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Jan
21
2021

Pain Studies: A Reading & Conversation - Lisa Olstein

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When: Thursday, January 21, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Online

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: FREE - REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Multicultural & Diversity

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Lisa Olstein, MFA
Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Pain Studies: A Reading & Conversation

Author Lisa Olstein, discusses her recent book, an extended lyric essay exploring the intersection of pain, perception and language through the prism of her lifelong experience with migraine to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain—how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it.

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