The Medicine, Body and Practice Workshop

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)

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*March 30, 2012*

Didier Fassin, M.D., M.PH, Ph.D.(James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study)

“Anthropology of Humanitarianism”

Professor Fassin will be giving a talk based on his new book, Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present.

No paper will be pre-circulated. The talk will be after lunch at 12:15 in Haskell 315.

May 2, 2012

Jessica Jerome, Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

“Democratizing Health Care: Shifting Meanings of  Health and Participation” (in Brazil)

Discussant: LaShandra P. Sullivan, Ph.D. Candidate (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

May 9, 2012

Carla Nappi, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia)

“Taking Names: Translating Qing Bodies”

Discussant: James Hevia, Ph.D. (Professor of International History, University of Chicago)

May 23, 2012

Tatiana Chudakova, Ph.D. Candidate (Anthropology, Chicago)

“Peripheral Visions: the Futures of Tibetan Medicine “(TM)” in a Siberian Province”

Discussant: TBA

June 7, 2012 (jt. w/ Clinical Ethnography Workshop)

Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Chicago)

“The Changing Metrics of Suffering”

Discussant: TBA

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)

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Jan 11, 2012

Jennifer Karlin, M.A. (Anthropology), M.D./Ph.D. Candidate, (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)

“Forms of Transparency” – chapter three of her dissertation:

ReSpatializing the Clinic: Constructing Communities and Transforming Chicago’s Southsiders into Healthy Subjects

Discussant: Adam Baim, M.D./Ph.D. Student (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)

 January 25, 2012 (jt w/ Caribbean Studies Workshop)

Jeffrey Kahn, J.D. (Yale), Ph.D. Candidate (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

“Spaces of Contagion: Asylum Seekers and the Diseased Body of Haiti”

Discussant: Meghan Morris, J.D. (Harvard), Ph.D. Student (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

February 22, 2012 (jt w/ Clinical Ethnography Workshop)

Vinh-kim Nguyen, M.D./Ph.D. (Social Medicine, Université de Montréal)

Anthropological perspectives on “treatment as prevention” for HIV: leveraging Africa as a global biopolitical laboratory

Discussant: Kathryn McHarry, PhD Candidate (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

February 29, 2012

George Paul Meiu, Ph.D. Candidate (Anthropology)

“On a Ritual Rush into the Ethnic Future: Desire, Fear, and Samburu Subjectivity in Lopiro Ceremonies (Northern Kenya)”

Discussant: Larisa Jasarevic, Ph.D. (Anthropology), Senior Lecturer (International Studies)

March 7, 2012

Matthew Furlong, Ph.D. Student, (Anthropology)

“Narration and Suicide; Narration of Suicide: First Studies for a Portrait of Hospice”

Discussant: Cameron Hu, Ph.D. Student, (Anthropology)

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)

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October 5, 2011

Judith Farquhar, Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

“Healing and Heritage: Sorting Out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in China”

Discussant: Miao Jenny Hua (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)

October 19, 2011

Anita Hannig (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

“Purity, Defilement, and Religious Morality among Fistula Patients in Ethiopia”

Discussant: George Paul Meiu (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

*November 8, 2011* (Joint with Law, Culture and Society Workshop)

Kristin Peterson, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UC Irvine)

“On the Monopoly: Infrastructure, Drug Markets and Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria”

Discussant: Justin Richland, Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

November 30, 2011

Chelsey Kivland (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

“On Hunger as Clorox: Provocations of The People, Misery, and Entitlement”

Discussant: Christopher Grant (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)

December 7, 2011

Amy Cooper (Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Human Development)

“Caring for los indigentes: The limits of public health and citizenship in Venezuela”

Discussant: Julia Kowalski

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)

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*March 29, 2011, Social Sciences 122* (Joint with Clinical Ethnography and the Department of Political Science)

Nikolas Rose, Ph.D. (Sociology & BIOS, The London School of Economics and Political Science)

“Governing Conduct in the Age of the Brain”

*April 14, 2011* (Joint with Clinical Ethnography)

Barry Saunders, Ph.D. (Social Medicine, Medicine & Family Medicine, Anthropology & Religious Studies, University of North Carolina)

“Wounded Chiasms: Histories, Philosophies, Rhetorics”

Discussant: William Mazzarella, Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

April 20, 2011

Lauren Wynne (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

“The Body, Human Nature, and the Imperative for Care in Rural Yucatán, Mexico”

May 4, 2011 (Joint with U.S. Locations)

Talia Weiner (Ph.D. Student, Comparative Human Development)

Discussant: Yvonne Smith (Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Administration)

May 18, 2011 (Joint with American Literatures and Cultures)

Averill Leslie (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

“The Kinship of Kallikaks: Henry Goddard’s Ad Hoc Charting of a Pathogenic Family and its Foi”

May 25, 2011

Alex Blanchette (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)
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January 12th
Yanhua Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Languages, Clemson University)
“‘Poisoned’ Bodies and the Invention of Paidu in Urban China”
Discussant: Shirley Yeung (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)

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*TUESDAY* February 1st (Joint with Clinical Ethnography)
Robert Desjarlais, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College)
“The Enigma of Mourning:  Death, Loss, and Funereal Poiesis among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists”
Discussant: Francis McKay (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology/CHSS)

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February 16th (originally Feb 9th)
Larisa Jasarevic (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology)

Discussant: Andrew Graan (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology)

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February 23rd
Jennifer Karlin (Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)

Discussant: Eevie Smith (Ph.D. Candidate, School of  Social Service Administration)

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*TUESDAY* March 1st (Joint with Clinical Ethnography and U.S. Locations)

Adam Baim (Ph.D. Student, Committee on Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)

Discussant: Betsey Brada (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology)

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*THURSDAY* March 10th
Kathryn Goldfarb (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology)

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Haskell Hall 101 (unless otherwise noted)

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*TUESDAY*, October 5th (Cosponsored with Clinical Ethnography)

Eugene Raikhel, PhD Comparative Human Development

“Rehabilitation from abroad? Transforming self and sociality in Russian Alcoholics Anonymous”

Discussant: E. Summerson Carr, Ph.D. School of Social Service Administration & Department of Anthropology

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October 20th

Betsey Brada, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

“Making Botswana’s Epidemic Transparent”

Discussant: Aaron Seaman, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development

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October 27th

Fan Zhang, MAPSS

“Wenren Tea – A Practice of Self-cultivation”

Discussant: Chen Chen, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology

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November 10th

Pinky Hota, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development

“Becoming Good Hindus: Kandha Tribal Participation in Hindu Nationalist Piety”

Discussant: Shefali Jha, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology