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“On Suffering, Trauma, and Resilience”, The Yale Review Interviews Aminatta Forna
In this interview, James Surowiecki, consulting editor at The Yale Review, talks with Aminatta Forna about her recently published essay “Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the…
April 1, 2022
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 27: “Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions”, Scientific American Looks at Emily Mendenhall’s Research About Attitudes Toward Masks
In this episode of the "COVID, Quickly", Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman look at Emily Mendenhall's research on people's attitudes…
April 1, 2022
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The Bookseller Talks about Rift, Aminatta Forna’s New Book Project
According to The Bookseller, William Collins made a "substantial deal" to publish Aminatta Forna's new book project, Rift, slated for publication in.…
March 31, 2022
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“Helen Dominic Is Examining the Power that Listening Can Have on Healing,” Georgetown College Talks about the Research of our 2022-23 Fellow
Georgetown College writes about Helen Dominic, and her research in improvements in the ways we handle immigrant.…
March 16, 2022
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“Where There Is No Hospital”, Aminatta Forna’s Writing about the Book that Saved Lives
Aminatta Forna writes about how the book Where There Is No Doctor was used to save lives during the 2014 Ebola.…
March 10, 2022
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“What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, Emily Mendenhall’s Reflections on Scary Mommy
"What stories will we tell our grandchildren? How will the pandemic look to us in 10, 20, 30 years, or more? How will the pandemic period affect how we relate to each other in…
March 8, 2022
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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation
Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the…
March 2, 2022
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NutrireCoLab Episode 7: Interview with Professor Emily Mendenhall about her New Book Unmasked
Lauren Carruth interviews Emily Mendenhall about how people in her hometown in northwest Iowa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes why people unmasked and how social…
March 1, 2022
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“Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the Trauma Narrative”, Aminatta Forna on The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna examines the ways in which we conflate every difficult experience with trauma, such that suffering and trauma have become. …
February 28, 2022
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Fox 5 Covers the New MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing, with Daniel Marchalik
Fox 5 covers the new MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing, featuring Dr. Daniel Marchalik, its executive director, and Crystal Morales, one of its leaders. Fox 5 describes that…
February 28, 2022