Skip to main content

Past CGMH Events:

Events from 2023

Psych/Med Seminar- "But my mother was beautiful: understanding body-focused anxiety of Chinese young women from an intergenerational perspective"

Screenshot-2023-11-27-at-10.23.33-AM.png

When: December 4th, 2023, 10-11:30am 

Where: SSB102 

Abstract

It is widely acknowledged that many females experience body-focused anxiety across different cultural settings, with a wide variety of clinically diagnosable symptoms and even broader relational and social functional impact (Becker, 1995, Lester, 2019). In this presentation, I use body-focused anxiety as an umbrella term to include a cluster of lived experience centered on the struggling to be with one’s own body. Using a phenomenological approach, I propose to understand young Chinese women’s struggle across developmental stages by focusing on the under-discussed mother/daughter relationship that influenced the embodiment of gender, sociality, and self-world interactions. I use ethnographic case studies to point out new ways to understand body-focused anxiety through intergenerational trauma. Specifically, how the experience of gender-based violence in the previous generation and continued anxiety across rapidly transforming society and kinship system fuel the heightened body-focused anxiety for the next generation through highly invested emotional dynamics. The social pressure of gendered flesh with the haunting origin of son-preference practices may play a part in the intergenerational trauma of mother-daughter struggles, manifesting as body-focused anxiety.

Bio

Dr. Miranda Wu is a psychological/medical anthropologist whose research interest is on mental health and transgenerational experience and trauma across historical transitions in Mainland China. Her dissertation work, “Where do I place my body and heart: embodiment and emotion across personal and historical transitions in modern China”, takes a phenomenological perspective in understanding how people understand the changes of their bodily and emotional experiences across life stages under intensified social transformation in East Asian society. Her research investigates mental health, personal relations, and person-culture interactions across several generations in China. Miranda is also interested in the temporal-spatial aspects of everyday life and the broadened meaning and methods of illness experiences and healing in mental health across cultures. She also collaborates with the Fudan-UC center at UCSD and Fudan University’s anthropological team to explore the culturally shaped experience of mental health and psychological well-being and management in multiple cities in China
Quarterly Conversations Fall 2023-Mental Health: A Global Priority

November 8th, 3-5pm at Great Hall (I-House) 

RSVP Here! 

Come hear from our very own Dr. Janis Jenkins as well as Dr. Jyoti Mishra Ramanathan and Dr. Amanda Miller as they teach us more about mental health on the global scale, and highlight the issues that exist within the field such as the need for more mental health care/support globally. 


QCGH-Presenters.png

 

Events from 2022

UCSF Bioethics: Book Launch Event
September 15, 4:00-5:00pm

UCSF Bioethics is thrilled to announce the book launch of The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions, recently published by UCSF Bioethics postdoctoral scholar, Julia Brown, PhD.

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom. In it, Dr. Brown engages with the narratives of people living in extreme health circumstances to challenge some of the assumptions made about clozapine treatment and to explore what it means to be diagnosed with ‘treatment-resistant schizophrenia.’

To celebrate the publication of this book, UCSF Bioethics joins with the UCSF Department of Humanities & Social Science to host book launch on September 15th from 4:00-5:00pm at the Mission Bay Campus of UCSF. The event will feature a conversation between Dr. Brown and David Elkin, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, followed by a reception. Please RSVP.

Annual Horizons of Global Health Research Symposium

Faculty and students from across campus are invited to participate and contribute to building the UC San Diego Global Health community. The conference features an undergraduate research poster session and a keynote speaker, Dr. David Grelotti, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. This event celebrates the end of the academic year and the success of our graduates.

Wednesday, May 11th from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m 
Where: Zoom
Zoom Registration

Rebecca Seligman, Ph.D., From Sensations to Symptoms: The Social Shaping of Functional Illness Experience
The UCSD Psychological & Medical Anthropology Seminar Series

May 9th, 10:00am - 11:30pm PT

Where: Zoom
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97184539377?pwd=SzVLdXRoZUUwRVRhbFdxTnlxajZoUT09
Meeting ID: 971 8453 9377
Passcode: PsychMed

The West Coast Global Mental Health Consortium
February 24th, 11:45am - 1:00pm PT

Join us as the West Coast Global Mental Health Consortium kicks off our webinar series aimed at highlighting the unique needs of our Pacific Coast population!  We have two amazing speakers, Dr. E. Roberto Orellana (UW School of Social Work) and Dr. Dirk Davis (Duke University Global Health Institute) joining us for the inaugural session.  We will begin the day with an optional Meet & Greet at 11:45. Our speakers will begin at 12:00pm.

Where: Zoom
"We mourn the sudden and unexpected passing of Dr. Paul Farmer, who died in Rwanda on February 21st.  For those of us in the UC San Diego Global Health Community this is a very personal loss.  It is a massive loss for the world as a whole, and for all those who struggle for global health equity.  No life force is more true and real than our much beloved Paul."
Janis H Jenkins, Director, CGMH, Distinguished Prof of Anthropology & Psychiatry 

 

Events from 2021

A Challenge to Dignity
A Conference on the Health and Well-Being of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, & Forcibly Displaced People
October 22-23, 2021
Watch session recordings
Watch individual presentation recordings 

 

Bridget Haas, Ph.D, “Asylum Takes So Much of You:” The Affective Debris of the US Asylum Regime
The UCSD Psychological & Medical Anthropology Seminar Series
October 4th, 2021, 10:00-11:30

 

2021 Virtual Horizons of Global Health Research Symposium Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Mental Health
UC San Diego’s Annual Horizons of Global Health Research Symposium is a unique opportunity for Global Health students to present their research about the diversity of global health work around the world. The 2021 Honors Thesis Projects on Global Mental Health examine mental health and well-being from a variety of perspectives (e.g. healthcare worker burnout, HIV status and mental health, social media’s influence on adolescent well-being, etc.) in both local and global contexts.
Click here to watch a recording of the event

 

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

 

Professor Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) on “The Soul of Care: Why Caregiving Matters for Everyone.”  Presentation Sponsored by the Osher Learning Institute and Co-Sponsored by the Center for Global Mental Health. 
April 22, 2021 at 1-3pm PST

 

Quarterly Conversations in Global Health: Health and Racial Justice in the Black Community
February 24, 2021 at 3-5pm PST 

 

Professor Fernando Ciello (Universidad Roraima, Brazil) presented his work on "COVID Death and Collective Grief in the Indigenous State of Romaira, Brazil: Hardest Hit in the Nation”
January 11, 2021 at 10-11:30am PST

Events from 2020

October 15th, 2020 at 3-5pm (via Zoom)


Dr. Ruth Shim, M.D., MPH. Associate Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UC Davis, will present a Special Grand Rounds on Structural Racism in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego. September 29, 2020 at 8:00-9:30am 

Read Dr. Shim's powerful statement issued in STAT: Structural racism is why I am leaving organized psychiatry, Ruth S. Shim, July 1, 2020. Also see her presentation at American Association of Community Psychiatry townhall


CGMH Seminar on Psychosocial interventions for migrants: Tijuana's shelters in the face of COVID19 
June 26, 2020 at 1:00-2:30pm
Click here to watch a recording of the seminar


Join Academics for Black Survival and Wellness Week!
Organized by a group of Black counseling psychologists, this weeklong personal and professional development initiative aims to honor the toll of racial trauma on Black people, resist anti-Blackness and white supremacy, and facilitate accountability and collective action. 
June 19-25, 2020


Psychosocial care for migrants before COVID-19 in civil society shelters in Tijuana 
Dr. Ietza Bojórquez (COLEF), Dr. Olga Odgers (COLEF) and Dr Olga Olivas (UCSD and COLEF).
Log on for this seminar is: bluejeans.com/965468685?src=htmlEmail
June 17 at 9:30am PST

MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH 2020: TOOLS 2 THRIVE
Everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health; some are mild, others moderate, and some more serious. The 2020 theme is Tools 2 Thrive. See the link for more info on the practical tools everyone can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency.

International Women's Day 2020
The 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual. An equal world is an enabled world.

Lunch and Seminar Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer
Organized by the Center for Global Mental Health (Sponsored by the UCSD Center for Global Mental Health and the Burke Lectureship Committee). 
March 12 at 12pm (cancelled March 9, per Harvard COVID travel policy), CGMH-sponsored events planned and organized/co-organized by CGMH Director, Dr. Janis Jenkins): [These are planned to be rescheduled once safe travel can resume]

This invitation-only cross-campus event was organized by Dr. Jenkins as Director for the Center for Global Mental Health as a luncheon and seminar to be convened at the Institute of the Americas. Confirmed attendees included faculty from the Psychological and Medical Anthropology Program, Deans from the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, faculty from the Departments of Psychiatry, Surgery, Family Medicine, Psychiatry Department residents, and graduate/medical student trainees from the social and health sciences.

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D. “Haiti After the Earthquake: A Reflection 10 Years Later”
UCSD Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society and the Helen Edison Lecture Series, with special thanks to UCSD Center for Global Mental Health.
March 12, 6:00pm I The Scripps Research Auditorium (cancelled March 9 per SIO large lecture hall COVID policy)

Quarterly Conversations in Global Health: “Global Mental Health”
February 19, 3-5:00pm I Great Hall, I-House 

CGMH faculty Dr. Paula Saravia will present "On Sadness: Political engagement, Mental Health and Impacts of Environmental Precarity in Northern Patagonia."
January 30, 3:00pm I Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas

GBM #1 - Students for Global Health
January 21, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm | Green Table Room, Price Center

Danzar la Frontera:  Book Presentation by Prof Olga Olivas, in dialogue with Sr. Mario Aguilar, Senior Dancer for San Aztec Dance Group
January 18, 5pm | Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego.  

Events from 2019

Climate Change and Mental Health
July 11 | UCSD, SSRB

Food Justice Speaker
Talk by local food activist N. Diane Moss
June 4,12:30pm | Dolores Huerta Room, Old Student Center

May Is Mental Health Month Events
Join Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and our campus
partners for special events throughout the month of May! See poster for more information

How Do You Flourish?
Strengthen stress management and increase life satisfaction. See flyer for more information

 APAMSA PRESENT: Into the Light: Mental Health Conference Addressing Silent Issue in APA Communities
May 11, 9:00am-2:00pm | UCSD MET Building

Horizons of Global Health Research Symposium
May 1, 12-3:30pm | UCSD, Great Hall

SPA Biennial Meeting
April 4-9 Tamaya Resort, New Mexico

2019 Annual CUGH Global Health Conference
March 7-10 | Chicago

Sugar and Tension: The Intersection of Diabetes and Mental Health among Women in India
January 17, 4pm
UCSD, SSB 107

CGMH-CILAS Movie Series: Discussion of Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios
January 24, 5:30pm 
RIMAC Annex - Dugout Conference Room

Quarterly Conversations in Global Health
February 13, 3:30pm
UCSD, Great Hall

GBM #3 - Students for Global Health
Febuary 28, 6:30-8:30pm | Thurgood Marshall Room, Price Center

Events from 2018

CGMH Student Presentation at OMNI Symposium

November 30, 2018
MiraCosta College, Encinitas, CA

 

De-Stress with Yoga: CGMH Meditation Event for UCSD Students

November 29, 2018
UC San Diego

 

CILAS-CGMH Working Group Meeting: the Caravan at the Border

November 29, 2018
UC San Diego 

 

Seminar on “Technology-Based Mental Health Care: Reflections on Ethnographic and Collaborative Entanglements within an Emergent Treatment Paradigm” | Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

November 8, 2018
UC San Diego

 

Quarterly Conversation in Global Health: Technology

November 7, 2018
UCSD, Great Hall

 

CGMH Affiliated Faculty Luncheon

November 1, 2018
UCSD, Spiro Library

 

Global Mental Health Symposium

May 24th, 2018
UC San Diego

 

UC Global Health Day

April 22nd, 2018 
UC San Diego

 

SSPC Conference

April 19th-21st, 2018
San Diego, CA

Events from 2016