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:4686-eb9682cc7751eb0b4e2e293274f4236c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T173959Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T130000 SUMMARY:Penn State\'s Center for American Literary Studies presents \"The Role o f the Humanities in Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy\" DESCRIPTION:\nCOVID-19 remains an ongoing public health threat in the Un ited States\, despite widespread availability of effective vaccines. The anti-vaccination movement has been characterized as a disingenuous part isan ploy underwritten by far-right politicians and media outlets\, but those who refuse vaccination are not all willfully ignorant or dangerous ly misinformed&mdash\;that is\, the causes of vaccine hesitancy are mult ifarious and complex. Beginning from the premise that the humanities are uniquely equipped to confront such complicated social\, political\, and ethical matters\, this webinar will explore the causes of\, and potenti al solutions to\, vaccine hesitancy from a variety of disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) perspectives.\n\n \;\n\nPanelists:\n\nJames Phela n\, Distinguished University Professor of English and Director of Projec t Narrative\, The Ohio State University\n\nPhelan has devoted his resear ch to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rh etoric\, an effort that has recently taken him to the emerging subfield of narrative medicine. Among his many books are Reading People\, Reading Plots\; Narrative as Rhetoric\; \; Living to Tell About It\; Experi encing Fiction\; Reading the American Novel\, 1920-2010\; \; and Som ebody Telling Else. Since 1992\, Phelan has been the editor of Narrative \, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. In 2021\, the Society named him the recipient of its Wayne C. Booth Life time Achievement Award.\n\n \;\n\nDennis Yi Tenen\, Associate Profes sor of English and Comparative Literature\, Columbia University\n\nTenen &rsquo\;s research and teaching focus on various topics including litera ry theory\, the sociology of literature\, media history\, and computatio n narratology. The author of Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation (Sta nford University Press\, 2017)\, he is currently writing a book on the c reative limits of artificial intelligence. Tenen serves as Project Lead for &ldquo\;Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence\,&rdquo\; an initiati ve funded by a grant from Columbia World Projects.\n\n \;\n\nJanet L yon\, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English an d Women&rsquo\;s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Penn State\n\nLyon i s an affiliate of the Rock Ethics Institute\, and director of Penn State '\;s Disability Studies Minor. She publishes on modernism and disabil ity\, focusing especially on the emergence of &ldquo\;disability&rdquo\; as a category in the modernist period. Lyon is a former registered nurs e.\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2020-22 CALS &ldquo\;Unprecedented&rdq uo\; Webinar Series. \n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/eve nt/penn_states_center_for_american_literary_studies_presents_the_role_of _the_humanities_in_addressing_vaccine_hesitancy/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

COVID-19 remain s an ongoing public health threat in the United States, despite widespre ad availability of effective vaccines. The anti-vaccination movement has been characterized as a disingenuous partisan ploy underwritten by far- right politicians and media outlets, but those who refuse vaccination ar e not all willfully ignorant or dangerously misinformed—that is, t he causes of vaccine hesitancy are multifarious and complex. Beginning f rom the premise that the humanities are uniquely equipped to confront su ch complicated social, political, and ethical matters, this webinar will explore the causes of, and potential solutions to, vaccine hesitancy fr om a variety of disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) perspectives.

 

Panelists:

James Phelan, Distinguished Uni versity Professor of English and Director of Project Narrative, The Ohio State University

Phelan has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric, an effo rt that has recently taken him to the emerging subfield of narrative med icine. Among his many books are Reading People, Reading Plots; Narrative as Rhetoric;  Living to Tell About It; Exp eriencing Fiction; Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010;&nbs p; and Somebody Telling Else. Since 1992, Phelan has been the edi tor of Narrative, the journal of the International Society for th e Study of Narrative. In 2021, the Society named him the recipient of it s Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Denni s Yi Tenen, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, C olumbia University

Tenen’s research and teaching focus o n various topics including literary theory, the sociology of literature, media history, and computation narratology. The author of Plain Text : The Poetics of Computation (Stanford University Press, 2017), he i s currently writing a book on the creative limits of artificial intellig ence. Tenen serves as Project Lead for “Increasing COVID-19 Vaccin e Confidence,” an initiative funded by a grant from Columbia World Projects.

 

Janet Lyon, Director of Graduate Studie s and Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexu ality Studies, Penn State

Lyon is an affiliate of the Rock Eth ics Institute, and director of Penn State's Disability Studies Minor . She publishes on modernism and disability, focusing especially on the emergence of “disability” as a category in the modernist per iod. Lyon is a former registered nurse.

This webinar is part of the 2020-22 CALS “Unprecedented” Webinar Series.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even t/penn_states_center_for_american_literary_studies_presents_the_role_of_ the_humanities_in_addressing_vaccine_hesitancy/

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