Front Porch Talks: Learning from Each Other

Thursday, Feb 12

6:00pm – 8:00pm

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You're invited to the first session of Iron Hill's Front Porch series! Drawing from our very own, we'll be featuring folk school members Christie Carauna and Lily Plowden -- both students in UAB's Medical Sociology program -- to talk about their studies concerning healthy societies & communities. How Societies Stay Together - Christie Caruana How do societies hold together? What creates unity among individuals? Christie will be discussing social relationships and how institutions (think: schools, the government, families) both create and destroy social cohesion. Is Society Making You Sick? - Lily Plowden What does it mean to be sick? Is society making you sick? Lily will be discussing her research on how illness is not only a physical condition, but also shaped by our culture. She will lay out the history of mental illness diagnoses to demonstrate how illness is socially constructed. Trigger warning: this talk will include discussion of sexual violence. Come be a part of our learning together. All attendees are encouraged to participate and question out loud.