Archive: Spring 2022
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Ella Castanier Presented her Research at the 2022 Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Hosted by Georgetown College
Ella Castanier (COL’24) presented her research at the 2022 Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, which took place on April 21, 2022.
Category: Past events
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Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health Video Podcast: Emily Mendenhall on Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective
Emily Mendenhall and Sarah S. Willen talked about “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” the first series of the Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health journal. The conversation centered around how interdisciplinary dialogue can improve the way we study flourishing and health – and the clinical and policy interventions we propose.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Iowa Public Radio – Talk of Iowa: Emily Mendenhall on When Okoboji Became a COVID-19 Hotspot
Emily Mendenhall joined host Charity Nebbe to share what she learned when she studied the pandemic in her hometown — Okoboji —, for her book Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Public Dialogue around Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s Carnivalesque
On April 7, 2022, the Department of Art and Art History and Georgetown College will host a public dialogue around Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s Carnivalesque.
Category: Past events
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The Annual Maloy Distinguished Lecture on Global Health | Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji by Emily Mendenhall
On April 4 , 2022, the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, in partnership with the Global Health Initiative and the Mortara Center for International Studies, will host The Annual Maloy Distinguished Lecture on Global Health. Join the panel discussion of Emily Mendenhall’s newest book, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji.
Category: Past events
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The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative Co-Sponsored the 2022 Health Humanities Conference
The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative was one of the sponsors of the 2022 Health Humanities Conference, which took place on March 25, 26 and 27, 2022, and was co-hosted by the Center for Health Humanities, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; the Center for Literature and Medicine, Hiram College; and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program, Lehigh University.
Category: Past events
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Launch of Emily Mendenhall’s New Book Unmasked
On March 19, 2022, Emily Mendenhall and Rebecca Katz met at the Politics and Prose independent bookstore to discuss her recently launched book, Unmasked.
Category: Past events
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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation
Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the country working on medical and humanitarian aid. She delves into the complexities through which love and liberation get revealed in the everyday work of local humanitarian laborers.
Categories: Media, Past events
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LinkedIn Live: MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing with Dr. Daniel Marchalik
On Tuesday, March 1 at 12:00 p.m., the MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing hosted its first LinkedIn Live.
Category: Past events
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NutrireCoLab Episode 7: Interview with Professor Emily Mendenhall about her New Book Unmasked
Lauren Carruth interviews Emily Mendenhall about how people in her hometown in northwest Iowa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes why people unmasked and how social relations within the community played out over the course of the pandemic. Many people were very cautious, while some people ignored public health recommendations for personal gain.
Categories: Media, Past events