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Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Damon Tweedy

Fred brooks, room 009 (Sitterson Hall)

Join us in our upcoming HHGR with Dr. Damon Tweedy for his talk on his most recent book, Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine, which was published earlier this year. He is a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System.

Not a Novel Podcast: Crossovers

DLC Lab Greenlaw 321

Crossovers, team ups, mashups, extended universes, and more. What happens when characters and settings from different stories are brought together to make a new narrative? How do these new stories reframe the original stories? Join the Not a Novel Podcast team as we talk about ways stories are combined. Come make a podcast with us!

Working at Liberal Arts Colleges

Zoom

We will hear from faculty members who have formerly served on the tenure track at liberal arts colleges and learn about what the job experience is like in such institutions and how to tailor job documents leveraging ECL grad experience for such positions. Professors Stephanie DeGooyer and Sheera Talpaz will serve as panelists both of whom have extensive experiences with SLACs.

Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (October)

HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524

Please join us on Wednesday, Oct. 30, to discuss My Imaginary Illness: A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis by Chloë G. K. Atkins (Cornell UP, 2011). More information about the LMCC and our October reading can be found at https://lmcc.web.unc.edu/.

Alien Superstar: The Gender Politics of Extraterrestrial Body Horror (Playtest)

Greenlaw Gameroom, Room 316

Join Kino Corner and the Greenlaw Gameroom for a close look at how the Alien franchise bends our understanding of bodies and gender across films, comics, and video games alike. Sci-fi and horror fans, gamers, comic fans, cinephiles, and the morbidly curious are all welcome!