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
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
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
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
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
Feb. 2023 Meeting: Owens’s Medical Bondage
Our February LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 225 and via Zoom. We discussed Deirdre Cooper Owens’s 2017 monograph, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology from UGA Press. Specifically, we … Read more
Jan. 2023 Meeting: De-Briefing from MLA 2023
Our first LMCC meeting for the spring 2023 semester took place on Wednesday, January 25 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 and via Zoom. LMCC co-directors Rachel Warner and Paul Blom recently organized and led a panel at the MLA 2023 … Read more
Oct. 2022 Meeting: Health and Medicine in the News
Our October 2022 meeting for LMCC took place on Wednesday, October 26 at 5:30pm est in Greenlaw 509 (relocated from the HHIVE Lab for the evening) and via Zoom. For October, we discussed various news articles on a variety of … Read more
Sept. 2022 Meeting: Dumes’s Divided Bodies continued
Our September 2022 meeting for LMCC took place on Wednesday, September 28 at 5:30pm est in the HHIVE Lab and via Zoom. We continued discussing Abigail A. Dumes’s 2020 monograph from Duke University Press, Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, … Read more
Sept. 1 Meeting: Dumes’s Divided Bodies
Our August 2022 meeting for LMCC actually took place on Thursday, September 1 at 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab and via Zoom. We discussed Abigail A. Dumes’s 2020 monograph from Duke University Press, Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and … Read more