EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 3-5 p.m. Friday, April 13, 2012.

EVENT: Screening of two shorts from the “Afflictions” film series on mental illness in the developing world.

To open the annual conference of the ISR Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain, ethnographic filmmaker and psychological anthropologist Robert Lemelson of the University of California at Los Angeles will screen two short films from his acclaimed “Afflictions” series, followed by a Q&A.

The event is free and open to the public.

Lemelson’s series is the first to examine mental illness in the developing world, where 150 million people suffer serious mental illness and where psychiatric treatment is limited or non-existent. At once scholarly and cinematic, the films tell the stories of six patients in rural Indonesia, following each from their diagnosis and showing what kinds of treatments they received and how their illnesses were understood and handled by their families and communities.

The two short films to be screened at ISR are “Shadows and Illuminations” and “Memory of My Face.”

PLACE: U-M Institute for Social Research, Room 6050, 426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor.

SPONSORS: U-M Institute for Social Research; ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics: ISR Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain; U-M Center for International Business Education at the Ross School of Business.

INFORMATION: www.afflictionsfilmseries.com