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Disability and the Arts

Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

Duke Disability Alliance is proud to invite you to: DISABILITY AND THE ARTS SATURDAY, MARCH 31 12:30-4:00PM NASHER MUSEUM OF ART   Come join us for an afternoon of exploring the intersection of disability pride and artistic liberty. Guest artists … Read more

Health Literacy Strategies & Resources

Health Sciences Library, Room 527 UNC School of Medicine, 335 S Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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Imagination is not imaginary: Betes Project performance-dialogue-workshop

Gerrard Hall 106 E. Cameron Street, Chapel Hill

Michele Rivkin-Fish and I write to invite you to the puppet artist Marina Tsaplina's "BetesProject" performance-dialogue-workshop this coming Thursday. It's a wonderful cross-disciplinary investigation of how we can rethink medical education and expand areas for medicine-related research to include the arts. Here is the description of … Read more

Vicissitudes of Care: Humanitarian-Military Entanglements in Occupied Kashmir

Room 308, Alumni Building (Dept. of Anthropology)

Lecture by Dr. Saiba Varma--Assistant Professor. of Anthropology, UC-San Diego Co-Sponsors:  South Asia Working Group, Department of Anthropology, The "Decolonization in the Global South” Carolina Seminar, The Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group   Saiba Varma’s research focuses on health … Read more

Using Tolstoy to Teach about Empathy and End of Life

Bostock Library 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United States

Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, tells the story of the agonizing illness and the death of its central character. This iconic work of literature portrays Ivan's difficult reflections about a life lived without purpose and his … Read more