Archive: Scholarship 2016
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“De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget”
Theodora Danylevich reads Malu De Martino’s 2010 film Como Esqueçer (How to Forget) as a case study in self-harm as a mode of expression and self-inquiry. The author argues that How to Forget charts a “crip” epistemology of self-harm and theorizes a “social self.” That is to say, the film models an orientation towards self-harm that offers a coalitional and social therapeutic understanding.
Category: Scholarship
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“Artists’ Perspectives on Encounters with Palliative Inpatients, a Qualitative Study”
The team of researchers that includes Julia Langley sought to identify overarching themes, outcomes and impacts of the Arts and Humanities Program at Georgetown University on artists and patients from the palliative medicine service.
Category: Scholarship
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“Beyond Thinking: Black Flesh as Meat Patties and The End of Eating Everything”
Theodora Danylevich explores flesh as an inner register of violence against African-American and diasporic black subjects.
Category: Scholarship