The Center for Medicine, Health, and Society Hosts
MARCH 17-18, 2016
VA N DE R BILT UNIVER S IT Y
N A S HVILLE , TE NNE S S E E
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/the-politics-of-health-in-the-u-s-south/
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*Events in Light Hall 208 unless otherwise noted
*Events in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium, Room 118,
unless otherwise noted
2:00-2:30 pm: Welcome and Opening Comments
Lauren Benton, Dean, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt;
Jonathan M. Metzl, Director, Center for Medicine, Health,
and Society (MHS), Vanderbilt
8:00 am: Student-Faculty Breakfast
2:30-4:00 pm: Panel: The Politics of Health in the U.S. South
5:00-6:30 pm: Keynote Address, Melissa Harris Perry,
Wake Forest University/MSNBC
Location: Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt Divinity School
6:30-7:30 pm: Reception at Divinity School, 124 Reading Room
Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, the
Vanderbilt Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs) initiative, the Anna Julia Cooper
Center at Wake Forest University, the REAM Foundation, the Vanderbilt Divinity
School, the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, The Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Vanderbilt Creative Writing
All events are free and open to the public
The full schedule is available at
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/the-politics-of-health-in-the-u-s-south/.
9:00-9:45 am: Keynote Address, Bryant Simon,
Temple University
10:00-11:30 am: Panel: The Narratives and Poetics
of the U.S. South, Keynote Address, Jesmyn Ward,
Tulane University, Winner of the 2011 National Book Award
for Fiction and the 2016 Strauss Living for Literary
Excellence prize
11:45 am-1:00 pm: Panel: Health Justice and the
US South I: Policy and Advocacy
1:00-2:15 pm: Lunch/Poster Session
Location: Alumni Hall 202
2:15-3:25 pm: Panel: Intersectional Research in the
U.S. South
3:30-4:15 pm: Panel: Health Justice and the US South II:
The US South in Global Contexts
4:15 pm: Next Steps
4:45-6:00 pm: Reception at MHS, Calhoun Hall 300