April 2026 Meeting Notes: Articles on the Debate around Trauma Studies
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
March 2026 Meeting Notes: Improvising Medicine by Livingston
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
Feb. 2026 Meeting Notes: The Birth of the Clinic by Foucault
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
Jan. 2026 Meeting Notes: Works-in-Progress by Seiler
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
Nov. 2025 Meeting Notes: Raw Material by O’Connor
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
Oct. 2025 Meeting Notes: Rehabilitating Bodies by Long
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
Sept. 2025 Meeting Notes: “Canada Is Killing Itself” by Elaina Plott Calabro, from The Atlantic
Our September 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, Sept. 24 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 an article from … Read more
Aug. 2025 Meeting Notes: The Retrievals, Season 2, an NYT Podcast
Our August 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, August 27 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed The Retrievals, Season 2, a podcast from The New York Times by Susan Burton, Julie Snyder, … Read more
April 2025 Meeting Notes: Zimmermann’s The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
Our April 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 (temporarily relocated from UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524), with options for members to join via Zoom as well. We discussed The Poetics and Politics … Read more
March 2025 Meeting Notes: Redman’s Bone Rooms
Our March 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 26 at 5:30pm completely over Zoom. (For our next meeting in April, we plan to meet once again in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524, with options for members to join … Read more