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2024 McGovern Lecture: A Medicine More Fit for Humanity

February 14, 2024

Date: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 from 5:30-7pm Location: Great Hall, Trent Semans Center at Duke Register to attend: https://t.e2ma.net/click/jdyvvi/z5e8rgf/bzlesp We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice … Read more

Medical Humanities and Asian American Studies

September 18, 2023

Hosted by the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program at Duke University, the one-day symposium explores connections and intersections between Medical Humanities and Asian American Studies. The keynote speaker is Dr. James Kyung-Jin Lee, the author of Pedagogies of Woundedness: … Read more

Duke: Collaborative Directions in Art and Health (How Artists Work, Now)

November 2, 2022

Duke Dance Program presents How Artists Work, Now with “Collaborative Directions in Art and Health” featuring: Dr. Anne Basting Theater artist, writer, systems visionary, and MacArthur Fellow (2016) Liz Lerman Choreographer, community engaged artist, writer, teacher and MacArthur Fellow (2002) Moderator: … Read more

Duke: Dance, Health, and the Military (How Artists Work, Now)

November 2, 2022

Duke Dance Program presents How Artists Work, Now with “Dance, Health, and the Military” featuring: Dr. Susan Steinberg-Oren Clinical Psychologist, Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System Christine Suarez, M.F.A Los Angeles-based choreographer and dance educator Rick Maher 34-year combat aviator, … Read more

Duke: The Gender of Care: Alzheimer’s Disease in the 1980s

November 2, 2022

In the 1980s, Americans grappled like never before with dementia, and specifically with Alzheimer’s Disease. This talk will return to this era with a historian’s eyes, asking specifically why families, and women in families, were viewed as the indispensable deliverers … Read more

Duke: Accompliceship Now! with Jen Deerinwater

April 13, 2022

Join the Duke Disability Aliane on Zoom on Monday, April 18 from 4:00 – 5:15 pm EDT. Register in advance to receive the Zoom link.   This is an opportunity to learn what indigenous and crip wisdom can offer us … Read more

Duke Disability Cultural Center Launch Party

April 13, 2022

Duke Disability Alliance invites you to a launch party for the new Disability Cultural Center! Join them on Sunday April 17 from 4-5 pm EDT in the new Disability Community Space! (Second level Bryan Center, room 033). There will be … Read more