The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar

The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2021



The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar is taking place in the fall 2021. The lectures are always between 2:00 PM- 3:30 PM.

Due to the Delta variant of Covid-19, Richardson Seminars will be conducted online until further notice. To register, click here, or contact Dr. Megan Wolff at mew2008@med.cornell.edu.


September 8: Kylie Smith, Ph.D., Emory University. “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Segregation in the American South 1945-1970”

September 15: George J. Makari, M.D., Weill Cornell Medicine. “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia”

September 29 (Issues in Mental Health Policy): Lise Van Susteren, M.D., Climate Psychiatry. Alliance “Deny Much? Climate Inaction and the Psyche”

October 6 (Psychiatry and the Arts): TBD

October 20: James Kennaway, Ph.D., Helmut Schmidt University, Germany. “Neuromusic? A Critical Humanities Perspective on Music and Medicine”

November 3: Jacqueline Lecki, Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. “Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji”

November 17: Brett Kahr, Ph.D., Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London. “Donald Winnicott’s Pandemics: Surviving the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968”

December 1 (Psychiatry and the Arts): Curtis Hart, M.Div., Weill Cornell Medicine. “Imagination and Faith”

December 15: Heather Love, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. “From the Outside In: Goffman’s Concept of Stigma and Observational Research in the Human Sciences”