Author Archives: Paul Blom

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

The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, November 19 at 5:30pm eastern time in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524. If you … Read more

Our October 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 5:30pm over Zoom (although for our November meeting, we do plan to return to the HHIVE Lab, also known as Greenlaw 524 or Gaskin Library, with options for … Read more

The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, October 29 at 5:30pm eastern time. Although we normally meet in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or … Read more