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Narrative Medicine as an Ancient Practice

Roper Hall, Room 4302

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Janet Downie Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Classics Narrative Medicine as an Ancient Practice Hybrid event In-person: Roper Hall, Room 4302 Virtual via Zoom: REGISTER for this event Lecture In this talk Downie will look at three idiosyncratic examples of medical narrative from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: … Read more

Reshaping the Great Migration and Public Health in the South

Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library

A special opening reception and keynote to New Scholarship on the US South: A Wilson Library Fellows Symposium. Speaker: Dr. Richard Mizelle, Associate Professor of History, University of Huston Talk Description: The Great Migration has generated a groundswell of scholarship in the past forty-years.  From resilient stories of survival in harsh rural and urban landscapes to … Read more

CANCELED: The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Mandy Fowler Doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care Lecture Early Modern Economies of Care, explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation, Mandy will share insights … Read more