BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4410-6163c8e4e4bd5c9e84638e285e9f5a79@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260504T071102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T170000 SUMMARY:(Co)Figurations of Care: Experience and Infrastructure in the Medical Hu manities DESCRIPTION:\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the notion that only medical knowledge is conducive to health\, foregrounding the urgent nece ssity to rethink the entanglements between body\, environment\, infrastr ucture\, culture\, and governmentality. In this biopolitical environment \, public medical knowledge should include and prioritize patients&rsquo \; lived experiences of illness at different scales (familial\, national \, global) and intensities (death\, loss\, long-term effects of an unpre cedented disease). Thus\, patient vulnerabilities bring into considerati on the complex web of relations between humans and built/natural environ ments and \;spaces. As vulnerabilities in medical access and treatme nt become more visible\, so does the  \;importance of architecture i n facilitating health. There emerges a need to break down the scale of d esign in response to the mobility of sick bodies and to environmental el ements such as air and light.\n\nThis roundtable will discuss care and i ts multiple and diverse configurations. In the context of this event\, c are ranges from looking after a patient\, to being attuned to the needs of the self and its surroundings\, to reorganizing the built medical env ironment. Our roundtable will discuss how visual art\, architecture\, an d medical technologies can produce\, contest\, configure \;and disse minate spatial and embodied forms of knowledge\, and call attention to c are.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cfc_medical-hu manities/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The COVID-19 pa ndemic has challenged the notion that only medical knowledge is conduciv e to health, foregrounding the urgent necessity to rethink the entanglem ents between body, environment, infrastructure, culture, and governmenta lity. In this biopolitical environment, public medical knowledge should include and prioritize patients’ lived experiences of illness at d ifferent scales (familial, national, global) and intensities (death, los s, long-term effects of an unprecedented disease). Thus, patient vulnera bilities bring into consideration the complex web of relations between h umans and built/natural environments and spaces. As vulnerabilities in medical access and treatment become more visible, so does the   importance of architecture in facilitating health. There emerges a need to break down the scale of design in response to the mobility of sick bo dies and to environmental elements such as air and light.

This rou ndtable will discuss care and its multiple and diverse configurations. I n the context of this event, care ranges from looking after a patient, t o being attuned to the needs of the self and its surroundings, to reorga nizing the built medical environment. Our roundtable will discuss how vi sual art, architecture, and medical technologies can produce, contest, c onfigure and disseminate spatial and embodied forms of knowledge, a nd call attention to care.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/cfc_medical-humanities/

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