Dear STS Faculty, Staff and Students: > > Please Save the Date for a lecture by Dr. Stefan Timmermans, Professor and > Chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology > (http://socgen.ucla.edu/people/stefan-timmermans/) on Friday morning, 3/6/15. > Dr. Timmermans has agreed to speak at MIT as part of the ongoing Friday > Morning Seminar series; the exact location of the talk is yet to be > determined. > > The Friday Morning Seminar is an ongoing lecture series which the Global > Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI) is co-sponsoring along with > the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical > School, the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and the > Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. The > seminar has been meeting every year at Harvard University since 1984, when it > was launched by Byron Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Arthur Kleinman as > the foundational seminar for an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship program in > culture, psychiatry, and mental health and the predoctoral program in medical > anthropology. Since that time, the seminar has brought together an > interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians, including > faculty, fellows, students, and visiting scholars from across the University > and the teaching hospitals, and universities across greater Boston. > > The seminar focuses on the politics of global psychiatry and mental health > care, with special attention to comparative studies of social inequalities > and hierarchies; identity, migration, and diversity; political violence and > humanitarian interventions; and current debates concerning the relevance of > psychiatric knowledge, practice, diagnostic categories, treatment, and health > care models, for low resource settings. During the spring semester 2015, we > are inaugurating a "subway series" in which some seminar sessions will occur > on MIT’s campus and include guests from across the Institute and affiliated > research Centers. We hope to extend the focus of the seminar to include > perspectives from medical sociology and science and technology studies. > > The seminar takes place most every Friday morning from 10:00 am through 11:50 > am and features presentations of new research and writing by faculty, > fellows, and students, and by invited guests. Its perspective is global and > international, with a focus on comparative and cross-cultural studies. Some > seminars have led to edited books (recently, Postcolonial Disorders, > University of California Press, 2008; Subjectivity: Ethnographic > Investigations, University of California Press, 2007; and Shattering Culture: > American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity, Russell Sage Foundation, > 2011), and special issues for journals such as Culture, Medicine and > Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. > > The seminar is hosted by Professors Erica Caple James, Byron Good, Mary-Jo > DelVecchio Good, Michael Fischer, and Seth Hannah (see links to hosts bios > below). > > • Erica James: > http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/james.html > • Byron Good: http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/byron-good > • Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good: > http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/mary-jo-delvecchio-good > • Michael Fischer: > http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/fischer.html > • Seth Hannah: http://sdhannah.scripts.mit.edu/wp/ > > More information will be sent out as details are confirmed, including the > room location and the title of the talk. > > Thank you, > > Brittany > > Brittany A. Peters, Administrative Assistant > Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI) > Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Anthropology > 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E53-335V > Cambridge, MA 02139 > > Phone: 617.324.6323 > Fax: 617.253.5363 > Email: [email protected] >
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