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From Colonial Medicine to International Health in East Asia

World War II almost destroyed the framework established by the three above organizations. Only American support was able to survive during the wartime period (Liu 2014). In the … See more

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Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities

WEBWorking Group: Global Asian Health Humanities. Focusing on the East Asian context, this Working Group takes up the interrelationship between modern biomedicine and l …

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Health, Illness, and Memory

WEBAbstract: As a cancer patient in remission, the author considers the meaning of health and illness as they relate to language and to his own experience growing up in Argentina …

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Working Group: Global Health Humanities

WEBLatest Blogs. Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019; FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual symposium June 7, …

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The Health Humanities and the Future of Publishing

WEBAbstract: The Health Humanities is a new field that has grown out of and expanded on the work begun in the "medical humanities," an area of study established …

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Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with …

WEBAbstract: As the delivery of health care in China undergoes change, novel forms of "classical" Chinese medicine are emerging through marketization, …

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On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

WEBA performance artist sets off a scandal when he bites into the forearm of a fetus. The middle-class protagonist of a horror film sees ghosts through the transplanted cornea of …

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Environmental Activism in the Middle East: Prospects and Challenges

WEBAbstract: Environmental activism has intensified across the Middle East and North Africa over the past few decades, focusing primarily on environmental issues that affect public …

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A Liberian Journey

WEBLoring Whitman, "Expedition team examines children in Monrovia, Liberia," A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation. July 7, 1926. Krutown, on the …

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Precarious Publics

WEBLatest Blogs. Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019; FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual …

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North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellowships

WEBNorth Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellowships. A collaboration between the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University and the …

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The Future of Political Theory: The Normative Science of Politics

WEBPolitical theory is written by perfectionists. Think of Rousseau’s Confessions describing the painful process through which sentence after sentence arranges itself in his head before …

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Joseph Heath On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures

WEBTime: 11:30am - 12:00am. Location: Pink Parlor, East Duke Building. Please join the PAL-FHI Seminar in Cooperation for this public event. Every system of …

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Afro-Pessimism and the End of Redemption

WEBAbstract: This essay addresses the tenets of Afro-Pessimism in relation to the condition of slavery, Blackness, and Black nonexistence. It is contended that the …

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Rethinking Slavery in the 21st Century: Representing Slavery

WEBJanuary 4, 2017. Rethinking Slavery in the 21st Century: Representing Slavery. This one and half-day symposium examined the archival and popular …

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Ronald L. Grimes

WEBRonald Grimes is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University and a seminal figure in the interdisciplinary field of ritual studies. …

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Trash Matters: Residual Culture in Latin America

WEBFocused on Latin American cultural production, it looks at literary and visual narratives through the scope of sustainability, addressing specifically the practice of …

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