Meredith Steinberg

Upcoming Talk: “Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do About It,” May 15

Please join us in person on Wednesday, May 15 at 5-6:30pm at Semel Auditorium (C8-183) 740 Westwood Plaza. Drs Roger A. Mitchell and Jay D. Aronson will be presenting their book “Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It.”

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Upcoming Talk: “The Politics of the Psychiatric Biomarker: Clinical Trials for Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation and the Quest to Map ‘Pure Depression’,” April 19

Please join us on Friday, April 19 at 1-2pm via Zoom or in CHS 16-154 at 10833 Le Conte Ave. Dr. Danielle Carr will be presenting the talk ““The Politics of the Psychiatric Biomarker: Clinical Trials for Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation and the Quest to Map ‘Pure Depression’” For more information and to register for

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Upcoming Talk: “Acculturative processes in the generation & evolution of family planning stigma: Lessons from the Los Angeles Filipinx/a/o Family Planning Study”, May 26

Please join us on Friday, May 26 at 1-2pm via Zoom or in Semel B8-225 at 760 Westwood Plaza. Dr. Katrina Heyrana will discuss how criminalization of abortion in the Philippines has generated profound stigma around accessing reproductive healthcare, including family planning services (abortion and contraceptive care). For more information and to register for the

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Upcoming Talk: “Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City”, April 26

Please join us on Wednesday, April 26 at 1-2pm via Zoom or in Semel B8-225 at 760 Westwood Plaza. Sarah Namirembe, founding member of Focus on Recovery Uganda, and China Scherz, Associate Professor at the University of Virgina, will present the talk, “Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City.” For more information and

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Upcoming Event: Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America, April 12

Wednesday, April 12 at 11am PT, please join Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley and the authors of Whiteout, including Dr. Jules Netherland, Dr. David Herzberg, and our Center’s Dr. Helena Hansen, for a discussion of the roots of the surprisingly white opioid crisis in racial capitalism. To register for the event, please click here.

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Faculty Spotlight: Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD, PhD, MPH

Our Center’s Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos just published the paper  “Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” co-authored with Dr. Matthew McCoy. The article is part of a special issue in Pathogens on The Ethnographic Study of Infectious Disease Epidemics co-edited by Merril Singer and Nicola Bulled. 

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Upcoming Event: Stories of Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador, Feb 11

This Saturday, February 11 at Village Well & Books in Culver City, Dr. Elizabeth Barnert will read from her inspiring new book REUNION: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador. Our Center’s Director Dr. Philippe Bourgois will read his photo-ethnographic testimony in the book while trapped in a scorched earth campaign during the 1981 Salvadoran

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