the Medical Humanities : Faculty research seminar
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The humanities offer a primary means of knowing the body, its ailments, and its habits of healing, living and dying. This premise forms the foundation of the Medical Humanities seminar, and informs its two fundamental goals. First, seminar participants aim to advance knowledge of the body and its frailties across many fields of inquiry -- history, literature, art, theater, anthropology, and religion through a shared interest in the social and cultural significance of medicine, embodiment, sickness, modes of approaching healing, and mortality. Second, the seminar aims to critique the deleterious academic practice of holding scientific and humanist knowledge production distinct. Bifurcation of knowledge about the body and its frailties exacerbates national and global problems in contemporary healthcare practice. We hope to construct new public and scholarly discourses on medicine, health, and mortality and foster the integration of humanistic inquiry at the level of healthcare policy, practice, and individual decision-making. |
Along with my colleague, Monica Black, I organize the University of Tennessee Humanities Center's Faculty Research Seminar on the Medical Humanities. Once a month during the semester, we share research and read recent scholarship on medical matters from a variety of disciplines, geographies, media, and chronologies. We are always interested in inviting guests to campus, so please let us know what you are working on by emailing me here: sritchey@utk.edu. You can learn more about the Medical Humanities Faculty Research Seminar here:
https://uthumanitiesctr.utk.edu/research/medical.php
2018-2019 schedule:
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Mary McAlpin (MFLL, University of Tennessee- Knoxville)
“Denis Diderot and the Masturbating Girl”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Helene Sinnreich (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Discussion, Public Health in Holocaust Era Ghettos
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Shared Reading, João Biehl’s Vita
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Deirdre Cooper-Owens (History, CUNY) Public Lecture
"Enslaved Mothers of Gynecology & the Birth of American Gynecology."
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Edward Polanco (History, Virginia Tech)
"Making Medicina out of Tiçiyotl."
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Kira Robison (History, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga)
“Audiences of Instruction: Teaching Anatomy Through Books and Lecture”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Claire Wendland (Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Therapeutic Enclaves Out of Bounds”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Nikki Eggers (History, University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
“Healing: Gender, Power, and Tradition”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
Discussion, Medicine in Early China
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Planning session
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
https://uthumanitiesctr.utk.edu/research/medical.php
2018-2019 schedule:
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Mary McAlpin (MFLL, University of Tennessee- Knoxville)
“Denis Diderot and the Masturbating Girl”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Helene Sinnreich (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Discussion, Public Health in Holocaust Era Ghettos
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Shared Reading, João Biehl’s Vita
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Deirdre Cooper-Owens (History, CUNY) Public Lecture
"Enslaved Mothers of Gynecology & the Birth of American Gynecology."
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Edward Polanco (History, Virginia Tech)
"Making Medicina out of Tiçiyotl."
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Kira Robison (History, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga)
“Audiences of Instruction: Teaching Anatomy Through Books and Lecture”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Claire Wendland (Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Therapeutic Enclaves Out of Bounds”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Nikki Eggers (History, University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
“Healing: Gender, Power, and Tradition”
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
Discussion, Medicine in Early China
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Planning session
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall
4:00-5:00 P.M.