02/21/2021
Dear All,
I am so pleased to announce that Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens will deliver our keynote address this year.
Dr. Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Cooper is the only Black woman in the United States running a traditional medical humanities program and is working diligently to change this statistic through her mentorship and institution building practices. She is also an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer, the Director of the Program in African American History at The Library Company of Philadelphia (the country’s oldest cultural institution) a past American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Research Fellow, and has won a number of prestigious honors for her scholarly and advocacy work in reproductive and birthing justice. An in-demand public speaker, Dr. Cooper Owens has spoken widely across the U.S. and Europe. She has published articles, essays, book chapters, and think pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences and reproductive justice. Her first book, Medical Bo***ge: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history.
The keynote will be delivered virtually and will be open to the public. Please share this far and wide.
Dr. Cooper Owen's social media accounts are: Twitter (), IG (deirdrecooperowens) and Facebook at Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bo***ge.
More information concerning registration, times, and links will follow. If you have any questions send them to [email protected]
I hope to see everyone there on April 10, 2021!