Below is a list of upcoming Humanities Institute activities that COLA students might be interested in. For more details, updates, and RSVP information, please follow the links to the Humanities Institute web page.
- 9/21: 4:00 pm Health and Humanities Event: Poetry Reading by ire’ne lara silva (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/news/rescheduled-for-september-21-poetry-reading-by-ire-ne-lara-silva)
- 10/1: 7:30 pm Controversy and Conversation Documentary Film Discussion: “What is Democracy” discussant TBA
- 10/5: 4:00 pm Health and Humanities Research Seminar: Presentation by visiting postdoc Izetta Autumn Mobley on “Optical Illusions & the Anatomy of Looking: Race, Disability, Slavery, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century”
- TBA: Difficult Dialogues Public Forum on Immigration, Detention Centers, and Covid-19
- 11/5: 7:30 pm Controversy and Conversation Documentary Film Discussion: “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” discussant TBA
- 11/2: 4:00 pm Health and Humanities Research Seminar: Presentation by William Tierney, M.D. (Dell Medical School), “When a Physician-Researcher Gets Cancer” (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/events/rescheduled-health-humanities-research-seminar-with-dr-william-tierney-on-healing-the-healer-when-a-physician-researcher-gets-cancer)
- TBA: Workshops to complete identification tags for the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit
- 12/3: 7:30 pm Documentary Film Discussion: “Border South” discussant TBA
- 12/7: 4:00 pm Health and Humanities Research Seminar: Presentation by Rishi Goyal, M.D. (Director of the Medicine Literature and Society Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center), “The Humanities in the Emergency Room”