Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return West Africans were far from passive victims of European-imposed psychiatric concepts and institutions. Rather, they enchanted the British colonial asylum in Accra (contemporary Ghana) by...

Working in the Basaglia Clinic at Arezzo Psychiatric Hospital and the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar Speaker Gabriele Schwab, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine. Moderator Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical...

The Ghost of Conflict Past: The Specter of TB Speaker Joia Mukherjee, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Moderator Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health...

Beyond Containment: Ebola, Colonial Legacies, and Reparative Justice in the DRC This seminar situates the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within a framework of (de)coloniality, arguing that enslavement, extractivism...

When Psychology Fails: Suicide Prevention, Religious Authority, and the Making of National Policy in Indonesia Speaker Sandersan Onie, Lynch Family Foundation Research Fellow in Global Health Equity, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...

American Indian Traditional Healing: Expressions of Alter-Native Psy-ence Speaker Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University; Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program...

A Conversation with Gene Bukhman: A Rootless Cosmopolitan’s Cardio-Anthropological Journey from Post-Soviet Central Asia to Post-Colonial Africa and Beyond In this session, Byron Good will have a conversation with Gene Bukhman about his career and the...

Reflections Speaker Arthur Kleinman, Faculty Associate. Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical...

Carried Forward: Displacement, Agency, and the Long Work of Rebuilding a Self Speaker Chantale Zuzi, Founder and Executive Director, Refugee Can Be. Moderators Michael Fischer, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT...

The Judicialization of Fear in U.S. Asylum Law Speaker Valentina Ramia, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University. Moderator Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...