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Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Dorita S. Berger “Music and Brain Plasticity: A Look at Music Therapy”

Dorita S. Berger, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT is a sensorimotor music therapist and autism specialist as well as a Research Affiliate and Supervisor for various music-based investigations in Dr. Flavio Frohlich’s Neuroscience Lab. She is the 2017 recipient of an American Music Therapy Association Award of Merit for her contributions to the field of Music-Based Treatment. … Read more

Molecular Death and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the US and Canada

The UNC American Indian Center is presenting Dr. Kim TallBear (Native Studies, Univ. of Alberta) speaking on Molecular Death and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the US and Canada, on Thursday, November 2, at 4:00 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Room of Wilson Library. Dr. TallBear’s presentation is the 9th annual Michael D. Green Lecture … Read more

“Begin Cutting: Education by Knife” discussion with Dr. Raj Telhan

Dr. Telhan will be discussing his article “Begin Cutting: Education by Knife.” Attendants are asked to read the short article in advance: http://www.vqronline.org/memoir-articles/2015/10/begin-cutting. HHIVE Lab Health and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration

Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Jessica Barnhill

Health Sciences Library

  “A Recipe for Success: Hotspotting, Integrative Health and the Quadruple Aim”   Wednesday, January 24 3:30-4:40pm Health Sciences Library, Room 527   Light refreshments provided! Jessica Barnhill is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Integrative Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests draw on her clinical … Read more

Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series: African Americans in Civil War Medicine

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003

                   Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine Professor of History and Medicine Duke University Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00-1:00 pm Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003 Lunch provided at NOON Talk begins at 12:10 pm Lecture Hall 2003 is one floor directly above the main lobby of Duke … Read more

Ethics in Fiction: Sam Graham-Felsen in Conversation with Danielle Christmas

Anne Queen Lounge, Campus Y building

Parr Center for Ethics   Fiction writers build new, but never wholly independent, worlds. Readers journey from the real world to the imaginary and return, changed. What, if anything, do the authors of these new worlds owe to their readers, to themselves, to the people and experiences they draw on in their work, to their … Read more

Vision(s) of Progress: Closing Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, MO

Alumni Hall 308

The UNC Department of Anthropology invites you to its Colloquium Event: Ezelle Sanford III – Doctoral Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University Abstract: Following a more than decade-long battle, in August of 1979 the Mayor of St. Louis, the Honorable James Conway, mandated the closure of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. A relic of Jim … Read more