Health and Humanities Lab at UNC Chapel Hill

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CFP: Literary Arts and Health Humanities Today and Tomorrow, due July 15, 2019

Literary Arts and Health Humanities Today and Tomorrow Call for papers Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff (Alberta), CANADA 16-19 April, 2020 Keynote Addresses: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw (University of Northern British Columbia) Dr. Sander L. Gilman (Emory University) … Continued
Alumna Manisha Mishra Features in Publications

Manisha Mishra is a former HHIVE member and UNC student who graduated in 2018. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and in medical humanities, with a minor in chemistry before moving to Tennessee this year to pursue a … Continued
CFP: Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities

International Conference co-sponsored by the Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group (a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the Universities of Exeter and Birbeck, London, UK) To be held at Montclair State University (Montclair, New … Continued
CFS: Sonic South 2019 Contest

From the project manager: The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), housed at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, invites artists, composers, audio/radio producers, writers, and community members to use … Continued

Health Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration

We are a group of researchers dedicated to linking the humanities and health sciences through student-centered research projects, innovative curricula, and public engagement. Our mission is to help prepare the next generation to think across disciplines, consult their values and passions, and tackle real-world problems to create meaningful social change.

Admissions for the English M.A. concentration in Literature, Medicine, and Culture are open every fall. In this interdisciplinary program, students can focus on Global Health; Medicine and the Arts; Constructions of Illness; Narrative Medicine; Race, Justice, and Health. Courses can be taken in departments across the university, including social medicine, occupational therapy, anthropology, and English. Click here to learn more.