Wednesday, April 7, 2021
5:30 pm Keynote Talk: Jennifer Brea
Unseen: Treating “Invisible” Illness from Medieval Medicine to COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://vassar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QmhnZ59TSHytQYRLGNIIyQ
Friday, April 9, 2021
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Student Presentations Session #1
Moderator: Abigail Coplin (Vassar College, STS and Sociology)
Lauren McCarthy, Cognitive Gymnastics: Memory Recall Disturbances, and Fragmented Self Identity Linked to Excessive Media Consumption, The New School for Social Research
Shantel Sosa, Leila Etemad, and Destiny Ruiz, Chronic Pain in Spanish-Speaking Patients, Wesleyan University
Rosa Munson-Blatt, Indelible in the Hippocampus is the Laughter: A Contextualization of the 2018 Blasey Ford Kavanaugh Hearings, Wesleyan University
Session 1 Q&A
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Film Screening
Unrest, (Jennifer Brea, director)
Film Link: https://livestream.com/accounts/4043074/events/9599987
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Discussion with Jennifer Brea
Panel discussion with Jennifer Brea and Vassar faculty Leslie Dunn (English and Womens Studies), Wayne Soon (History), and David Esteban (STS and Biology). Moderated by José Perillán (STS and Physics).
Discussion Registration Link: https://vassar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1vpeioQ8TuWwTrZO_EgxQg
Saturday, April 10, 2021
10:30 am – 11:45 am Student Presentations Session #2
Moderator: David Esteban (Vassar College, STS and Biology)
Sang Truong, Ethical Price for Essential Pharmaceuticals?, DePauw University
Makariah Gaddis, Urbanity: The Bane of Humanity, The New School
Claudia Stagoff-Belfort, Technoscientific Quicksand: The Social Life of Pitocin, Wesleyan University
Tessa Ai-Lin Ng, Developing an Ontology of Models in Scientific Change, University of Toronto
Session 2 Q&A
1 pm – 2:15 pm Student Presentations Session #3
Moderator: Chris White (Vassar College, STS and Religion)
Hanul Park, The_New_Works, The New School
Quentin Wise, COVID-19 and Mental Health: A Syndemic of Misinfodemics, Vassar College
Amanda Ennis, Disparities in Access to Austim Diagnoses and Related Healthcare in U.S. Due to Rural Residence and Social Influences, Colgate University
Carlin Henikoff, Conditional Authority Delegation, University of Toronto
Session 3 Q&A