Arbeitskreis Termine Archiv
Termine im Sommersemester 2024
02.05.2024 | Veronika Siegl (Universität Wien) | Book Launch of her book Intimate Strangers. Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. Ithaka, NY: Cornell University Press (2023). |
30.05.2024 | PamelaFeldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College) | Memory Genealogies and Public Health: Authoritarianism and COVID-19 Rumors in Cameroon |
06.06.2024 | Stefan Reinsch (Centre for Educational Research & Centre for Health Service Research, Brandenburg Medical School - Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin) | Tensions in the Professional Identity Formation in the Context of Obesity Care: A Study of Primary Care Physicians and Patients in Rural Germany |
13.06.2024 | Anika König (Freie Universität Berlin) | TBA |
20.06.2024 | Max Schnepf (Freie Universität Berlin) | PrEPped Intimacies in Berlin |
27.06.2024 | Kathrin Bauer (Freie Universität Berlin) | ADHD – a disorder of context? |
04.07.2024 | Ursula Probst (Freie Universität Berlin) | Buchpräsentation „Prekäre Freizügigkeiten“ im Schwulen Museum (in German, at 7 p.m.) |
11.07.2024 | Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Universität Leipzig) | NCDs and the resourcification of traditional medicine in Zanzibar |
Termine im Wintersemester 2023/2024
09.11.23 |
Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Universität Leipzig) |
"In epistemological purgatory: A lived experience response to endometriosis" |
23.11.23 | Inga Haaland (Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo) |
"PrEP and stigma among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Dar es Salaam" |
07.12.23 |
Maja Sisnowski (University of Amsterdam) | "Pragmatic Bodies and Unmattering Categories in De-escalation Practices" |
11.01.24 |
Hellena Debelts (FU Berlin/Robert Koch Institut) |
"Extending the social of care, biopolitics and ecology: A cross-country analysis on One Health in Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria" |
18.01.24 | Kathrin Bauer (FU Berlin) |
TBA |
25.01.24 | Anika König (FU Berlin) | TBA |
01.02.24 | Kelly Mulvaney (University of Chicago) | Dissertation chapter draft: "Cervical Cancer Prevention between Public Health and Individual Wellbeing" |
08.02.24 | Phillip Willians (Universität Leipzig) |
Fieldwork notes |
15.02.24 | Beatriz Aragon (University of St. Andrews) |
“Ill-timed patients: Gitanos, cultural difference and primary health care in a time of crisis" |
Termine im Sommersemester 2023
27.04. |
MAE Lecture: Lamia Mognieh (University of Copenhagen) |
"Psychiatric Afterlives: Narrating Illness, Gender, and Violence in Lebanon" |
11.05. | Anika König (Freie Universität Berlin) & Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Universität Leipzig) |
Project proposal for endometriosis project |
25.05. |
Zhuo Niu (Freie Universität Berlin) | "From Zero-Covid to De-visualization of COVID in China’s post-pandemic era" |
01.06. |
José Ignacio Allevi (Guest researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerika-Institut / Assistant Professor at CONICET, Argentina) |
"Global health agendas, local state practices: exploring health agencies & policy making in Argentina during the first half of the 20th century. A study case" |
08.06. | Stefan Reinsch, Lennart Gretschel & Anika Wagner (Zentrum für Versorgungsforschung Brandenburg at Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg) |
"Understanding Experiences with Overweight in Rural Brandenburg through Niching" |
15.06. |
Sofie Kronberger (Universität Wien) |
"Learning to Listen. Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Hearing" |
29.06. | Max Schnepf (Freie Universität Berlin) | “care_less gestures" |
06.07. | Phillip Willians (Universität Leipzig) |
Fieldnotes discussion |
13.07. | Hansjörg Dilger; Tom Lagodny; Gabriela Paredes Siml; Ursula Probst & Niu Zhou (Freie Universität Berlin) |
“Mobility Regimes of Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Preliminary findings" |
20.07. | Grace Oroma-Lanek (Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine) |
"Dehumanization of care and care practices amidst EVD healthcare intervention. Experience of living, and dying in the ETU" |
Termine im Wintersemester 2022/2023
24.11. |
Caroline Meier zu Biesen, |
"NCDs in Zanzibar" |
08.12. |
Sung-Joon Park, |
'“Testing life: moving, knowing and living in the Covid-19 pandemic” |
15.12. |
Françoise Vergès, |
A Program of Total Disorder: Decolonizing Europe |
12.01. |
Max Schnepf, |
"Discussing fieldnotes" |
19.01. |
Maja Sisnowski, |
"Bodies, Contexts and Differences: De-escalating Situations and Care Work" |
26.01. |
Aman, |
"Wellbeing and Place-making: Ethnography of a research institute in a major German city" |
02.02. | Judith Albrecht, HMKW, University of Applied Sciences |
“Breathing as a Spirometric Moment: Tracking Epistemic Violence Through Ethnographic Respiration” |
09.02. |
Anika König, |
Project proposal for endometriosis project |
16.02. |
Grace Oroma-Lanek, |
“Humane care and treatment in the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) and community” |
Termine im Sommersemester 2022
28.04. |
Karoline Buchner, |
’Elevating the Health of All' - Working towards Recognition in Chinese Medicine in Taiwan" |
05.05. |
Stefan Reinsch, |
"The Weariness of Hoping. Managing Emotions while Waiting for an Organ Transplantation” |
12.05. |
Maja Sisnowski, |
''De-escalation as a Traveling Technology: The Ethics of Partial Abstractions'' |
16.06. |
Grace Oroma, |
"Burden of Care among Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Survivors and Frontline Health Workers (FLHWs)" |
23.06. |
Caetano Sordi, |
"Covid-19 and Disaster Capitalism: 'Passanda a boiada' in the Brazilian Meat Processing Chain" |
30.06 |
Uli Beisel, |
"Mobile Mosquitoes - Understanding the Entangled Mobilities of Aedes Mosquitoes and Humans" |
07.07. | Müge Akpinar, Freie Universität Berlin |
"Performing Healing: Agency, Destiny, and Affect" |
21.07. |
Anika König, |
“Chapter: Disruptions" |
Termine im Wintersemester 2021/2022
28.10. |
Ayo Wahlberg, |
Medical Anthropology Europe Lecture Series "Calibrating Chronicity" |
04.11. |
Ursula Probst, |
"Insurance uncertainties: Health care coverage for Eastern European migrant sex workers between transnational aspirations and boundaries of European citizenship" |
11.11. |
Max Schnepf, |
"Chemisch Werden: Looks und Lust als Modi urbaner Verkörperung" |
18.11. |
Müge Akpinar, |
"Being A Muslim in the End Times" |
25.11. |
Annemarie Mol |
Medical Anthropology Europe Lecture Series "Eating in Theory: A New Book" |
02.12. |
Mustafa Abdalla |
"Professionalism in the Context of the Gray Zone of Disease Markets" |
09.12. | Anika König Freie Universität Berlin |
Book proposal |
16.12. |
Simon Mutebi, |
"Indigenous Healing and Medicinal Practices in Response to The COVID-19 Outbreak in Tanzania" |
06.01. |
Judith Albrecht |
„How can I prove that I am traumatized. and do I even want that?“: Trauma, agency, and social suffering along hierarchies of citizenship |
27.01 |
Janina Kehr |
Medical Anthropology Europe Lecture Series "Reflections on the Medicene" |
03.02. |
Caetano Sordi |
Postponed to the Summer Semester |
10.02. |
Uli Beisel |
tba |
Termine im Sommersemester 2021
06.05. |
Nasima Selim, |
"Post/Colonial Breathing Troubles in Kolkata" |
20.05. |
Almudena Mari Sáez, |
"Outbreak response, scientific attention and invisibilities: resurgence of Ebola Virus in Forest region in Guinea" |
27.05. |
Giorgio Brocco, |
"Book Proposal: Trajectories of Albinism" |
03.06. | Janina Kehr, Universität Wien |
"Baroque Austerity. Hospitals and Healthcare in Contemporary Spain" |
10.06. | Annemarie Samuels & Natashe Lemos Dekker, Universiteit Leiden |
"Traveling models of palliative care: Ethnographic approaches to culture and care at the end of life" |
17.06. |
Sabina Faiz Rashid, |
"Why do contexts matter?: lessons from Covid-19 in Bangladesh" |
24.06. | Adia Benton, Northwestern University, USA |
Keynote, “Radical Health” conference |
01.07. |
Kathrin Bauer, |
“Doctors and Private Schools: ADHD in Colombia” |
08.07. |
Ursula Probst, |
"Einleitung: Willkommen im Bordell Europas? (Dissertation chapter)" |
Termine im Wintersemester 2020/2021
12.11. (Beginn 17:00 Uhr) |
Hansjörg Dilger, |
"From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19: Towards a Critical Anthropology of Global Health" (ZIG-Talks, Robert Koch Institute) |
26.11. |
Anika König, |
"Parents on the Move: A Medical Ethnography of German and Swiss Transnational Surrogacy" |
03.12. | Annalisa Butticci, Georgetown University |
"Coronization and Colonization. The Return of European Diseases in Post-Colonial West Africa. Notes from the field" |
07.01. | - | - |
14.01. |
Müge Akpinar, |
"Conceptual and Theoretical Framework" (PhD thesis, working title "'In Quest of Lost Remedy': Body, Health and Identity in an Islamic Medicine Inspired Healing Movement in Turkey" |
21.01. | Rebecca-Rosea Blome, Freie Universität Berlin |
“Ontological Multiplicity and the Politics of Protecting Traditional Knowledge” |
28.01. |
Karoline Buchner, |
“Research Proposal” |
04.02. |
Ursula Probst, |
"Zwischen Freiheit und Kommerzialisierung: Sexuelle Subjektivitäten im 'neuen Europa'" |
11.02. | Sung Joon Park, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
"Protecting the demos? Learning how democracies are done and undone in large-scale epidemics, like Ebola" |
18.02. |
Kathrin Bauer, |
"ADHD in Colombia: Diversity of Dysfunction? First insights" |
25.02. |
Caroline Meier zu Biesen, |
"Concepts of chronicity, conditions of treatability: Non-communicable diseases and traditional medicine in Zanzibar" |
Termine im Sommersemester 2020
07.05. |
Nasima Selim, |
"Wayfairing of the Heart: Secular Suffering and the Politics of Sufi Healing in Germany" (Book Proposal) |
14.05. |
Caroline Contentin, |
"The use of anthropological methods for workshops supporting self-help strategies by kitchen remedies" (an article for the journal of medical anthropology Curare) |
28.05. | Judith Albrecht, Freie Universität Berlin |
"Betrayed promise and the imagined german welfare state: the struggle for agency, justice and empathie among families of murder victims" |
04.06. | - | - |
11.06. |
Müge Akpinar, |
"Historical background of traditional medicine practices in Turkey and Methodology" (2. chapter of PhD thesis, working title "'In Quest of Lost Remedy': Body, Health and Identity in an Islamic Medicine Inspired Healing Movement in Turkey" |
18.06. | Marcos Andrade Neves, Freie Universität Berlin |
“Matter of Imaginaries: A peaceful pill for a good death” |
25.06. |
Glaucia Maricato, |
“Time, treatment and numbers: infrastructures of leprosy elimination” |
02.07. |
Ursula Probst, |
"'Aber wir sind doch alle weiß' - Verkörperte Definitionen und ambivalente Grenzen (ost-)europäischer Zugehörigkeiten" |
09.07. | Karoline Buchner, Freie Universität Berlin |
"Cultivating competence - Chinese medicine student clubs in Taipei" |
16.07. |
Rebecca-Rosea Blome, |
"Affective Relations in Sites of Technoscientific Knowledge Production" |
Termine im Sommersemester 2018
19.04. |
María Epele, Universidad de Buenos Aires |
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Urban Poverty in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
26.04. |
Denise de Waal, University of Bradford |
‘You are sitting there, aren’t you, love?’ Transitions and Loss, Spouse Care for People Living with Dementia |
03.05. |
Matian van Soest, University of Cologne |
Wetland Agriculture and Malaria in Central Uganda: A Tale of Lowland Crops and Mosquitoes |
10.05. |
No Session |
Holiday |
17.05. |
Anitha Tingira, Freie Universität Berlin |
(Non)Compliance with Referral Advice: Empowerment, Marginalization and Delivery Experiences |
24.05. |
Branwyn Poleykett, CRASSH, University of Cambridge |
The Work of Nourishment: Diet and the Emergence of Chronic Disease in Dakar |
31.05. |
No Session |
SFB-Workshop: "Engaging the Elsewhere - Affective politics and political aesthetics across Muslim and Christian life-worlds" Keynote Speech: Amira Mittermaier (University of Toronto) and Annalisa Butticci (Utrecht University) |
07.06./08.06. |
June 7: Internal Meeting FUB & GlobHealth-Cermes3 Teams |
June 8: FUB/Globhealth-Cermes3 joint workshop "Medical Assemblages, Scales, Structure" (not open to the public) |
14.06. |
Sa’ed Atshan, Swarthmore College |
Psychosocial Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Territories: 2010-2018 (joint session by research areas Medical Anthropology and Psychological Anthropology) |
21.06. | No Session | 10 Year Anniversary of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies with Lecture by Ann Stoler (New School for Social Research, New York): "Interior Frontiers: Dangerous Concepts in Our Times" |
28.06. | No Session | |
05.07. |
Ursula Probst, Freie Universität Berlin |
“Nobody Wants to be Eastern European...” - Managing Identities in the Berlin Sex Industry |
12.07. |
Nasima Selim, Freie Universität Berlin |
Affect Dis/Orders: Bengali-German Encounters in the Field and the Archive. |
19.07. |
Simon Mutebi, Freie Universität Berlin |
Navigating Sexual Performance: The Role of Multiple Forms of Masculinities |
Termine im Wintersemester 2017/18
26.10.2017 |
Krzysztof Bierski (independent researcher) |
Skill of being well: moving with attention and cultivating attitudes in hospital yoga practice. |
02.11.2017 |
Nasima Selim (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Participation in and performance of the real: healing power of words, sounds, and things. |
09.11.2017 |
Natashe Lemos Dekker (University of Amsterdam) |
Moral frames for lives worth living: managing the end of life with dementia. |
16.11.2017 |
Simon Mutebi (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Emerging masculinities and sexual practices. |
23.11.2017 | no session | |
30.11.2017 |
no session |
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07.12.2017 |
Alice Street (University of Edinburgh) |
Where the health system ends: relational infrastructure at the PNG periphery. |
14.12.2017 |
Pawel Lewicki (Europa-Universität Viadrina) |
Gender and well-being among Polish HIV-positive people who use drugs in Berlin. |
21.12.2017 | no session | |
No AK/Christmas break | ||
11.01.2018 | Tine Hanrieder (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) | Re-scaling humanitarianism: the transnational construction of global health in American medicine. |
18.01.2018 |
Judith Albrecht (Freie Universität Berlin) |
"It is more than just grief": conflicting perspectives on victimhood and psychological violence in murder cases in Germany. |
25.01.2018 |
Mustafa Abdalla (Freie Universität Berlin) |
"I want my womanhood back": female patients in a disease market. |
01.02.2018 |
Giorgio Brocco (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Biosociality and vulnerability: narratives and practices of albinism in contemporary Tanzania. |
08.02.2018 |
Maya Ash (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) |
Negotiating the street: integrating spatial methodologies into ethnographies of the city. |
15.02.2017 |
Matian v. Soest (Universität zu Köln) |
Dealing with malaria at the urban fringe: findings from central Uganda. |
Termine im Sommersemester 2017
4.5.2017 |
Anitha Tingira (FU Berlin) |
Utilization of maternal health services and the complex hybrid experiences. |
11.5.2017 |
Hannah Brown (Durham University) |
Lassa fever: crisis, science and social ecologies of a 'global health' disease. |
18.5.2017 |
Márcio Vilar (Universität Leipzig) |
Biotechnological innovation, drug regulation and life assemblages in contemporary Brazil: on the 'Fosfo' case from an anthropological perspective. |
25.5.2017 |
Public holiday |
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1.6.2017 |
no session |
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8.6.2017 |
Matian van Soest (Universität zu Köln) |
Malaria in Uganda: navigating through the health care system. |
15.6.2017 |
Jieun Kim (FU Berlin) |
Hematopolitics: reciprocity and exclusion in Japanese blood banks. |
22.6.2017 |
Giorgio Brocco (FU Berlin) |
Family (dis)position and unfamiliar ties: relatedness and albinism in global Tanzania. |
Freitag/Friday
30.6.2017 |
14:00-15:30: Anitha Tingira (FU Berlin) |
Ethical and moral dilemmas: navigating between being providers and community members. |
15:45-17:15: Krzysztof Bierski (FU Berlin) |
‘Caring in movement’ – exploring the correspondence between contemplative practices and wellbeing. | |
17:30-19:00: Mona Schrempf (independent researcher) |
Introduction of the planned book "Transnational Tibetan Medicine. |
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20.7.2017 |
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College, Minnesota) |
Book presentation of “Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe” |
Termine im Wintersemester 2016/17
27.10.2016 | Stefan Reinsch (Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Department of Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) | When care strikes back – Some strategies and tactics for dealing with ambivalence of visibility in chronic illness |
03.11.2016 |
Anitha Tingira (Freie Universität Berlin) | Thesis chapters Outline |
10.11.2016 |
Giorgio Brocco (Freie Universität Berlin) | Biosociality and political subjectivities among people with albinism in Tanzania |
17.11.2016 | Todd Sekuler (Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University) | The Temporality of Prudent Compassion among Providers of Medical Transition in France |
24.11.2016 |
Ursula Probst (Freie Universität Berlin) | Sexuality and Sex Work: A Complicated Relationship? - Experiences of Migrant Sex Workers from Eastern Europe in Berlin |
01.12.2016 | Flaminia Bartolini (Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M.) | Doing intimacy in illegality. Experiences and strategies of undocumented migrant women in Berlin |
08.12.2016 |
Judith Schühle (Freie Universität Berlin) | Biomedicine and becoming a doctor in Nigeria |
15.12.2016 |
Krzysztof Bierski (Freie Universität Berlin) | 'Caring in movement, feeling with air: Wellbeing in contemplative practice' |
05.01.2017 |
Pawel Lewicki (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt [Oder]) | HIV-trajectories: life of mobile PLWHA from Poland in Berlin |
12.01.2017 |
Anika König (Freie Universität Berlin) | German and Swiss parents commissioning surrogacy overseas: the example of the United States |
19.01.2017 |
Britta Ruttert (Freie Universität Berlin) | The re-invention of tradition?: Integrative medicine in a pedriatric cancer unit of a German University hospital |
26.01.2017 |
Matian van Soest (University of Cologne, Department of Anthropology) | Malaria-Research in central Uganda: Methods and Ethics in the Field |
02.02.2017 |
Rebecca Marsland (University of Edinburgh, Social Anthropology School of Social and Political Science) | Inside and Outside the Beehive |
09.02.2017 | Marcos Andrade Neves (UFRGS & Freie Universität Berlin) | Bureaucratic pluralism and biomedical governance: regimes of care and resistance in the landscape of assisted suicide |
15.02.2017 |
Elena Calvo-González (Federal University of Bahia) |
Health self-monitoring in Brazil: laboratories, test results and the healthcare system |
Termine im Sommersemester 2016
28.04.2016 | Judith Schühle (Freie Universität Berlin) | "State of the Art or the Art of Medicine? South-North Perceptions of Multiple Biomedicines by Nigerian Physicians in the US" |
12.05.2016 |
Johanna Gonçalves Martín (University of Cambridge/Universitätsklinikum Dresden) | "Helicopter Approaches" |
19.05.2016 |
Bo Kyeong Seo (Freie Universität Berlin) | "The (Im)Possibility of Care in the Politics of Life" |
20.–21.05.2016 | Internal Workshop of the DGV Work Group Medical Anthropology (at FU Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology) | |
26.05.2016 |
Tereza Baltag (Chales University, Prague) | "Dimensions of Normality (Addicts on Buprenorphine)" |
02.06.2016 |
Jamie Saris (Maynooth University) | Shaky Subjects, Metabolic Lesions, and Government Junkies: The Circulation of Methadone in and through Ireland |
09.06.2016 |
Judith Albrecht (Freie Universität Berlin) | "Trauma, Grief and Social Justice in Germany" |
16.06.2016 |
Krzysztof Bierski (Freie Universität Berlin) | "Scanning the Brain and Being a Path: What is Yoga Union of"? |
23.06.2016 |
Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford) | "Chinese Medicine in East Africa" |
30.06.2016 |
Giorgio Brocco (Freie Universität Berlin) | "Embodying differences: Ideas and Discourses on albinism in global Tanzania" |
07.07.2016 |
Todd Sekuler (Humboldt University, Institute of European Ethnology) | "The Temporality of Prudent Compassion among Providers of Medical Transition in France" |
14.07.2016 |
Judith Schühle (Freie Universität Berlin) | "Chapter of Dissertation" |
21.07.2016 |
Mustafa Abdalla (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Termine im Wintersemester 2015/2016
15.10.2015 |
Engaged Anthropology: Refugees in Berlin meeting |
29.10.2015 |
Seth Holmes (UC Berkeley): “Representing 'The European Refugee Crisis': Delineating Difference and Deservingness” |
05.11.2015 |
Finnland Institut: "Belonging In Times of Exclusion. Illness Through History and Across Cultures" (Teilnehmer: Hansjörg Dilger, Petteri Pietikäinen) |
03.12.2015 |
Simon Mutebi (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin): “Perceptions and Experiences of Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Social Reproduction of Biomedical Discourses of Male Sexuality in Urban Communities in Tanzania.” |
10.12.2015 |
Anitha Tingira (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin): “Dynamics in Delivery and Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Tanzania: Reflections from the Field“ |
17.12.2015 |
Nasima Selim (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin): “Barzakh or the World-In-Between: Body Prayers and Healing Ontologies" |
07.01.2016 |
Laura Montesi (University of Kent): "Bodies and Emotions in Rural Mexico: From the Ikojts' Ontology of Emotions to an Existential/Phenomenological Theory of Vulnerability" |
14.01.2016 |
Amelia Fiske (Department of Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Bodily Persuasion in Toxic Tours: The 'Dirty Hand' of Oil in Ecuadorian Environmental Politics” |
21.01.2016 |
Janina Kehr (Universität Zürich): "Sick States? Health and Austerity in the Global North" |
28.01.2016 |
Marcos Andrade Neves (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin): "On Their Own Terms: The Processes of Institutionalization of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia”. |
04.02.2016 |
Giorgio Brocco (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin): "Exploring Experiences of Albinism in Tanzania between Global and Local Worlds: Preliminary Research Findings". |
11.02.2016 |
Jieun Kim (Graduate School of East Asian Studies, FU Berlin): “Temporalities of Care and Engagement: Homeless Activism in Japan“ |
Termine im Sommersemester 2015
23.04.2015 | Film Review |
07.05.2015 | Ruari McBride (Queen's University Belfast, UK): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Eight Narrative Responses to a Diagnosis of Personality Disorder |
14.05.2015 | Public Holiday |
21.05.2015 | Claudia Lang (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München): (Re-)Inventing Ayurvedic Psychiatry in Kerala, South India |
28.05.2015 | Johanna Gonçalves Martin (University of Cambridge): Helicopter Approaches: The Epidemic Care of Yanomami People in Venezuela |
04.06.2015 | Pierre Minn (University of Montréal): Leaders and Partners: Business and Management Models in Contemporary Global HealthTraining Programs |
11.06.2015 | Mayari Hengstermann, (Institute of Social and CulturalAnthropology, FU Berlin): Placing Evil Eye amidst Etiologies |
18.06.2015 | Tereza Mazáková, (Charles University in Prague): “Buprenorphine Network - Balancing on the Edge of Illegality”: The Substitution Medicine from an ANT Perspective |
25.06.2015 | Stefan Reinsch (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): The Role of Ethics and Trust in Co-laborative Research between Anthropology and Biomedicine: the Example of Early Intervention in French andGerman Psychiatry |
02.07.2015 | Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (Wits University, Johannesburg): Diasporic Debility: Blind Pathways and Precarious Power inJohannesburg |
09.07.2015 | Krzysztof Bierski (Center for Area Studies, FU Berlin): Between Science, Spirit and Therapy: Development of Intellectual Interest with Yoga in the Occident |
16.07.2015 | Judith Schühle, (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin): Medical Remittances and Long Distance Diagnosing: Transnational Therapy Networks of Nigerian Physicians in the U.S. |
Termine im Wintersemester 2014/2015
23.10.2014 |
Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Theoretical and Methodological Reflection on Bioprospecting as a Field in the Becoming |
20.11.2014 |
Anita Tingira (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Dynamics in Delivery |
04.12.2014 |
Giorgio Brocco (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): 'We are as Normal as other Individuals'. Life Experiences and Subjectivities of People with Albinism in Tanzania |
18.12.2014 |
Doreen Montag (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito): Medical Anthropology in Times of Climate Change and its Impact on Global |
01.01.2015 |
Public holiday, no AK / Happy New Year! |
15.01.2015 |
Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): PhD Chapter "Antiretroviral Treatment in Local Moral Worlds" |
29.01.2015 |
Nasima Selim (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): The Healing Trouble: Sufism in Practice. |
05.02.2015 |
Judith Schühle (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Medicine as Art. Perceptions of Biomedical Practices among Nigerian Physicians in the US Susann Huschke (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Sexual Perverts and Misogynist Monsters? Demographics and Motivations of Men who Pay for Sex across the Island of Ireland. |
17.04.2014 |
1.) All AK members: Discussion about research ethics |
24.04.2014 | Mayari Hengstermann (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Assessing "evil eye" as an illness category to understand health-seeking behaviours predicaments |
01.05.2014 | - Public Holiday (Maifeiertag) - |
08.05.2014 | Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and Claire Beaudevin (Université Paris Descates / Centre de recherche, médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société, Cermes3): From international to global? Circulating biomedical and traditional medical knowledge |
15.05.2014 | Nasima Selim (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Sufi Healing Practices in Berlin: Methodology Review |
20.05.2014 | William Sax (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): Anthropology meets Psychiatry: the cultural epidemiology of ritual healing [TUESDAY, 4-6 pm!] |
22.05.2014 | Wenzel Geissler (University of Oslo & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine): Fieldwork as stage: re-enacting post-colonial science in an African research station |
29.05.2014 | - Public Holiday (Christi Himmelfahrt) - |
03.06.2014 | Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart (University of Pittsburgh): On the Concept of Balance in Studies of Health and Illness: Examples from Papua New Guinea and China [TUESDAY, 4-6 pm!] |
05.06.2014 | Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): "Our Knowledge belongs to our Ancestors": Topographies of Knowledge and the Question of Property |
10.06.2014 | Stefan Ecks (University of Edinburgh): Medicating moods: India and Germany [TUESDAY, 4-6 pm!] |
12.06.2014 | Visit of AK Medical Anthropology at Charité Berlin |
13.06.2014 | Internal Workshop "Ethics in Anthropological Research and Writing" |
19.06.2014 | Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): The political economy of ART roll out in Tanzania |
26.06.2014 | Bernhard Hadolt (Universität Wien): Medizin, Praxis, Materialität: Überlegungen zur Anthropologie der Biomedizin |
03.07.2014 | Claudia Liebelt (Universität Bayreuth): Ästhetische Körpermodifikationen und Weiblichkeit in Istanbul |
10.07.2014 | Seth Holmes (University of California, Berkeley): Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Naturalization of Migrant Farmworker Suffering in the United States and Mexico |
17.07.2014 | Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College, USA & Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study "Law as Culture", Bonn): Reproducing Belonging: Affective Circuits between Cameroon and Berlin |
Termine im Wintersemester 2013/2014
18.10.2013 | Workshop des Internationalen Forschungsnetzwerks Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Africa (RASTA) |
07.11.2013 | Mustafa Abdalla (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): The Collision of biomedicine with tradition: Medical students and the encounter with cadavers in medical schools in Cairo, Egypt |
21.11.2013 | Reading session: "Evidence" in CAM, Anthropology's atheism & Temptation to believe (guided by Nasima Selim, FU Berlin & Rita Agdal, University of Southern Denmark) |
28.11.2013 | Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Property and its legal (dis-)content: Relational property and customary law in Bushbuckridge municipality |
05.12.2013 | Susann Huschke (Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (ISCTSJ) / Queens University Belfast): Moral crusades. Sex, politics and religion in Northern Ireland |
12.12.2013 | Christine Holmberg (Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin): Cancer from an anthropological perspective |
09.01.2014 | Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Enclaves of abundance?!: On medical professionals' daily work (non)routine in the management of HIV mass treatment in Tanzania |
16.01.2014 | Anika König (Center for Area Studies & Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Surrogacy in German-speaking countries Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Global malaria choices and their local impact: A case study from Tanzania |
23.01.2014 | Miriam Weihe (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Schwangerschaft und Geburt im Migrationskontext: Bolivianerinnen in Buenos Aires |
06.02.2014 | Nasima Selim (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Sufi Berlin: Healing epistemologies and therapeutic politics in a post-secular City |
13.02.2014 | Andra Le Roux-Kemp (Stellenbosch University / Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): The right to health is dead. Long live the right to health |
Termine im Sommersemester 2013
11.04. | Britta Lundgren (Umeå University):The Swine Flu Pandemic - A case for Medical Humanities |
25.04. | Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): "Life is not a rehearsal, it’s a performance” – An ethnographic enquiry into the subjectivities of children and adolescents living with antiretroviral treatment in northeastern Tanzania |
02.05. | Paschaline Stevens (University of the Western Cape): The power game arena: Gay and bisexual men using sexual encounters to demand respect |
09.05. | - Public holiday (Himmelfahrt) - |
16.05. | Doreen Montag (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito): The role of the Ecuadorian Yasuní-ITT initiative for global health In collaboration with the Embassy of Ecuador in Germany (Rost-/Silberlaube: KL 24/222) |
23.05. | Stefan Rensch (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): Happy Heads |
24.05. | Theory Workshop on Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) & Managing Uncertainties |
30.05. | Giorgio Brocco (University of Palermo): Living with Albinism in Iringa Region: Communitarian Perceptions and Subjective Experiences |
06.06. | Andra le Roux-Kemp (Stellenbosch University, Südafrika): PhD Chapter Managed Care |
10.06. | Visit by Mark Nichter (University of Arizona) & Lecture on Biocommunicability and the Biopolitics of Pandemic Threats: Why Biosecurity Needs to be Counterbalanced by One Health (within the Lecture Series "Globalizing Epidemics") |
13.06. | - Tarragona Conference (EASA MedAnt & SMA) - |
20.06. | Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): PhD Chapter Topographies of knowledge: values in contestation, hopes in delivery (working title) |
24.06. | Elisabeth Hsu (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford): Thriving on Misunderstandings: Cross-cultural Communication in Chinese Medical Clinics on the East African Coast |
27.06. | Vanessa de Bock (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Self and World in Depression. An Ethnographic Study in German Society Miriam Weihe (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): PhD Proposal Health and Migration in Argentina/Buenos Aires |
04.07. | Brigit Obrist (Ethnologisches Seminar, Universität Basel): Caring for frail older persons in coastal Tanzania |
11.07. | Gosia Rajtar (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Contamination by blood and Christian identity |
18.07. | Nasima Selim (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Mapping Sufi Healing Practices in Berlin: Preliminary Findings |
Termine im Wintersemester 2012/2013
01.11. | Andra le Roux-Kemp (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): The right to health and universal health coverage: The moral failings of human rights discourse on the African continent |
08.11. | Mayarí Hengstermann (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Questioning and Challenging the Differences: A Fieldwork Experience in Rural Guatemala |
15.11. | Elizabeth Beloe (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Social Networks and Home Town Associations |
06.12. | Malgorzata Rajtar (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Overcoming suspicion in healthcare: Hospital liaison committes and the issue of blood transfusion in Germany |
13.12. | Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): No title. |
20.12. | Rita Agdal (University of Southern Denmark): Cancer patients' experiences with energy healing in a randomized controlled trial: ambiguity and self transformation. |
10.01. | Ruari-Santiago McBride (Queen's University Belfast, UK): The Ethics of Researching Vulnerable Persons |
17.01. | Nasima Selim (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Body-Mind_Self Care with Multi-Sensorial Techniques: Sufi Meditation and Healing Practices in Germany |
24.01. | Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): The antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania. Medicines and patients between global power structures and local agency. |
31.01. | Angelika Wolf (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): ARVs and ARTs: medicoscapes and the unequal place-making for biomedical treatments in sub-Saharan Africa. |
07.02. | Leah Bohle (Universität Göttingen): „HIV is a normal problem!“: Encountering the word normal among HIV-seropositive women in Tanzania. |
Termine im Sommersemester 2012
19.04. | Angelika Wolf (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Reziprozität und Krankheit |
03.05. | Heide Castañeda (University of South Florida, USA): Health Care for Roma Families in Germany: Clinical Interaction and the Impact of Immigration Trajectory, Civic Status, and Health Policy |
10.05. | Cal Volks (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Gender Identities and Sexual Concurrency among University of Cape Town students |
24.05. | Eva Jansen (Institut für Ethnologie, LMU München): Naturopathy in South India – An ethnographic inquiry into social and medical practices |
31.05. | Hanspeter Reihling (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Tenuous Fatherhoods. (Chapter from PhD dissertation: Vulnerable Men? Gendering Affect at the Cape of Storms) |
07.06. | Ina Hesebeck (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Soziale Barrierefreiheit |
14.06. | Giorgio Brocco (University of Palermo, Italy): Living with Albinism in Iringa, Tanzania. Between Local Worlds and Transnational Universes |
21.06. | Vanessa de Bock (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Das Selbst und die Welt in der Depression |
28.06. | Britta Rutert (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): Bioprospecting in the African Renaissance |
29.06. | Theorie-Workshop: 1) Rationalities; 2) Health-seeking behavior revisited |
05.07. | Dominik Mattes (Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin): “Just like buying sweets at the store”? – Antiretroviral treatment and the ambiguous normalcy of HIV in urban Tanzania |