Keynote Address  

Juli Berwald, PhD, Science Journalist and Author of Spineless and Life on the Rocks

“Leveraging Photovoice to Understand Youth’s Perspectives of Cancer in Appalachian Kentucky”

• Nathan Vanderford, Associate Professor, Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology; Director, Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program, University of Kentucky
• Holly Burke, Program Coordinator, Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program, University of Kentucky

“Telling Stories Using Graphic Medicine: Explaining Epilepsy to Young Populations”

• Kari Benguria PhD, (She, her, hers), Senior Faculty Lecturer, School of Information Science, College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky

“From English Major to Forensic Pathologist: It’s about Storytelling Podcasts”

• Gregory J. Davis, MD, FCAP, Professor Emeritus, UK Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

“Capturing the Media’s Attention through Storytelling about Vigango Memorial Statues from Kenya”

• Dr. Monica Udvardy, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

“Teaching Biology by way of Story”

• James Krupa, Professor of Biology, University of Kentucky

Storytelling Enhances Science Literacy & Student Engagement in My Classes”

• Rita Basuray, PhD, CPA (NM) Senior Academic Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

“The Ecology of Middle-Earth: Teaching and Learning About the Environment Through Speculative Fiction”

• Kenton Sena, Lecturer, Lewis Honors College, University of Kentucky

"'Thick Description' and Blended Genres: Teaching Siri Hustvadt's The Shaking Woman in the Medical Humanities Classroom"

• Dr. Katherine Dillion, English and Medical Humanities Professor; Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Harding University

“Beyond STEM: How Humanities Can Expand Medicine's Capacity to Heal”

• Margaux Danby, Medical Student, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Metaphor as Medicine: How Figurative Language Builds Bridges in Healthcare”

• Maya Sorini, Medical Student, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

“Exploring Cancer in Appalachian Kentucky Through Youth-Told Stories”

• Nathan Vanderford, Associate Professor, Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology: Director, Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program, University of Kentucky
• Holly Burke, Program Coordinator, Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program, University of Kentucky

“Folding in the Veggie Science with the Humanities Mac & Cheese”

• Jeanette Tesmer, Executive Director of The Living Arts & Science Center, Lexington, Kentucky

“Using Film to Teach Science and Ethics”

• M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, Program for Bioethics and the Markey Cancer Center Oncology Ethics Program; Faculty, Lewis Honors College, University of Kentucky; Depts of Internal Medicine, Behavioral Science and Pediatrics“

“Lucky Strikes, Risky Business, and the Art of Interpreting Risk”

• Hannah Speaks, MSPH, University of Kentucky
• William Burton Burrows, MPH, University of Kentucky

Saturday, April 6, 2024 (A Zoom link will be sent to remote participants on April 4)

Location: Remote 8:30AM-1:20PM

“‘(Beyond) the Circle of Reason': Extro-Science Fiction, Bangla Kalpavigyan and the Dismantlement of Imperial 'Scientific' Narratives”

• Mr. Debayan Das, Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Dept of English, Banaras Hindu University, India

"A Solitary Being:  Intersections of The Last Man, Frankenstein and Medical Humanities." 

• Sophie Bradley, Graduate Student, Lehigh University

 “Science and wonder in Richard Powers' The Overstory”

• Akshata Sharad Pai, Doctoral candidate, University of Hyderabad, India

Panel: “Introduction to Narrative Medicine”

• Margaux Danby, Medical Student, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
• Maya Sorini, Medical Student, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
• Ashlan Willett, Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

“Storying Ig Nobel Winning Science to Teach Corrosion”

• Dr. Sangeetha Balakrishnan, Independent Researcher in Literature and Science, India 

“Combatting Misinformation about AI in the Composition Classroom”

•  Bee Rinaldi, (They, them), Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Independent Programmer and Artist

"Summarizing Journal Articles for Patients: Breaking Down the Language Barrier"

• Dina Soliman, CPhT, University of Kentucky

Keynote Address 

Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, Astrophysicist and Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope