Author Archives: Trisha Remetir

Crossroads V: Graduate Student Conference Bodily Modernites: Comparing, Intersecting, Dismembering October 7-9, 2016 University of Massachusetts Amherst Bodies and issues of corporeality are variously entangled with the concept of the modern. Conventional definitions of the modern age place its onset … Read more

For a limited time, visitors to the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh will be able to view rare documents, drawings, and notes from Leonardo da Vinci. The exhibit, titled “Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind,” features … Read more

Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Special Forum on Disability & Aging Call for Papers Empirically, we need to remember these facts: barring sudden death, those who are aging and those who have a disability can be only artificially … Read more

The Rhetoric Society of America gives an annual book award for the best work in rhetorical study. Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks, Dr. Jordynn Jack‘s latest book, was selected as the 2015 recipient of the RSA … Read more

Writing Diabetes: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Explaining the Significance of Illness Essays for Patients, Clinicians, and Researchers was recently awarded a Fostering Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) Grant through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The FIRE Grant is a … Read more

Check out this article featuring the Literature, Medicine, and Culture program from the Spring 2014 issue of Carolina Scientific:

Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, MD, MPH, clinical professor, UC Berkeley/UCSF, will speak on “Feeding a Hungry World.” Dr. Sokal-Gutierrez is a physician trained in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and public health, with a focus on maternal-child health. She has worked in global health … Read more