Collected Item: “Narin Hassan Oral History, 2022/06/07”
Title
Narin Hassen
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Narin Hassen
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#Atlanta, #author, #Canada, #COVID+, #dentist, #education, #family, #Georgia, #highschool, #holistic, #humanities, #immigration, #microagressions, #motherhood, #Ontario, #Pakistani, #PakistaniAmerican, #productivity, #professor, #sports, #teenager, #trauma, #travel, #wellness, #yoga
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Grant Park, Atlanta, Georgia
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
she/her
What is the age of the interviewee?
45 to 54
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
South Asian
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Working as a Professor at Georgia Tech University, research in the medical humanities.
Busy life with a lot of travel pre-pandemic.
Deciding last minute not to go to a 19th-century studies conference in March 2020; last minute restructuring of the conference.
Uncertainty at the beginning of the pandemic about how serious it would be. Idealism turning into urgency.
Being the child of Pakistani diplomats and growing up all over the world.
Opening a yoga studio in 2018 in a shared space. Closing early in the pandemic and adjusting to Zoom; business expanding after moving online.
Teaching yoga online and teaching college courses online.
Teenage son transitioning to online classes, changing reaction to online teaching and going back to school. Son playing sports.
Raising a teenage son during the pandemic.
Getting more connected to the home, rearranging the home to share space differently.
Institutionalized medicine, ayurvedic medicine, and holistic medicine.
Bringing mindfulness techniques into university classrooms.
Deepening friendships; traveling with friends during 2020.
Not being able to visit elderly parents in Canada due to border closure; getting compassionate exemptions to visit mother after an injury.
Comparisons between Canada and the USA’s management of the pandemic.
Watching more TV, fluctuating news media consumption.
Trauma-informed yoga and embodiment. Normalizing check-ins.
The nervous system’s response to stresses, microaggressions.
Husband and son caught COVID in December 2021, masking at home and avoiding close contact.
Catching COVID in May 2022; first thinking it was allergies, waves of symptoms.
Having avoided dentists during the pandemic and a slow recovery; jaw pain as a long-COVID symptom.
The humanities and their relevance for medicine and science.
Cultural references: Facebook, Zoom, BlueJeans, Hulu, Netflix, Ozark, The Morning Show, The Office, Lululemon, Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score (2014)
See also:
https://www.lmc.gatech.edu/people/person/narin-hassan
https://www.tendyoga.com/our-story
https://www.routledge.com/Diagnosing-Empire-Women-Medical-Knowledge-and-Colonial-Mobility/Hassan/p/book/9781409426110
Working as a Professor at Georgia Tech University, research in the medical humanities.
Busy life with a lot of travel pre-pandemic.
Deciding last minute not to go to a 19th-century studies conference in March 2020; last minute restructuring of the conference.
Uncertainty at the beginning of the pandemic about how serious it would be. Idealism turning into urgency.
Being the child of Pakistani diplomats and growing up all over the world.
Opening a yoga studio in 2018 in a shared space. Closing early in the pandemic and adjusting to Zoom; business expanding after moving online.
Teaching yoga online and teaching college courses online.
Teenage son transitioning to online classes, changing reaction to online teaching and going back to school. Son playing sports.
Raising a teenage son during the pandemic.
Getting more connected to the home, rearranging the home to share space differently.
Institutionalized medicine, ayurvedic medicine, and holistic medicine.
Bringing mindfulness techniques into university classrooms.
Deepening friendships; traveling with friends during 2020.
Not being able to visit elderly parents in Canada due to border closure; getting compassionate exemptions to visit mother after an injury.
Comparisons between Canada and the USA’s management of the pandemic.
Watching more TV, fluctuating news media consumption.
Trauma-informed yoga and embodiment. Normalizing check-ins.
The nervous system’s response to stresses, microaggressions.
Husband and son caught COVID in December 2021, masking at home and avoiding close contact.
Catching COVID in May 2022; first thinking it was allergies, waves of symptoms.
Having avoided dentists during the pandemic and a slow recovery; jaw pain as a long-COVID symptom.
The humanities and their relevance for medicine and science.
Cultural references: Facebook, Zoom, BlueJeans, Hulu, Netflix, Ozark, The Morning Show, The Office, Lululemon, Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score (2014)
See also:
https://www.lmc.gatech.edu/people/person/narin-hassan
https://www.tendyoga.com/our-story
https://www.routledge.com/Diagnosing-Empire-Women-Medical-Knowledge-and-Colonial-Mobility/Hassan/p/book/9781409426110
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-06-07T10:30