Archive: Media 2023

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Professor Emily Mendenhall Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Long COVID Research

Professor Emily Mendenhall, a leading medical anthropologist at Georgetown University, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship recognizing her influential work at the…

January 17, 2026

Announcements

Professor Timothy Newfield Named Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship

Meet our new Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, Professor Timothy Newfield! Dr. Newfield is a historical epidemiologist, environmental historian, and assistant…

December 20, 2023

Announcements
Past events

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