UNC LMCC

The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium is an informal working group of grad students who meet monthly to discuss health humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Our next meeting is Wed. April 22 at 5:30pm est, strictly over Zoom, using our usual Zoom link. We'll discuss a few recent articles that engage in the ongoing debate around trauma studies. For the articles and other info, visit https://t.co/f4aKCNpn3Z. (Image: Aldo Jarillo)

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Our next mtg. is Wed. March 25 at 5:30pm est, strictly over Zoom, using our usual link. We’ll discuss Livingston’s Improvising Medicine (Duke UP, 2012), esp. the preface and 1st ch, w/ch 5 as a suggested optional reading. (Image: front cover of the book.) https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy

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Our next meeting is Wed. Feb. 25 at 5:30pm est, strictly over Zoom, using our usual link. We’ll discuss Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic, especially the preface and chapter 1, with chapter 6 as a suggested optional reading. (Image: front cover of the book.) https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy

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UPDATE: Our January and February meetings will take place strictly over Zoom. We will return to the HHIVE Lab in March.

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Our next meeting is Wed. Jan. 28 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join via Zoom. We'll discuss works-in-progress by Dr. Claire Seiler, Prof. of English at Dickinson College & visiting Natl. Humanities Center Fellow. For more info & the rdgs, see our site.

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Our Spring 2026 meetings will all take place on the last Wednesday of each month, 5:30pm est in the HHIVE Lab (@UNC_LitMedCult), Greenlaw 524: Wed. Jan. 28, Wed. Feb. 25, Wed. March 25, and Wed. April 22. You can also join any of these via Zoom in real-time!

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Our next meeting is Wed. Nov. 19 at 5:30pm est in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (GL 524) or on Zoom. We’ll discuss Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture by Erin O’Connor (Duke UP, 2000), esp. ch. 3 & (optional) intro. (Image: front cover of the book.) https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy

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Our next meeting is Wed. Oct. 29 at 5:30pm eastern time, strictly over Zoom. We'll discuss Rehabilitating Bodies by Lisa A. Long (PENN Press, 2004), esp. the introduction and an optional chapter of your choice. (Image: the front cover of Long’s monograph.) https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy

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Our next meeting is Wed. Sept. 24 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss Calabro’s (@elainaplott) Atlantic article, “Canada Is Killing Itself” (Aug. 2025) and some optional related readings. (Illustration by Michael Houtz)

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Our next meeting is Wed. Aug. 27 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss The Retrievals, Season 2, a podcast from The New York Times, esp. episodes 1 & 2. For more info, see https://t.co/SSGFU9U6G6. (Image credit: Erik Tanner, NYT)

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Our Fall 2025 meetings will all take place on the last Wednesday of each month, 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab (@UNC_LitMedCult), Greenlaw 524: Wed. Aug. 27, Wed. Sept. 24, Wed. Oct. 29, and Wed. Nov. 19. You can also join any of these via Zoom in real time!

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LMCC just held our final meeting of the semester! When we return in the fall, we will meet once at the end of each month in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (GL 524) with options for people to join via Zoom as well. Stay in touch with us over the summer, and look out for our coming announcements!

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Our next meeting is Wed. April 23 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing by Martina Zimmermann (2017), especially chapters 1 and 2. https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy.

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Our next meeting is Wed. March 26 at 5:30pm eastern time and will be only via Zoom. We will NOT meet in person. We'll discuss Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel J. Redman (Harvard UP, 2016), especially the prologue and first chapter.

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Our next meeting is Wed. Feb. 26 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa by Julie Livingston (Duke UP, 2019), especially the prologue and the first chapter.

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Our Spring 2025 meetings will all take place on the last Wednesday of each month, 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab (@UNC_LitMedCult), Greenlaw 524: Wed. Jan. 29, Wed. Feb. 26, Wed. March 26, and Wed. April 23. You can also join any of these via Zoom in real time!

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Our next meeting is Wed. Jan. 29 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss a paper-in-progress by Camille Kroll, “‘I Can’t Take in Every Stray Puppy’: The Intersection of Gatekeeping and Dirty Work in U.S. Outpatient Pain Clinics."

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Our next meeting is Wed. Nov. 20 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain by Mara Buchbinder (2015), especially the intro & any addtl chapter of your choice. https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy.

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Our next meeting is Wed. Oct. 30 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss My Imaginary Illness by Chloë G. K. Atkins (2011), esp. the Foreword, the intro, ch. 17, and any additional chapter of your choice. https://t.co/SSGFU9U6G6.

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Our next meeting is Wed. Sept. 25 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524. You can also join us via Zoom. We'll discuss A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria by @CateBelling, esp the intro, ch 1, ch 4, & an additl chapter of your choice. https://t.co/SSGFU9TyQy.