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James Kennaway - Neuromusic? A Critical Humanities Perspective on Music and Medicine

October 20, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Online

Event Description: 

James Kennaway discusses the notion that music can cause illness, from eighteenth-century fears of over-stimulated nerves to the Nazi concept of ‘degenerate music.’

Event Speaker

James Kennaway, Professor of History of Medicine at Helmut-Schmidt-University

Event Information:

Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage or contact Megan Wolff at [email protected] for additional information. 

This lecture is part of the Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar. Hosted by the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.