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A Report on the Joint EASA/SMA Conference “Encounters and Engagements:...
From June 12-14, 2013, the American Anthropological Association’s Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) and the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ (EASA) Medical Anthropology Network...
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The biopolitics of maternal mortality: Anthropological observations from the...
Historically, attempts to alter the conditions and cultures of maternity and motherhood have been part of the civilizing projects of colonialism and the modernizing agendas of international...
View ArticleFive years of conference reports by Eugene Raikhel
Throughout the past five years we’ve often invited our contributors to write reports about conferences, workshops and lectures. The conference reports listed below are meant to both inform readers who...
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Sharing “impediments and catalysts”: notes on the MAYS meeting in Tarragona,...
From June 10th to June 14th, the Catalan city of Tarragona, Spain, saw its population rise by about 500, as medical anthropologists from over 51 countries arrived for two associated conferences, the...
View ArticleResearch at the medico-legal borderland: perspectives on HIV and criminal law...
In recent years, the criminalization of HIV transmission, exposure and non-disclosure has become a hot topic among those working within the global AIDS milieu. Social scientists have become...
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TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of...
Communication never occurs without a transformation, and indeed always involves a stylized remodelling, which intracollectively achieves corroboration and which intercollectively yields fundamental...
View Article“Addressing Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”: A Conference Report by...
An interdisciplinary group of experts on health and medicine gathered in Austin, Texas on September 23-24, 2013 for a two-day conference and working group, “Addressing Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities:...
View ArticleOntology as an analytical approach to concerns of medical anthropology by...
What might arise from an encounter between medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) as they investigate the common subject of health and (bio)medicine? One answer could be found at...
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Conference Synopsis: The End of biodetermism? New Directions for Medical...
What is biodeterminism? Has it ended and did it ever exist? Earlier this month at Aarhus University, these seemingly straightforward questions resulted in three days of fascinating conversation during...
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Persistent pathogen: A conference report of anthropological research on...
The 2013 World TB Day theme was “Stop TB in my lifetime,” calling attention to both the goal of virtually eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2050, as well as the Stop TB Partnership, established in...
View ArticleSomatosphere & more at #AAA2014 by Eugene Raikhel
In anticipation of the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference in Washington DC from December 3-7, we wanted to point out a number of panels on which various members of Somatosphere’s...
View Article3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures in Medical Anthropology”:...
On Friday, April 24, more than 50 attendees gathered to hear the keynote—and kick off a weekend of stimulating talks and discussion—for the 3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures in Medical...
View ArticleTowards Neuro-Social Science: The Politics and Pragmatics of Collaboration by...
Workshop Report: King’s College London, 11 December 2014 Introduction Different forms of exchange between neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars have been emerging, and these have...
View ArticleConference review: MAGic 2015 Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating...
“Global Health is like a containership. The multiple actors —international and local NGOs, humanitarian organisations, scientists, activists, politicians — operate the tugboats, attempting to nudge,...
View ArticleEthnographic presents and futures of ‘health’—a summary of the Ethnographies...
In this report we offer an overview of a two-day workshop entitled Ethnographies and Health that was held in October at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and present personal...
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From Harry Potter to Jesus – A transfigurative conference report by Laura Perler
Credit: Transcultural Studies, University of St. Gallen Conference report on the anniversary conference: ‘Transfigurationen: Medizin macht Gesellschaft macht Medizin’, 17-18 February 2017, organised...
View ArticleCritical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine and Racial Violence...
A Reframed (and Reflexive) Conference Report Organized and Edited by Tess Lanzarotta and Sarah M. Pickman After a conference ends – after the last paper coffee cup has been tossed into the trash,...
View ArticleMore than Local Arrangements: How Conference Logistics Can Speak to Values by...
In the fall of 2016, my colleagues Tess Lanzarotta, Marco Ramos, and I met as the core organizers for the “Critical Histories, Activist Futures” conference to hammer out our individual roles. We...
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Think(er)ing with Epigenetics by Ine Van Hoyweghen
Epigenetics is a much-debated field of research in the contemporary biomedical sciences. Focusing on the processes of chemical regulation surrounding (hence: epi-) genetic material, epigenetic studies...
View ArticleMapping new voices: Towards a Latin American perspective on Global Mental...
This article describes the creation of a collaborative initiative started by PhD students interested in mental health issues in Latin America. It reports on its first workshop “Mapping new voices....
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