Please join us for this interdisciplinary medical humanities event! Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are all welcome!
How did we get here? History, Race, Trafficking and Public Health
As the pandemic continues to disrupt our expectations, it's become increasingly clear that working towards collective health cannot rely solely on scientific data. The multiple forms of injustice that the pandemic have both revealed and intensified render it necessary to augment our conception of public health through a collective reckoning with the historic structures of coercion and deprivation that have led to the ills of our current moment.
As part of UConn’s ongoing conversation around the role of medical humanities, we invite you to join the contributors of a remarkable public health textbook, The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking, as they consider how the historic forces of racism, colonialism, and forced migration converge in forms of global labor exploitation that constitute a public health crisis. In the process, we’ll consider how humanities and scientific inquiry can—and must—be in conversation as we face the challenges ahead.
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The Aetna Chair of Writing, and the American Studies program.
Access Note: There will be an ASL interpreter in attendance at this event.
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-did-we-get-here-history-race-trafficking-and-public-health-tickets-256588762897
For more information, contact: Anna Mae Duane at anna.duane@uconn.edu