SAVE THE DATE! All Graduate Curriculum Meetings are from 1:30-2:30pm, in the Deans' Lounge.

FALL SEMESTER:
December 5th

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 29, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Innovations in Mobile Technology for Engaging Youth in Treatment and Prevention"

**About the Speaker**

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman completed her medical school training at the University of Virginia and became board certified in Internal Medicine in 2001 after completing residency training at Stanford University. She completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman is an expert on mhealth, social media and utilization and evaluation of technology-based interventions to address the HIV Care Continuum for youth and young adults, particularly among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). She has published >90 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She has developed technology-based interventions to address uptake and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention technologies, as well as intervening to increase HIV diagnosis, linkage and retention in care for YMSM. She is the PI of iTech, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology Across the Prevention and Care Continuum. This grant, part of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN), seeks to develop a technology center to address the domestic epidemic of HIV among at risk and HIV-infected youth.

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Please join the History Department for a seminar with Professor Sabine Fruhstuck:

Discussion of her book chapter, … And my heart screams: Children and the War of Emotions, from her 2017 co-edited book, Child’s Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan

The text is available as an open-source book at https://www.luminosoa.org/site/chapters/10.1525/luminos.40.j/

All are welcome; participants are asked to read the chapter in advance.

Sabine Fruhstuck is
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also Director of the East Asia Center. Prof. Fruhstuck researches modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to other parts of the world. She is the author of Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017), a cultural history of the naturalized connections between childhood and militarism; Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007), an ethnography that employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the ambivalent status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military; and Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003), a sociohistorical study of the creation, formation, and application of a *science of sex* from the late 19th through the mid-20th century.

The Graduate Curriculum Meeting will be held in the Deans' Lounge, from 1:30-2:30pm.