Past appearances
October 16: “Narrative Humility: Medical Listening and Oral History” part of the Paul F. Lazarfield Lecture series and the Fall 2014 Oral History Workshop series in Oral History, Medicine, and Health, Columbia University
October 25: Lunchtime Plenary. Global Health Colloquium – Innovation in Tackling Global Health Care Challenges: The Role of Brown University and Its Partners
Brown University
October 27: Plenary, Asylum Training Workshop for Student Physicians. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
November 6: “Listening in the Time of Technology: Living High Touch in a High Tech World.” Dwight Englewood School Health and Wellness Series
Englewood, NJ
November 6: “Life Outsourced: Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India” The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University
November 14-16 National Women’s Studies Association, Panel on Transnational Surrogacy in India
January 2015: Visiting Professor in Health Humanities, Yale University
Feb. 23-25, 2014 The Narrative Bridge: Connecting the Health Humanities
Keynote address and workshop
Medical University of South Carolina Writing Center, Charleston, SC
March 11 & 12, 2013: Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Lecture Series “Our Bodies, Our Stories”
Hendrix College, Little Rock, Arkansas
March 23 2pm: Panel discussion: The Fearsome BMI! Women Artists and the Body
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
April 24, 2013: TEDx Sarah Lawrence talk: Narrative Humility – Listening as Social Justice
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY
May 1-3, 2013: HeartCaring Conference 2013 Plenary Speaker: Narrative Humility – Listening from the Heart
Ritz Carlton, Fort Lauderdale FLA
Wellesley, MA – March 30th, 2012 Lecture: “Beyond Butterflies, Slumdogs and Tiger Mothers: Writing Asian American Women’s Lives” for GenerAsians, Wellesley’s Asian American Literary Journal
New York City – May 18th, 2012 Laurie Philips Memorial Lecture: “Can Sisterhood Be Global?: Reproduction, Social Justice and Feminism Across Borders” for WTCI, Women’s Therapy Centre Institute
Podcasts, Profiles
Good Life Podcast “A Foot in Three Worlds”
Career Shifter Profile “From Physician to Academic to Writer”
Visible Voices Podcast “Is COVID-19 Inciting Narrative Violence?”
Peace and Conflict at Columbia (WKCR) with Sayantani DasGupta – May 2015
Video
Click to Watch Sayantani’s recent TEDxSLC talk: “Narrative Humility: Listening as Social Justice”
Click to Watch 140 character’s conference talk: “From Losing the Weight to Losing the Hate: A Pediatrician’s Take on Toxic Body Culture”
Click to Watch “Stories are Good Medicine” talk from BIF-6
Click to Watch “Our Bodies, Our Stories” – 2013 Murphy Guest Lecture at Hendrix College
Click to Watch Sayantani’s talk in Endangered Species, New York