Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity Exhibition
December 4th, 2023
Professor Langley and Professor Sangastiano’s students in their class Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity hung their work on Thursday evening in the Ellipsis Gallery (Walsh Building 2nd…
Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Langley and Professor Mendenhall
November 28th, 2023
On November 28th, the first in a series of Conversations in Medical Humanities events was held. The Conversations in Medical Humanities series will be a sequence of events where faculty will share…
A Reading and Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan, Author of Brotherless Night
November 16th, 2023
On November 16, the Medical Humanities Initiative held an event with V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Brotherless Night, a novel that follows the perspective of a young girl who wants to…
The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative
November 1st, 2023
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…
Madness and/as Divine History: Sign, Symptom, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Chinese Mediumship and Charismatic Christianity with Professor Emily Ng
October 26th, 2023
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…
Screening and Discussion of Takeover! The Young Lords’ Historic 1970 Takeover of Lincoln Hospital with Disability Studies
October 23rd, 2023
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…
Lannan Center Reading & Talk Featuring Rabih Alameddine
October 17th, 2023
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…
First Annual Medical Humanities Fall Faculty Retreat
October 17th, 2023
The first annual Medical Humanities fall faculty retreat was held on October 17, 2023 with great discussion and community building.…
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Speaks at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Grand Rounds
October 13th, 2023
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.…
