Haiti Lab Undergraduate Students, "Global Mental Health, Cultural/Historical Difference, & the Problem of the Human"

Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 (note location)
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* Updated April 5 with videos

Please join us for this Wednesdays at the Center (WATC) presentation, featuring works by undergraduate students affiliated with the FHI Haiti Lab and Lab Co-director Deborah Jenson. Prof. Jenson will introduce the panel with a discussion of "Discourses of Trauma in Haiti in the Past, Present, and Future." Student presentations:

Liana Lau, Historicizing Anthropological Mental Health Studies in Haiti

Annie McDonough, Exploring Maternal Post-Partum and Post-Traumatic Stress in Haiti

Sedlin Mirtil, Charting Resiliency in Haiti

Fontasha Powell, Sorting the Numbers from PTSD Prevalence in Haiti Research (unable to present in person)
 
Stephani Zakutansky, Mapping Research on Mental Health in Haiti

This WATC event is presented by the Haiti Lab and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

WATC is a topical weekly series in which scholars, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. The series is jointly organized and presented by the John Hope Franklin Center, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and coordinated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo.

All events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served - no reservations are necessary. The Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road, on the corner of Erwin and Trent. Vouchers to cover parking cost for 1 hour in the Duke Medical Center parking decks - #2 and #3 in this map are provided.

For the Spring 2012 WATC schedule, please visit the John Hope Franklin Center website.

 

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