Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

2014 Feb 14

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

"Philosophia and Anthropologia (or Affect and Everyday Life): Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran"

Speaker:

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu 
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2013 Dec 06

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

“Are Prisons 'Houses of Healing' for Women?: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Trauma and Addiction Treatment in Massachusetts”

Speaker:

Kim Sue, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
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2013 Nov 15

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

“Cultural Competence in Action: ‘Lifting the Hood’ on Four Case Studies in Medical Education"

Speaker:

Dr. Michael Knipper, University of Giessen, Germany.

Discussants:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Sarah Willen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut.

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth College.

Seth Hannah, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Antonio Bullon, Psychiatrist, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Sylvie Schuster, Medical Anthropologist and Obstetrician/Gynecologist, University Women’s Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu
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2013 Oct 18

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

"War, Medicine, and the Toxicity of Everyday Survival in Iraq"

Speaker:

Omar Dewachi, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu
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2013 Oct 11

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 1550

“Relief, Rotation and Resistance: Ersatz Practitioners, Ersatz Pharmacopeias and Patient Care in Rural Rajasthan's Storefront Clinics”

Speaker:

Andy McDowell, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
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2013 Oct 04

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 1550

"How Ethics Haunt Places: Lessons from the 'Spirit Ambulance' and the End of Life in Thailand"

Speaker:

Scott Stonington, Resident in Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu
617-432-0715

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2013 Sep 20

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:45am

Location: 

William James Hall, R1550

"The Lancet and University College London Commission on Culture and Health: Old and New Horizons"

Speaker:

David Napier, Director of the Science, Medicine and Society Network; Professor of Medical Anthropology, University College London.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu
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