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Seminar Series

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McGovern Lecture – Dr. Christopher Newfield

"Metrics Mania in Higher Education: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Treatments"

Presented by
Christopher Newfield, PhD
Professor of English, University of California-Santa Barbara

Sponsored by the John P. McGovern, MD Award Lectureship in the Medical Humanities.

Event Information

McGovern Lecture – Dr. Christopher Newfield

October 23, 2014 - 5pm-6pm

North Auditorium, Levin Hall, 102 Market Street, Galveston, Texas

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Treatment Over Objection: Can It Be Justified?

March 6, 2023 - 12pm-1pm

Institutional Ethics Program - Clinical Ethics Case Conference

HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Visual AIDS Archive Project

February 9, 2023 - 12pm-1pm

In her new book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press), Marika Cifor delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive.