17 March 2022 - 17 March 2022
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Online (Zoom)
Free
An informal interview session with Dr Travis Chi Wing Lau.
An interview jointly hosted with the Institute for Medical Humanities
The interview will discuss various aspects of his work on C18th/C19th anti-vaccination movements, theorising chronic pain, and crip pedagogies.
Assistant Professor of English, Kenyon College
Travis Chi Wing Lau's research and teaching focuses on the intersections between literature and medicine and the longer histories of disability and pathology. Lau is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Insecure Immunity: Inoculation and Anti-Vaccination, 1720-1898”, which explores the British cultural history of immunity and vaccination in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Travis has worked extensively on crip pedagogies and cultivating inclusive learning spaces.
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