Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Date and Time

December 11, 2015
10:00AM - 11:50AM EST

Location

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

Speakers:

"Wars in the Middle East, Arab Refugees in the US: A Legacy of Conflict"

Marcia Inhorn, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University.

"What Evidence Counts for Evaluating Psychosocial Humanitarian Interventions? Stress and Resilience in Syrian Refugee Youth"

Catherine Panter-Brick, Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs; Public Health, Yale University.

"From Earthquake Trauma to Refugee Crisis in Turkey: A Genealogy of Disaster Psychiatry"

Chris Dole, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College.

"Trans-boundary Crisis and Health Policy: Responding to Syrian Refugees in Turkey"

Saime Ozcurumez, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Turkey.

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

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-0715

Chairs: 

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

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

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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