Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (via Zoom)

Date: 

Friday, February 5, 2021, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

“Lived and Cultural Experiences of COVID-19 in Canada and the United States"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speakers:

Sandra Teresa Hyde, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University.

Iman Roushdy-Hammady, clinical oncology nurse; Inpatient Care Coordinator, Lung Transplant Department. Emory University Hospital.

Sarah S. Willen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology Department, University of Connecticut.

Katherine A. Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Brown University; co-founder, Pandemic Journaling Project.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio GoodFaculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Byron J. GoodFaculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Michael M.J. FischerProfessor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 

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Please note: This meeting will be recorded.

Abstract:

We start our 2021 Friday Morning Seminar series with a panel of speakers that will address the lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic across different populations, including the unique case of Quebec in Canada, a phenomenological examination of the pandemic experiences, and a close-up of individual lived experiences of the pandemic collected through online journaling.  Our speakers are Drs. Sandra Hyde, who will present Je mesouviens de COVID: Public Health and COVID in QuébecIman Roushdy-Hammady, whose talk is titled, What masks reveal: a phenomenological reading of medical, cultural and political navigation during a pandemic; and Sarah Willen, and Kate Mason, who will co-present Guilt, Loss, Gratitude, Rage: Preliminary Reflections from the Pandemic Journaling Project.

Speaker bios:

Sandra Teresa Hyde, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor at McGill University in Montréal in the Department of Anthropology who trained in Public Health before coming to Medical Anthropology. She is an Associate Fellow in East Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Social Studies of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and an affiliate in Global Mental Health and Transcultural Psychiatry.  Her current manuscript, "Chasing the DragonAffective Politics and the Malleable Addict," is based on eight years of research in a drug treatment center in Southwest China. She has published articles in a wide range of journals from Public Health to Philosophy, including Transcultural Psychiatry in 2019, and as a Special Issue Editor for Medical Anthropology in 2020.

Iman Roushdy-Hammady, PhD, RN, OCN is a clinical oncology nurse, and recently accepted a position as an Inpatient Care Coordinator in the Lung Transplant Department at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta. She earned a joint doctorate degree in anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, a nursing degree from Georgia State University, and a master’s in social science and a bachelor degree in economics from the American University in Cairo. Her ethnographic research has focused on genetic factors in susceptibility to environmental exposure to asbestoslike carcinogens, reproductive health in ethnic minorities, and the social and behavioral determinants of health disparities in minority groups.

Sarah S. Willen, PhD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, where she also directs the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute. A medical and sociocultural anthropologist, she is author or editor of four books, five special issues, and several dozen articles and book chapters. Her book, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), was awarded the Yonathan Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies from the Association for Israel Studies (2019) and the Edie Turner First-Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2020), and was Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore from the Association for Jewish Studies (2020). 

Katherine A. Mason, PhD, a medical anthropologist, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and Co-Founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project. Her first book, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic (Stanford, 2016), draws on fieldwork in southeastern China to explore the professionalization and the ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic. Dr. Mason is currently developing a multi-sited ethnographic study of perinatal mood disorders in the U.S. and China. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Fulbright program, and Association for Asian Studies.