Dienstag
29
JUN

17.15 Uhr

Craving to be Heard But not Seen - Chatbots, Care and the Encoded Mental Health Universalism

Privatdozentin Dr. Claudia Lang, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Ethnologie

With psychologial infrastructure scarce and demand for services accelerating due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the search for technical fixes to the mental health and wellbeing crisis through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has enticed engineers and psychologists to experiment with inexpensive technological innovations. The app Wysa is one example of how globalized mental health and wellbeing discourses are migrating into the digital sphere. This Indian-developed app responds to and articulates the hopes and hypes of mental health digitization disseminated by proponents of global health and business alike. Global mental health actors celebrate mental health apps such as Wysa as a scalable and low-cost solution to the presumed mental health treatment gap. In this lecture, I investigate the aesthetics of the digital therapeutic encounter, the assumptions about the psyche that designers encode into their apps, and the techno-optimism of the designers themselves.

Streaming / Video URL

https://zoom.us/j/92030763034?pwd=R1lZY2diRXoxUjZkeFBvUTFQWThOdz09

Homepage Veranstaltung

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup

Veranstalter

Südasien-Institut

Homepage Veranstalter

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/

Anmeldung E-Mail

vasiliki.kosmidis@sai.uni-heidelberg.de

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Sommersemester 2021':

This is a forum for students, researchers and everyone who is interested in the study of health and illness in different cultural/social settings. We host senior students and scholars who present their current research projects. The aim is to discuss and analyze new theories and themes of medical anthropology and to learn more about international developments in the area of culture, health , and healthcare.

Dienstag, 04. Mai 2021, 17.15 Uhr

Medical Anthropology Forum - SoSe 2021

Stefan Ecks (University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science)

Dienstag, 18. Mai 2021, 17.15 Uhr

Ayurvedic Psychiatry, Medical Pluralism and the Movement for Global Mental Health

Prof. Dr. Murphy Halliburton, The City University of New York (USA), Department of Anthropology

Dienstag, 15. Juni 2021, 17.15 Uhr

Ecological Anxiety and Grief Across Generations in Britain

Dr. Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews (UK), Department of Social Anthropology

Dienstag, 29. Juni 2021, 17.15 Uhr

Craving to be Heard But not Seen - Chatbots, Care and the Encoded Mental Health Universalism

Privatdozentin Dr. Claudia Lang, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Ethnologie

Dienstag, 13. Juli 2021, 16.15 Uhr

Locating the Missing Person in Personalized Medicine and Psychiatrie

Prof. Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University (Canada), Division od Social and Transcultural Psychiatry