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- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2022-23
Autumn 2022
6 October - Roberta Raffaeta (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) - virtual presentation in DFSR
Medical Anthropology and the Microbiome13 October - Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School) - face-to-face presentation
Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations20 October - Limor Samimian Darash (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - virtual presentation in DFSR
Uncertainty and Temporality: Modes of Preparing for the Future through Scenarios27 October - Ivo Quaranta and Chiara Bodini (University of Bologna) - virtual presentation in DFSR
Mapping, Interpreting, and Fighting Inequalities. A Multidisciplinary Action-research Project on Health Equity in Bologna3 November - Paul Stoller (West Chester University) - virtual presentation in DFSR
Anthropology of anti-microbial resistance7 November
Reading Week
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2021-22
Spring 2022
20 January - Janelle Lamoreaux (University of Arizona, USA)
Environmental epigenetics and toxicity in China27 January - Naomi Richman (University of Cambridge, UK)
Mental health care of Nigerian sex-trafficking victims3 February - Kathryn Clancy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Biology and culture of menstruation10 February - Tom Widger (University of Durham, UK)
Suicide in Sri LankaReading Week - No Seminar
24 February - Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
Anthropology of anti-microbial resistance3 March - Young Su Park (Haverford College, USA)
Amputations and political subjectivities in Ethiopia!Cancelled! 10 March - Emily Mendenhall (George Town University, Washington D.C. USA)
Community responses to COVID-19 in the US17 March - Uršula Lipovec Čebron (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Language Barriers at health care institutions in SloveniaPlease contact Sahra Gibbon or Joe Calabrese for further information.
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2020-21
Autumn 2020
1 October – no seminar (induction week)
8 October – Dr Vanessa Grotti, University of Bologna
Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialisation of Migrant Human Remains in Italy (1997-2019)15 October – Dr Carlo Caduff, Kings College London
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop22 October – Dr Emily Ng, University of Amsterdam
Diagnosis and the End(s) of the World: Psychiatry and Mediumship in Contemporary China29 October – Prof Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis
Fixing Time: Chronicity, Recovery, and Trajectories of Care at Cedar Grove5 November – Prof Janelle Taylor, University of Toronto
Friendship, Citizenship, and Abandonment: Older Adults with Dementia without Family Caregivers12 November – no seminar (reading week)
For further information, please contact Jo Cook: joanna.cook@ucl.ac.uk
Spring 2021
January 21 - Prof. Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)
Blood Work in PenangJanuary 28 - Dr Amy Moran-Thomas (MIT)
One Hundred Years of Insulin for SomeFebruary 4 - Dr Neely Myers (Southern Methodist University)
Moral Agency, Moral Experiments and Mental Health Recovery after a First-Episode of PsychosisFebruary 11 - Dr Scott Stonington (University of Michigan)
Karma Masters: Expanding Ethics to Account for Complex Personhood?Reading Week - No Seminar
February 25 - Prof. Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam)
Not quite clean: Trailing schoon and its resonancesMarch 4 - Dr Talia Dan-Cohen (Washington University in St Louis)
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological ExperimentsMarch 11 - Dr Sara Lewis (Naropa University)
Resilience and the Ethics of “Big Mind” Thinking in the Tibetan DiasporaMarch 18 - Dr Alex Nading (Cornell University)
Patience, Health Activism, and Meeting TimeReading Week - No Seminar
For further information, please contact joanna.cook@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2019-20
Autumn 2019
3 October - Aaron Parkhurst (UCL Anthropology)
Towards an Anthropology of Gravity: Emotion and Embodiment in Microgravity environments[Cancelled] 10 October - Henry Llewellyn (UCL Psychiatry)
Changing tumours: Personalised immunotherapies and therapeutic value in cancer tissues17 October - Caroline Ackley (University of Sussex, BSMS Medicine)
The body in crisis: Post-mortem tissue sampling in children under-5 in Kersa District, Ethiopia24 October - Des Fitzgerald (Cardiff University, Sociology)
Psychic Life in the Green Metropolis: Rethinking Nature, Mental Health and the City31 October - Istvan Praet (Roehampton, Life Sciences – Anthropology)
Of Extremophiles, Astronauts and Planetoid Beings. Between Astrobiology and Anthropology7 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
For further information please contact Sahra Gibbon s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk or Aaron Parkhurst a.parkhurst@ucl.ac.uk
Spring 2020
January 16 - Roland Littlewood (University College London)
Divination, Detection, DiagnosisJanuary 23 - Esther Eidinow (University of Bristol)
Divination, Detection and Diagnosis in Ancient Greek CultureJanuary 30 - Athar Yawar (University College London)
Divination, diagnosis, and the inspired intellect among Naqshbandi SufisFebruary 6 - Patrick Awondo, Marilia Duque, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Daniel Miller, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang (University College London)
mHealth: An Alternative VisionFebruary 13 - Maurice Lipsedge (KCL) and Terry McGuinness (Faculty of Laws, UCL)
Delirium, Death and DiagnosisReading Week - No Seminar
February 27 - Noemi Cassin (UCL)
Ascertaining Chronic Pain: The Instance of Fibromyalgia[Cancelled due to UCU strike action] March 5 - Elizabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
On the interface of divinatory and diagnostic skills in Chinese medicine[Cancelled due to UCU strike action] March 12 - Andrew Walker (Psychotherapist and independent scholar)
Judicious science: research, evidence and remedies in law and psychotherapy[Cancelled] March 19 - Quinton Deeley (KCL)
Divinatory possession: from ancient Greece to contemporary LondonFor further information, please contact j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2018-19
Spring 2019
10 January – Roland Littlewood (University College London)
The Problem of Healing for a Hylozoic Cult17 January – Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge)
Living without the Dead: The Discovery of Sin24 January – [NO SEMINAR]
31 January – Joseph Calabrese (University College London)
Psychopharmacological Purity Doctrines and the Inertia of Cruelty7 February – Dana Walrath
Graphic Medicine and Making Medical Anthropology Public14 February – Reading Week – no seminar
21 February – Simon Dein (Queen Mary/Goldsmiths)
The Abominations of Leviticus Revisited: Judaism and Pollution28 February – Quinton Deeley (Kings College London)
The Power of Taboo: Anthropological and Neurocognitive Perspectives7 March – Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn (LSHTM)
Leaky Bodies and Matter Out of Place14 March – Ellie Reynolds (Kings College London)
Sacred and Profane: sex, energy and pollution in the dissolution of a North American religion-therapeutic movement
For further information please contact j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
Autumn 2018
4 October - No seminar this evening but please note Radcliffe Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology given by Susan McKinnon at 6.30pm on Cousin Marriage, Hierarchy and Heredity at British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace – registration required
11 October - Elizabeth F.S Roberts (University of Michigan)
Bioethnography, A Method of Excess: A Case Study in Validity, Memory, and Menopause in Mexico City18 October - Michelle Pentecost (King’s College London)
Ordinary Spaces: global health, clinical trials and the everyday in South Africa25 October - Megan Vaughan (IAS, UCL)
Conceptualising Metabolic Disorder in Southern AfricaCancelled: 1 November - Janelle Lamoreaux (University of Arizona)
Epigenetic Ecologies: the temporality and relationality of germ cells8 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
Enquiries to Sahra Gibbon s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2017-18
Spring 2018
11 January - No seminar
18 January - Marisa Mika (Institute of Advanced Study UCL)
Invisible Harms and Toxic Drugs on an African Cancer WardCancelled: 25 January - Tine Gammeltoft (University of Copenhagen)
Spectral kinship: Domestic violence and everyday endurance in northern Vietnam1 February - Ayo Wahlberg (University of Copenhagen)
Tracking Failing Biologies8 February - Catherine Trundle (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
Nuclear Half Lives: Rethinking the anthropology of proof15 February - Reading Week - No seminar
Cancelled due to UCU strike: 22 February - Michelle Pentecost (King's College London)
Governing the dyad: epigenetics and global health in South Africa1 March - Elizabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
The Song Chinese 'contagious corpse dis-ease': an inquiry which combines sensory and linguistic anthropology with ethnobiology8 March - No seminar
15 March - Jeanette Edwards (University of Manchester)
Provincialising the clitoris: cosmetic surgery, beauty and ethics20 March (reading week) - Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University, USA)
Is the shaman schizophrenic, after all? How religious practice may change psychotic experienceEnquiries to Jo Cook Joanna.cook@ucl.ac.uk or Sahra Gibbon s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk
Autumn 2017
5 October - Roland Littlewood (UCL)
Filth as Faith: The Story of Antinomian Pollution12 October - Sjaak van der Geest (University of Amsterdam)
Three Achievements of Dirt: Disgust, Humour, Emphasis19 October - Andre Singer (Royal Anthropological Institute)
Where the Wind Blew: the legacy of radiation in Nevada and Kazakhstan26 October - Diana Varaden (King's College London)
Making the invisible visible: Monitoring air pollution in contemporary London6-10 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
Enquiries to Joe Calabrese j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk or Roland Littlewood r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2016-17
Spring 2017
19 January Yusuf Sheik Omar (University of Melbourne)
"Sane or Insane?": How do Muslim men from the Horn of Africa understand emotional wellbeing and get access to culturally appropriate care in Melbourne, Australia?26 January Rebecca Lynch (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
New magic: Risk, modernity and the Devil in a Trinidadian village2 February Dalia Iskander (UCL)
Malaria as unconscious strategy. Why policy-makers, professionals and patients "do" malaria differently9 February Arseli Dokumaci Vincent (University of Copenhagen)
Vital affordances, occupying niches: Disability and Everyday Practices16 February Reading Week - no seminar
23 February Jed Stevenson (UCL)
"Do our bodies know their ways?" Villagization, food insecurity, and ill-being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley2 March Bryony Jones (Royal Veterinary College)
Sheep and goat production and health in the Afar Region of Ethiopia9 March Sloan Mahone (Oxford)
Revisiting the psychology of Mau Mau: A photographer's study of trauma in late colonial Kenya16 March NO SEMINAR
23 March James Fairhead (University of Sussex)
Understanding social resistance to Ebola response in the Forest Region of the Republic of Guinea: An anthropological perspectiveFor further information please contact a.parkhurst@ucl.ac.uk or e.stevenson@ucl.ac.uk
Autumn 2016
6 October - Roland Littlewood (UCL)
Conversion, wellbeing, but no metaphysics: The Dalit move toward Christianity13 October - Joseph Calabrese (UCL)
Culturally-embedded therapeutic emplotment: The blessing and curse of the therapeutic process at the heart of cultural meaning20 October - Erminia Colucci (Queen Mary University of London)
Breaking the chains': A visual anthropology project on practices of restraints and confinement of people with mental illness in Indonesia27 October - Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
History in the body: A critical reading of two related sets of Chinese martial arts techniques3 November - Sajida Ally (University of Sussex)
"Wellness (Suham)": A framework for understanding transnational Sri Lankan Muslim women's health and wellbeing7-11 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
17 November - Quinton Deeley (Kings College London)
Neuroanthropology: Exploring relations between mind, brain, and culture24 November - Gloria Duravila (UCL/Surrey and Borders Mental Health Trust)
The attribution of religious meaning to suffering in Spanish nuns, monks, priests and lay theological students: The Dark Night of the Soul as an antidote to the medicalisation of normal deep sadness1 December - Michael Weiss (University of Vienna)
Performing non-dualistic understanding: Convergences towards Japanese Butō dance8 December - Alfredo Ancora (Department of Mental Health, Rome, Italy)
De Martino and 'tarantism' in Southern ItalyEnquiries to Joe Calabrese j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk or Roland Littlewood r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2015-16
Spring 2016
21 January - Mohammed RASHED (Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL)
Mad Pride, Mad Culture and the Demand for Recognition: Difficulties in Responding to Current Socio-political Movements28 January - Joanna COOK (Department of Anthropology, UCL)
Happy Neoliberals? Mindfulness and Governance in Westminster4 February - Charlotte FAIRCLOTH (University of Roehampton)
Militant Lactivism? Ethnographic perspectives on long-term breastfeeding and attachment parenting (TBD)11 February - Jason DANELY (Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes)
Wounded worlds: Violence and the making of compassionate subjectivities in Japanese eldercare18 February - Reading Week - no seminar
25 February - Ben KASSTAN (Durham)
Health cultures and conducts in a Haredi Jewish minority: A historical and ethnographic study of a 'hard to reach' group.3 March - Jennie GAMLIN (Institute of Global Health, UCL)
Ethnographic accounts, public health in practice and critical theory in Latin American medical anthropology10 March - Autumn FIESTER (Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania)
The Reigning Framework in US Clinical Ethics Decision-Making and Why We Should Rethink It17 March - Jacob COPEMAN (University of Edinburgh)
Biological Relatedness and Partonomic Philanthropy: Activism as Philanthropy in North IndiaFor further information please contact Aaron Parkhurst a.parkhurst@ucl.ac.uk or Joanna Cook joanna.cook@ucl.ac.uk
Autumn 2015
15 October - Roland Littlewood (UCL)
Projection - A Mental Mechanism Shared by Psychopathology and Anthropology: A Religious Instance22 October - Daniele Stolfi (UCL)
Reconstituting Native American Identities in Utah: The Role of the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City29 October - Iain Edgar (Durham University)
The Human Dreamtime and its Anthropological Narrative and Impact5 November - Claudia Merli (Durham University)
Forensic Identification and Identity Politics in 2004 Post-tsunami Thailand: Moral Landscapes and Negotiation of (Geo) political BoundariesEnquiries to Roland Littlewood (r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk) and Joe Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2014-15
Spring 2015
15 January at UCL Paul Brodwin (University of Wisconsin)
Gesture of Care: An Ethnography of Mental Health Reform22 January at LSHTM Ben Belek (University of Cambridge)
Emotion talk and autism self-advocacy29 January at LSHTM Paul Richards (Wagenigen University)
The end of Ebola? New evidence from rural Sierra Leone5 February at UCL Susan Phillips (Pitzer College, California)
The Anatomy of Vengeance: Forensic Evidence, Storytelling, and Gang Collective Violence12 February at LSHTM Hannah Kienzler (Kings College London)
Global Mental Health in War and Post War Contexts: Negotiating Mental Health System Reforms in Kosovo and Palestine19 February READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
26 February at UCL Ciara Kierans (University of Liverpool)
Bodies in Motion: Ambivalent Technologies and the Politics of Organ Transplantation in Mexico5 March at LSHTM Heidi Larsen (LSHTM)
The anthropology of Rumours: Why rumours matter to public health12 March at LSHTM Tim Allen (LSE)
Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda19 March at UCL Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge)
The Visible Invisible: Plague Photography and the Optical UnconsciousFor further information please contact s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk or simon.cohn@lshtm.ac.uk.
Autumn 2014
9 October: Roland Littlewood (UCL)
The Advent of the Adversary: Oppositional Powers in Religio-Therapeutic Systems16 October: Sahra Gibbon (UCL)
The 'Less than Many' Local Biologies of Brazilian Cancer Genetics23 October: Carlo Caduff (Kings College)
The Right Prescription30 October: Charles Stewart (UCL)
Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Advent of Western Psychotherapeutics in GreeceEnquiries to Roland Littlewood (r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk) and David Napier (d.napier@ucl.ac.uk)
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2013-14
Spring 2014
16 January: David Napier (UCL)
Betrayal and its Modern Consequences23 January: Joseph Calabrese (UCL)
Kinship, Personhood and Life Course in the Native American Church30 January: Tyler Phan (UCL)
Sowa Rigpa (G.so ba rig pa) in Transition: A Survey in Contemporary Medical Epistemologies of Tibetan MedicineCancelled due to strikes - 6 February: Maryon McDonald (Cambridge)
On the merits and difficulties of detachment13 February: Jonah Rimer (Oxford)
Anthropological Insights into Internet Sexual Offending20 February: Reading Week (no seminar)
27 February: Melissa Parker (LSHTM)
The politics and anti-politics of neglected tropical diseases6 March: Seonsam Na (Oxford)
An Ethnography of a 'Revolution' in the Korean Medicine Community13 March: Simon Cohn (LSHTM)
Making Up Bodies and Populations: Research within the UK Blood Service20 March: Samuel Leze (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
An anthropology of psychoanalysts in France.SPECIAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY EVENT:
Anthropological Perspectives on Clinical Authority
Friday 21st March 4-7pm in Roberts 106 (building location)
Speakers:
- Maryon McDonald (Cambridge)On the merits and difficulties of detachment
- Samuel Leze (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)Clinical authority today: a multi-sited ethnography of mental health institutions in France
Enquiries to: Joseph Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2013
10 October: Roland Littlewood and Ellie Reynolds (UCL)
Embodiment of an Empty Signifier17 October: James Davies (Roehampton University)
The DSM: A Great Work of Fiction24 October: Melissa Parker (Brunel University)
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Controlling Neglected Tropical Diseases
Cancelled - replaced by Joe Calabrese's short talk "Culturally-Embedded Therapeutic Emplotment and the Psychoactive Nature of Cultural Ontologies".31 October: Sophie Day (Goldsmiths College)
When Waiting is a Form of Caring: Reflections on the NHS7 November: READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
14 November: Maryon McDonald (Cambridge University)
On the merits and difficulties of detachment21 November: Michael Poltorak (University of Kent)
From 'Evil Spirits' to 'Brain Diseases': Shifting Agency, Humour and a Tongan Public Psychiatry28 November: Del Loewenthal (Roehampton University)
Post-Existentialism: Towards a Therapy without Boundaries5 December: Peter Steggals (Hull University)
Making Sense of Self-harm: Negotiating Ambivalence in the Performance of the Transgressive BodyEnquiries to Roland Littlewood (r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk)
- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2012-13
Spring 2013
9 January: Mark Mosko (Australian National University)
Omarakana Revisited; Or, 'Do Dual Organizations Exist?' in the Trobriands16 January: Catalina Tesar (UCL)
Body, Gender and Personhood among Cortorari Gypsies23 January: Vera Skvirskaja (University of Copenhagen)
Man the Hoarder: In the realm of the flea marketers30 January: Ramon Sarro (University of Oxford)
The Invention of Writing: Madness, healing and imagination6 February: James Staples (Brunel)
Personhood, Agency and Suicide in Contemporary South India13 Feb: READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
20 February: Alex Cohen (LSHTM)
A Skeptical Look at an Old Assumption: A better prognosis for schizophrenia in developing countries?27 February: Maja Petrovic-Steger (University of Cambridge/University of Ljubljana)
Title to be confirmed6 March: Ann Kelly (University of Exeter)
Detinova on Safari: Remembering a Soviet method in a Tanzanian laboratory13 March: Rane Willerslev (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway)
Rebirth and the Deathdrive: Reconsidering Freud's 'Mourning and Melancolia' through a Siberian time perspectivEnquiries to: Joseph Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2012
4 October - Roland Littlewood (UCL)
The Ambiguity of Amulets: Bangladeshi responses to Illness and Misfortune11 October - Eirini Kampriani (UCL)
Genetic Counselling in a Greek Orthodox Convent18 October - Katayoun Medhat (UCL)
The Iron Cage versus the Stahlhartes Gehause: An Exploration of Bureaucratic Process in an (Amer)indian Health Service Clinic25 October - Aaron Parkhurst (UCL)
Shifting scales and becoming Cyborgian: Procrastinating the singularity!1 November - Maya Unmithan (Sussex University)
Global Rights and State Activism: Reflections on Civil Society/State Partnerships in Health in North-West India8 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
15 November - Joseph Calabrese (UCL)
Embedded Clinical Ethnography in Bhutan22 November - Ursula Read (UCL)
Prayer Camps as Responses to Severe Mental Illness in Ghana29 November - Rebecca Lynch (UCL)
Agency and Spirit Oppression in rural Trinidad6 December - Emilie Medeiros (UCL)
The Indigenous Psychologies of Maoist Child Soldiers in Nepal
Enquiries to Roland Littleword r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2011-12
Spring 2012
19 January - Yasunobu Ito (UCL/Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Ingenuity Sub Rosa: Medical information, technology and work practice in a Japanese hospital26 January - Sjaak van de Geest (University of Amsterdam)
Feces, faces and contexts2 February - Anne Fox (Imperial College London/Galahad SMS)
Homo Ebrius: The origins of drunkenness9 February - Mona Schrempf (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The spider and the soul: Spirit matters in the Eastern Himalayas16 February - Reading week - No seminar
23 February - Gloria Durà-Vilà (UCL/ Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS)
Integration of sexual trauma in a religious narrative: Transformation, resolution and growth among contemplative nuns1 March - David Napier (University College London)
Bodies and boundaries in the life sciences8 March - Alison Macdonald (University College London)
Breast cancer survivorship among middle-class women in charitable organisations in urban India15 March - Richard Rechtman (l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
An introduction to the political anthropology of traumaInquiries to Joseph Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2011
6 October - Roland Littlewood (University College London)
'Islamic Fatalism' and the Bengali Response to Illness13 October - Aaron Parkhurst (University College London)
Genes and Djinni in the Arabian Gulf: 'Islamic Fatalism' in Everyday Life20 October - Joe Calabrese (Oxford U.and University College London)
Initial Reflections on Clinical Ethnographic Fieldwork in Bhutan27 October - Simon Dein (Durham U. and University College London)
Jewish Guilt: an Anthropological Approach3 November - Ellie Reynolds (University College London)
Embodied Forms of Control: Substance and Energy in an Orgasmic Cult10 November - Reading Week - No Seminar
17 November - Francesca Zanatta (University College London)
"You Negroes in Jamaica Pray Too Much": The Role of Religion in Shaping Child Identity in Jamaica24 November - Mohammad Rashed (University College London)
Meaning, Distress and Psychosis in the Western Desert of Egypt1 December - Anne Fox (Imperial College London)
The Military Horde and the Hunting Hypothesis [Provisional Title]8 December - David Orr (Sussex University)
Andean Idioms of Madness: Sociality, Poverty and the Person among Quechua-speaking peasants in Peru15 December - Brian Anderson (Stamford University)
Psychiatric Ontologies of Ayahuasca: Psychosis or Spiritual Cure?
Please send all enquiries to r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk- Medical Anthropology Seminars 2010-11
AUTUMN 2010
7 October Roland Littlewood (University College London)
The 'Seligman Error' and the Origins of Schizophrenia
14 October Sharon Kaufman (University of California at San Francisco)
Making Longevity in an Aging Society: Linking Technology, Policy, Ethics
21 October Sahra Gibbon (University College London)
Cancer Genetics, Ancestry and Miscigenação in Southern Brazil; Constituting Populations and Clinical Need
28 October Jennifer Randall (University College London)
The Hope of Anthropology: An Anthropology of Hope
4 November Rodney Reynolds (University College London)
Panama's Black Christ: Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure
11 November READING WEEK - no seminar
18 November Katia Fabrii (University College London)
The Doctor and the Anthropologist: Reflections on Teaching and Practice
25 November Khaldoon Ahmed (University College London)
Narratives of Psychosis in British Bangladeshis
2 December David Napier (University College London)
Non-self Help: Immunology as Philosophical Inquiry
9 December Paul Clough (University of Malta)
Neo-liberal Thinking and New Accounts of Cell Theory: A Response to David Napier
Week 12 READING WEEK - no seminar
Enquiries to:
David Napier
Department of Anthropology UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 20 7679 8647
Fax: +44 20 7679 8632
Email: d.napier@ucl.ac.uk