Fall 2022 Colloquium - Amy Sullivan

Department of History, Macalester College

Title: "Narrative Interventions: Reckoning with Opioids in the Land of 10,000 Rehabs."

Abstract: Professor Amy Sullivan (Macalester College) will discuss the background and oral history methodology of her book, Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Situated as we are in the state that founded “rehab” and launched a Twelve Step revolution, she will discuss how she came to see the fifty-plus oral history narratives she conducted as possible "interventions" on the persistence and trauma of the opioid epidemic, on entrenched stigma against drug users, on the fallacies of criminal justice drug reforms, and the growing acceptance of the once-derided harm reduction model.


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Lectures begin at 3:35pm in 125 Nicholson Hall on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. 

The Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science will host a joint lecture series during Spring 2022. At this time, all events will be in-person unless otherwise stated. Please contact hstm@umn.edu for more information. 

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Start date
Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, 3:35 p.m.
End date
Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Location

125 Nicholson Hall

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