The Medicine & Its Objects Workshop
Winter 2020 Schedule
Rosenwald Hall, Room 329 | Wednesdays, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
January 8
“Intermediary Experts:
Spreading the Philosophies of Radiological Protection”
Hiroko Kumaki, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Dr. David Ansari, Post-doctoral Fellow
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January 22
“Systematization Work:
The Backstage Repair of Clinical Medical Ethics”
Dr. Sorcha Brophy, Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy
Discussant: Alexandra Brewer, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
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February 5
“Epistemic Mercurial:
Rumored Food Dangers and the Political Epistemics of Safety
in Post-Soviet Tbilisi, Georgia”
Natalja Czarnecki, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Abigail Bratcher, Doctoral Student, History
February 19th
“Extinction as Experiment:
New Corals at The Reef’s Edge”
Damien Bright, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Emma Pask, Doctoral Student, Anthropology
March 4
“Just in Time:
Puberty Suppression, Gendered Visibility and Reproduction”
Paula Martin, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Dr. Hilary Strang, MAPH Program Director
Autumn Quarter
Wednesday 10/2
Meet & Greet
Free food & drinks
Wednesday 10/9
Stephanie Palazzo
PhD Candidate, CHD
“Decommissioned: Safety, Citizenship,
and the Long-Term Impact of Three Mile Island”
Discussant: Sharon Seegers
Doctoral Student, CHD
Friday 10/11
Location Change: SS 224
*Co-sponsored with the History of Science Workshop*
Dr. Jeremy Greene, MD
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
“The Automated Clinic: Multiphasic Medicine
and the Dream of Digital Health, 1965-1975”
Wednesday 10/23
CANCELLED
Thursday 11/7
Dr. Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
University of Michigan Anthropology
“Addicted Existence:
Surviving Capitalism in a Drug War Age”
Discussant: Hiroko Kumaki
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Monday 11/18
Time Change: 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Dr. Vinh-kim Nguyen, MD
The Graduate Institute Geneva
“Of what is Global Health the Symptom?:
Authorization, Value and Anticipation after Ebola”
Discussant: Dr. Adia Benton
Northwestern University, Anthropology
Monday 11/25
Location Change: Cobb 409
*Joint session with the Affect & the Emotions Workshop*
Isabela Fraga
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
“Nostalgic Subjects of Colonial Medicine:
Trajectories of Feeling in Iberian Slavery”
Discussant: TBD
Wednesday 12/4
Emily Claypool & Cameron Day
Doctoral Students, SSA and Sociology
“The Politics of Evidence and Rehabilitation:
A Discourse Analysis of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity
Paradigm in Community Supervision Policy and Practice”
Discussant: Dr. Nicole Marwell
School of Social Service Administration