The Medicine & Its Object Workshop 2021-2022
Alternating Wednesdays | 4:30-6pm CST
Hybrid (Cobb 119) unless noted otherwise
**SPRING SCHEDULE**
March 30th *12:00-1:30*
Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era
Guest Presenter: Natali Valdez, Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Discussant: Stephanie Palazzo
*please note the altered time for this session*
April 13th
The Limits of Therapeutic Design: Rethinking Ecology in the Utopian Milieu
Presenter: Zach Lazarus, PhD Student, Crown School
Discussant: Bill Hutchison, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English Language & Literature
April 20th – Joint Session with Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe
Social and Socialist: Ideas of Health, Medicine and Society Across the Iron Curtain
Guest Presenter: Dora Vargha, Professor of History and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter
Discussant: Misha Appeltova, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
Location: *Social Sciences Tea Room (SSRB 201)*
April 27th
“Medicina Crítica: Critical Care in Critical Times in Buenos Aires”
Presenter: Livia Garofalo, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Northwestern University
Discussant: Talia Gordon, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
May 25th
Panel Session: MAPSS & MAPH
**WINTER SCHEDULE**
January 26th
Documentary Reality of Psychosocial Immigration Reports: Constituting Forensic Experts and Figuring “Good Victims
Presenter: Anna Prior, PhD Student, CHD
Discussant: Daniel Scott
February 9th – Joint Session with Disability Studies Workshop
Ethnographic Betrayals: Secrecy, Loyalty, and Sovereignty in the Field
Guest Presenter: Sahil Can Açiksoz, Faculty UCLA, Anthropology
Discussant: Eman Elshaikh
February 23rd
The Phenomenology of Attention
Presenter: Sophie Reichert, PhD Student, Anthropology
Discussant: Tina Post
March 9th
Embodying Dose: Sense, Stress, and the Uncertainty of Dosimetry
Presenter: Stephanie Palazzo, PhD Student, CHD
Discussant: Lorenzo Granada
**FALL SCHEDULE**
September 29th
Welcome Reception
*In-Person only
October 13th
Staging Dementia: “Benjamin and Mary”
Presenter: Sam Robson, PhD Student, Anthropology
Discussant: Tracy Brannstrom
October 27th
Managing Consensus and Dissensus in Palliative Medicine
Presenter: Timothy Elder, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Lilly Lerer
November 3rd
Joint Session with U.S. Locations Workshop
Invited Speaker: Jason Pine, Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology SUNY
*This convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and, because of ongoing health risks to the unvaccinated, those who are unvaccinated are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures advised by public health officials (masking and social distancing, etc.). Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others, including venue staff, and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.