Lectures and Workshops

2008–09

Jesse Ballenger (Penn State University) on the cultural history of Alzheimer's Disease in the United States, March 2009

David Kreibel on powwowing among Pennsylvania Germans, April 2009

2007–08

Barbra Mann Wall (University of Pennsylvania), “Disaster Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Texas,” March 2008

Hope Mohr (Stanford University) and Douglas Rosenberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Under the Skin dance workshop, April 2008

2006–07

Jeff Whitman (Susquehanna), “What Price Hope? The Appeal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine,” October 2006

Rachana Sachdev (Susquehanna), “Macbeth and Menstruation,” November 2006

Margaret Puskar-Pacewicz (College Misericordia) on the history of vegetarianism, February 2007

Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University) on yellow fever in nineteenth-century Memphis, March 2007

Nina Berman (NYC-based documentary photographer) on April 2007

2005–06

Coleen Zoller (Susquehanna), “Holistic Medicine and Soul-Body Dualism in Plato,” September 2005

Ed Slavishak (Susquehanna), “Back to Work: Artificial Limbs and Industry,” October 2005

Shari Jacobson (Susquehanna), “Food For Thought: Piety, Personhood, and Kosher Consumption in Buenos Aires,” February 2006

Mike Smith (Susquehanna) , “How Much is it Worth? The Sexual Self and Disease among Male Escorts,” March 2006

Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Cornell University) on the cultural history of anorexia nervosa, April 2006