Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute Symposium

The Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute (ADHHI) will be showcasing the work of its awarded scholars through a day-long symposium showcasing projects that represent the future of research into the human experiences of health.

Serving as a capstone for the 10 ADDHI scholars who completed the two-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded program, the symposium is open to UCSF students, faculty, researchers, staff, and the public. 

The program will also feature a keynote address by Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, a leading digital health humanist from Rice University. Her talk, “Digital Health Humanities: A Translational Model for the Age of AI”, will examine the intersection of humanistic inquiry with growing AI infrastructure in hospitals and medical education.

The symposium will be in the Lange Room (fifth floor) at the Kalmanovitz Library and via livestream, registration is required.

Schedule of events

• 10 – 10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks 
• 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Postcolonial Border Crossings: Health Beyond and Between Western Health Infrastructures, Prerenters: Sutina Chou, Eana Meng, and Mallika Khanna 
• 11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break 
• 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Institutional Rhetorics: Perceptions of Illness and Agency, Presenters: Ed Cueva, Mairead Sullivan, Louise Penner, and Sisary Poemape Heredia 
• 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Breakout Session in Rooms 213 & 214 
  • “Nobody Does it Better” installation by Dan Kabella, Anthony DiMario, Kelly Knight, Edith Escobedo, and Polina Ilieva 
  • “Showcasing Archives of Dr. Tolbert Small” by Eana Meng 
• 1 – 1:30 p.m. Break for Lunch 
• 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. "Digital Health Humanities: A Translational Model for the Age of AI", Keynote by Dr. Kirsten Ostherr 
• 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Break 
• 2:45 – 3:4 5 p.m. Arts-Based Interventions in the Experiences of Health, Presenters: Dan Kabella, Kaylen Dwyer, and Esperanza Padilla 
• 3:45 - 4 p.m. Closing remarks

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Sean Purcell at [email protected] as soon as possible.