Lecture recap: “James Hogg and Illness Narratives in a Scottish Context”

With Megan Coyer, Arden Hegele, and Cristobal Silva The fall semester’s Explorations in Medical Humanities series capped with a lecture from Dr. Megan Coyer (Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow) on the subject of illness narratives and James Hogg’s 1823 novel, The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Erasing, and Jealousy, with…

Lecture recap: “Three Ways of Looking at an Opium Ball”

With Benjamin Breen, Heidi Hausse, and Joel Klein Professor Benjamin Breen (Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Santa Cruz) delivered the penultimate lecture in the fall series of Explorations in Medical Humanities, addressing opium as an historical object across the centuries in Europe. Despite its popular connotations as an exotic,…

Special Event: “Fire, Water, Moon: Supplemental Seasons in a Time without Season”

    For a special lecture bridging medical, environmental, and literary humanities within our Explorations in the Medical Humanities series, Professor Anne-Lise François (Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley) posed the question of how our thinking about human temporality can change when we avail ourselves to alternative modalities of seasonality and…