[Sci-tech-public] Save the Date: Lecture by Dr. Stefan Timmermans on 3/6/15

[Randyn A. Miller]

Dear STS Faculty, Staff and Students:
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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).
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>        • 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/
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> More information will be sent out as details are confirmed, including the room location and the title of the talk.
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> Thank you,
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> Brittany
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> 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
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> Phone: 617.324.6323
> Fax: 617.253.5363
> Email: bapeters at mit.edu
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