Archive: Fall 2023

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Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity Exhibition

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 …

December 4, 2023

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Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Langley and Professor Mendenhall

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…

November 28, 2023

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A Reading and Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan, Author of Brotherless Night

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…

November 16, 2023

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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…

November 1, 2023

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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,…

October 26, 2023

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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…

October 23, 2023

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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