2024 Tucson Humanities Festival
In the quest for health and vitality, the humanities cultivates wholeness for people, their families and their communities. Though conventional medicine focuses on the body, the mind cannot be separated. Integrating both ancient and new insights can encourage healing and human flourishing. Join us in exploring the zone of discovery where medicine and the humanities overlap. What does it mean to be well?
DR. ANDREW WEIL: Integrating Health & Humanities
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Mind and body cannot be separated except verbally; they are two poles of the one reality of our existence. Conventional medicine pays attention mostly to the body, limiting its understanding of the root causes of many disease conditions and its effectiveness in managing them. Dr. Andrew Weil, a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, discusses how Integrative Medicine views each patient as a whole person: mind and spirit as well as body. It seeks to identify nonphysical causes of illness and embraces therapies that take advantage of the mind/body connection, promoting well-being and healthy aging.
BRANDON SOM: Community & Belonging in the Borderlands
This event is sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
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With Tripas, his Pulitzer Prize winning third collection, Brandon Som has written a book of poems built out of his multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, celebrating his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Som writes in dialogue with his family’s languages and memories, creating a sense of well-being through cultural richness, at the confluence of history, struggle, hope, community and compassion. In that manyness, Som’s imagination expands what it means to belong.
HEALTH HUMANITIES FAIR & CAFÉ
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Join the College of Humanities and other campus partners for activities and information about how to enjoy a healthy college lifestyle. Meet our faculty, advisors and student ambassadors and learn more about our majors, classes and study abroad programs. Enjoy healthy beverages and snacks along with wellness-centered activities throughout the event.
FACULTY SALON: Humanities = Health
FACULTY PANEL:
Rae Dachille, Janice McGregor and Albert Welter
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To celebrate the opening of the Health Humanities Hub, College of Humanities faculty members will give brief presentations highlighting their exciting research and teaching. The Health Humanities Hub strives to foster human flourishing, uniting scholars and practitioners to explore the zone of discovery where medicine and the humanities overlap. After presentations from professors Rae Dachille, Janice McGregor and Albert Welter, guests will have an opportunity to mingle and engage in dynamic conversations with these faculty and others who are at the top of their field. Meet the scholars who are leading the nation in innovative humanities teaching and research!