Anthropology Department Hosts Emerging Scholars Roundtable on Systemic Racism in Health and Medicine
The BU Anthropology Department is pleased to announce its upcoming Emerging Scholars roundtable on “Systemic Racism in Health and Medicine.” The event will feature the cutting edge-work of junior scholars on Friday November 12, 2021 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. For further information, please contact Kimberly Arkin (karin@bu.edu). Please register for this important event here.
Moderators
Dr. Dana-Aìn Davis (Professor of Anthropology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center). Chair and Moderator
Dr. Natali Valdez (Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College). Moderator
Panelists
Dr. Chelsey Carter (Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University). “Medical Gaslighting” in ALS Care: Black Patients’ Quest to be Heard, Seen and Understood.”
Ms. Yesmar Oyarzun (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Rice University). “On Anti-Black Devices and Dermatological Perception”
Ms. Claudia Morales (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UMass Amherst). “Disability, Debilitation, and Migration: the Emergence of Networks of Care”
Mr. Fabián Fernández (MD Candidate UCSF, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Berkeley). “Policing Care – Safety and the Administration of Racialized Affects in a U.S. Emergency Department”
Dr. Diana Burnett (ACLS Fellow, Kairos Center for Religion, Rights, and Social Justice).”Spiritualizing Racial Health Inequalities: The Conversation between Pathology and Theology”