Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

2020 Oct 23

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

“Mental Illness and Interventions in Bhutan: Findings from Embedded Clinical Ethnography”

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Speaker: 

Joseph CalabreseReader of Medical Anthropology; Head of the Medical Anthropology Section, University College London.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 Oct 09

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Two Talks"

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Speakers:

“Crisis within a Crisis:  The Coronavirus Pandemic among Refugees on the Mexico-US Border”

Thomas J. CsordasDr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health; Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California at San Diego. Director, Global Health Program. Director, UCSD Global Health Institute. Author, Body/Meaning/Healing; co-author, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment.

“Child and Adolescent Experience of COVID in the U.S.-Mexico Border Zone”

Janis H. JenkinsProfessor of Anthropology and Psychiatry; Director for the Center for Global Mental Health, University of California at San Diego. Author, Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness; co-author, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment.

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.

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2020 Oct 02

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

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"Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice in Indigenous Community Mental Health"

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Speaker: 

Joseph GoneProfessor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program. President Elect (2019-21), Society of Indian Psychologists.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 Sep 25

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

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“Nighthawks (Bacurau), Viral Cultural Politics and COVID-19 (and the need for informed cultural-political reviewers)”

Speaker:

Michael M.J. Fischer, PhD, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer in Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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.

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2020 Sep 18

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

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"From Malawi to Massachusetts: Mental Health and Psychosocial Response in the Time of COVID-19"

Speakers:

Giuseppe Raviola, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, Harvard Medical School. Director, Mental Health, Partners In Health. Associate Director, The Chester Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Stephanie Smith, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Associate Director, Mental Health, Partners In Health. Attending Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dahyana Schlosser, Founder, Therapy To You. Co-Founder, Pinnacle Partnerships. Manager, Partners in Health Wellness & Peer Support Program.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 May 22

Friday Morning Seminar (via Zoom)

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"COVID19 in Italy, Brazil, and Native populations in North and South America"

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Speakers:

Maria de Lourdes Alcantara, Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Sao Paulo-FMUSP. Head, Support Group for Indigenous Youth. Consultant for IWGIA International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, UNICEF, and the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues.

Michael M.J. Fischer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program. President Elect, Society of Indian Psychologists.

Virginia Moreira, Professor of Anthropology, Universidade de Fortaleza.

Mariella Pandolfi, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Montreal. Co-chair and founder, GRIMH research group on military and humanitarian interventions.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 May 08

Friday Morning Seminar (via Zoom)

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Clinical, Cultural and Political features of COVID19 in Iran, Turkey and UAE"

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Speakers:

Orkideh Behrouzan, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Andrea Chiovenda, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Zayed University.

Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Zayed University.

Saime Ozcurumez, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration; Associate Dean, Faculty of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences, Bilkent University.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 Apr 24

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

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Frontline Challenges and Experiences of COVID19: Clinicians' Point of View"

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Speakers:

Panel of frontline clinicians from Boston and other locations

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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2020 Mar 13

CANCELLED: Friday Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent developments with COVID-19 this seminar is cancelled. 

All upcoming Friday Morning Seminars in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health for this semester have also been cancelled.  We hope to reschedule our guests for the Fall semester.

"Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism: Towards a Contemplative Ethnography"

Speaker:

Don Seeman, Associate Professor, Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu 

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2020 Feb 28

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Home as Cure"

Speaker:

Casey Golomski, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu 

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2019 Dec 06

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"The Buddha’s Mother’s Death: Maternal Mortality Then and Now"

Speaker:

Kim GutschowLecturer in Religion, Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda 
Andrea_Chiovenda@hms.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 15

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Room 1550

"Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland"

Speaker:

Jonathan M. Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda 
Andrea_Chiovenda@hms.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 01

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Retranscribing the Past in the Face of Trauma and Displacement: The Experience of Afghan Asylum Seekers in Greece"

Speaker:

Andrea Chiovenda, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda 
Andrea_Chiovenda@hms.harvard.edu

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2019 Oct 18

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Iraqi refugees, unknowing, and the everyday lives of empire: A different kind of war story"

Speaker:

Nadia El-Shaarawi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Colby College.
 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda 
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