"Reclaiming Conversation: Digital Culture Meets its Silent Spring"

Speaker:

Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Director, Initiative on Technology and Self, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
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"Fat Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America's War on Fat"

Speaker:

Susan Greenhalgh, Faculty Associate. John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society; Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
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"Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago"

Speaker:

Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

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

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
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"On Marriage and Madness in Kenya’s Ethno-erotic Economies"

Speaker:

George Paul Meiu, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Departments of African and African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University.

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

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
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"China Mental Health"

Speakers:

Sai Zuo, Fellow, Fogarty International Center Training Fellowship Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Wenzheng Wang, Fellow, Fogarty International Center Training Fellowship Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

 Chengcheng Pu, Fellow, Fogarty International Center Training Fellowship Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Wang Xun, Fellow, Fogarty International Center Training Fellowship Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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“Indonesian Mental Health”

Speakers:

“The Passage of the National Mental Health Law in Indonesia: A Personal Legend that Costs an Arm and a Leg”

Nova Riyanti Yusuf, Psychiatrist; former Member of Parliament for the House of Representatives, the Republic of Indonesia.

"Mental Health in Aceh, Indonesia"

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

Byron J. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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“Mental Health in Peru”

Speakers:

Antonio Bullon, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Giuseppe Raviola, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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“Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning During the Ebola Crisis”

Speaker:

Adia Benton, Assistant Professor, Brown University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass 
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu 
(617) 432-2676

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“Graphic Medicine”

Speaker:

Juliet McMullin, Associate Professor, University of California Irvine.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass 
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu 
(617) 432-2676

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"Operating the Social Body: Cancer 'Previvorship' in Australia and the United States"

Speaker:

Alison Witchard, PhD candidate in Anthropology, Australian National University; 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar; Visiting Fellow, Anthropology Department, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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"Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Whole Exome Sequencing"

Speaker:

Stefan Timmermans, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology; Professor, Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California Los Angeles.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass 
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu 
(617) 432-2676

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"Minding the Baby in the Bath: Building a Research Agenda for Global Mental Health"

Speaker:

Pamela Collins, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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"Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorized Immigrants’ (Non) Access to Care after Healthcare Reform”

Speaker:

Helen Marrow, Assistant Professor of Sociology,Tufts University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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“Fearing my Rabbi, or Ethnographic Choices with Intersubjective Consequences”

Speaker:

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

Cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

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"Ghosts of Gaza: Life, Death, and Humanitarian Intervention”

Speaker:

Sa'ed Atshan, Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

Co-sponsored by The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
617-432-2676

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