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:14772-eb9682cc7751eb0b4e2e293274f4236c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T202307Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T130000 SUMMARY:The Role of 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—that is\, the causes of vaccine hesitancy are multifariou s and complex. Beginning from the premise that the humanities are unique ly equipped to confront such complicated social\, political\, and ethica l matters\, this webinar will explore the causes of\, and potential solu tions to\, vaccine hesitancy from a variety of disciplinary (and interdi sciplinary) perspectives.\n\nPanelists:\n\nJames Phelan\, Distinguished University Professor of English and Director of Project Narrative\, The Ohio State University. Phelan has devoted his research to thinking throu gh the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric\, an effort t hat has recently taken him to the emerging subfield of narrative medicin e. Among his many books are Reading People\, Reading Plots\; Narrative a s Rhetoric\; Living to Tell About It\; Experiencing Fiction\; Reading t he American Novel\, 1920-2010\; and Somebody Telling Somebody Else. Sin ce 1992\, Phelan has been the editor of Narrative\, the journal of the I nternational Society for the Study of Narrative. In 2021\, the Society n amed him the recipient of its Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. \nDennis Yi Tenen\, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Liter ature\, Columbia University. Tenen’s research and teaching focus on vari ous topics including literary theory\, the sociology of literature\, med ia history\, and computation narratology. The author of Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation (Stanford University Press\, 2017)\, he is curren tly writing a book on the creative limits of artificial intelligence. Te nen serves as Project Lead for “Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence\, ” an initiative funded by a grant from Columbia World Projects.\nJanet L yon\, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English an d Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Penn State.Lyon is an affil iate of the Rock Ethics Institute and director of Penn State's Disabilit y Studies Minor. She publishes on modernism and disability\, focusing es pecially on the emergence of “disability” as a category in the modernist period. Lyon is a former registered nurse.\n\nModerator:\n\nJess Rafalk o\, Graduate Student\, Department of English\, Penn State\n\nFor more de tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the-role-of-the-humanities-in-add ressing-vaccine-hesitancy-2/ 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, the cau ses of vaccine hesitancy are multifarious and complex. Beginning from th e premise that the humanities are uniquely equipped to confront such com plicated social, political, and ethical matters, this webinar will explo re the causes of, and potential solutions to, vaccine hesitancy from a v ariety of disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) perspectives.

Panel ists:

James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of Eng lish and Director of Project Narrative, The Ohio State University. Phela n has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conce iving of narrative as rhetoric, an effort that has recently taken him to the emerging subfield of narrative medicine. Among his many books are < i>Reading People, Reading Plots; Narrative as Rhetoric; L iving to Tell About It; Experiencing Fiction; Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010; and Somebody Telling Somebody Else. Since 1992, Phelan has been the editor of Narrative, the journ al of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. In 2021, the Society named him the recipient of its Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievem ent Award.
Dennis Yi Tenen, Associate Professor of English and C omparative Literature, Columbia University. Tenen’s research and teachin g focus on various topics including literary theory, the sociology of li terature, media history, and computation narratology. The author of Plain Text: The Poetics of Com putation (Stanford Univer sity Press, 2017), he is currently writing a book on the creative limits of artificial intelligence. Tenen serves as Project Lead for “Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence ,” an initiative funded by a grant from Columbia World Projects.
Janet Lyon, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Eng lish and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State.Lyon is an a ffiliate of the Rock Ethics Institute and director of Penn State's Disab ility Studies Minor. She publishes on modernism and disability, focusing especially on the emergence of “disability” as a category in the modern ist period. Lyon is a former registered nurse.

Moderator:

Jess Rafalko, Graduate Student, Department of English, Penn State

For more details: https://eve nts.la.psu.edu/event/the-role-of-the-humanities-in-addressing-vaccine-he sitancy-2/

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