Author Archives: Paul Blom

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

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

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

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

Our February 2026 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 5:30pm strictly over Zoom. We discussed Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic (1963; trans. by A. M. Sheridan Smith, 1973). Specifically, we asked everyone to focus on the … Read more

The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, February 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

We are excited to congratulate LMCC member Camille Kroll on the recent publication of her academic article, “‘I can’t take in every stray puppy’: How U.S. Pain Specialists Purify Pain Management through Opioid-Related Gatekeeping” in Social Science & Medicine! Camille … Read more

The January 2026 meeting of UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) took place on Wed. Jan. 28 on Zoom. Our February meeting will also take place strictly via our usual Zoom link. (We plan to return to the HHIVE … Read more

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 … Read more

Our November 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab, also known as Greenlaw 524 or Gaskin Library, with options for members to join via Zoom as well. We discussed the scholarly monograph … Read more