Archive: Past events
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The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative
On November 1st, Dr. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston gave a talk on The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative. This seminar explores the ways in wh
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Madness and/as Divine History: Sign, Symptom, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Chinese Mediumship and Charismatic Christianity with Professor Emily Ng
On October 26th, Emily Ng, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, presented a talk on Madness and/as Divine History: Sign, Symptom, and Sovereignty i
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Screening and Discussion of Takeover! The Young Lords’ Historic 1970 Takeover of Lincoln Hospital with Disability Studies
A screening and discussion of Takeover! The Young Lords' Historic 1970 Takeover of Lincoln Hospital, with Director Emma Francis-Snyder and Young Lords Member Mickey Melendez took place on October 23.
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Lannan Center Reading & Talk Featuring Rabih Alameddine
On October 17th, Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine gave a talk on his most recent book The Wrong End of the Telescope. The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Categories: Announcements, Past events
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First Annual Medical Humanities Fall Faculty Retreat
The first annual Medical Humanities fall faculty retreat was held on October 17, 2023 with great discussion and community building.
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Speaks at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Grand Rounds
On October 13th, Dr. Krishnan gave a talk at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Medical Detectives: A History of Diagnosis and the Stories Doctors Tell About Ourselves.
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1st Annual Medical Humanities Research Showcase
On May 2nd, 2023, Medical Humanities hosted our first annual research showcase celebrating the scholarship from this year’s senior capstones and research fellowships. Congratulations to our graduatin
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Epidemic Millennium Hosted by Dr. Timothy Newfield
In April 2023, Core Faculty Dr. Timothy Newfield hosted a 22-talk, 2-day meeting that brought together scholars from many disciplines, including History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Paleopathology, an
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Art, Humor, and Gender in the Second World War Plastic Surgery Ward
Dr. Christine Slobogin (CAS ‘16) is a health humanities scholar who uses art and visual culture as a way to understand ethics, emotion, medicine, and gender. She was an Art History and English doubl
Categories: Past events, Scholarship
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Lannan Symposium: Reading and Writing the Body
Pictured left to right: Rabih Alameddine, Meghan O’Rourke, Daniel Marchalik, and Tope Folarin. In February 2023, Medical Humanities collaborated with the Lannan Center on the Lannan Symposium:
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