{"id":18769,"date":"2023-10-13T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?page_id=18769"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:16:50","slug":"care-and-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/academics-community\/co-curriculars\/past-co-curricular-events\/care-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Care and Community in Precarious Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Date & Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, October 25, 2023
5-6:30 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Kilachand Hall, 9th Floor
91 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215
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Event Description: <\/strong><\/span>Care.\u00a0Work.\u00a0<\/span>Decolonization.\u00a0<\/span>Discord.\u00a0<\/span>Community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you dealt with burnout and discord amongst your friends, family, or coworkers? Are you curious about what it might take to build and sustain equal communities? Bring your experiences and ideas to a conversation on sustaining relationships of care in contemporary times, with our guests Pratyusha Tummala-Narra (psychologist and educator), M.E. O\u2019Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (authors, Everything for Everyone:<\/i> An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Unlike regular academic lectures, we invite and encourage you to present your perspectives and partake in a discussion with the speakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance<\/strong>: (For Kilachand Honors College Students)<\/em> At the event, a QR will be posted for you to check-in. This QR will expire so please complete the check-in form immediately. You must check-in to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meet our Guest Speakers<\/h4>
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Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.
<\/strong>Research Professor in the Department\u00a0of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute, Boston University<\/em><\/p>\n

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute and Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and culturally-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also in Independent Practice, and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association and has served on a number of committees, boards, and task forces in the American Psychological Association, including the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, the APA Task Force on Revising the Multicultural Guidelines, and the APA Task Force on Trauma and Grief Recovery.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Daniel Aldana Cohen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

M. E. O\u2019Brien, PhD, LMSW<\/strong><\/p>\n

M. E. O\u2019Brien writes on communism and gender freedom. She has two books\u2014<\/span>Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052\u20132072,\u00a0<\/i>a 2022 co-authored speculative novel; and\u00a0<\/span>Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Pluto, 2023).<\/span><\/p>\n


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Chicago, IL – January 13 (Taylor Glascock\/for NPR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eman Abdelhadi, Ph.D.
<\/strong>Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n

Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and writer<\/strong> who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion, and politics. She is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072<\/em>, a sci-fi novel published in 2022 with Common Notions Press.\u00a0<\/span>Her academic work has been published in numerous sociology journals and covered by press outlets such as the Washington Post, Associated Press, and NPR.\u00a0<\/span>Abdelhadi received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n


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