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Past events

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

Announcements
Past events

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

Media
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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

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A Spotlight On: Ethics, Biosecurity and Genomic Data – James Giordano, Pellegrino Centre for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Centre

James Giordano was featured on a Front Line Genomics' “spotlight on” interview, which centered around about ethics, biosecurity and our genomic data. He discussed the…

August 30, 2022

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Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski Feature Film, Co-Written and Co-Directed by Derek Goldman, Premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, the celebrated play written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, has been developed into a cinematic adaptation, which premiered at the San…

July 24, 2022

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John McNeill Presented his Work at the Universität Bielefeld’s Society – Knowledge – Environment Colloquium

John McNeill presented his work on the Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution, at the Society - Knowledge - Environment Colloquium (Gesellschaft – Wissen –…

June 28, 2022

Media
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Press the Button: Lifelines, Featuring Elisa Reverman

In this episode of the Press the Button podcast, Lovely Umayam and Elisa Revernman talk about the Bombshelltoe Collective‘s Lifelines Project, a collection of personal…

June 13, 2022