The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites everyone to attend a lecture by Matthew T. Schaefer.
Mr. Schaefer, archivist at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, will be speaking on “Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease.”
The lecture will be at The University of Iowa Main Library, Room 2032 on Wednesday, November 18 at 5:30pm.
Main Library floor plan Main Library parking
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Invites You to Hear:
Kathleen M. Stokker, PhD, Director of Scandinavian Studies, Luther College speak on:
Norwegian Folk Medicine on the American Prairie
5:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Main Library, University of Iowa, Room 2032
Free and open to the public
Light refreshments will be served
Did you know that access to some scholarly journals can cost as much as buying a new car…every year? That is a price that UI Libraries cannot afford, but it is a research tool that YOU can’t afford to work without. So what do we do? Open Access: it means more readers, more recognition and more impact for new ideas.
We invite you to join us to hear Molly Kleinman, Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan and a copyright specialist, talk about it: “Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet” at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 20th in the Bijou at the Iowa Memorial Union.
This event is part of UI Libraries’ celebration of Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009. Also that week, we’ll be posting more useful information about open access including our UI colleagues own experiences with open access.
For more information about scholarly communication and your role in creating a
sustainable system, check the Libraries website (www.lib.uiowa.edu/scholarly).
Co-sponsors of this event include the University of Iowa Libraries, Department of Communication Studies, Graduate Student Senate, the UI Center for Human Rights, College of Public Health, Widernet, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students, and the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI).
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society
invites you to hear:
Kathryn Gaskill, UI honors candidate in History
speak on:
“A ‘More Perfect’ Nation: The Midwest’s Role in the Eugenics Campaign to Eradicate Degeneracy”
Tuesday, May 5th
5:30- 6:30 pm
Information Commons East
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
*Light Refreshments will be served
**Rescheduled from an earlier date
The schedule of events for the 3-day conference, “The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine,” a lecture series displaying the links between the science of medicine and the art of writing is full of interesting lectures and discussions. The event runs from April 29th- May 1st and offers a wide array of presentations.
Here is a basic itinerary of the 3-day event:
Wednesday, 4/29: Plenary Session: The Music, Art and Ethics of Suffering- 7:30-9pm (IMU South Room-179)
Thursday, 4/30: Featured Presentation: Holding Power: Between Pen and Scalpel- 12:30- 1:30pm (2117 MERF)
Thursday, 4/30: Plenary Session: Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education- 3:45- 5pm (2117 MERF)
Thursday, 4/30: Featured Presentation: Fiction and the Examined Life- 6:30-7:30pm (Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library)
Friday, 5/1: Featured Presentation: For Whom Do We Write- 12:30-1:30pm (2117 MERF)
Friday, 5/1: Plenary Session: Healing or Not, Here WE Come: Creative Writing and Disability- 3:15-4:30pm (2117 MERF)
More information can be found:
The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host a three-day conference, “The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine,” April 29-May 1 on the UI campus.
The conference focuses on the links between creative writing and medical education and patient care, and offers skill-building sessions on writing, editing, and publishing creative work. The conference is open to health care providers, students, writers, scholars, publishers, and anyone else with an interest in creative or reflective writing and medicine.
Registration is required for all concurrent conference sessions and meals, but keynote addresses and plenary sessions are free and open to the public. Conference details, event locations and registration are available online at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/examinedlife/index.htm.
In addition to the Carver College of Medicine, conference sponsors include the Department of Pathology; the Program in Bioethics and Humanities; the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry; the International Writing Program; the UI Press; Central College in Pella, Iowa; MidWestOne Bank; Wild Rose Books at UI Hospitals and Clinics; and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Questions may be directed to Margaret LeMay-Lewis, conference director, margaret-lemay-lewis@uiowa.edu; 319 335 8051.
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society will hold its annual banquet on Friday, April 24 at the UI Hospitals and Clinics.
David M. Lubin, PhD Professor of Art at Wake Forest University will speak on, “World War I, Plastic Surgery and the American Beauty Revolution.”
Lubin is a leading scholar of 19th- and 20th-century American art, film, and popular culture. His lecture circuit has included stops at colleges, universities, and art museums throughout the U.S., Europe, China and Australia.
He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and taught art history and American studies at Colby College before assuming his current position as Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest in 1999.
His 2003 book, Shooting Kennedy; JFK and the Culture of Images, received the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art.
The banquet reception will begin at 6:00 pm at the Patient & Visitor Activity Center on the 8th floor of the UIHC, followed by dinner and presentation at 7:00 pm.
For additional information and registration form, please visit:
http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed or contact Donna Sabin at 335-6706.
A Tour of and introduction to the John Martin Rare Book Room is once again part of the “Gem Series” offered by UI Human Resources Learning & Development unit. The tour is free and open to any UI faculty or staff member and will feature a “hands-on” introduction to some of the more fascinating books in the collection. There is still time to register for this spring’s session on Wednesday, April 8 from noon to 1:00 in room 446 (Rare Book Room) in the Hardin Library. For more information and registration click on the “Gem Series” link. Be sure to choose the April session.
The University of Iowa invites you to celebrate the excellence and achievement among women! The event will be a public reception and awards ceremony featuring keynote speaker Wallace Loh, the Executive Vice-President and Provost at the University of Iowa. Program and more information available here.
Wednesday, April 1st, beginning at 3:30pm
One of the most controversial episodes in the history of public health was the late 19th and early 20th century eugenics movement. Relying on faulty science and nationalist bigotry, eugenicists sought to identify and retain “superior” human genetic stocks while restraining the spread of “inferiors.” Midwestern states, including Iowa, acted to limit reproduction of their population¹s “degenerate” elements by legislating involuntary sexual sterilization of the “feeble-minded” and habitual criminals. These states also attempted to retain the “favorable” members of society through the Country Life Movement, which sought to prevent urban migration by making farm life more attractive to rural young people. Kathryn Gaskill, Honors Candidate the Department of History, will provide insight into this dubious movement in her presentation to the UI History Medicine Society, “ A ‘More Perfect’ Nation; The Midwest’s Role in the Eugenics Campaign to Eradicate Degeneracy.” Ms. Gaskill¹s lecture will take place Tuesday, March 24 from 5:30 to 6:30 in room of the University Main Library. The session is open to the public.. For additional information, contact Edwin Holtum at 319-335-9154.
