[Digital_humanities] Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute Symposium (Feb. 20)

Bee Lehman beelehman at berkeley.edu
Tue Feb 10 15:31:37 PST 2026


The Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute (ADHHI) will be
showcasing the work of its awarded scholars through a day-long symposium
showcasing projects that represent the future of research into the human
experiences of health.
Serving as a capstone for the 10 ADDHI scholars who completed the two-year
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded program, the symposium
is open to UCSF students, faculty, researchers, staff, and the public.

The program will also feature a keynote address by Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, a
leading digital health humanist from Rice University. Her talk, “Digital
Health Humanities: A Translational Model for the Age of AI”, will examine
the intersection of humanistic inquiry with growing AI infrastructure in
hospitals and medical education.

The full schedule can be found below..

The program will be held in person at University of California San
Francisco’s Parnassus Kalmanovitz Library and be streamed live on zoom. *Sign
up for the event through this link
<https://calendars.library.ucsf.edu/event/16285523>*.

If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to Sean Purcell
(*sean.purcell at ucsf.edu
<sean.purcell at ucsf.edu>*).

Schedule of Events
Time
Session Title
10:00am – 10:15am
Opening Remarks
10:15am – 11:15am
Postcolonial Border Crossings: Health Beyond and Between Western Health
Infrastructures
Presenters: Sutina Chou, Eana Meng, and Mallika Khanna
11:15am – 11:30am
Break
11:30am – 12:30pm
Institutional Rhetorics: Perceptions of Illness and Agency
Presenters: Ed Cueva, Mairead Sullivan, Louise Penner, and Sisary Poemape
Heredia
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Breakout Session in Rooms 213 & 214
“Nobody Does it Better” installation by Dan Kabella, Anthony DiMario, Kelly
Knight, Edith Escobedo, and Polina Ilieva
“Showcasing Archives of Dr. Tolbert Small” by Eana Meng
1:00pm – 1:30pm
Break for Lunch
1:30pm – 2:30pm
"Digital Health Humanities: A Translational Model for the Age of AI"
Keynote by Dr. Kirsten Ostherr
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Arts-Based Interventions in the Experiences of Health
Presenters: Dan Kabella, Kaylen Dwyer, and Esperanza Padilla



-- 
Bee Lehman, Ph.D.
Lit and Digital Humanities Librarian
Doe Library 438, UC Berkeley
on *Huichin Ohlone Land*
beelehman at berkeley.edu
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