Access and Crisis: Disability and the Collapse of Everything The twinned crises of a global pandemic and a re-awakening to systemic racial injustice have reignited previously illuminated disparities for the disability community, compounded by a violently exclusionary presidential administration. These … Read more
Wilson College is devoting its annual Humanities Conference to the theme of Healthcare in the Humanities this year. The conference is sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. Humanities program as well as their new undergraduate program in Healthcare and Medical Humanities. This … Read more
The Yale Review of Disability Experience is seeking submissions for their first print issue until March 1st. They will be accepting submissions for online publication on a rolling basis. The first issue will be published in the Spring (in April … Read more
As we struggle to enrich our lives and occupy our minds while we navigate these stressful times, many like myself have taken this opportunity to explore podcasts to feel connected with others, and in some ways distracted from the cacophony … Read more
Caroline Fryar, a fourth-year medical student at UNC, is taking the goals of HHIVE out of Greenlaw 524 and into the world. In 2010, Fryar served as an undergraduate member of HHIVE, and fondly remembers attending Grand Rounds events and … Read more
In a presentation titled “Disability Studies & Health Humanities,” Dr. Kym Weed examined the social construction of disability and how undertones of the eugenics movement exist in today’s COVID-19 emergency care rationing system. To begin her talk, Weed challenged the … Read more
The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) welcomes submissions to the 39th annual William Carlos Williams poetry competition during the 2020-2021 academic year. The competition is open to students attending colleges of medicine or … Read more
