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Collective for Humanism, Arts, and Storytelling in Medicine
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(CHASM) exists to champion the transformational power of arts-based practices for the medical community. Our collective is formed from faculty and staff in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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October Book Club
Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire October 27, 6-7pm. Join us with author Christine Wenc! Open to 20 SMPH Faculty, Staff, and Students.
bit.ly/CHASMEBLING1...
#MedHum #BookClub #TheOnion #EblingLibrary
September 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#WisconsinIdea in action: Our BOD Elizabeth A. Fleming, MD will be presenting at the University of Minnesota Family Medicine Grand rounds, where she will present "Using Narrative Medicine to Refocus Clinical Documentation on the Patient Story". 10/8/2025, bit.ly/FlemingUMNRo... #MedHum
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September 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Between 1913–1963, 1,800+ Wisconsinites were forcibly sterilized under state eugenics laws.
Join CHASM on 10.20.25 5:30-7:00pm @ the Wisconsin Historical Society for an evening of learning and reflection with Prof. Nicole C. Nelson.
#MedicalHumanities #WisconsinHistory #CHASM
Sign-up: bit.ly/3JSiLVB
A sepia-toned, hazy historical-style scene of women and young girls working in a kitchen or institutional setting. The women, all wearing light-colored dresses and aprons, are engaged in tasks like washing, mixing, or holding bowls. Two small blonde-haired girls in similar dresses stand beside the women, one tugging gently on a woman’s apron. The overall atmosphere is dim, soft-focused, and somber, evoking an early 20th-century institutional environment. Altered from this image: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM99239
September 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📚✨ Join us for Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin
🗓 Monday, Sept 22, 2025 | 6–7 PM | Zoom
🎟 Limited to 20 SMPH students & employees | Book copies available bit.ly/3HQe7qC

#BookClub #MedHum #EblingLibrary
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September 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🧵 Less than a month away! 🧵
CHASM + Center for Healthy Minds + Division of the Arts present: Quilting for Connection & Reflection

RSVP now! bit.ly/CHASMQuilting #BuildingCommunity #MedHum #Quilting #FabricLoversUnite
August 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Join the 2025–26 Chasm & Ebling Library Book Club! Open to UW School of Medicine and Public Health students, staff & faculty. First pick: Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car by Jordan Bolton. First Zoom meet: Tues, Aug 19 @ 6PM. Sign Up: bit.ly/3Iy6ZiL #BookClub #BuildingCommunity
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July 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Join us 6/21 10:30am @ Madison Public Library for a powerful panel on storytelling, healing, and humanizing care through the VA’s My Life, My Story project—featuring Veterans, writers, and Chasm faculty Dr. Liana Eskola. Discover how 10,000+ stories are changing medicine. #MedHum bit.ly/444hCRx
June 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Thank you to all who joined us for Experiencing Belonging Through Art! Prof. Nicole Nelson shared: “Looking at art with others… I come away with a much richer interpretation.” A meaningful night of reflection, connection, and community. #CHASM #BuildingCommunity #MedHum @chazenartuw.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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CHASM and @chazenartuw.bsky.social present: Experience Belonging Through Art. June 3, 2025 5–7 PM
Explore belonging through art with faculty, staff, students and community.Engage in visual thinking and small group connection. Free & open to all. bit.ly/4kpIgL1
May 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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🧵CHASM Presents: Quilting for Connection & Reflection🧵 🎨 Explore sewing and quilting as a way to process change and build community.
No experience needed.
📅Sept 11, 18, 25 & Oct 2,
🕡6:30–7:45 PM, HSLC.
🍽️ Dinner provided Space limited to 12 health care providers. bit.ly/CHASMQuilting
May 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Brittany Russell channeled the power of the humanities in Narrative Medicine with Dr. Fleming & Dr. Seibert—creating The_…_and_Science_of_Medicine, a moving piece exploring the emotional complexity physicians carry. Art meets empathy. #MedHum #NarrativeMedicine bit.ly/4jHhnCc
April 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#MedHum Community! Join us for Homo Ex Machina: A Mind-Bending Bioethics Production on April 5, 2025, 2-6 p.m. at Memorial Union. This staged reading grapples with the existential fallout a brain implant wreaks on the life and love of a married couple. Free tickets! 🎭 bit.ly/4i2ME1T
March 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM