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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Invited for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for TC Medical Humanities and Health Sciences will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for m…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: Society of Early Americanists 2017, Tulsa OK in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRoundtable: (Early) American Disgust
Expressed both publicly and privately, disgust is often a response to the new and the different, whether referring to people, food, behaviors, or ideologies, and this was no less true in the early Americas than it is today. Because disgust is historically and culturally constructed, early texts…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Kathryn J. McKnight replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Rosemary and Erin,
Thank you both! Your posts are so helpful. Erin, I have downloaded the report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities programs and I look forward to the special issue. Rosemary, yes, I would love to see materials. I will email you separately.
Thank you,
Kathy
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn and Rosemary,
Kathryn, I’m intrigued by your inquiry: “I am interesting in studying whether awareness of this linkage would have a positive impact on their engagement in learning critical textual analysis as well as whether it would encourage them to enroll in additional literature/culture classes.” I don’t know anyone else who is…[Read more]
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Rosemary Ila Weatherston replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn,
I have been looking at similar questions in my own courses and research and have found some success adapting required general education literature courses for undergraduate health professions students. These modified courses draw on the discipline of narrative medicine for their framework and combine a general study of fiction and l…[Read more]
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Kathryn J. McKnight started the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I just found this group and am thrilled you are here!
I am very interested in connecting with anyone who is engaged in transforming their undergraduate teaching of literature (and cultural studies) in ways that explicitly engage students with the arguments for the humanities in medical education. To be direct, many of our pr…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/careLiterature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic 2016 MLA Medical Humanities Executive Committee in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoDuring the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.
The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:
Rebecca Garden, president
Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary
Andrea Charise, member
Erin L…[Read more]
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