The Medicine & Its Object Workshop 2022-2023
Alternating Wednesdays | 4:30-6pm CST
Social Science Research Building 404, hybrid unless noted otherwise
**AUTUMN SCHEDULE**
September 28, 2022
Welcome Reception
Quadrangle Lawn outside Cobb Hall
Rain location: Cobb 112
October 12, 2022
Before and After the Book: Examining the Lives of Ethnography
Guest Presenter: Dr. Judith Farquhar, Faculty Emeritus, UChicago Anthropology
November 9, 2022
Determining Who Matters: The Nature and Impact of Forensic Mental Health Evaluations in US Immigration Processes
Anna Prior, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Katie Gibson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Crown Family School
November 16, 2022 – Joint Session with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop
Parallel Ideals: Female Patients’ Perceptions of the Body in Early Seventeenth-Century England
Anna Conner, PhD Candidate, History
Discussant: Patrick Graham, PhD Candidate, History
**WINTER SCHEDULE**
January 11, 2023
“He lived for others. He was killed for US”: Pedagogical Reflectivity and Photographic Perception in Cadaver Dissection, 1880-1930
Heather Glenny, PhD Candidate, English Language and Literature
Discussant: Michael Stablein, Jr., Joint-PhD Candidate, Theater and Performance Studies and English Language and Literature
January 25, 2023
How Sexuality Impacts Reliance on Social Networks of Older Adults
Grey Pierce, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Dr. Alex Brewer, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University Department of Sociology
February 8, 2023
Making Zero: Overflow and Logistical Governance in São Paulo Health Regulation
Dr. Jack Mullee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology
February 22, 2023
The Contagiousness of Knowledge Production: Covid, Journalism, Fieldwork, and Reading Classics
Yukun Zeng, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
**SPRING SCHEDULE**
March 29, 2023
The Return of the Body in (Health)Care: Case-Studies from inside the US Opioid Crisis
Tracy Brannstrom, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Uma Blanchard, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development
April 5, 2023
Intra-Professional Collaboration in Acute Hospital Settings
Timothy Elder, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Joshua Silver, PhD Candidate, Sociology
April 19, 2023
Caring for Compatriots during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Professional Practices by Health-Care Workers of Chinese Origin in France
Guest Presenter: Dr. Simeng Wang, Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research
Discussant: Dr. David Ansari, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
May 3, 2023
“Any person here who doesn’t have trauma has something wrong with them”: Evolving discourses of “trauma”, historical violence, and social justice in post-genocide Rwanda
Zoë Berman, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Dr. Katie Gibson, Crown School of Social Work
May 17, 2023
Organ Chips & The Regulatory Politics of Biomedical Innovation
Melanie Jeske, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, UChicago
Followed by End of Year Reception