LMCC: The Red Market
HHIVE Lab (Gaskin Library/Greenlaw 524) Gaskin Library, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel HillSince February is all about hearts and Frankenstein is my valentine, this month we're diving into "the red market" (the over- and underground system through which human parts are bought and sold). To Read (Frankenstein Patent.pdf): A fascinating article called "Patenting Frankenstein's Monster: … Read more
The Right to Health and Trans Activism in Brazil by José Amador
National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12256 , Research Triangle Park, North Carolina , NC, United StatesThe Right to Health and Trans Activism in Brazil Saturday, February 17, 2018 2:00 pm José Amador, Associate Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies (Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies), Miami University José Amador’s work examines Latin American history from transnational and … Read more
Paige Auditorium, Duke University
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II is the president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival which is a multi-state movement fighting to end systemic racism, poverty, the war … Read more
Digital Health Symposium | UNC Health Sciences Library
Health Sciences Library, 2nd FloorClick here to find out more and register for the event! The theme of the event is “Digital Health Everywhere”, and the symposium will span a wide range of digital health topics. Speakers will include UNC researchers, students, and library … Read more
Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Emily Winderman
HHIVE Lab (Gaskin Library/Greenlaw 524) Gaskin Library, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel HillDr. Emily Winderman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at North Carolina State University. She studies the rhetoric of health and medicine and will present a work-in-progress that investigates rhetorics of clinical space, especially abortion clinics.
Psychiatric Degeneration Theory and Irish Modernism: Blending Sickness with Sin
Perkins 217SPONSOR(S): Neurohumanities Research Group, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Health Humanities Lab (HHL) Responding to patterns of industrialization and institutionalization in the nineteenth century, degeneration theorists like Bénédict Morel, Cesare Lombroso, and Max Nordau became convinced that the … Read more