Calendar of Events
2020 Conference on Medicine and Religion
Natalia Aleksiun, PhD
Professor of Modern Jewish History
Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Touro College
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and Jewish Studies Program.
Jennifer Prah Ruger, PhD
Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy
Faculty Chair at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy
University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the CMU Center for Ethics and Policy
Haider Warrich, MD
Associate Director of Heart Failure at the Boston VA,
Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Ninth Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference
Adagio Health Second Annual Symposium
Victoria Pitts-Taylor, PhD
Professor and Chair of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Wesleyan University
Co-sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and the Humanities Center
Taunya Marie Tinsley, DMin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Education & Counseling
Villanova University
Co-sponsored by Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute, and University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
Sarah Manguso, MFA
Author of The Two Kinds of Decay and Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, and five other books
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Schools of Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, and Public Health
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
21st Annual Conference
Pre-conference Workshop of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law
Cati Coe, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
Rutgers University