2015 Biennial Conference Schedule
Omni Parker House in Boston, MA
April 9-12, 2015
THURSDAY, April 9
11 am – 7 pm
- Conference registration
12:00 – 1:45 pm
- Intergenerational Transmission of Social Vulnerabilities in Fragile Socio-Ecologies: Understanding Children’s Micro-Worlds (Paper session)
- Subjective Experiences of Illness and Distress (Paper session)
- Untethering Self and Person: New Directions in Psychological Anthropology (Paper session)
2:15 – 4:00 pm
- Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis Software—Dedoose as Exemplar (Workshop)
- Constructions of Caretakers and Children (Paper session)
- Healing in Cultural Context (Paper session)
- Complications of Race, Class and Political Ideology Within and Across US Mental Health Activism(s) (Paper session)
4:30 – 6:15 pm
- “Getting the Grant”: National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding for Psychological Anthropology (Workshop)
- Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery (Discussion roundtable)
- Return to the Ethical! Ethics and Ethos (Paper session)
- Hardship and Its Responses: A Cultural Study of Responses to Hardship and Perceived Wrongs (Paper session)
6:30 – 8:00 pm
- Welcome reception with cash bar and light appetizers
FRIDAY, April 10
7:30 am – 5:30 pm
- Conference registration
8:00 – 9:45 am
- “Methods that Matter”: Breakfast and Lectures from Robert LeVine and Tom Weisner (Special event)
- Exploring the Tensions and Promise of Community-based Participatory Research with Undergraduate Students and Marginalized Communities (Discussion roundtable)
- The Communicability of ‘Non-Communicable Diseases’: Phenomenological Explorations of Social Contagion in Intimate Networks of Relatedness (Paper Session)
- Predicaments to Stay: Anxious Engagements with the ‘New Normal’ in Contemporary China (Paper session)
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
- Globally Circulating Approaches to Mental Health: Formulations, Practices, and Institutions (Paper session)
- Who Spoke? A Comparative Phenomenology of Voices and Voice-Hearing (Paper session)
- Advancing the Study of Globally Circulating “Emotion Pedagogies” (Paper session)
- The Promise and Peril of Compassion in Everyday Suffering (Paper session)
12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Lunch break
1:00 – 2:45 pm
- Culture and Economic Adversity: Contemporary Psychocultural Engagements (Paper session)
- Ghosts, Haunting, and the Subject of Culture: Towards an Anthropological Hauntology (Paper session – Part 1)
- Transitioning Out of Infancy: Weaning, Attachment and Social Learning (Paper session)
- Anticipation: Experience and the Shaping of Futures (Paper session)
3:15 – 5:00 pm
- Parents’ Aspirations for Children in a Globalizing World (Paper session)
- Ghosts, Haunting, and the Subject of Culture: Towards an Anthropological Hauntology (Paper session – Part 2)
- Care and Institutionality in a Time of Global Mental Healthcare (Paper session)
- Theory and Method – Cross-disciplinary Dialogues (Paper session)
5:30 – 7:30 pm
- Postcolonial Theory and Psychological Anthropology: A Conversation with Homi Bhabha (Plenary session)
SATURDAY, April 11
7:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Conference registration
8:00 – 9:15 am
- Creative Self-Making (Paper session)
- Psychological Anthropology at the Ontological Turn: Intersections, Critiques, and New Developments (Paper session)
- Autism: Challenging Common Expert Models (Paper session)
- Memory/History/Home (Paper session)
9:45 – 11:30 am
- No Rest for the Dead: New Approaches to Understanding Death, Bereavement and Ghosts and the Imagination (Paper session)
- Politics and States: Identity, Conflict, and Distress (Paper session)
- Culture and Human Development: Historical Roots and Contemporary Directions (Paper session)
- Moral Sentiments and Psychological Anthropology (Paper session)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Lunch break
12:30 – 4:00 pm
- Controversies in Global Mental Health (Plenary session)
4:30 – 6:00 pm
- Resilience (Paper session)
- Violent Talk: The Production of Social Experience and Subjectivity (Paper session
- Empathy and its Limits: Reflections on Ethnographic Engagements (Roundtable discussion)
- Translatability of Human Experience: Reassessment of Monolithic Translations of Japanese-Derived Experiences through the Triangulation of the Native, the Etic, and the In-Between (Roundtable discussion)
6:00 – 7:30 pm
- Poster session
- Cocktail reception with cash bar
7:30 – 9:30 pm
- Saturday Night Banquet with SPA Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation to Vincent Crapanzano and a talk from Paul Famer
SUNDAY, April 12
7:45 – 10:45 am
- Conference registration
8:00 – 9:45 am
- Coming of Age in Institutions: Youth, Gender, and Bureaucratic Subjectivity (Paper session)
- Relating Self and Other (Paper session)
- Critical in the Clinic: The Highs and Lows of Psychological Anthropology in Mental Health Practice (Paper session)
- Agency from Different Lenses: Contested Margins and Subjective Challenges to Liminality and Everyday Exclusion (Paper session)
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
- Workshop on the Integration of Visual and Psychological Anthropology (Ethnographic filmmaking workshop from Rob Lemelson (Elemental Productions))
- Remembering Melford Spiro (Roundtable discussion and memorial)
- Affecting Migration (Paper session)
- At Home: Intimacies of Citizenship, History and Caring (Paper session)
12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Lunch break
1:00 – 2:45 pm
- Psychoanalysis and Psychological Anthropology in Conversation (Discussion roundtable)
- Transnational Lives (Paper session)
- Communities, Agency, and Self-Definition (Paper session)