The Mudd Center's Fellows Program allows faculty and staff to engage with the annual theme through ongoing, in-depth, and interdisciplinary discussion. Fellows engage in a sustained consideration of the annual theme by attending multiple Mudd Center lectures across the academic year, reading a collection of works by the Center's distinguished speakers, and participating in interdisciplinary sessions to discuss the works and connections among them. Additionally, Fellows have an opportunity to attend special dinners and other events with visiting speakers.
November 12, 2024, 4:45-6:00 pm, Mason Taylor New The focus of this event will be sections of two books, the authors of which will be Mudd speakers in the fall. Ricardo Nuila's The People's Hospital and Carl Elliott's The Occasional Sacrifice bring into high relief all four principles of medical ethics. Nuila's book will get us into the economics and ethics of access to medical treatment among indigent and often uninsured communities of the U.S. Carl Elliott looks at the history of faulty review boards that failed to keep safe subjects of harmful medical research. Elliott draws out the little-known stories of the people who felt morally obliged to blow the whistle on these injurious, and often fatal, studies.
January 13, 2025, 5:30-6:30 pm, Staniar Gallery Mudd and the Native American & Indigenous Cohort are collaborating to create a dynamic conversation among Mudd Fellows, tribal leadership and citizens of Virginia Indian Nations, and artist, Erica Lord (member of the Nenana Native Association) in Staniar Gallery. The reading for this event will relate to Lord's intricate bead work capturing DNA sequencing patterns of diseases endemic to Native and Indigenous communities in North America.
March 25, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm, Location TBD This end-of-year discussion and dinner will be an opportunity for us to reflect on the year's program.
