The Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies, English and Anthropology, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Narrative, Health and Social Justice RIG of CSWS  are pleased to present a public lecture by Dr. Cheryl Mattingly, Professor of Anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern California.

WHAT: Public lecture and discussion, followed by a reception with light refreshments

WHERE: Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall

WHEN: Thursday, March 6th, 2014

ABOUT: Dr. Mattingly’s talk will draw on a fifteen-year research study with African-American families in Los Angeles. This study explores the experiences of parents of children with chronic illness, and formed the basis of her award-winning book, The Paradox of Hope: Journeys Through a Clinical Borderland. The talk will highlight the story of one mother whose child was diagnosed with brain cancer early in life. Dr. Mattingly uses this story to show how parents struggle to revision hope as a moral practice, even in the context of disease and racial disparities in clinical practice.