Lunch and Learn
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Join us for a conversation with USC Narrative Medicine Faculty, Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón and Dr. Kairos Llobrera, as they discuss scholarly works and writers who have inspired and challenged them to ask: “What is ours to do in these times of crisis and new possibilities?”
Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD is a Medical Anthropologist who teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. He is an expert on Latinx queer male sexual cultures. Dr. Rivera Colón trains public health professionals in working with Latinx LGBTQ communities in cultural and structural competency. His forthcoming book is Love Comes in Knots: Meditations in the American Labyrinth. Recently, Pato Hebert and he published “Slow Burn, Humid Pitch: Cultivating Care While Livin’ La COVIDa Loca” in NACLA Report on the Americas.
Dr. Kairos Llobrera holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His academic interests include U.S. immigration (literature, history, and law), critical race theory, and 20th century and contemporary U.S. ethnic/minority literatures. As an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education, Dr. Llobrera teaches in the Narrative Medicine MS Program at USC and serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion Programs at the Keck School of Medicine.