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Conference on Medicine and Religion

Conference Schedule

Friday, March 7, 2014

10am-1pm: Registration Open

  • 2nd Floor Lobby

12pm-1pm:  Friday Prayers

  • A bus will be available to take conference attendees to the Downtown Islamic Center for Friday prayers. Please RSVP here and meet at the registration desk at 11:45am.

1pm-2:15pm: Parallel Sessions

  • Grand Ballroom: The Body in an Age of “Enhancement”
  • Salon 1: Changing Body Image: From the perspective of a Plastic Surgeon, a Psychiatrist and a Theologian
  • Salon 3: Self-care and Prevention: Religious Insights
  • Erie: Body talk: how we cover, uncover and use our bodies in health and healing

2:15pm-2:30pm: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

2:30pm-2:40pm: Welcome with Farr Curlin, MD, and Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD

  • Grand Ballroom

2:40pm-3:40pm: Keynote Lecture

  • Grand Ballroom: "The Angel and the IV Pump: Faith, Illness, and Medicine" by Arthur W. Frank, PhD

3:55pm-5:15pm: Plenary One with Baruch Brody, PhD, Ingrid Mattson, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD

  • Grand Ballroom

7pm-9pm: Sabbath Dinner (optional)

  • Streeterville Room, 2nd Floor, for attendees who signed up during online registration. More information here.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

7am-8am: Registration

  • 2nd Floor Lobby

7am-8am: Continental Breakfast

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

7am-7:45am: Prayer/Worship

Catholic (Illinois), Jewish (Salon 1), Muslim (Salon 3—the Muslim prayer room will be open all day), and Protestant (Ontario).

8am-9:15am: Parallel Sessions

  • Grand Ballroom: Religious and Spiritual Dimensions of Trauma, Resilience, and Post-traumatic Growth
  • Salon 2: Rendering the Body in Poetry, Art, and Medicine
  • Illinois: Measuring Spirituality: Pitfalls and Possibilities
  • Ontario: Communities, Traditions, and the Abundant Life

9:15-9:30am: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

9:30am-10:45am: Parallel Sessions

  • Grand Ballroom: Engelhardt: Philosophy of Difference, Theology of Unity
  • Salon 2: Organ Donation Attitudes and Fatawa: Interdisciplinarity and Epistemology in “Islamic” Bioethics
  • Erie: Three Recent Books on Medicine and Religion
  • Illinois: Questions of Meaning: Special Needs Perspectives
  • Ontario: Walking Together: Christian Communities & Faithful Responses to Mental Illness

10:45am-11am: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

11am-12:20pm: Plenary Two with Baruch Brody, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, and Ingrid Mattson, PhD

  • Grand Ballroom

12:20pm-1:50pm: Lunch Break

1:50-3:30pm: Abstract Sessions

  • Grand Ballroom: Ethics and Values in Practices of Care
  • Salon 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Embodiment
  • Erie: Respecting the Body
  • Illinois: Embodied Suffering and Empathic Care
  • Ontario: The Body at the End of Life

3:30pm-3:45pm: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

3:45pm-5pm: Parallel Abstract Sessions

  • Grand Ballroom: Ancient Christian Traditions: Nature, Body, and Healing
    Salon 2: Religious Factors and Aggressive Medical Care
  • Erie: Contemplative Prayer and Embodied Healing
  • Illinois: Conceptualizing Medicine: History and Possibilities
  • Ontario: The Sonic Dimension of Spiritual Integration and Healing

5pm-5:15: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

5:15pm-6:30pm: Special Panel: Measuring the Body

  • Grand Ballroom

6:30pm-7:30pm: Reception & Posters

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

Sunday, March 9, 2014

7am-7:45am: Prayer/Worship

Catholic (Illinois), Jewish (Salon 1), Muslim (Salon 3—the Muslim prayer room will be open all day), and Protestant (Ontario).

7am-8am: Continental Breakfast

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

8am-9:40am: Parallel Abstract Sessions

  • Salon 2: Evolving Concepts of Illness, healing, and death
  • Grand Ballroom: Spirituality and the Medical Professions
  • Illinois: Embodiment: Some Implications for Care
  • Ontario: Religion and Care in Mental Health

9:40am-9:55am: Break

  • Lakeshore Ballroom

9:55am-10:25am: Student Essay Award and Presentation

  • Grand Ballroom

10:25-11:45: Plenary Three with Baruch Brody, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, and Ingrid Mattson, PhD.

  • Grand Ballroom

11:45am: Closing Remarks

  • Grand Ballroom

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