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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 hours, 20 minutes agoThanks for your willingness to serve, Jess. –Tom Long
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Jessica Waggoner started the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 23 hours, 49 minutes agoHello everyone!
My name is Jess Waggoner and I am running for the MLA TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee. At MLA’s suggestion, I wanted to use this space to introduce myself and some of my goals.
I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of H…[Read more]
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Olivia Banner deposited Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThis article argues that the humanities and medicine fields have paid insufficient attention to race, which is reflected in and enabled by the apolitical nature of their cornerstone principles, their practices of literary interpretation, and their paucity of scholarship on writers of color. I examine the fields’ interpretation of Audre Lorde’s ill…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoPaul Crawford from the International Health Humanities Network at the University of Nottingham has shared a digital showcase of their extensive, multi-year ARTS and HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL funded program […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Practical Resources for Anyone Involved in Interdisciplinary Research in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months agoFour New Project Shorts published for Working Knowledge: practical resources for anyone involved in interdisciplinary […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Community Wellbeing & Transformation in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThe deadline for abstracts (1st May) is fast approaching for the 7th International Health Humanities Conference to be held in the historic city of Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Medical Rhetoric CCCC 2019 Roundtable in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoMedical Rhetoric CCCC 2019 Roundtable CFP
Roundtable Objective
The roundtable aims to foster interactive discussions between and around these issues and among presenters and the audience. To this end, we invite […] -
Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post Medical Humanities Career Day (Drew U, Madison, NJ) in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoDrew University Medical Humanities Career Day April 11th 630pm-9pm in Crawford Hall, Einger Center
Join us on Wednesday, April 11th from 630 pm-9 pm in Crawford Hall, Einger Center for Medical Humanities Career Day. In the first half of the event, former Drew University Medical Humanities Alumni will discuss the different trajectories they took…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoMadness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness
Philosophers have considered the relation between madness and literature since Plato’s Phaedrus. Mental illness has been a […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Symposium: Opening Doors: from the medical to the health humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months agoDrew University will be hosting a symposium: “Opening Doors: from the medical to the health humanities” on Friday, March 23rd from 230pm to 8pm at Drew University in Madison, NJ.
The theme of the event is an […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion, 1200-1800 in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months agoAngelical Conjunctions: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion, 1200-1800
McGill University on April 13-15, 2019
“Angelical Conjunction” was the term coined by the seventeenth-century New England Puritan Cotton […] -
Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Mosquito-borne Illnesses in the Americas in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoCFP: 2018 Fregly Interdisciplinary Symposium: Mosquito-borne Illnesses in the Americas
On October 4 and 5, 2018 the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, through the Melvin Fregly Fund, is […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoSubmissions for the Spring 2018 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine are now open from March 2 – April 2, 2018.
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal de […] -
Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Dósis – new online blog and magazine in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoDósis is an online blog and magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of medical humanities and social justice. The first issue is available here. This web-only publication offers three issues annually fe […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoPostgraduate Medical Humanities Conference (Exeter, 7-8 June 2018)
The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference will return to the University of Exeter Centre for Medical History in June 2018 for its fifth consecutive year. Over the last four years it has steadily flourished, bringing together an international community of…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post MLA & AHA 2019 in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoWe are pleased to announce that the Modern Language Association (MLA) will collaborate this year with the American Historical Association (AHA), which will hold its convention in Chicago at the same time as the MLA. In an effort to promote collaboration among the humanities, each association will honor the other’s attendee badges. We also invite y…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Public Health Humanities: Audience, Engagement, and Social Justice in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoApplications are Now Open for the
2018 Center for Literature and Medicine Summer Seminar
at Hiram College
Public Health Humanities:
Audience, Engagement, and Social Justice
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: AAHN Research Grants in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoThe American Association for the History of Nursing, Inc (AAHN) is please to announce the initial call for submissions for the 2019 Research Grant Program. Originally initiated in 2008, the AAHN Research Grants […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Postgraduate J of Medical Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 8 months agoPJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History, is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its fifth edition. The jo […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Cultural crossings of care – an appeal to the medical humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 8 months ago‘Cultural crossings of care’ is a 2-day conference organised by the University of Oslo’s Knowledge in Translation (KNOWIT) and Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. Honorary guest and speak […]
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