Working Group Medical Anthropology I Global Health
The working group consists of staff members and PhD students of the Institute of Anthropology and affiliated medical anthropologists. In the regular meetings and workshops, current research projects in medical anthropology are discussed and theoretical questions are further developed. Participation in the meetings (every second Thursday 18:00-20:00) and workshops is by arrangement with Prof. Hansjörg Dilger (contact: hansjoerg.dilger@berlin.de). Appointment coordination via Marcos Andrade Neves (contact: marcos.fan@fu-berlin.de)
Dates winter term 2024/2025
| 07.11.24 | Tina Walther (FU Berlin) | "Solange Du an diesem Tisch sitzt..." (A)symmetrische Beziehungen in Essgruppen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Behandlungsziele und den ‑erfolg von Patient:innen mit diagnostizierten Essstörungen bzw. auffälligen Essverhalten |
| 14.11.24 (in-person!) | Daniel Demant (University of Technology in Sydney) and Sergio Villanueva (University of Barcelona) | Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sexual Health |
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21.11.24 |
Kathrin Bauer (FU Berlin) | Places & People: Ethnographic Context and Medical Realities |
| 28.11.24 | Beatriz Aragon (University of St. Andrews) | Book chapter |
| 05.12.24 (in-person!) | Sanghee Lee (Yonsei University) | Sociality of Social Distancing: How ‘not getting infected' became the proof of one's morality during the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea |
| 12.12.24 | Book talk by Meghana Joshi (Teaching Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, NY, in the Anthropology Department) | Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous reproduction and childlessness in reunified Berlin |
| 19.12.24 | Ursula Probst (FU Berlin) | Covid-19 and occupational health: the case of mobile essential workers in Germany |
| 16.01.25 | Nils Graber (Humboldt Universität) | Bio-socialism: Scrutinizing an Alternative Cancer Innovation in Cuba |
| 23.01.25 | Maja Sisnowski (University of Amsterdam) | TBD |
| 30.01.25 | Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (FU Berlin) | Pharmaceutical Necrosocialities: The Life-Death Worlds of Sodium Pentobarbital |
| 06.02.25 | Felice Hellweg (FU Berlin) | Postcolonial Perspectives on the cultural perception of local vaccine production in South Africa |
| 13.02.25 | Phillip Williams (Universität Leipzig) | “There is no way we can bury our people here in the Western Cape”: Governing the Mobility of the Dead, the Living, and their Funerals During the COVID-19 Pandemic" |
