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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

Flash(y) Bioethics:
Five-Minute Takes on Five Topics

Come join us for a fun introduction to our faculty and our field! Our MA students have come up with 5 topics for us explore in a pithy 5 minutes or less, providing a sampling of the diversity of issues engaged by the medical humanities and bioethics, and the breadth of the disciplinary approaches we bring to them. Here’s a preview of who will be there—and the topics that will be explored.

Sarah Rodriguez (History) AFTERLIFE/SALVATION 

Megan Crowley-Matoka (Anthropology) CONFLICT

Tod Chambers (Religion) FAMILY

Katie Watson (Law) HUMOR

Catherine Belling (Literature) DISCIPLINE 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Kristi L. Kirschner, MD
Clinical Professor in the Departments of Medical Education, Neurology and Rehabilitation, and (Academic Internal) Medicine
Director of Undergraduate Education, 
Department of Medical Education
University of Illinois College of Medicine

Adjunct Professor, Department of Disability and Human Development
College of Applied Health Sciences
 University of Illinois at Chicago

Genetic Technologies and Ableism:
Forever Intertwined?

As genetic technologies rapidly expand and potential applications are explored, it is an apt time to discuss what goals of medicine will be served, and what impact will they have on society and on people with disabilities. Concomitantly, we have widespread evidence of ableism among health care professionals, i.e., those who will counsel patients about new technologies. In this session we will explore these two intertwining threads, and discuss ways to consider and mitigate these potential colliding forces.

Pre-Session Self-Reflection Exercise for 10/5/23 Montgomery Lecture
For Kristi Kirschner’s lecture, Genetic Technologies and Ableism: 
Forever Intertwined?, we ask that you complete a brief survey to provide a “snapshot” of your current views on genetic testing and disability. Your answers will be anonymous and collated for presentation before the session. Responses are due by Wednesday, October 4 at 10pm. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY Thank you!

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Tom Buller, PhD
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Brain-Computer Interfaces – Philosophical Issues

According to a commonly held view, the boundary of the physical body marks the line where the person begins and the world begins.  On one side of this line we have the self and self-consciousness, agency, authenticity, intention, and responsibility; on the other side we have artefacts, effects, and the physical world.  We are “inside” our bodies and this phenomenal aspect is essential in determining what counts as the body. Brain-computer interfaces provide an alternative way for a person to act upon the world, a potential way to bypass some of the physical constraints imposed by the loss of motor function. In so doing, this neurotechnology also raises important questions about the nature of personhood, embodiment, agency, and intentional action.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Lisa Diedrich, PhD
Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
NOTE: In-person Chicago campus lecture--speaker presenting via Zoom

This presentation introduces my book Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press as part of their Forerunners Series, which publishes shorter books on “thought-in-process scholarship.” I explore illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures, conceptually and strategically, in recent U.S. politics. I demonstrate how illness politics is informed by, intersects with, and sometimes stands in for, sexual, racial, and class politics. This project is connected to a growing body of work that explores forms of health activism and disability and illness politics as central, not peripheral, to both mainstream and radical politics, as well as work on the dynamic intersection of media and health and health activist practices. Illness- and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.
NOTE: In-person Chicago campus lecture--speaker presenting via Zoom

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

S.L. Wisenberg, BSJ
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
MFA in Fiction Writing, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Co-Director (for a decade) Graduate Creative Writing Program
Northwestern University, School of Professional Studies
Editor, Another Chicago Magazine (online journal)

Breathing Through It: Essays from the (Asthmatic) Body

In her fourth book, The Wandering Womb, which won the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize in creative nonfiction, S.L. Wisenberg writes about what it's like to live in a body, and what it's like to live while aware of history. One of the throughlines of the book is what it's like to have chronic asthma. She does not get "attacks" but her asthma is a constant, whether in the background or foreground. Wisenberg will read from and discuss her recent book, in which she "excavates layers of her personal, family, and cultural history, drawing connections to the present that will resonate with a broad audience" (Chicago Reader). "The Wandering Womb," Donna Seaman writes in Booklist, is written with "audacious incisiveness and wit."

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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