Keynote Speaker (Friday)
Dr. Danielle Ofri
“Storytelling & Healing: The Passion and the Peril”
April 5, 2024, 3 – 4 p.m.
In conjunction with the Working Writers Reading Series
Danielle Ofri is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, speaking passionately about the doctor-patient relationship and bringing humanity back to health care. She is a practicing physician at Bellevue Hospital and is a clinical professor of medicine at NYU. She is a founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning Bellevue Literary Review. Her writing appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate Magazine, The Lancet, NEJM, as well as in Best American Essays and Best American Science Writing. She has performed stories for the Moth and her TED talks include Deconstructing Perfection and Fear: A Necessary Emotion. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Gold Foundation, and an honorary doctorate of letters, Ofri is the author of six books about life in medicine. Her newest book is “When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.”
Keynote Speaker (Saturday)
Dr. Salma Monani
“Mind, Body, & Planet: Teaching and Learning with Indigenous
Environmental Justice”
Saturday, April 6 , 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by NYCEA & PCEA
Salma Monani is Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department. She is co-editor, with Steve Rust and Sean Cubitt, of Ecocinema Theory and Practice 1 and 2 (Routledge 2013 and 2022), and Ecomedia: Key Concepts (Routledge/Earthscan 2015), and lead editor (with Joni Adamson) on Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies (Routledge/Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Literature, 2016). She has also extensively published on explorations of film and environmental justice, film festival studies, and Indigenous eco-activism, and her monograph: Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Landscapes is forthcoming (2024, University of West Virginia Press).
Featured Panelists (Saturday)
“Mental Health and the Literature Classroom: Psychoanalytically Informed Teaching – The Reach of Speech” with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, English Department, BMCC; Dr. Todd Dean, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in St. Louis; Guy Dana, French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author; Max Cavitch, English Department, University of Pennsylvania.
For more details, please refer to the conference program.
