Medical/Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Wednesdays 11am - 1pm
Daryll
Forde Seminar Room,
2nd floor, 14
Taviton St.
Spring 2013
9 January: Mark Mosko
(Australian National University)
Omarakana Revisited; Or, 'Do Dual
Organizations Exist?' in the Trobriands
16 January: Catalina Tesar (UCL)
Body, Gender and Personhood among Cortorari Gypsies
23 January: Vera Skvirskaja
(University of Copenhagen)
Man the Hoarder: In the realm of the flea
marketers
30 January: Ramon Sarro
(University of Oxford)
The Invention of Writing: Madness, healing and
imagination
6 February: James Staples (Brunel)
Personhood, Agency and Suicide in Contemporary South India
13 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 confirmed
6 March: Ann Kelly (University
of Exeter)
Detinova on Safari:
Remembering a Soviet method in a Tanzanian laboratory
13 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 perspective
Enquiries to: Joseph Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2012
4 October - Roland Littlewood (UCL)
The
Ambiguity of Amulets: Bangladeshi responses to Illness and Misfortune
11 October - Eirini
Kampriani (UCL)
Genetic Counselling in a Greek Orthodox Convent
18 October - Katayoun Medhat (UCL)
The
Iron Cage versus the Stahlhartes Gehause: An Exploration of Bureaucratic
Process in an (Amer)indian Health Service Clinic
25 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 India
8 November - Reading
Week - No Seminar
15 November - Joseph Calabrese (UCL)
Embedded
Clinical Ethnography in Bhutan
22 November - Ursula Read (UCL)
Prayer
Camps as Responses to Severe Mental Illness in Ghana
29 November - Rebecca Lynch (UCL)
Agency
and Spirit Oppression in rural Trinidad
6 December - Emilie Medeiros (UCL)
The
Indigenous Psychologies of Maoist Child Soldiers in Nepal
Enquiries to Roland Littleword r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
