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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Judith A. Houck, PhD
Chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

With a Flashlight and a Speculum: Envisioning a Feminist Revolution

In the early 1970s, women across the country wielded flashlights, hand mirrors, and specula hoping to catch a glimpse of their cervices. In bookstores, living rooms, church basements, and women's centers, women peered into their bodies to satisfy their curiosity, to bond with other women, and to assert control over their bodies.  In this talk, Professor Houck explores the political deployment of cervical self-exam and examines how women reacted to the semi-public display of their privates.

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

David Ansari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Education
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

The Haunted Curriculum: 
Engaging Ghosts in Mental Health Care and
Health Professions Education

Scholarly accounts of socialization and professionalization in a variety of health professions have emphasized how intuitions, skills, and judgments become embodied through apprenticeships, where novices are absorbed in communities of practice and transformed into experts. Drawing on ethnographic research on apprenticeships among budding psychotherapists in France, who support patients whose mental health has been adversely affected by displacement and discrimination and situating it with accounts of injustice in clinical training, Professor Ansari will engage the exciting field of hauntology to examine the emergence of these specters and the ways they shape the development and performance of expertise. This talk will extend this framework to understand how the development of clinical skill and expertise is orchestrated within and beyond haunted sites of apprenticeship. Engaging the ghosts of clinical training requires more than simply identifying them. Instead, affective engagements demonstrate how the development of dispositions and a clinical habitus are experienced differently by different learners, and these engagements posit alternative ways of conceptualizing belonging and inclusivity in health professions education.

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

Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Education; Anthropology
Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics MA Program
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Making (Cultural) Sense of Living Kidney Donation

Living organ donation depends upon harming one person to help another. Both routine and extraordinary, living donation is made possible not just by surgical technique and medical expertise, but by the moral arguments and cultural framings that render it acceptable.  Yet the particular arguments and framings that make it so are not everywhere the same.  What makes a living donor ideal in one setting may seem problematic – even unethical – in another.  Drawing on comparative ethnographic research, this talk explores how living donation is made culturally commonsensical in Mexico in order to re-frame some of the taken-for-granted assumptions that underlie living donation here in the U.S.

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

Charlayne Mitchell, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Global Heath Studies Program
Anthropology Department Affiliate
Northwestern University

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: (Re)pairing Health and (Re)flections of Health Through Conversations—Ethics of Care

When Black women’s voices are silenced, their health–physical, mental, and emotional–is compromised. Reclaiming agency through storytelling allows Black women to shed the burden of internalized oppression and embrace self-determination. Since the first enslaved Africans were forced onto ships bound for the United States, Black women have faced pervasive controlling images that have diminished their humanity, silenced their voices, and constrained their agency. However, by finding voice and speaking their truths, Black women challenge dominant rhetoric, create new identities, and build pathways to holistic well-being and health equity. Through this process of narrative reclamation, Black women can forge a path toward liberation, autonomy, and optimal health. In this lecture, Professor Mitchell emphasizes the need to “re”—to look again with a historical-present lens at how we approach research with underserved and underheard communities.

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 in Co-Sponsorship With

Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)

A Special Montgomery Lecture:

The 3rd Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture

SPEAKERS:

Emma Elliott, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development
College of Education
University of Washington

Designing for Ontological Shifts in Community Psychology: Leveraging Indigenous Intellectual Theories & Practices

Contemporary approaches to community mental health frequently emerge from a Western sociocultural context, resulting far too often in enclosed understandings of psychological functioning. This talk offers Indigenous Storying and Walking/Reading/Storying the Land as both theory and practice towards transformative frameworks for understanding human learning, development, and wellbeing.

Aaron Golding
Associate Director
Multicultural Student Affairs
Northwestern University

Centering Indigenous Student Voices

This talk will discuss utilizing a new demographic approach to understand the experience of Native and Indigenous students at Northwestern University.

Thursday, April 4, 2024
Noon to 12:45pm (central time)

Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street
1st Floor/Searle Seminar Room
LUNCH SERVED!

This presentation is the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Montgomery Lecture Series’ third annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture, which is named in honor of the first Native American graduate of Northwestern University’s medical school.

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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