International Summer Symposia

The mission of the summer seminar is to bring together healthcare professionals with humanities scholars, creative artists, and educators in a dynamic, engaged community where they learn from each other, try out new ideas, and help shape the direction of biomedical humanities.

The goals of the summer seminar include:

• To refresh and stimulate the leaders and participants with challenging ideas and different perspectives.
• To give participants new ways of integrating humanistic perspectives and values into clinical settings and health professions education.
• To engage participants in theatre, creative writing, and other arts as complements to their professional work.
• To create educational materials that can be used to involve the public in much needed dialogue about healthcare issues.

Previous Symposia include:

• 2005 Human Enhancement Technologies: Dramatic Perspectives
• 2006 Global Healthcare Justice
• 2007 Leveraging Change: The Politics and Economics of Global Poverty and Health Care
• 2008 Symposium, Return to The House of God
• 2010 Symposium, The Role of Narrative in Science and Medicine:  1990 - 2010
• 2011 Symposium, On Healers and Healing