“Active Minds at Carolina Presents: At the Intersection of Race and Mental Health”
By Katie Huber Sophomore Anthropology & Biology Double Major This week, Active Minds at Carolina invited a panel of three professionals to speak about their experiences addressing mental health issues in diverse populations. Ciera Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate in … Read more
Reflections on Ellen Perry’s ‘My Life and My Work in Disability Advocacy’ Talk
By Maebelle Mathew Freshman Biochemistry Major Minor in Literature, Medicine, and Culture Yesterday, February 16, Ellen Perry, a disability activist who works to make independent living achievable in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area and beyond, gave a talk on her life … Read more
“Dr. Wizdom Powell Presents Her Current Health Research in ‘They Can’t Breathe'”
By Caroline Fryar Alumna Double Major in Classics and German Last week, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center hosted a talk by Dr. Wizdom Powell, Associate Professor of Health Behavior at UNC Gillings School of Public Health, Director of UNC’s Men’s … Read more
Second Disability and Citizenship Series Lecture
CONTESTING AUTISM: STRUGGLES OVER NEURAL CITIZENSHIP AND NEUROCULTURES Jigna Desai Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota Thursday 2/25, 330-5pm Donovan Lounge, 2nd Floor Greenlaw Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Jigna Desai is the author of Beyond … Read more
CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/Care
The Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care Literature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. … Read more
Free Online Course: “Medicine and the Arts”
Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare This free online course will explore the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts. Through each of its six weeks, we’ll visit a new aspect of human life and consider it from … Read more
CFP: The Anatomy of the Image: Perspectives on the (Bio)medical Body in Science, Literature, Culture and Politics
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 16-18 February, 2017 Organizers: Associate Professor A. Fliethmann, Associate Professor R. Kokanovic, Dr. C. Weller Andreas Vesalius, the eminent anatomist of the Renaissance period, whose works On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) are often … Read more