Events

Past Event

Pierce Salguero - Chanting as Literature: Contemporary Buddhist Medicine

September 25, 2017
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York

SpeakerPierce Salguero, Associate Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Penn State University, Abingdon College

RespondentMichael Como, Tōshū Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies, Columbia University

This event is part of the series, Explorations in the Medical Humanities. More details coming soon. Please visit the Heyman Center website for updates.

About the Series:

As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine goes some way to address these challenges. Yet conceptualizing a field of medical humanities also offers a broader umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society.  Whether by incorporating material culture such as medical artefacts, performing symptomatic readings of poems and novels, or excavating the implicit medical assumptions underlying auditory cultures, the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework are different from those coming from the physician’s black bag.

Sponsored by The Society of Fellows in the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Center for Science and Society.