Leslie Jamison

[Pages:1]Leslie Jamison:

The Empathy Exams

Thursday, March 30, 2017

4 pm Roxboro House Roundtable at PhilaU

Arlen Specter Center, Roxboro House, Philadelphia University

6 pm TJU + PhilaU faculty panel discussion

Connelly Auditorium, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, Thomas Jefferson University

Rita DeMaria, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Couple and Family Therapy, Jefferson College of Health Professions Katharine Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Philadelphia University Ryan Long, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Philadelphia University

7 pm Lecture followed by book signing

Connelly Auditorium, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, Thomas Jefferson University

Photo: Mike Stenerson

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor, paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams asks essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about one another? How can we feel another person's pain? The Empathy Exams (2014) won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Yale, Jamison is an assistant professor at Columbia University and a mentor through the PEN Prison Writing Program.

This event is part of One Book, One Philadelphia, a signature program of the Free Library of Philadelphia that promotes literacy, library usage, and citywide conversation by encouraging the Philadelphia area to come together through reading and discussing a single book. The 2017 featured selection is Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

For more information, go to Jefferson.edu/Humanities or contact Megan Voeller, Director of Humanities, at megan.voeller@jefferson.edu or 215-503-9050.

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download