Please join us on November 4, 1:15-2:45pm EST, for the next Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry. We will be joined by Emily Lim Rogers, Ph.D. for a presentation titled “‘Work is Health’: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Invention of Stress.” Rogers, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, is a historian and anthropologist of the politics of medicine in the United States. Her new book, Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness (Duke University Press, 2026), is an archival and ethnographic examination of chronic fatigue syndrome and patient activism.

Zoom: Click here to register for the zoom link. You only need to register once, we will use the same link throughout the 2026-2027 academic year.