On June 14, Center Assistant Professor Dr. Devan Stahl delivered the Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Stahl was awarded this lectureship based on her dissertation work and letters of recommendation regarding her scholarship on disability. Dr. Stahl’s lecture was titled, “From Idol to Icon: Transforming Medical Images into DisArt.” Based largely on her recent book, Imaging and Imagining Illness, she discussed how fine art can transform medical images and challenge our cultural associations with disability. Dr. Stahl is the third Vanier Emerging Scholar and co-director of the PhD seminar at the Summer Institute.
.@DevanStahl on why she uses the word “monstrous” in her disability art: “We don’t use the word monster anymore, but sometimes we still mean it.” #SITD18
— Rabbi Ruti Regan 🏳️🌈♀🇺🇸 (@RutiRegan) June 14, 2018
My table-neighbor, Mike, described talk by Dr. Stahl (@DevanStahl) about transforming medical images into DisArt as “almost inexpressibly powerful.” I agree. #SITD18
— David Finnegan-Hosey (@FoolishHosey) June 14, 2018
“DisArt prophetically challenges our society’s cult of normalcy.” — Dr. Devan Stahl #SITD18
— David Finnegan-Hosey (@FoolishHosey) June 14, 2018
Thankful for friends like Dr. Devan Stahl (@DevanStahl) exploring the nebulous boundaries of story, identity, and art. Sometimes the only way to capture/gesture towards the holiness of the embodied experience. #SITD18 pic.twitter.com/QuIQk9aqrI
— Keith Dow (@keidow) June 14, 2018
To learn more about Imaging and Imagining Illness, listen to Episode 7 of the Center’s podcast, No Easy Answers in Bioethics.
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