Jan. 2024 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for the beginning of a new academic semester! Our first meeting for Spring 2024 will take place on Wednesday, January 31 at 5:30pm in UNC’s recently renovated HHIVE Lab, … Read more
Nov. 2023 Meeting: Biss’s “The Pain Scale”
Our November LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, November 29 at 5:45pm in UNC’s newly renovated HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss, originally published in Harper’s Magazine, 2005. If you missed … Read more
Nov. 2023 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC will hold our next meeting on Wednesday, November 29 at 5:45pm in UNC’s recently renovated HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524. Note: All of our meetings this … Read more
Oct. 2023 Meeting: Wald’s Contagious
Our October LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, October 25 at 5:45pm in UNC’s newly renovated HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald (Duke UP, 2008). Specifically, we … Read more
Oct. 2023 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC will hold our next meeting on Wednesday, October 25 at 5:45pm in UNC’s recently renovated HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524. Note: All of our meetings this … Read more
Sept. 2023 Meeting: Encountering Pain, edited by Padfield and Zakrzewska
Our September LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, September 27 at 5:45pm in UNC’s newly renovated HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking, edited by Deborah Padfield and Joanna M. Zakrzewska (UCL Press, … Read more
Sept. 2023 Meeting Announcement
The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for the beginning of a new academic semester! Our first meeting for Fall 2023 will take place on Wednesday, September 27 at 5:45pm in UNC’s recently renovated HHIVE Lab, … Read more
April 2023 Meeting: Zilcosky’s The Language of Trauma (continued)
Our April LMCC meeting (and our final meeting of the semester) took place on Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 225 and via Zoom. We continued our March discussion of John Zilcosky’s 2021 monograph, The Language of Trauma: War … Read more
April 2023 Meeting Announcement
The next meeting for the Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) will take place on Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30pm est. Because the HHIVE Lab is being renovated, the rest of our meetings this semester will be held in the … Read more
March 2023 Meeting: Zilcosky’s The Language of Trauma
Our March LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 29 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 (temporarily relocated from Greenlaw 225) and via Zoom. We discussed John Zilcosky’s 2021 monograph, The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffman, Freud, and … Read more