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Vivre Avec: An International Workshop in Medical Humanities
Virtual workshop
Friday, June 21, 2024 at 11 PM - Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 12 AM
Off Campus
Organized by Rebecca Grenouilleau-Loescher, Lecturer and Coordinator of French, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, UMBC (with Guido Furci, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Vivre Avec: An International Workshop in the Medical Humanities
This daylong workshop in the medical humanities explores contemporary health narratives in French and the role literature can play in the medical humanities today. Presentations include discussions of living with the physical and psychological impacts of degenerative nerve disease and terminal illness, the representation of ob/gyn violence in contemporary women’s writing and in social media, and the use of women's health narratives as a form of radical recovery. The workshop concludes with an interview with professor, researcher, and novelist Lise Marzouk, author of Si (Gallimard, 2018; English translation: If (Other Press, 2019).
The event will take place in a mix of English and French. All times listed are Central European Time.
Join the workshop online - https://meet.google.com/rfz-musg-wsn
- 9:30am CEST/3:30am EST - Opening words
Guido Furci & Rebecca Grenouilleau-Loescher
- 10:00am CEST/4:00am EST - Les écritures contemporaines de la dégradation: vivre acec, vivre sans ou vivre malgré?
Othilie Kowalski, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- 10:30am CEST/4:30am EST - Living with Miss P.: François Nourissier and Parkinson's Disease
Caroline Verdier, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- 11:00am CEST/5:00am EST- Discussion
- 12:00pm CEST/6:00am EST - Lunch
- 1:45pm CEST/7:45am EST - Vivre avec pour vivre autrement: The Radical Feminism of Recovery in Juliette Rousseau's La Vie têtue
Rebecca Grenouilleau-Loescher, UMBC
- 2:15pm CEST/8:15am EST- Listening to Trauma: Narrative Medicine and Ob/Gyn Violence
Loïc Bourdeau, Maynooth University, Ireland
- 2:45pm CEST/8:45am EST - Discussion
- 3:30pm CEST/9:30am EST - Break
- 4:00pm CEST/10:00am EST - Interview with Lise Marzouk, author of Si (Gallimard, 2018; English translation: If (Other Press, 2019)
- 5:00pm CEST/11:00am EST - Discussion
- 5:30pm CEST/11:30am EST - Closing Remarks
Sponsored by the CERC (Centre d'Études et de Recherches Comparatistes); Université Sorbonne Nouvelle; and the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.