Medical and Biosocial Medical Anthropology seminars

Doing Sensory Ethnography with Disability Anthropology: Blind Artists and the Labour of Knowing in Non-visual Ways

Dr. Harshadha Balasubramanian | University College London
3 October
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More-than-human emerging infectious infrastructures

Dr. César E. Giraldo-Herrera | University of Bremen & Ilia State University
10 October
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Zurawski V Texas: Film Screening and Q&A 

Amy Flanagan | Creative Director and SVP Unscripted, Hiddenlight Films
Jayne Kavanagh | UCL; Abortion Talk
Susie Kilshaw | UCL
Manna Mostaghim | Reproductive Justice Initiative
17 October | Note: this event will be held at UCL East Community Cinema, 2-5pm (not the Daryll Forde Seminar Room) | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Panel Discussion on reproductive rights, abortion access and the entanglements of abortion, miscarriage and other pregnancy endings 

Susie Kilshaw | UCL 
Victoria Browne | Department of International Relations, Politics and History, Loughborough University
Rachael Clarke | BPAS
Jayne Kavanagh | UCL Medical School and NHS abortion provider in East London.
Ruth Fletcher | Queen Mary University of London
24 October
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Exploring health and well-being as a visual anthropologist and artist

Professor Shawn Sobers | University of West England
31 October
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Fridays 1.00 - 3.00pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology

17 January | Roland Littlewood (UCL)
The Imitation of Madness

24 January | Jens Seeberg (Aarhus)
From Furnace to Pharmaceuticals: Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance in Nepal's Steel Industry 

31 January | Christos Lynteris (St. Andrew’s)
How Plague Got Rats? Pandemic Transformations of a Zoonotic Disease

7 February | Aaron Parkhurst (UCL)
Where is Fancy Bred? The heart and embodiment in lower Earth Orbit.

14 February | Katrin Nohr (UCL)
The Case for Comparative Ethnography in Medical Anthropology

Reading Week

28 February | Rosie Mathers and Sahra Gibbon (UCL)
(Un)quantifiable? mapping urban mental health and the exposome in London’

7 March | Rebecca Lynch (Exeter)
‘Hepatic logics and the fluid body: Caring for liver disease in the UK’s NHS’.

14 March | Conerly Casey (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Cooking spirit-recommended medicines in stew: Bori healing, epidemics and Nigerian public health.

21 March | Caroline Parker (UCL)
Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico

For more information, please contact Iliana Sarafian.

Fridays 1.30 - 3.30pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology

Bring your lunch! To be followed by drinks/snacks in the staff common room.

11th Oct – Jo Cook (University College London)
“Cultures of Euphoria: Making the Anthropological Case for Joy”

18th Oct – Toby Austin Lock (University College London)
“'TikTok Saved my Life': ADHD, Neurodiversity, Attention and the Digital"

25th Oct – Jed Stevenson (Durham University)
"One river or many? Food, flood, and the tempo of life in the Lower Omo Valley"

1st Nov – Nikita Simpson (SOAS) and Elizabeth Storer (Queen Mary University of London)
“Hostile Environments: Mould, Deservingness, and the Racialised Body in Postcolonial Britain”

For more information, please contact Iliana Sarafian.

Fridays 1.00 - 3.00pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology

Bring your lunch! To be followed by drinks/snacks in the staff common room.

19 January - Dr Freya Jephcott (Senior Research Associate in Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge) 
"Ineffective responses to unlikely outbreaks: Hypothesis building in newly emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks"

26 January - Dr Dalia Iskander (Associate Professor and Head of Medical Anthropology, UCL)
"Empowering’ bodies: how and why making photographs makes children ‘do’ malaria differently"

2 February – Dr Gabriel Scheidecker (Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich) and Dr Francesca Mezzenzana (Senior Researcher, Rachel Carson Centre, University of Munich)
"Speaking across audiences: insights from researching childhood"

CANCELLED – 9 February – Dr Jo Cook (Reader in Anthropology, UCL)
"Cultures of Euphoria: Making the Anthropological Case for Joy"

23 February - Dr Iliana Sarafian (Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, UCL)
"Reproducing ‘Gypsyness’: Roma women and the morality of childbirth"

1 March – Dr Alison Macdonald (Associate Professor and Director of Education, UCL Anthropology) and Caroline Oliver (Associate Professor and Co-Director of UCL’s Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity and the Migration Research Unit)
"Embodied learning and sensory needs: a person-centred approach to inclusive education"

8 March – Dr Amber Benezra (Assistant Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology, Stevens Institute of Technology)
"The Social Microbiome: What Anthropology, Race, and Equity Have to do with Microbes"

15 March - Dr Eben Kirksey (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford)
"Approaching the Virosphere in Thailand: Multispecies Interactions in Cave Temples"

If you are unable to join in person, please join via the Medical Anthropology seminar channel on Microsoft Teams.

A5.02 IOE (please note the room change) & MS Teams

Audience members are welcome to join online through the Medical Anthropology seminar channel on Microsoft Teams (if you are not a UCL student/staff and would like to join as a guest, please email Anthropology Communications).

The Med Anth Seminar is ‘flipped’. This means that each week, the audience reads the paper in advance of the seminar and comes to the seminar ready to ask the author questions. 

19 January - Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University)
Resonance and Response-ability - ethics and embodiment in the care of older relatives. Chapter 4: Dangerous Compassion

26 January - Emily Wentzell
Collective Biologies

2 February - Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University)
The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan. Chapter 5: Surviving 3.11.

[Cancelled due to strike action] 9 February - Nicole Fabricant
Fighting to Breathe

Reading Week

23 February - Jarret Zigon (University of Virginia)
How is it between us? Relational ethics and transcendence

[Cancelled] 2 March - Natali Valdez
Weighing the Future

9 March - Sarah Pinto (Tufts University)
The Catatonic Revolutionary: Notes on Medicine, Passivity, Reading, and Intimacy from early 20th Century India

[Cancelled] 16 March - Dvera Saxton
The Devil's Fruit Continuum: Crises and Coping for Undocumented and Indigenous Farmworkers in a Pandemic