Spring 2018
April 4 Raphaëlle Rabanes (Anthropology, UC Berkeley/San Francisco)
Cobbling: Negotiating care in postcolonial rehabilitation
April 18 Kristin Peterson (Anthropology, UC Irvine)
Ethical Misrecognition: On Racial and Pharmaceutical Capitalism
April 25 Ari Gandsman (Anthropology, University of Ottawa)
Sensing the end: timing death and the right to die
May 9 Adia Benton (Anthropology, Northwestern University)
Ebola(s): thoughts about memory, history and survival in an epidemic’s aftermath
May 16 Steven Server (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, UChicago)
Forjando salud: anthropology and medicine in post revolutionary Mexico
May 30 Talia Gordon (Comparative Human Development, UChicago)
Why resilience now? Temporalities of crisis and repair in Flint, MI
All workshops will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30-6:00, in Rosenwald 329. Refreshments will be served. For questions about the workshop, or if you require assistance to attend, please contact the workshop coordinator, Kieran Kelley: kierankelley@uchicago.edu
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Winter 2018
January 17: Matthew Hiller (SSA)
OCD: Self and Other
January 31: Julian Thompson (SSA)
Topic: Mental Health Courts
February 14 : Jenny Miao Hua (Anthropology and Medicine)
Concretizing Tumors: Marginality and Metastability in Chinese Oncology
February 28: Biying Ling (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
Hans Jonas’s The Phenomenon of Life as a Failed Project: Concepts and Context
All workshops will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30-6:00, in Haskell 101. Refreshments will be served. For any questions about a workshop, or if you require assistance to attend, please contact the workshop coordinator, Kieran Kelley: kierankelley@uchicago.edu
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Autumn 2017
October 4: David Ansari (UChicago, Comparative Human Development)
Activities of Reading and Writing: Navigating paperwork routines in culturally sensitive mental health services in Paris
October 18: Camille Roussel (UChicago, Comparative Human Development)
Child Pregnancy, Indigeneity, Guatemala
October 25: Zoe Wool (Rice University, Anthropology)
Disability, Biolegitimacy, and Technological Fantasies
November 8: Sophie Reichert (UChicago, Anthropology)
Taking the experiment out of the laboratory: German Lebensreform culture 1910-1914
November 15: Natalja Czarnecki (University of Chicago, Anthropology)
Gendered lives of food safety regulatory reform and emergent trustworthy bodies in Tbilisi, Georgia
All workshops will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30-6:00, in Rosenwald 329. Refreshments will be served. For any questions about a workshop, or if you require assistance to attend, please contact the workshop coordinator, Kieran Kelley: kierankelley@uchicago.edu
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