UCI Center for Medical Humanities
Suffering “Well” Across Communities of Color: A Comparative Conversation on Race, Ableism, and Disability Studies with Mimi Khúc and Sami Schalk ♥ ★ ✚
Humanities Gateway 1030Suffering “Well” Across Communities of Color: A Comparative Conversation on Race, Ableism, and Disability Studies with Mimi Khúc and Sami Schalk A comparative and intersectional conversation on race, ableism, and disability studies exploring ableism in Asian American and African American communities and how ethnic studies can more fully develop a disability lens. This event is…
Work-in-Progress Series | STROKE BOOK: The Queer Story of a Blindspot by Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor’s Professor of English ♥ ✚
ZoomPlease join us on Wednesday, February 17th, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. PST for our second Work-in-Progress presentation by Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor's Professor of English! Work-in-Progress Series: The Work-in-Progress series provides faculty and students from around campus the opportunity to showcase their research projects that engage with the intersection of medicine, arts, and the humanities. This year, the center…
Open In Emergency: Differential Unwellness Within UCI Student Communities ✚
ZoomOpen In Emergency: Differential Unwellness Within UCI Student Communities A Project by the UCI Center for Medical Humanities Join us for a year-long series of events exploring mental health and unwellness within student communities at UCI and beyond. The series will bring Open In Emergency: A Mental Health Project (OIE), a multi-media, humanities, arts, and activist-based…
Screening and Discussion of “Manzanar, Diverted” with the Creators ♥
ZoomJoin us for a lA! Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Time: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Pacific From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water,” "MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST" poetically weaves together memories of intergenerational women. Native Americans, Japanese American WWII incarcerees and…
Cost, Collectivity, and Care: What It Means to Support Mental Health in a Time of Trauma ✚
ZoomCost, Collectivity, and Care: What It Means to Support Mental Health in a Time of Trauma In this talk, Margaret Price draws upon more than ten years of research on mental health and disability in academic culture, beginning with her focus on student mental health in her first book, Mad at School, and sharing new…
Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness ✚
Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness Join us for our second event in our “Mental Health in a Time of Pandemic” series. Professor Bruce’s talk begins with a meditation on “mad” black captives in the novels and short stories of Richard Wright, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange. While confined in…
Theories of Change: Observing Structural Barriers for URM Students in Science & Medicine ♥★
ZoomWork-in-Progress Series Rena Goldstein, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy Theories of Change: Observing Structural Barriers for URM Students in Science & Medicine STEM fields at UCI, including fields like chemistry and physics that feed directly into medical fields, have struggled to maintain adequate representation of underrepresented minority groups. Minority groups, including women, AAPI, Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian, and Black/African American,…
In the Wake: Reflections on Our Shared Social Life ♥✚
ZoomAbout 800 days have passed since the World Health Organization elevated the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease to a pandemic. What followed were profound disruptions in social, economic, and political life in every society, an ongoing cascade of tumult made all the more unsettling by the public murder of George Floyd and other Black people…