# Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health ![Two-toned coral graphic background with the name of the seminar in white on top.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-04/Seminar%20Friday%20Morning%20Culture.png?itok=xntNXQ_Q) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 9, 2026** 10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT [ Attend this event via Zoom arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95100218010?pwd=L4oKJu2jSy220bsc16aZWAV8SIibpV.1) ## 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, fabricated identities, armed conflict, and the dismissal of local knowledge production are fundamental determinants of disease vulnerability and community mistrust. It contends that containment alone is insufficient and that meaningful intervention must be reparative, involving epistemic justice, wealth redistribution, and redress for ongoing and historical violence. ### Speaker - Eugene Richardson, Faculty Associate. Director, HMS Planetary Health Lab; Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. ### Moderator - Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. ### Contact **Francesco Rolando** See also:- [ 2026–2027 ](/academic-year/2026-2027) - [ Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health ](/seminars/global_mental_health/schedule) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/1935646/event-feed.ics) Copy link link