A new season of the Richardson history of psychiatry research seminar will start soon.

If you want to join, you can send an email to Dr. Megan Wolff at mew2008@med.cornell.edu

The schedule is as follows:

January 6: Heather Love, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Stevens-Barchas Lecture
“From the Outside In: Goffman’s Concept of Stigma and Observational Research in the Human Sciences”

Lecture of 6 January has been cancelled.

January 20: Chris Chamberlin, Ph.D., ICI Berlin “The Antiracist Clinic”

February 3: Joel P. Eigen, Ph.D., Franklin & Marshall College”Searching for the Elusive Link: Behavioral Genetics, Neuroscience, and Criminal Responsibility”

February 10: Psychiatry and the arts, TBD

February 17: Louis Sass, Ph.D., Rutgers University, “Mental Disorder, Magic, and the Soul: Ways of Knowing among Traditional Healers in Mexico”

March 3: Ginette Jubinville, Ph.D., University of Montreal, in conversation with Todd Porterfield, Ph.D., New York University, Gallatin Esman Lecture “About Art and Architecture at the Beginning of French Psychiatry”

March 17: Emily Baum, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine “The Psychiatric Hospital in Modern Chinese History”

March 31: Mady Hornig, Ph.D., Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University “The Role of Psychiatry in the Treatment of Neuro-Covid”

April 7: Baher Ibrahim, M.D., Doctoral Candidate, University of Glasgow, “Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement: Psychiatry in Refugee Camps, 1945-1993”

April 21: Carolyn Laubender, Ph.D., University of Essex “Empires of Mind: Psychosocial Cartographies of ‘The Empire’ in a Narrative of a Child Analysis”

May 5: Psychiatry and the arts, TBD

May 19: Fernando Vidal, Ph.D., Eric T. Carlson Memorial Lecture: Grand Rounds, “How We Became Our Brains”

Richardson Seminar, “Performing Brains on Screen”

May 26: Gal Kachman, Ph.D., Cohn Institute, Israel, “American Depression, Narcissism and the Principle of (21st Century) Reality”