Agenda for class on January 30, 2017

• Discussion of items from the virtual library – we would like several of you to summarize an item from the virtual library and your assessment of its merit and significance. Does it belong in the library and how important is it for other members of the class to read or view it? Alternatively, if you have encountered something elsewhere that merits inclusion in the library, you can talk about it instead (please provide a URL and suggestion about where to place it in the library).(20-30 minutes)

• Discussion of Transcendental Meditation (TM – see previous email for further details). Bill and I are willing to provide some financial assistance for students who would like to learn TM during the next month so that you can share your developing experiences with the class. (10-20 minutes)
   

  • Tasha Daniels describes how TM helps her deal with stress, https://youtu.be/9Nk88T7ps4A (1 min)

  • How TM makes me feel in one word, http://tmhome.com/books-videos/video-how-tm-meditation-makes-me-feel/ (1 min)

  • Jason Aviles, http://dlf.tv/2013/jason-aviles-on-finding-creativity-from-within/ (2 min)

  • UNC student experiences - https://sakai.unc.edu/x/j3fmPN
     

• Discussion of student projects – besides Bill's option of papers about the Durham community, Vic is encouraging written or media projects that present something from the history of the School’s Minority Student Caucus and/or Minority Health Conference, the history of minority affairs at the School, excerpts from video productions (MHC keynote lectures, National Health Equity Research Webcasts) to increase exposure, video productions from audio interviews (e.g., of John Hatch). A research idea about TM is what has happened to the Enlightened Sentencing Project? (see virtual library - https://sakai.unc.edu/x/Hf0W1r)  Please bring your ideas, too! (20-30 minutes)

• Bill will present the topic 1890’s-1950’s, Working on communities: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois - Contrasting perspectives on the problem of Negro health (60-80 minutes)

• If there is time remaining, Vic will present some of the history of the Department of Epidemiology and some ideas about social epidemiology