The Medicine & Its Objects Workshop
Winter 2021 Schedule
Remote via Zoom | Wednesdays, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
January 13th:
“The Flying Black Medics: Cairo, Black Medical Professionals, and Black Power”
Caine Jordan, PhD Candidate, History
Discussant: H.S. Sum Cheuk Shing, PhD Student, ELAC
January 20th:
Title: TBD
Professor Armando Lara Millán, Assistant Professor, Sociology: UC Berkeley
Discussant: TBD
January 27th:
Title: TBD
Marshall Kramer, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: TBD
February 10th:
“Measuring Gender: Bad Scales and Best Questions”
Paula Martin, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Josh Franklin
February 24th:
“Specters, substitutes, and surrogates: materializing impossible kinships in Uitoto urban plantwork”
Amy Leia McLachlan, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow: Global Studies
Discussant: TBD
March 10th:
Title: TBD
Hanna Garth, Assistant Professor, Anthropology: UC San Diego
Discussant: P. Sean Brotherton, Professor of Anthopology: University of Chicago
Fall 2020 Schedule
Remote via Zoom | Wednesdays, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
October 7th:
“Therapeutic Cartographies: Mapping the Ear in Community Health Interventions”
Tracy Brannstrom, PhD Student, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Lorna Hadlock, PhD Student, Comparative Human Development
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October 21st:
“The Archive of False Prophets:
Delusional Worldmaking in a West African Psychiatric Hospital ”
Dr. Nana Quarshi, Assistant Professor, Department of History: Yale University
Discussant:
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November 4th:
“The Microbiome and Postcolonial Critique:
Epistemic Contestations over Autism in the Somali Diaspora”
Dr. Claire Decoteau, Associate Professor, Sociology: University of Illinois Chicago
Discussant: Matthew Borus, Doctoral Candidate, SSA
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November 18th:
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December 2nd:
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