Announcements

Please join us on Friday, September 27 at 1-2pm via Zoom or in CHS 16-145 at 10833 Le Conte Ave. Dr. Elizabeth Barnert will be presenting the talk “Juvenile InJustice and Health: Pathways for Transformation, Healing, and Racial Equity”. For more information and to register for the event, click here.

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.”

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

Please join us on Friday, March 22 at 12-2pm via Zoom or in CHS 16-154 at 10833 Le Conte Ave. Dr. David Cohen will be presenting the talk “Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs in the 21st Century” For more information and to register for the event, click here.

Please join us on Friday, June 9 at 1-2pm via Zoom or in CHS 16-154 at 10833 Le Conte Ave. Dr. Caroline M. Parker will be presenting the talk “Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico” For more information and to register for the event, click here. 

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

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

Please join us on Friday, April 14 at 1-2pm via Zoom. Dr. Jessica P. Cerdeña will present the talk, “Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers.” For more information and to register for the event, click here. 

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.

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.