Fall 2023 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.
Lunch will be provided.
In-Person Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Wednesdays at Wake Downtown (455 Vine Street), Room TBA:
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September 13th
Reading: TBA
October 11th
Reading: TBA
November 8th
Reading: TBA
December 6th
Reading: TBA
Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:
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Thursday, September 14th
Reading: TBA
Thursday, October 12th
Reading: TBA
Thursday, November 9th
Reading: TBA
Thursday, December 7th
Reading: TBA
Wednesday, February 1st and Thursday, February 2nd
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “The Base Note” by Meg Senuta (creative nonfiction)
Wednesday, March 1st and Thursday, March 2nd
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens (song)
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Wednesday, April 5th and Thursday, April 6th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings: “Graphic, In Case” by Vernita Hall and “Internet Support Group” by Chelsea B. DesAutels (poems)
Wednesday, May 3rd and Thursday, May 4th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “The Night Sky” by Adrienne Pilon (creative nonfiction)
Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings: “Running the Scans Gauntlet” by Amy Haddad and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
Thursday, October 6th and Friday, October 7th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings: “The Clearing” by Jane Kenyon and “Clearing” by Christian Wiman
Thursday, November 3rd and Friday, November 4th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “How Daylight Saving Ends” by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Thursday, December 1st and Friday, December 2nd
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Maggie Says There’s No Such Thing as Winter” by Janet McNally
Thursday, February 17th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Medical Schools Have Historically Been Wrong on Race” by Damon Tweedy
Thursday, March 17th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “It Was Already Dangerous” by Lauren Whitehead
Thursday, April 21st
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Thursday, May 19th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings/Viewings: “Her Marked Black Body” by Cynthia Parker-Ohene and “How Hair Changes Before Expiration” by J.E. Robinson (both read by Nkosi Nkululeko)
Wednesday, September 15th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “At the End of Life, a Secret” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Wednesday, October 13th
12:00-1:15pm
Podcast: The Nocturnists: Black Voices in Healthcare: Episode 6: Becoming
Wednesday, November 10th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “The Old Baby” by Elizabeth Crowder
Wednesday, December 15th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “The Universe as Primal Scream” by Tracy K. Smith and “Coffee Break” by Kwame Dawes
Thursday, June 24th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings:
Poems: “After an Illness, Walking the Dog” by Jane Kenyon and “Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns” by Dean Young
Thursday, July 29th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic” by Jesmyn Ward
Thursday, August 19th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Broken” by Ramya Sampath
Thursday, January 28th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Poison” by Sarah Manguso
Thursday, February 25th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “A Gullah Woman Comes to Clinic” by Ethan Stonerook
Featuring a conversation with the author!
Thursday, March 25th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Face Time” by Lorrie Moore
Thursday, April 29th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo
Thursday, September 24th
12:00-1:15pm
Readings: “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewski and “won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
Thursday, October 29th
12:00-1:15pm
Reading: “Numb” by Nikhil Barot
Thursday, December 3rd
12:00-1:15pm
Reading (audio recording): “Too Long, Too Short” by Jay Baruch
If you have any questions about Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn, please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at mephamam@wfu.edu.