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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 States

The 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 Floor

  Click 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

Free

Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Emily Winderman

HHIVE Lab (Gaskin Library/Greenlaw 524) Gaskin Library, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

Dr. 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 217

SPONSOR(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

Hutchins Conversation: Lisa McKeithan on Liberal Arts & Rural Health

Graham Memorial Hall, Room 039

Lisa McKeithan, MS, CRC, is Director and HIV/AIDS Researcher at CommWell Health Clinics in Dunn, North Carolina, an award-winning not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. McKeithan is Director of CommWell Health’s NC-REACH program, which serves patients who are both HIV-positive and homeless. The National Rural … Read more