LMCC returns in spring 2021 with our first meeting of the semester: Wednesday, February 24 at 5:30pm est! For our February meeting, we will be reading and discussing the introduction to Priscilla Wald’s 2008 book Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the … Read more

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

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

Our March, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Tues. March 3 from 5:00pm-6:30pm. We focused on Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession & the Making of a Vast Industry, first published … Read more

Our February, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Tues. Feb. 11 from 5:00pm-6:30pm. We focused on Michael Foucault’s 1973 text The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, especially the Preface and Chapter 1, “Spaces and Classes.” … Read more

Hi everyone, March LMCC will be on March 23rd at 2:00 pm. The topic is mental health. Sign up for Panera here by Wednesday night. Find the event’s readings here (1) and here (2). Bonus review article here (3) from David Hume. See you there! … Read more

Hi everyone! This month’s colloquium will be this Friday at 2pm in the HHIVE (524 Greenlaw). Since February is all about hearts and Frankenstein is my valentine, this month we’re diving into “the red market” (the over- and underground system through which human parts … Read more

We are planning to have our first fully-fledged meeting of the Fall 2017 semester this month! Friday, October 13 join us in HHIVE at noon for Frankenstein discussions (and queue some spooky Friday the 13th tunes). Readings will follow soon. Friday, November … Read more

For our last LMCC meeting of the semester we will be investigating disability studies through the work of Christina Crosby and Ellen Samuels. Both articles are now posted under our readings section, and the meeting will take place in Gaskin … Read more

*This event has been rescheduled to 2:15-3:30 this Friday! This month we will be examining transgender politics, visibility and embodiment through the work of two notable theorists: Susan Stryker and Richard M. Juang. Our readings will include Stryker’s article “My Words … Read more