Health and Humanities Lab at UNC Chapel Hill

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New Episodes of the HHJ Podcast

The Health Humanities Podcast released six new episodes over winter break! Each new episode features readings of the pieces published in the print issue and interviews with the authors and artists to discuss their creative process and their experiences in … Continued
CFP: UMD Disability Summit

Access and Crisis: Disability and the Collapse of Everything The twinned crises of a global pandemic and a re-awakening to systemic racial injustice have reignited previously illuminated disparities for the disability community, compounded by a violently exclusionary presidential administration. These … Continued
CFP: Healthcare in/and Humanities Conference at Wilson College

Wilson College is devoting its annual Humanities Conference to the theme of Healthcare in the Humanities this year. The conference is sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. Humanities program as well as their new undergraduate program in Healthcare and Medical Humanities. This … Continued
Call for Submissions: The Yale Review of Disability Experience

The Yale Review of Disability Experience is seeking submissions for their first print issue until March 1st. They will be accepting submissions for online publication on a rolling basis. The first issue will be published in the Spring (in April … 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.