Latest Past Events

Narrative Medicine Mondays

This month's theme: Narratives Patients Tell in the Face of Life-Threatening News What makes a good physician? A person who properly diagnoses and then cures their patients? What if we told you that there’s a third vital characteristic of good physicians – physicians who listen to – and attempt to understand – their patients’ stories. Education[...]

Interdisciplinary Program Building: Disability Studies – A faculty workshop with guest speaker Kathy McMahon-Klosterman

Please join us for a lunchtime seminar with guest speaker Kathy McMahon-Klosterman, Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology, Women’s Studies, Disability Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University Ohio. We will learn from McMahon-Klosterman’s experiences designing a successful Minor in Disability Studies, and from her innovative approaches to community engagement, which were recognized with the US[...]

Disability Activism and Allyship: A public lecture open to students and members of the community.

How inclusive is our democracy? Who gets access to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship, and on what basis? We welcome you to a guest lecture by Kathy McMahon-Klosterman, where we will explore these pressing issues. McMahon-Klosterman is Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology, Women’s Studies, Disability Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University Ohio. Drawing[...]