Tag: trauma
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[Upcoming] Working Group, Diana Anselmo
Diana Anselmo, a film and media studies researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, will be presenting her current project on the experiences of working-class immigrant women during the 1910s. She will provide a microhistorical account of the physical, mental, and social injuries inflicted on a working-class immigrant woman who eventually committed suicide in Chicago.
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[Upcoming] Working Group, Jennifer Uribe
Jennifer Uribe, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UCLA, will workshop a draft of one of their dissertation chapters. Jennifer examines the ways infrastructural neglect contributes to injuries and collective trauma, exacerbating social inequities in urban communities.
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Working Group, Kaushiki Arha
Kaushiki Arha, a Ph.D. candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, presented part of her dissertation project, which explores the gendered legal and social adjudication of sexual violence in India. Her project considers how the changing definition of rape from a physical assault to a violation of consent has paradoxically made prosecuting cases of sexual violence more difficult.
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Working Group, Diana Novaceanu
Diana Novaceanu from the University of Bucharest presented some of her research on the role of injuries and self-harm in contemporary Eastern European art. Her project examines artists from Romania and Ukraine to achieve three objectives: 1. To describe how injuries fit into art throughout the former Eastern bloc; 2. To position this art as an…
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Working Group, Maya Sorini
This session featured Maya Sorini, a fourth-year medical student and poet at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Maya has an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia, and her clinical and artistic work focuses on emergency medicine. Maya presented a draft conference talk and outline of her planned curriculum on parallel charting, a process through which…