Unstable Evidence: Art, Data, and the Culture of Health is an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together the arts, medical humanities, and sciences to examine the visual, cultural, and scientific dimensions of health.

This cross-school, interdisciplinary symposium explores cultural representations of illness, treatment, and care in an era shaped by global mobility and data-centered operations. Bringing together artists, scholars, researchers, and scientists, the event considers how cultural narratives, medical archives, and scientific objectivity shape collective understandings of health, well-being, and disease.

Sponsors for this symposium include: Medical Humanities, School of Arts & Sciences, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Department of History, CRE2, Center for the Humanities, Center for the History of Medicine at the Bernard Becker Medical Library, Bursky School of Public Health.

Schedule:

11:00 – 12:30PM
Keynote Speaker: Priscilla Wald (Duke) w/Q&A

12:30 – 1:00PM
Break/ Introduction to Marching Cubes by Jesse Colin Jackson

1:00 – 2:30PM
Panel #1: Disease, Migration, Metaphor w/Q&A – Mariam Ghani, Anne Schult (History, WashU), Dalen Wakeley-Smith (History, WashU), Mitra Naseh (Brown School, WashU), Ilana Seff (Bursky Public Health, WashU), moderated by Rebecca Messbarger (Italian, WashU)

2:45 – 4:15PM
Panel #2: The Unstable Archive w/Q&A – Jesse Colin Jackson, Ulug Kuzuoglu (History, WashU), Kelli Sharpe (Director of Medical Humanities, UC-Irvine), Kat Hatklin (French, WashU), Corinna Treitel (History, WashU), moderated by Patricia Olynyk (Sam Fox, WashU)

4:30 – 5:00PM
Wine Reception

5:15 – 5:30PM
Mariam Ghani: Short introduction to DIS-EASE (in Busch 100)

5:30 – 7:30PM
DIS-EASE film screening w/Q&A