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By Tara Penman On Tuesday, October 21st, I attended the Health Humanities Grand Rounds lecture given by Dr. Virlana Shchuka. I was intrigued by the subject matter, as well as the statement that one of the first feelings mothers have … Read more

By Niko Wiguna with Elizabeth Alene and Olivia Hankinson On September 16, I (NW) curiously attended the MicroPop lecture and exhibit, a Health Humanities Grand Rounds event featuring German scholars Davina Höll and Michael Pelzer from the University of Tübingen, … Read more

View this email in your browser HHIVE Lab Newsletter 10/6/25 Announcements, upcoming events, and news about the health humanities at UNC Lab Meeting Today at 2:30pm The HHIVE Team will meet at 2:30pm today for our bi-weekly lab meeting. Jenny … Read more

View this email in your browser HHIVE Lab Digest Announcements, upcoming events, and news about the health humanities at UNC Welcome Back! Our team spent the summer attending conferences like the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference … Read more

This summer, I attended 2024 UNC’s Burch Field Research Seminar on Infectious Disease through the lenses of science and literature. Many people (understandably) seemed confused about how literature and biology were relevant to each other, especially how literature was relevant … Read more

Does medicine speak to us? In what ways are we persuaded by the underlying messages of pharmaceutical campaigns, drug advertisements, or medical commercials?  I asked these crucial questions as I drafted my Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) proposal to the … Read more

“Whether ill people want to tell stories or not, illness calls for stories” — Arthur Frank, The Wounded Storyteller.  Frank’s assertion that illness calls for stories captures the central mission of ANTH 272/ENGL 264: Healing in Ethnography and Literature, a … Read more