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

Date: 

Friday, December 3, 2021, 10:00am to 12:00pm

"Organic Psyche: Notes from Late Colonial India"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Sarah PintoProfessor of Anthropology, Tufts University.

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/97664497653

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:

Sarah Pinto is interested in histories and cultures of medicine, especially as they pertain to gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday intimacies, with a regional focus on South Asia. She is  also interested in the ways knowledge about bodies and minds moves across time and place, and how, in such movements, colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial scientific imaginations seed critical genealogies, often counterintuitively. In the diverse ways people make use of medicine and science, she is drawn to the forms of creativity, imagination, and ethical world-making that emerge in the interstices of authority and power. Dr. Pinto's research has considered childbirth, infant mortality, and birth-work in Uttar Pradesh, India, noting the way reproductive health interventions reiterate caste and the marginalization of Dalit women; women's movement through psychiatric care settings in urban north India and the intersections of kinship dissolutions with crisis and care; and histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in South Asia as they pertain to women's lives and gendered diagnoses, notably "hysteria" and its avatars.