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

Date: 

Friday, February 25, 2022, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Personality Cult and Sacred Enchantment – Negotiating Mass Liberalist Aspirations in Prebendalist Nigeria"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Chidi Ugwu, Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard University; Professor in Social  Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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.

Remote Access Information:

To join by computer:

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95105548151

Please note: This event requires a password to attend. Please email Dr. Sadeq Rahimi (sadeq_rahimi@hms.harvard.edu) with a brief introduction of yourself to receive the meeting password.

Speaker Bio:

Chidi Ugwu, PhD, teaches anthropology and qualitative methods in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and is a guest lecturer in the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health. His research concerns the asymmetries of knowledge and power in the fields of public health, politics, and religion.  Dr. Ugwu has published in American AnthropologistEthnography, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, the Lancet, and the Qualitative Report. He has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the International Development Research Centre. In 2018, a consortium comprising the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research named him among seven most promising early-career scholars in Africa.