June 2000 Institute Program

Thursday, June 1, Morning Session, 9:15am - 12:30pm

I. Silence, Art, and Ritual

Chair: Christina M. Gillis, Ph.D., Associate Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities

• Jim Goldberg, Photographer
• Sandra Gilbert, Ph.D., English, UC Davis
• Gary Laderman, Ph.D., Religion, Emory University

Commentator: Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. (Philosophy), Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco

Thursday, June 1, Afternoon Session, 1:30pm - 5pm

II. Time: Counting the Moments / Making Moments Count

Chair: Gayle Greene, Ph.D., Literature and Women's Studies, Scripps College

• Debu Tripathy, M.D., Oncologist, UCSF
• Michael Witmore, Ph.D., English, Carnegie Mellon University
• Lawrence Schneiderman, M.D., Bioethicist, UCSD

Commentator: Guy Micco, M.D., Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco

Friday, June 2, Morning Session, 9:15am - 12:30pm

III. Vision: Confronting the Margin

Chair: LaVera Crawley, M.D., Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

• Thomas Cole, Ph.D., Historian, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
• Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, M.D., Pathologist, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Commentator: Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., Physiological Nursing, UCSF

Friday, June 2, Afternoon Session, 1:30pm - 4pm

IV. Speech / Finding the Language
(From the caregiver's or physician's point of view; from the patient's point of view; for ourselves)

Presentation of questions and issues raised by sessions I-III

• Darcy Buerkle, History, Claremont Graduate University
• Elizabeth Dungan, Art History, UC Berkeley
• Shai Lavi, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley