Thursday, October 21, 2021 5pm to 6:30pm
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701 E. Spring St., Oxford, OH 45056
http://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/event/altman-lecture-jonathan-metzl #humanitiesJonathan Metzl holds both a MD and a PhD and is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Dr. Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications and won several prestigious awards. His books include Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. He currently works for the Safe Tennessee Project, a non-partisan, volunteer-based organization concerned with gun-related injuries and fatalities both nationally and in Tennessee.
The 2021-2022 Altman Program invites the Miami University community to explore the persistence of racism in its cultural, political, and institutional forms. What is the history of race as an idea and a social category? How did it transform systems of law, administration, and representation into vehicles for subjugating entire groups of people? How does racism work today? What is its relation to systems of caste and meritocracy? To citizenship and mobility? How can emerging humanities scholarship help us interrogate its evolution and frustrating persistence? And what measures can we take to create a more inclusive and equitable society?
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