Critically Examining Sports' Concussion Crises: Program

Workshop Itinerary: March 9, 2018

Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102

215 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, Georgia


10:00-10:15am   Welcome and Comments from Workshop Organizers

                           Mary McDonald and Matt Ventresca, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech

                                                           

10:15-11:15am   Cross Disciplinary Conversations, Questions, and Answers

                           Moderator: Mary McDonald, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech

                           Michelle LaPlaca, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech

                           Matt Ventresca, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech

                                                           

11:15-12:45pm   Health, Technology, and Ethics

                           Moderator: Nassim JafariNaimi, Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech

                           “'A Clear Conscience': Advertising Football Equipment and Responsibility for Injuries”                                                                    
                            Kathleen Bachynski, Division of Medical Humanities, New York University                                                                            

                          “Rating Risk: Done and Undone Helmet Safety Science”
                           Daniel Morrison, Department of Sociology and College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University

                           ”What Does the Precautionary Principle Demand of Us? Ethics, Population Health Policy, and Sports-Related TBI”
                           Daniel Goldberg, University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Campus

 

12:45-1:30pm   LUNCH (will be provided for those who registered before March 1)

           

1:30-3:00pm   Trauma, Healing, and Experience

                            Moderator: Jennifer Singh, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech

                            “What is 'Traumatic' about Traumatic Brain Injury?”
                             Matt Ventresca, Georgia Institute of Technology

                             "Trauma and Recovery: Violence Against Women in a ‘Neurological Age’"
                             Cathy van Ingen, Department of Kinesiology, Brock University

                             “'I Kinda’ Lost My Sense of Who I Was:' Athletes’ Experiences of Concussion and Rehabilitation”
                             William Bridel, Danika Kelly, Matt Ventresca (Georgia Tech), and Kathryn Schneider, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary

 

3:00-3:15pm   BREAK

 

3:15-4:30pm   Bodies, Identities, and Power

                              Moderator: Anne Pollock, Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech

                              “Brain Politics: Gendered Difference and Traumatic Brain Injury in Sport”
                               Kathryn Henne, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo/Australian National University

                               “The Athlete’s Body and the Social Text of Suicide"
                               Sean Brayton & Michelle Helstein, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Lethbridge

 

4:30-4:45pm   BREAK

 

4:45-5:15pm   Wrap-up and Preliminary Discussion on Conference Themes

                                 Mary McDonald and Matt Ventresca, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech


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