About the Event
In this installment of the Humanities, Health and Medicine Lecture Series, Riva Lehrer presents “Self-Portrait in Formaldehyde.” Lehrer takes attendees on a journey through images of human difference. The presentation incorporates unique images from Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum and includes readings from Lehrer’s 2020 memoir, “Golem Girl,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.
Following the presentation, Pauling Strong, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at UT, leads a conversation with the audience.
Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. Winner of numerous awards and fellowships, Lehrer teaches in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
For questions, email Phillip Barrish.
The Humanities, Health and Medicine Lecture Series is co-presented by the Humanities Institute at the College of Liberal Arts and Dell Medical School. The series brings prominent writers, clinicians and researchers to the UT campus to explore humanistic approaches to health and medicine.
The series is supported by a generous gift from Jill Hall and Sterling Smith, as well as by the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities from the College of Liberal Arts.