Madness and/as Divine History: Sign, Symptom, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Chinese Mediumship and Charismatic Christianity with Professor Emily Ng

On October 26th, Emily Ng, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, presented a talk on Madness and/as Divine History: Sign, Symptom, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Chinese Mediumship and Charismatic Christianity. Her book A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao explores madness between psychiatric and cosmological registers, and personhood between generational impasse, crises of sovereignty, and haunting. Learn more on Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures website.