Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Spring 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.

All in-person sessions will take place at the Wake Downtown (455 Vine Street) in Room 1505. Links to readings will be sent with reservation confirmation.

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 1617: 

Click here to register for one or all of the following sessions:

February 1st
Reading: TBA

March 1st
Reading: TBA

April 5th
Reading: TBA

May 3rd
Reading: TBA

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

Thursday, February 2nd
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuduCvpz4pGtNkR5tfRmOEqsvmzhRkBrMS

Thursday, March 2nd
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOGhqTIoHdE25vkzzha8BRHefjIixVjA

Thursday, April 6th
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtd-urqDIiH9bb1VVEQ8FqmJ8-aDN2hSDE

Thursday, May 4th
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdumsqjkjGtGt-3X05UQsbR7RMbLZVCdP

• Fall 2022 Sessions

  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

• Spring 2022 Sessions

  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)

• Fall 2021 Sessions

  Wednesday, September 15th12:00-1:15pm
  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

• Summer 2021 Sessions

  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

• Spring 2021 Sessions

  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

• Fall 2020 Schedule

  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

  As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Aimee Mepham, Associate Director, at mephamam@nullwfu.edu.