UPDATE: Our January and February meetings will take place strictly over Zoom. We will return to the HHIVE Lab in March.
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, January 28 at 5:30pm eastern time in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524 (our first meeting of the new academic semester).
All of our meetings this semester will take place on the last Wednesday of each month at 5:30pm eastern time in the HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library (Greenlaw 524):
- Wed. Jan. 28
- Wed. Feb. 25
- Wed. March 25
- Wed. April 22
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. (See our email addresses on the “Home” page of the LMCC website.)
For our January 2026 meeting (our first meeting of the semester), we’ll be discussing a few works-in-progress by Dr. Claire Seiler, Professor of English at Dickinson College and visiting National Humanities Center Fellow. We will read her work and meet with her as a group to discuss her works-in-progress and gain valuable insight both on the topics at hand and regarding how to transform individual essays or papers into larger scholarly endeavors. We’ll discuss the following:
- Introductory letter regarding the readings
- “The Toledo Society for Crippled Children,” a potential preface to her book-in-progress
- “Diagnosing Polio, 1912,” a short seminar paper Seiler presented at the Modernist Studies Association conference this past October and which might inform her ongoing book project
- Seiler, Claire. “J. G. Farrell’s Lost Polio Novel.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, no. 5, vol. 139, Oct. 2024, pp. 821-836. Scopus, doi:10.1632/S0030812924000713.
- A note from Dr. Seiler: “Please don’t feel obligated to read all this stuff. The preface and the article probably afford the best sense of the project, but no worries: there will not be a quiz!”
Normally, we post our readings to the “Readings” page of the LMCC website. However, because two of these works are still in progress, we will not post/share these texts on the LMCC website as we normally do.
- We will email copies of these works to our current LMCC members/people on our listserv.
- To request copies, please email the LMCC Co-Directors. (See our email addresses on the Home page of this site.)
- If you receive a copy of these works-in-progress, please do not share or post your copy without permission from the author, Claire Seiler. If you know of someone who would like to join our January meeting, please have them email one of the LMCC Co-Directors to request a copy of these works. (Again, see our email addresses on the Home page of our site.)
We’ll be discussing and workshopping Claire’s works-in-progress to both benefit from her ideas and to help her finalize her drafts. So come prepared to discuss and to offer productive feedback.
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!