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.