Knowledge Feast: Books, Body and Cancer

The literary marketplace, a multi-billion industry, has been increasingly dominated by narratives centering on female protagonists who are disaffected, bored, and utterly depressed. Published with almost cynically bright and colorful book covers depicting sad and crying women, and circulated on Bookstagram and Book-Tok under hashtags such as #sadgirl or #hyperfeminine, I will show how this lucrative industry has been deliberately profiting off stories and images about - and by - miserable and mistreated women.

Clint Hansen breaks down the fundamentals of human motion analysis and what we can measure outside of the clinical environment. He will outline how to choose the right tools for your purposes, common pitfalls to look out for, and give examples of how wearable sensor data can be used in the clinical context. His research and clinical practice are focused on understanding and characterizing the biomechanics of human movement, with his most current projects involving the development of digital outcome measures that could serve as objective clinical endpoints.

Cancer cells are a rogue bunch, capable of hijacking healthy cells and processes. These cells are notorious for rapidly changing their phenotype, driving within-host spread, and evading treatment. What if I told you that the math of stock markets or the physics of particles can be used to understand the dynamic behavior of cancer? With tricks of quantitative fields, join me on my voyage to trap cancer cells into a less harmful phenotype that is more responsive to treatments.