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Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Spring 2025 Schedule

Narrative Medicine: Lunch & Learn is a monthly workshop – free and open to all WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members – that introduces participants to Narrative Medicine and its core principles of close reading and reflective writing. Sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Facilitators: Aimee Mepham, MFA, Associate Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Ethan Stonerook, PA-C, MPAS, Assistant Professor, WF School of Medicine, Department of PA Studies.

In-Person Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Fridays at Wake Downtown. Room 4903. 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR ALL OF THE SESSIONS BELOW

January 17th
Viewing: Excerpt from Asteroid City (film by Wes Anderson)

February 21st
Reading: “I Hear You Man“ by Emad Jabini from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click on title for link).  

March 21st
Reading: “The Two Denvers“ by Rebecca Starks from the literary magazine CRAFT (click on title for link).   

April 18th
Reading: TBA

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:

(Click on the date to register for each individual Zoom session)

January 16th
Viewing: Excerpt from Asteroid City (film by Wes Anderson)

February 20th
Reading: “I Hear You Man“ by Emad Jabini from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click on title for link).  

March 20th
Reading: “The Two Denvers“ by Rebecca Starks from the literary magazine CRAFT (click on title for link).    

April 17th
Reading: TBA

If you have any questions about Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn, please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at mephamam@wfu.edu.