Archive: Fall 2021
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Dr. Christopher King Moderated the Pandemic Response & Insights Panel at the DC Health Equity Summit 2021
At the DC Health Equity Summit 2021, which was held on December 9, 2021, Dr. Christopher King moderated the discussion between Laura Zeilinger, Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes, Dr. Bren Elliott and Lupi Quinteros-Grady at the Pandemic Response & Insights panel.
Category: Past events
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Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society Featured Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s Work
On November 22, 2021, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan presented her lecture “Medical Flaneurs: Cosmopolitan Paris and the American Clinical Imagination” in the Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society.
Category: Past events
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Aminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman
On November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman to discuss her recently launched book, The Window Seat.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Was a Speaker at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine’s 14th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan was a speaker at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine’s 14th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference. The event took place between October 25 and 27, 2021, with the theme of Reducing Disparities; Improving Diagnosis.
Category: Past events
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Maggie Little Moderated Panel on Approaches to Managing Trustworthy AI
Maggie Little moderated a panel on approaches to managing trustworthy AI as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework workshop.
Category: Past events
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Healing with Poisons: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China – Asia in Depth Seminar
During China’s formative era of pharmacy, poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Focusing on the early Tang period (7th and 8th centuries), in this talk Professor Yan Liu (SUNY-Buffalo) illustrates how the court regulated the use of poisons and commissioned new medical treatises to achieve effective governance.
Category: Past events
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An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen
Virtual reading and conversation with one of the most awarded literary authors in Scandinavia, Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright , Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna.
Categories: Media, Past events
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The Good Life at the End of Life
Discussion on medical and spiritual views on the meaning of the good life during the last stages of life. Speaking to the issue were Devan Stahl (Bioethics and Religion, Baylor University) and Michael Pottash (Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Georgetown University).
Category: Past events
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #78: Covid in Iowa with Emily Mendenhall
Emily Mendenhall joins Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai to discuss Covid in her hometown in northwest Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research
In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series “COVID, Quickly”, senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall’s research on mask rejection in Okoboji, Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events