Archive: Past events
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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…
October 17, 2023
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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.…
October 17, 2023
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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.…
October 13, 2023
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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.…
May 2, 2023
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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,,…
April 21, 2023
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- Scholarship
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…
April 14, 2023
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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…
February 6, 2023
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Christopher King Will Be Honored at the National Association of Health Services Executives – Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter’s 2022 Healthcare Leaders Reception
On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, the National Association of Health Services Executives - Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter held its annual celebration of healthcare…
September 26, 2022
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A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
This event, co-sponsored by the Lannan Center and the African Studies Program, featured Tanzanian novelist and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Aminatta.…
September 14, 2022
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How to Have a Conversation, Episode 1: “We Were Confronting Each Other and We Were Being Brave”, María José Pareja Rozo Explores How In Your Shoes Facilitates Conversations
María José Pareja Rozo, Graduate Student of the Medical Humanities Initiative in the 2021-2022 academic year, launched How to Have a Conversation, a podcast about how the arts…
August 31, 2022