The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30pm eastern time in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524.
If you can’t attend in person, you can always attend via our usual Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/99228197675. If you have trouble with the Zoom link, please email either of the Co-Directors.
Note: This will be our final meeting of the semester and also of the 2024-2025 academic year!
For our April meeting, we’ll be discussing The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing: S(h)ifting Dementia by Martina Zimmermann (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Specifically, we’d like everyone to read the following:
- Chapter 1: “Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy” (pp. 1-22)
- Chapter 2: “Of Wives and Daughters: Stereotypes of the Caring Female?” (pp. 23-47)
- Note: Chapter 2 consists of several sections. Try to read the entire chapter, but at least read through the section titled “The Lost Identity: Alzheimer’s Disease, Adult Children and the Past” (through p. 33).
All members of the UNC community can access the full text of Zimmermann’s monograph online through the UNC Libraries. We’ve also posted .pdfs of these materials onto the “Readings” page of the LMCC website, including the book’s front matter and the table of contents (TOC). If you run into trouble getting access to the text, please contact one of the Co-Directors. (See our email addresses on the Home page of this site).
If you have any questions, please contact us directly. Please also feel free to share this info with other graduate or professional students who might be interested! We look forward to meeting with you all for an exciting discussion of this work!
Again, this will be our final meeting of the semester and also of the 2024-2025 academic year! Look out for announcements and updates about any potential summer meetings and for when we resume regular monthly meetings this fall!