2nd Annual Visibly Human Symposium

“With the Beloved’s
Water of Life, No Illness Remains:
Islam, the Body and Illness –
a case study from film”

location: Education 2 South, room 1102
from: 1:30 –4 pm
reception: Health Sciences Library’s Reading Room
from: 4 -5 pm

sponsored by:
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Health Sciences Library and the Arts and Humanities
in Healthcare Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities

Writing Center Workshops: Grant Proposals and Curriculum Vitae – Location moved to Ed 2 North due to high demand!

Two workshops coming up soon from the Writing Center on AMC.

I. Writing Effective Grant Proposals  – April 5

On Monday April 5, the Writing Center offers a workshop on effective grant proposals. This workshop (part I of II) will describe key features of designing, writing, and submitting an effective grant proposal. Specific sections of grants and strategies for writing grants will be discussed. The workshop is open to graduate students and faculty. A second workshop will provide you with an opportunity to bring in your own drafts of grants and receive focused feedback in a workshop environment.

Reservations are required and lunch is provided. Please reserve your seat by visiting the Center’s web site:  http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/writing/workshops.html. Call 303-724-4143 for more information.

Writing Effective Grant Proposals Workshop
Date/Time: Monday, April 5, 12:00 Noon – 1:50 PM
Location: ED 2 North, room 2302

Workshop II on Grant Proposals: TBA

II. C.V. (Curriculum Vitae) – April 6

On Tuesday April 6 from 4:00-5:50pm, the Writing Center offers a C.V. (Curriculum Vitae) Workshop. This workshop is designed for both graduate students who are considering a career in higher education and instructors/faculty who are interested in revising their CVs. Topics to be covered will include who needs a C.V. and why, what goes in a C.V. and time will be spent examining a variety of professional samples. Time will also be allotted to look at drafts of your own C.V. Reservations are required and dinner is provided. Presenter is Justin Bain, Writing Center Director.

C.V. (Curriculum Vitae)
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 6, 4:00-5:50 PM
Location: Ed 2 North, room 2102

Please reserve your seat by visiting the Center’s web site:  http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/writing/workshops.html. Call 303-724-4143 for more information.

Special Collection Featured Book for March

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medical Show by Ann Anderson

Waring Collection WZ 310 A545S 2000

“Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other “wonder-cures,” guaranteed to “cure what ails you.” While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage.
This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.” Editorial review, Amazon.com