Speaking

I’m an experienced public speaker and am available for hire as a professional public speaker for your events surrounding topics such as cancer, resiliency, and the meaning of illness and care.

Contact me at hartryanwilliam@gmail.com to describe the speaking occasion, and I will create a quote for you.

PAPERS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS PRESENTED:

  • “Phenomenology and the Medical Humanities,” video for the Phenomenology is for Beginners project with the Duquesne University Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Pittsburgh Pa, February 28th, 2024. https://dsc.duq.edu/phen-intro-videos/14 

  • “The Humanities and Lived Experience,” honorary alumni presentation at the Thiel College Ruthanne Beighley Senior Seminar Humanities series, November 8, 2023.

  • ‘“The God Trick of Seeing Everything from Nowhere”:  Evidence-Based Medicine in Contemporary Healthcare,’ panel presentation at the Health Humanities Consortium Conference. Co-panelist with Anita Slominska and Ailish Burns. Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. March 16-19, 2023.

  • “Modes of Reading: Three Medical Humanities Approaches to Texts,” panel presentation at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Meeting. Co-panelist with Anne Hudson Jones and Rebecca Permar. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. October 6-9, 2022.

  • “The Humanities, Care, and the Phenomenological In-Between,” paper presentation at Futures Ahead conference on translations and collaborations between medicine, social science and the humanities. Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Linköping University, Sweden. June 15-17, 2022.

  • “Literature as a Way of Cultivating a Sense of the Lived Experience of Illness,” paper presentation at 2021 American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Conference. October 14, 2021.

  • “Spaces for Contemporary Research in the Medical Humanities,” panel presentation at Health Humanities Consortium Virtual Conference: Spaces of/for Health Humanities. Co-panelist with Anne Hudson Jones, Rebecca Permar, and Margarita Ortiz. May 26, 2022.