Science Café features Lynn Harter exploring ‘The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling’ on Nov. 2

Ohio College’s Science Café presents Lynn Harter exploring “The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling” on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. on the Baker Heart Theater on the second flooring of Baker College Heart and through YouTube.

Storytelling is central to how folks thrive amid perceived difficulties and profound vulnerabilities. Harter’s analysis and inventive exercise discover how storytelling features in therapeutic contexts and the situations underneath which storytelling enhances particular person and communal well-being.

“I try to work alongside neighborhood members to witness, create and share tales in inventive varieties to teach and impact change,” Harter mentioned.

Harter is a professor within the Faculty of Communication Research and co-director of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact. Be part of Harter to learn the way the institute fosters collaborative storytelling and advances narrative scholarship to catalyze collective motion.Free espresso is obtainable for the primary 50 in-person attendees.

For extra data, contact Roxanne Malé-Brune at male-bru@ohio.edu.

The collection is supported by the Ohio College Analysis Division and Ohio College Chapter of Sigma Xi. For extra data, go to the Science Café website.

Fall 2022 Science Café Schedule

• Wednesday, Sept. 7, Nate Szewczyk, Biomedical Sciences, “Worms in Area: Enhancing Astronaut Muscle Well being,” video
• Wednesday, Oct. 5, Viorel Popescu, Organic Sciences, “The Secret Lives of the #RealBobcatsOfOhio,” video
• Wednesday, Nov. 2, Lynn Harter, Communication Research, “The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling,” video
• Wednesday, Dec. 7, Kim Thompson and David Rosenthal, “Environmental and Plant Biology”