Psychiatric Imaginaries: En Ethnographic History of Illness, Gender and Violence in Lebanon -Moghnie

Name: Psychiatric Imaginaries: En Ethnographic History of Illness, Gender and Violence in Lebanon -Moghnie
Start: 2026-03-27T16:15:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-27T18:30:00+01:00
Location: CSS, Lokale 1.1.18

Schedule

Fri Mar 27 2026 at 04:15 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

CSS, Lokale 1.1.18 | Copenhagen , SK

Lamia Moghnie will guest the third Lecture in The Alternative Lecture Series F26 with the title: PSYCHIATRIC IMAGINARIES: An Ethnographic History of Illness, Gender and Violence in Lebanon
The lecture will examine the history of psychiatry in Lebanon, bringing together imaginaries of psychiatry as a form of cure and governance by experts, patients and in social life.
The talk will particularly focus on the rise of humanitarian psychiatry in Lebanon from 1982 to current time, as a site of conflict and Israeli violence. It will address the challenges faced by psychiatrists in providing psychological relief for the war-affected communities, commenting on the policies of suffering during war and critiquing universal constructs of trauma and resilience in sites of perpetual violence and settler colonialism.
The Lecture will be in English.
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WHO IS THE LECTURER?
Lamia Moghnie completed her PhD in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 2016. She also holds master's degrees in Social Work (2011), Psychology (with a clinical specialization) from the American University of Beirut (2009), and Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (2006). She is employed at the University of Copenhagen at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.
In addition, she is particularly interested in, on the one hand, substantiating the relationship between psychiatry and subject formation in connection with the global organisation and standardisation of mental health and diagnosis, and on the other hand, analysing patients' subjectivity, agency and narratives.
In addition to her position at DECOLMAD, she is a founding member of “Ethnography and Knowledge in the Arab Region,” a working group under the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) that explores critical ethnographic knowledge in/from/about the Arab region.
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WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE LECTURE SERIES?
In recent years, the psychology program at the University of Copenhagen has been criticized for what many students perceive as a narrowing of academic perspectives in the program. The Alternative Lecture Series offers some of the perspectives that are in demand.
This is the ninth semester we are hosting The Alternative Lecture Series. We continue to believe there is a need to organize alternative lectures with perspectives that could be represented by teachers and in the curriculum, but still are not. We therefore believe that it is still at least as relevant as when it started in the spring of 2022!
The events are open to everyone and do not require any preparatory reading. They are designed to encourage discussion and conversation between researchers and participants. Everyone is welcome.
See more at www.denalternative.com
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PROGRAM F26
27.02.26 Marie Lunau: Affektive Politikker i Queer Migration: Om Affektiv Ambivalens, Sandhed og Queerness
https://fb.me/e/83AGssfj2
13.03.26 - Sebastian Tobias-Renstrøm: Problemer og Politik: Om hverdagslivet med ADHD i Senmodernitetens Danmark
https://fb.me/e/6JgA2EuWw
27.03.26 - Lamia Moghnie: Psychiatric Imaginaries: An Ethnographic History of Illness, Gender and Violence in Lebanon
https://fb.me/e/7uAwrdF8j
10.04.26 - Peter Berliner: Community psykologi: At være på vej i verden sammen - Social action learning og kollektiv forandring
https://fb.me/e/5JIWYQwDN
24.04.26 - Normkritiske Læger: Ulighedens Anatomi: Normkritik som værktøj til bedre behandling
https://fb.me/e/6p0Plfvz7
8.05.26 - Charlotte Højholt: Situeret Ulighed i Børn og Unges Fællesskaber: Konflikter, subjektive begrundelser og sociale betingelser
https://fb.me/e/5DeNDYshM