Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

American Indian Traditional Healing: Expressions of Alter-Native Psy-ence Speaker Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University; Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program...

A Conversation with Gene Bukhman: A Rootless Cosmopolitan’s Cardio-Anthropological Journey from Post-Soviet Central Asia to Post-Colonial Africa and Beyond In this session, Byron Good will have a conversation with Gene Bukhman about his career and the...

Reflections Speaker Arthur Kleinman, Faculty Associate. Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical...

Carried Forward: Displacement, Agency, and the Long Work of Rebuilding a Self Speaker Chantale Zuzi, Founder and Executive Director, Refugee Can Be. Moderators Michael Fischer, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT...

The Judicialization of Fear in U.S. Asylum Law Speaker Valentina Ramia, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University. Moderator Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...

Declining Life Expectancies Among Americans in Rural California What explains the plateauing or falling life expectancies in one of the richest countries in the world? Carolyn Rouse will present on her ten years of research in a predominantly white, rural...

Accompanying Im/migrant Communities in Crisis: Engaged Ethnography in Colorado Speaker Whitney L. Duncan, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of Hispanic-Serving Initiatives, University of Northern Colorado; Affiliate Faculty, Colorado...

Waiting, Worry, and Endurance: Legal Violence and Mental Health Among Haitian Immigrant Communities in Ohio Speaker Bridget M. Haas, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University. Moderator Byron Good, Faculty Associate. Professor...

Mental Health Care for the Unhoused in Boston: Challenges and Solutions Few populations bear a greater psychiatric burden than the homeless population. In this seminar, we will illustrate the landscape of inequities faced by individuals experiencing...

Bridging Faith and Mental Health in Texas Speaker John Naslund, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Contact Sadeq Rahimi Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu To receive the meeting password, please contact Dr. Rahimi and...