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

Date: 

Friday, October 7, 2022, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Sacrificial Limbs: Disability, Masculinity, and Political Violence in Turkey"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Salih Can AciksozAssistant Professor of Anthropology, UCLA.

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/95951617456

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:

Salih Can Aciksoz, PhD,  is a sociocultural anthropologist with expertise in health and medical anthropology, gender and disability studies, embodiment, affect, and political violence, especially in the context of Turkey and the larger Middle East. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His first book “Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity,Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey” (UC Press, 2019) chronicles the post-injury lives and political activism of the disabled veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war. The work has won awards from the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Middle East Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association Middle East section, and the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. His new project “Humanitarian Borderlands” focuses on humanitarian prosthetics and emergency field medicine along and across Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian border. In addition to these projects, Dr. Aciksoz has also written on trauma, assisted reproduction, LGBTIQ+ parenting, tear gas, prenatal genetic testing, populist and fascist sexual politics, and feminist and queer resistance.