The Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics Series Two Men Talking Monday, September 19, 4 p.m. Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus Photo: Judy Schiller
Created by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Murray Nossel and psychiatrist Paul Browde, Two Men Talking looks at HIV/AIDS, homophobia, racism, and identity. Nossel and Browde, who met as “white, Jewish, gay, and privileged [children] under apartheid” in South Africa, have spent decades mining their past for stories. Blending elements of theatre, therapy, and real life, the captivating event illuminates how every interaction is a co-creation, and how our stories connect us all.
When We Have to Talk About Something Less Pleasant: Aging, Alzheimer’s, and the End of Life A Lecture by Roz Chast Thursday, March 30, 4 p.m. Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus
Photo: Bill Franzen
Cartoonist Roz Chast will share her story of coping with the loss of her parents and the everyday realities of Alzheimer’s disease—a story she tells with courageous honesty in the graphic memoir Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Chast’s award-winning memoir masterfully combines cartoons, text, and photographs to challenge readers’ perceptions of death and dementia. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Family Medicine and Pediatrics), Lyn BoydJudson (Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics), Alexander Capron (Law and Medicine), Lynn Kysh (USC Libraries), and Ron Ben-Ari (Medicine). Cosponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s Program in Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics, the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, and the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.
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