EDCMA

Description

Join us for this EdCMA PhD Masterclass with Professor Katie Kilroy-Marac, aimed at Social Anthropology students.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn from Professor Kilroy-Marac and enhance your knowledge and skills. Reserve your spot now!

This in-person event will take place on Mon 07 April 2025 at 11:00 AM GMT in the Practice Suite (1.12) at the School of Social and Political Science.

Refreshments and pastries will be served.

Please note that this event may be recorded. Any recordings will only be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes.

Our speaker

Katie Kilroy-Marac, at the University of Toronto, received her PhD from Columbia University. Her research considers the social history of psychiatric thought, the evolution and naturalization of psychiatric categories, and the spaces in which local understandings of illness and suffering come into contact with (Western) psychiatric models. Her first book, An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic (University of California Press, 2019) is based on fieldwork conducted at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Her current ethnographic research examines the emergence of hoarding as mental disorder, public health hazard, and media spectacle in North America. Following her interest in how people attempt to craft ethical lives through consumption (and its regulation) has also led her to embark upon a critical investigation of the Tiny House Movement.