of Dr. Paul Kalanithi: https://thepegasusreview.submittable.com//2020-kalanithi-w