Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

2017 May 12

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

TBA

Speaker:

Vikram Patel, Professor 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
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2017 May 05

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

TBA

Speaker:

Daniel Brown, Research Fellow in Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

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

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda
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2017 Apr 07

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Psychiatric Disorders in (Post)Colonial New Caledonia: Ethnographic Encounters"

Speaker:

Nathanaelle Soler, PhD candidate, Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

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

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda
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2017 Mar 31

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Anthropology in Epidemics (Especially Ebola): The Paradox of Relevance"

Speaker:

Sharon Abramowitz, Independent Scholar.

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

Contact:

Andrea Chiovenda
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2017 Feb 24

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

"Optimism in the Anthropocene: Loss and Endurance in Post-Disaster Turkey"

Speaker:

Christopher Dole, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2017 Feb 17

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

TBA

Speaker:

Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2017 Feb 10

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Optimism in the Anthropocene: Loss and Endurance in Post-Disaster Turkey"

Speaker:

Christopher Dole, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2017 Jan 27

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Aftermath: A Dialogue About Ebola"

Speakers:

Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Adia Benton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2017 Mar 03

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Recovery's Edge: Stories form the Boundaries of Human Experience"

Speaker:

Neely Myer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Dec 16

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Plodding the Revolution: Thinking 'Abhidhammically' about Care and Social Change in Thailand"

Speaker:

Felicity Aulino, Five College Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Nov 04

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

“Integrative Medicine for Disintegrating Bodies: Localizing Biologies and Reimagining Marginality in Postsocialist Siberia"

Speaker:

Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Oct 21

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Living with Malignancy in Rwanda: Metaphor, Metonym, and Onco-Nation Politics" 

Speaker:

Darja Djordjevic, Graduate Student Associate. MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Oct 07

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Mrs. A's Breaking Point: Freedom and Singularity in mid-20th Century Indian Psychiatry"

Speaker:

Sarah Pinto, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Oct 14

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Blood Sugar Beside Itself: Epidemic Diabetes in the Post-Colonial Caribbean"

Speaker:

Amy Moran-ThomasAssistant Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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2016 Sep 30

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness"

Speaker:

Janis H. Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Department of Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California at San Diego.

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

Contact:

Karen Kwass
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