Date:
Location:
“COVID-19 in Iran”
Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)
Speaker:
Orkideh Behrouzan, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, SOAS University of London.
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 Good, Faculty 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. Good, Faculty 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. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Remote Access Information:
To join by computer:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96548297369
Please note: This event requires a password to attend. Please email Sadeq Rahimi (sadeq_rahimi@hms.harvard.edu) to receive the meeting password.
Abstract:
Dr. Behrouzan is an academic, author, and consultant with over a decade of experience in research and analysis, project management, leadership, public speaking, teaching, mentoring, and interdisciplinary degree programme and curricula design and implementation in the US and the UK (MIT, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), King's College London, SOAS University of London). A physician, medical anthropologist, anthropologist of science and technology, and the author of Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (2016, Stanford University Press), she is a 2015-16 fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the winner of the 2011 Kerr Award from the Middle Eastern Studies Association, and a bilingual author and poet in Persian and English. She currently teaches at the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.
