Announcements, Updates, & Meeting Notes

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

This month’s LMCC theme will be health justice, or the correlation between social factors and the dispensation of health care and medical education. We will be reading Olivia Banner’s recent article “Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical … Read more

For our first meeting of the semester, we will be focusing on the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Langdon Winner’s article, “Do Artifacts Have Politics” is now available on our “Readings” page, as well as the optional reading, … Read more

This month’s meeting will be devoted to exploring the intersections of poetry and mental illness. We have two texts available on the “Readings” page and welcome participants to bring a poem of their choice to coincide with the theme. The … Read more

For our October meeting, we will be exploring intersectionality, assemblage theory, and theories of materiality more fully with Jasbir Puar’s “‘I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess’:Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory” as well as an optional reading: “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an … Read more

We will have our first meeting of the semester on Thursday Sept 29th, from 3:00-4:30 pm in the HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524).  This month we will be reading  “Critical medical humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks” by William Viney, Felicity Callard, Angela Woods, as well as Mel … Read more