Connectionists and Facilitators: Cultural Agents Coin Words

Date: 

Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room

"Women Health Providers in Rural Kenya: Dialogue between Araceli Alonso and Jennifer Leaning"

Speakers:

Araceli Alonso, Associate Faculty, Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Washington-Madison; Founder and Director, Health by Motorbike (HbM).

Jennifer Leaning, Director, FBX Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Cultural Agents Inititative, Harvard University.

Contact:

Pilar Vicuna Dominguez
pilar_vicuna@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Doris Sommer, Faculty Associate. Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University.

Alejandro de la Fuente, Faculty Associate. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.