Africa Talks
Moderator: Isabella Musherure, Mental Health Practioner
Community Panelist: Sadat Abiri, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner w
Speaker: Nguyễn T. Thuỳ-Trang
Time: 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm CST
Venue: Goodman South Library, 2222 South Park St., Madison, WI 53713
(This is an in-person event; no livestream or recording)
Talk Description
Nguyễn’s dissertation project examines radical psychiatric/psychotherapeutic praxis in Vietnam and Algeria post-WWII, within a broader theoretical framing of Afro-Asia intimacies, postcolonial studies, decoloniality, and critical social theory from the Global South. Against the landscape of liberation wars and decolonization across the two continents, her research brings forth a radical reconfiguration of the psychiatric asylum space by studying the encounter between the seemingly distinct identities of psychiatric patient and political dissident. Engaging with archival materials and literary analysis of works produced by the residents of psychiatric asylums, the project draws connections among seemingly unrelated temporal, spatial, and social conditions to problematize the contemporary construction of global mental health.
Speaker’s Bio: Nguyễn T. Thuỳ-Trang, PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, UW-Madison. She is also a practicing psychotherapist, specializing in traumatic stress in children and adolescents. She grew up in Vietnam.
The event is free and open to the public.