The Health Humanities Lab is trying to expand its social media presence and encourage more students to use the lab space. Visit our lab for pastries and coffee at this social media party - all you have to do is like our pages and subscribe to our newsletter before making your plate of food! Feel[...]
Are you a Duke faculty member interested in getting involved with the Disability & Access Initiative? Then attend this meeting! Through readings and discussions, participants with DAI work toward building disability studies content into their courses and developing a disability-conscious pedagogy. RSVP with dietary restrictions to katherine.berko@duke.edu. Learn more about DAI, here. Time: 11am-12:30pm Location:[...]
Romance Studies and Global Health faculty member Deborah Jenson will converse with Duke Divinity and UNC School of Medicine student Danielle Jameison on storytelling, race and the emergency room. The session will include Danielle’s performance of a story composed for theHHL Storytelling in Medicine & Health class, co-taught by Drs. Jenson, Barfield and Polish. Drinks and[...]
The Calla Campaign Presents (IN)VISIBLE ORGAN: A Mixed-Media Exhibition at the Rubenstein Arts Center Feb 1- March 3, 2019 An experiment in storytelling, medical technology, and art that explores the continuum of truths, perceptions, and emotions about female sexual reproductive health. *This event is sponsored by the Health Humanities Lab
This group has been renamed from "Narrative Health Support Group" to more accurately reflect its work with storytelling and its encouragement that all students affected by health conditions, whether personally or through a loved one, attend. After January 30th, the group will meet every Wednesday in the same place, same time. Dinner included, no prior[...]
This event is co-sponsored by the HHL. How can we bring both arts and engineering together on a creative project? Why are stories important for designing real solutions to global health problems? Students involved in the Calla Campaign will talk about how a new medical device become the basis to an arts exhibit focused on[...]
For this month’s session of the Health Humanities Lab’s “Narrative Medicine Mondays” we’ll read about and reflect on how narrative – of the self or as depicted in literature – can affect one’s relationship to food. How did one woman with anorexia learn to enjoy food again by reading about delicious meals in novels? What[...]
*This Neurodiversity at Duke event is co-sponsored by the Health Humanities Lab, among others Members of the Duke community: Please join us for a special screening of Autism in Love, a documentary on love & relationships, immediately followed by a Q&A session with director, Matt Fuller. “Finding love can be hard enough for anyone, but[...]
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO UN-FORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. Join us for a narrative medicine workshop led by Dr. Sneha Mantri, a neurologist trained in movement disorders and narrative medicine. Narrative medicine is an approach to medical humanities that centers the importance of storytelling in the clinical encounter. The workshop will start with an overview of[...]
This event is cosponsored by the Health Humanities Lab. Speaker: Harris Solomon Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its new Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present on their current research to interlocutors in their fields. A light breakfast will be served at[...]
