Charles Evans Annual Lecture on the Art and Science of Caregiving
The Literature of Alzheimer’s
The Charles Evans Annual Lecture on the Art and Science of Caregiving, established in 2013 is designed to recognize caregiving as an important social, political, policy and spiritual issue that merits thoughtful discussion and discourse.
Moderated by Carol Levine, director of the United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, which focuses on developing partnerships between health care professionals and family caregivers. In 1993 Carol was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. She is the editor of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Caregiving and author of Planning for Long-Term Care for Dummies .
Distinguished Panel
Stefan Merrill Block, essayist and best-selling author of two novels, The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door. Stefan’s stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR’s Radiolab, GRANTA, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Stefan teaches creative writing at The Center for Fiction and lives in Brooklyn.
Matthew Thomas, has degrees from the University of Chicago, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and the University of California, Irvine. His New York Times-bestselling novel We Are Not Ourselves was shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Entertainment Weekly.
This event is free of charge.
The Charles Evans Lecture on the Art and Science of Caregiving, established in 2013 is designed to recognize caregiving as an important social, political, policy, and spiritual issue that merits thoughtful discussion and discourse.