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The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) is an informal working and reading group of graduate and professional students (along with faculty, librarians, other staff, and a few undergraduate students) who meet monthly to talk about all things related to the intersections of literature, medicine, and culture. Although the vast majority of our members are part of the UNC community, we are also open to meaningful participation from members of other universities, colleges, or other institutions.
In the past, we’ve met to workshop conference papers or other works-in-progress, discuss shared readings, and review journal articles. LMCC is a growing, energized organization for grad students in English and beyond. Drawing on a diverse array of personal and disciplinary perspectives, LMCC participants explore health and medical narratives, popular and professional health discourses, and other topics in the health humanities.
For more information, explore this site including notes on past meetings, upcoming events, and useful resources.
To join our email list, please contact one of our Co-Directors:
- Co-Director, Paul Blom (paulblom@live.unc.edu)
- Co-Director, Mindy Buchanan-King (mindym@email.unc.edu)
All of our meetings for the Spring 2026 semester will take place on the last Wednesday of each month at 5:30pm est. For Spring 2026, all of our meetings will take place strictly over Zoom. Readings and other relevant details will be announced via our site’s Announcements page.
RECENT POSTS:
April 2026 Meeting Notes: Articles on the Debate around Trauma Studies
Our April 2026 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30pm strictly over Zoom. We discussed an ongoing debate around trauma studies. Specifically, we asked everyone to focus on the following: “The Case Against the Trauma Plot” by … Read more
April 2026 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting, which will be our final meeting of the semester and of the academic year! We will meet on Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30pm eastern time … Read more
March 2026 Meeting Notes: Improvising Medicine by Livingston
Our March 2026 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 25 at 5:30pm strictly over Zoom. We discussed Julie Livingston’s monograph Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke UP, 2012). Specifically, we asked everyone to … Read more
March 2026 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, March 25 at 5:30pm eastern time strictly over Zoom, using our usual link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/99228197675. If you have trouble with the … Read more