March 2022 Meeting: Raza Kolb’s Epidemic Empire
Our March 2022 meeting for LMCC took place on Thursday, March 31 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We discussed Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb’s 2021 monograph from the University of Chicago Press, Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020. Specifically, we … Read more
Jan. 2022 Meeting: Carter’s The Heart of Whiteness
Our January 2022 meeting (and our first meeting of the spring 2022 semester) for LMCC took place on Wed. Jan. 26 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We discussed Julian B. Carter’s 2007 monograph from Duke University Press, The Heart of … Read more
Nov. 2021 Meeting: Re-Presenting Disability, edited by Sandell, Dodd, and Garland-Thomson
Our November 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Nov. 17 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We discussed Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum, edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (2010). Specifically, we’d discussed: … Read more
Oct. 2021 Meeting: Washington’s Medical Apartheid
Our October, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Oct. 27 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Harriet A. Washington’s 2006 monograph Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to … Read more
Sept. 2021 Meeting: Ordover’s American Eugenics
Our September, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 29 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Nancy Ordover‘s 2003 monograph American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism, especially the introduction and an additional … Read more
April 2021 Meeting: Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling
Our April, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. April 28 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Kyla Schuller’s 2018 monograph The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century, especially the introduction, “Sentimental … Read more
March 2021 Meeting: Hogarth’s Medicalizing Blackness
Our March, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. March 31 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Rana A. Hogarth’s Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, especially: Prologue Introduction An additional chapter of … Read more
Feb. 2021 Meeting: Wald’s Contagious
Our February, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Feb. 24 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Priscilla Wald’s Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, especially: Introduction Chapter 1: “Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging” (optional) … Read more
Nov. 2020 Meeting: Puar’s The Right to Maim
Our November, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Nov. 18 at 5:30pm via Zoom. We focused on Jasbir K. Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, especially: Preface: “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” Introduction: “The Cost of Getting … Read more
Sept. 2020 Meeting: Knadler’s Vitality Politics
Our September, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 30 at 5:30pm via Zoom. We focused on Stephen Knadler’s Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation, especially the introduction, “Ill-Defined Emancipations.” If you missed the … Read more