oct
30

Alice Weaver Flaherty, PhD
The Midnight Disease
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
6 p.m.
Dr. Flaherty (MD, Harvard; Mass General Hospital) is a prominent neurologist who studies the neural basis of creativity. She has authored widely popular books on the topic, including The Midnight Disease, which focuses on the compulsion to write and the experience of writer’s block. She is also an eloquent public voice in defense of the role of arts and creativity in medicine. Her talk will draw from The Midnight Disease as well as new, unpublished work on the intersections between empathy, affect, art, and medicine.
This event is sponsored in part by the College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean, the Health Studies program, the MFA in Creative Writing program, and the Core Writing program.