Performing & Visual Arts
Arts + Health: A USC Arts Now Symposium
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How does dance benefit neurology? How does music help healthy aging? How does a radiologist read a painting? How can accurate health storytelling move audiences to action?
Explore these questions and more in the first-ever USC symposium on the intersection of the arts with health, medicine, and wellness. Featuring USC faculty, researchers, artists, healthcare professionals, and community partners, the half-day symposium will explore groundbreaking arts-based innovations in healthcare, healing, and medicine through a dynamic mix of panels, lightning talks, demonstrations, performances, and a keynote conversation with special guests from the award-winning HBO Max series, The Pitt.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
9:30 AM to 12 NOON: MORNING SESSION
OPENING REMARKS
Josh Kun, Michele Kipke, Shri Narayanan
KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION
Kate Folb
FIRESIDE CHAT
The Pitt: A conversation with Noah Wyle (star/executive producer), R. Scott Gemmill (showrunner/creator), and Simran Baidwan (executive producer)
DEMONSTRATION
Dance, Neurology, and Embodied Practice
Patrick Corbin
LIGHTNING TALKS
Music, Memory, and Healthy Aging
Assal Habibi
Case Studies from the Intersection of Health Humanities, Cinema, and Interactivity
Marientina Gotsis
Telling Stories Saving Lives: The Change Making Media Center
Sheila T. Murphy, Jeremy Kagan
12:00 PM: LUNCH
1 to 3 PM: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL DISCUSSION
Arts of Healing and Aging
Teal Eich, Genevieve Nelson, Jacek Pinski, Zachary Steel, Robin Stevens (moderator)
DEMONSTRATIONS
Building Community Around a Shared Cancer Journey: A Narrative Medicine Approach
Kiaros Llobera, Kathy Riley, Erika Wright
Music Appreciation for Cochlear Implant Users
Ray Goldsworthy, Chrysa Kovach, Julianne Papadopoulos
Radiology Live
Edgar Arceneaux, Summer Decker, Jonathan Ford
Presented by USC Arts Now. Organized by Josh Kun, Vice Provost for the Arts; Michele Kipke, Associate Senior Vice President for Strategic Health Initiatives, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Affairs; and Shri Narayanan, USC Vice President for Presidential Initiatives. Co-sponsored by USC Visions and Voices.
