Paul Christensen's talk will be on the topic "Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment". This event is a hybrid event.
Paul Christensen is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. Much of his past research and publications have focused on addiction and recovery in Japan. This has included ethnographic fieldwork with Danshūkai, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Drug Addiction Recovery Group in Tokyo. Recently he started a new ethnographic project in Tokyo that broadly considers how people conceptualize and imagine the future.
