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