[NCAH] A Road Out documentary showing at NCAH Conference

[Eric Walls]

Greetings colleagues and scholars!

Just wanted to share with everyone the poster (see link below) for the
documentary film by Duke University's Dr. Karin Shapiro, *A Road Out*,
showing during Session 3 (Panel 7) at 1:45 pm on Friday, March 27th. The
film highlights a group of South African doctors and public
health specialists who immigrated to North Carolina in response to the
apartheid regime in their home country, where they took up residence at
several NC universities and reshaped public health discourse and practices
in North Carolina and the American South between the 1950s and 1990s. The
film is superbly well crafted and narrated and shines a light on a very
much underserved aspect of our history in a provoking and interesting way.

This is the first time we have featured a documentary film at the NCAH
conference and we are excited to be able to share Dr. Shapiro's excellent
work with all of you. I hope everyone will consider joining Dr. Shapiro and
myself (as moderator) for the showing, as well as an intimate discussion of
the film and how academics can expand their work to wider audiences through
film and media.

Also linked below is the final schedule of events again, just in case. :-)

If anyone has any questions regarding the conference, please reach out to
myself (erockwalls at gmail.com) or Dr. Glen Bowman (gcbowman at ecsu.edu).

Looking forward to seeing all of your smiling faces next week!

Best,
Eric Walls
NCAH

A Road Out Poster
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i6UdCJOuIvTQJqclNgULwe-5IW9TSl_p/view?usp=sharing>

NCAH 2026 Conference Final Schedule of Events
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTvQkrAARZS93Hg4RPs4Fwb4NyJkgO-L/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100107621416885614528&rtpof=true&sd=true>