Archive: Media and Scholarship

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Global Podcast: The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

In the Global Podcast, the Global Communications Group explores the relationship between the arts and international relations through the work of The Laboratory for Global…

September 4, 2018

Scholarship

Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge

This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, and with contributors from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents, participates in the ongoing…

August 28, 2018

Scholarship

“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”

Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball's A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social…

March 31, 2018

Media

“The Power of your Suffering Is in How You Tell your Story”, Aminatta Forna in PBS NewsHour’s My Humble Opinion

Aminatta Forna spoke about trauma in the "In My Humble Opinion" segment of PBS NewsHour. She responds to what she considers an overuse of the word "trauma", stressing, instead,…

March 19, 2018

Scholarship

“Post-Transplantation Palliative Care: Misconceptions and Disincentives”

Dr. Michael Pottash argues for the value of providing palliative care to transplant recipients, which faces two major barriers: misconceptions about the goals of palliative care,…

January 15, 2018

Scholarship

“Examining the Artist-Patient Relationship in Palliative Care. A Thematic Analysis of Artist Reflections on Encounters with Palliative Patients”

Julia Langley and her co-authors study the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of.…

December 22, 2017

Scholarship

“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”

As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians' jobs to change,…

December 14, 2017

Scholarship

“Visual Intelligence Education as an Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach for Advancing Communication and Collaboration Skills in Nursing Practice”

Julia Langley and her co-authors made a pilot intervention seeking to integrate visual intelligence skills into nursing education. The pilot suggests that teaching visual…

December 7, 2017

Media

Natascha de Vasconcellos Otoya Interviewed Professor John McNeill

Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya, History PhD student and one of our 2021-2022 Research Fellowships recipients, interviewed Professor John McNeill about his work on global…

November 29, 2017

Media

“Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative”, Aminatta Forna on World Literature Today

Aminatta Forna reflects on the power of storytelling, and how it both allows us to understand the worlds of other people, while also reflecting "entire range of views,,…

November 6, 2017