Loneliness increases your risk of dying early by 30%, with impacts on depression, substance use, cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease. The problem is deeper than physical isolation: for...
SPEAKER: Jean Franzino, Boston College, Dept of English
Professor Franzino specializes in American literature and culture, disability studies, and the medical humanities. At Boston College, she teaches a range of courses...
Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she is a media scholar, health researcher, and technology...
Sari Altschuler is a professor of english at Northeastern, and co-chair of the CHH seminar. Altschuler and collaborators from US and Paris will discuss their...
Arthur Kleinman is a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist at Harvard. Kleinman will discuss his current collaborative work in China on social technologies for care,...
SPEAKER: V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, University of Minnesota
V.V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of Love Marriage (Random House, 2008). The novel, which is set in Sri Lanka and some...
Jonathan Adler examines the dynamic interplay between the stories we tell about our lives and our mental health. His research utilizes diverse methodological and analytical approaches...