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DESCRIPTION:By Aidan Seale-Feldman\, PhD\, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lect
 urer\, Bioethics Program\, University of Virgina.\n\nPlease register here
 \n\nAbstract:\n\nWhat does it mean to lose a world? And what role might ps
 ychosocial counselling play in repairing a world destroyed? In the Spring 
 of 2015\, as I was conducting fieldwork\, Nepal was struck by a 7.8 magnit
 ude earthquake and 7.3 magnitude aftershock. Over 9\,000 people died and h
 alf a million lost their homes. In response to the seismic rupture\, human
 itarian psychosocial projects arrived with funding to mitigate an emergent
  “mental health crisis” in a country where mental health had not yet been 
 incorporated into the health care system. As psychosocial counselors flood
 ed the 14 affected districts\, over 300\,000 “beneficiaries” received psyc
 hiatric and psychosocial support services\, many for the first time in the
 ir lives. Based on collaborative ethnographic research alongside a leading
  Nepali NGO\, this talk follows individual and group counseling sessions i
 n an earthquake-affected region where the ground had not yet stopped shaki
 ng. Landslides\, aftershocks\, and the ongoing deconstruction of the earth
  generated existential dizziness and discussions about the nature of the w
 orld\, sansar. Assembled in the midst of ruins and rubble\, group counsell
 ing sessions did not primarily operate as conduits of “therapeutic governa
 nce\,” but as sites of geophilosophy where people dreamed\, despaired\, an
 d critically reflected on existence. By attending to the relational dimens
 ions of the therapeutic encounter and the forms of thought that emerge in 
 response to a trembling world\, this talk reconsiders anthropological and 
 philosophical reflections on life\, world\, and loss in times of disaster.
 \n\nBio:\n\nAidan Seale-Feldman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and L
 ecturer in Bioethics at the University of Virginia. Her work explores the 
 ethics\, politics\, and psychic life of disaster. Based on two years of et
 hnographic fieldwork in Nepal before and after the 2015 earthquakes\, her 
 research focuses on the biopolitics of mental health governance\, the exis
 tential dimensions of disaster\, and the forms of care that emerge in disa
 ster’s wake. In Nepal\, she has also conducted research on gender\, “mass 
 hysteria\,” and the movement of affliction across bodies\, worlds\, and ge
 nerations. For the past two years she has served as co-editor of Screening
  Room\, an experimental ethnographic film series hosted on the Society for
  Cultural Anthropology’s Visual and New Media Review. She received her PhD
  in Anthropology from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Politics of Psychic Life Speaker Series: 'The World is Like This': 
 Life\, Loss\, and the Trembling Thought of Disaster
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 peaker-series-world-life-loss-and-trembling-thought-disaster-329698
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