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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Positive Links Speaker
WHAT: Andrew Hoffman,
University prof. of sustainable
enterprise, will speak about
understanding the cultural
and institutional aspects of
environmental issues for
organizations.
WHO: Michigan Ross School of
Business
WHEN: 4pm - 5pm
WHERE: Ross School of
Business
Dissertation Performance
WHAT: This event will be a
recital of Frederic Rzewkski’s
North American Ballads.
WHO: School of Music, Theatre
and Dance
WHEN: 7:30pm
WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building -
Britton Recital Hall
China’s Security
Concerns Lecture
WHAT: Avery Goldstein,
University of Pennsylvania prof. of
Global Politics and International
Relations , will present about
linked internal and external
security challenges in China.
WHO: Lieberthal-Rogel Center
for Chinese Studies
WHEN: 12pm - 1pm
WHERE: 1636 School of Social
Work
Professional
Autobiography
WHAT: Todd Ester, director of
Diversity and Inclusion at the
University of Michigan School
of Dentistry will speak about his
professional life.
WHO: Health Sciences Scholars
Program
WHEN: 7pm - 8pm
WHERE: Couzens Hall
Multipurpose Room
Israel and Diaspora
Relations
WHAT: Three panelists will
discuss the historically changing
relations between the State of
Israel and Diaspora Jews in
America and Europe.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: 4pm - 6pm
WHERE: 202 S. Thayer, 2022
Thayer Building
Queering Families
WHAT: University of South
Carolina Prof. Carla Pfeffer
will present on her interviews
of cisgender women and
transgender men and the
experiences of their partners.
WHO: Institute for Research on
Women and Gender
WHEN: 4:10pm - 5:30pm
WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall
Expansion of Medicaid
Workshop
WHAT: Shooshan Danagoulian
of Wayne State University will
present on the effect of Medicaid
expansion on medical diagnoses
and procedures.
WHO: Health, History,
Demography and Development
WHEN: 11:30am - 1pm
WHERE: 201 Lorch Hall
Inclusion Requires
Fracturing
WHAT: Presented by Swarupa
Anila, director of interpretive
engagement at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, this event will
outline the challenging work of
developing diversity in museum
representation.
WHO: University of Michigan
Museum of Art
WHEN: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
WHERE: Museum of Art
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Scott
Stonington,
assistant
professor of anthropology and
internal
medicine
physician,
explored a Thai physician’s claim
that chronic pain doesn’t exist
in Thailand during his lecture,
“Toward
Anti-Ontology:
The
Unmaking of Chronic Pain in
Thailand” Monday afternoon.
While conducting fieldwork
in Thailand, Stonington said he
learned through a conversation
with this physician that “there
is no chronic pain in Thailand.”
The lecture examined the ways in
which Stonington found this to be
both true and untrue.
He began the lecture by
discussing the traditional way of
dying in Thailand.
“Dying in the hospital is
incredibly bad,” Stonington said.
“Hospitals are terrible places
to die partly because they are
haunted by ghosts and they’re
haunted
by
ghosts
because
(hospitals are) where bad, bad
deaths happen.”
That fear leads many people to
rush their loved ones home from
the hospital before they die to
ensure a peaceful death. This has
led to some people taking extreme
measures on the trip home
from the hospital and in some
situations, more painful deaths.
“(The patients are) mostly
sedated:
They’re
sedated
on
opiates,
they’re
sedated
on
anesthesia, and then we take all
of that away and we put them in
a truck and drive them home,”
Stonington said. “So sometimes
we take them off and they wake
up screaming in horrifying pain.”
In Thailand, patients aren’t
allowed to take any opiates home
with them due to a law banning all
opiate use and possession outside
of a hospital, with the exception of
treating pain linked to cancer.
Throughout
the
lecture,
Stonington
referred
back
to
Western
medicine
and
the
differences between Western and
Thai medicine to further delve
into chronic pain in Thailand.
Will Thomson, a post-doctoral
student
in
anthropology,
he
thought Stonington’s research has
various applications to Western
medicine, especially in context of
an ongoing opioid epidemic in the
U.S.
“With all the opioid addiction
and use, rethinking the way we
think about and experience pain
is probably a useful medical,
social
and
political
project,”
Thomson said.
Stonington explained the ban
and history of opiates has a long
history in Thailand, possibly
dating back to the Opium Wars in
the mid-1800s and the CIA Secret
War in Laos.
More
recently,
in
2003,
Thaksin Shinawatra, then-Prime
Minister of Thailand, launched
a war on drugs, giving the
police permission to kill anyone
suspected of an association with
the drug trade,which has lead
to roughly 2,500 extrajudicial
killings.
In general, Stonington said,
definitions of pain in Thailand are
different.
“We
don’t
have
that
in
Thailand,”
Stongington
said.
“Chronic pain is a Western
invention. You can say that
something hurts, but pain itself is
not a thing. It’s just a judgment.”
Information graduate student
Pei-Yao Hung said she appreciated
Stonington’s
comparisons
between differing perspectives
on medicine.
“I come from Taiwan and so
it was interesting to see people
bringing Western medicines into
perspective and try to understand
it … in a different kind of context,”
Hong said.
During
his
remarks,
University professor discusses
nature of chronic pain in Thailand
Scott Stonington talks culture around death and hospitals
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
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Thursday, the University
of Michigan Board of Regents
will hold their final meeting
of the calendar year. The
board is set to hear proposals
including renovations to the
Law Quad, approval of the
schematic design for the new
William
Monroe
Trotter
Multicultural
Center
and
approval for an honorary law
degree to U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
If approved, Sotomayor is
slated to receive the honorary
degree on Jan. 20, 2017 at
the Presidential Bicentennial
Colloquium.
The Law Quad proposal,
submitted by Chief Financial
Officer
Kevin
Hegarty,
calls for improvements to
walkways, exterior lighting
and underground utilities and
is slated to cost 6.2 million
dollars.
“The
iconic
Law
Quad
is
in
need
of
significant
infrastructure
improvements,”
Hegarty
wrote in the request. “This
project proposes to refurbish
the historic exterior building
lights
at
all
entrances,
install
Collegiate
Gothic
style light poles, and replace
deteriorated walkways with
bluestone pavers.”
The proposed project will
also repair and replace storm
sewers,
electrical
issues
and tunnels. A total of 25
on-site construction jobs are
scheduled to be completed in
the Law Quad by fall of 2017.
Additionally, E. Royster
Harper,
vice
president
of
student
life,
and
Hegarty
are seeking approval for the
schematic design of the new
Trotter Multicultural Center.
Last
Dec.,
the
Board
of
Regents approved the project
to replace the old center’s
facilities. The new Center
will
have
a
multipurpose
room
for
events
and
conferences, along with an
active learning configuration.
Its construction has caused
mixed
reactions
from
students
of
campus,
who
worry the construction will
add traffic and commotion
to an otherwise quant area.
In Winter 2014, the Black
Student Union called for the
relocation of Trotter as part
of the #BBUM movement —
a student-driven campaign
sharing the experiences of
Black students on campus.
“The proposed William
Monroe Trotter Multicultural
Center is a result of extensive
outreach
and
input
from
a variety of constituents,”
Harper and Hegarty wrote.
“Engagement included four
town halls, eight focus group
sessions,
benchmarking
to
other university multicultural
centers,
and
a
survey
of
students.”
The 20,000 gross square
foot
project,
located
on
State Street near the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology, is
slated to cost $10 million,
and will include 13 on-site
construction
jobs.
The
construction is set to be
completed in the fall of 2018.
—KEVIN BIGLIN
BRIEF: REGENTS TO HEAR PROPOSAL ON LAW QUAD RENOVATIONS
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