Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Panel on Ethnographic Writing

This session explores ethnography as a way of thinking, asking, and writing. Bringing together ethnographers of different conceptual and geographical interests, the session contemplates ethnography as genre. A particular focus will be on experiences that cannot necessarily be represented—from hauntings to wildfires and subjectivity—and thus pose both challenges and openings for ethnographic writing.

Speakers

• Felicity Aulino, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Robert R. Desjarlais, Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College.
• Sharika Thiranagama, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
• Jason Throop, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.

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
francesco_rolando@g.harvard.edu