2014-2015

Fall 2014

Thursday, October 16^th
Opening Meeting

Thursday, October 23^rd
Elizabeth Wilson, Emory University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuailty Studies.
Title: Underbelly – selections from her upcoming book Gut Feminism
Co-sponsored with Alternative Epistemologies Workshop, Comparative Behavioral Biology Workshop, Gender & Sexuality Studies Workshop, Self & Subjectivity Workshop, and U.S. Locations Workshop.

Thursday, November 6^th
Eleanor Jane Bush, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Title: The Flesh of the Foetus
Discussant: Sam Schulte, University of Chicago,, CHSS

Thursday, November 20^th
Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Title: Intimate Politics of Life: Centering the Family in the Mental Health Legislation Reform in China
Discussant: Amir Hampel, University of Chicago, CHD

Winter 2015

Thursday, January 8^th
Eduardo Kohn, McGill University, Anthropology
Title: Anthropology of Ontologies – An article for the Annual Review of Anthropology (Volume 44, 2015)
Discussant: Sean Dowdy, University of Chicago, Anthropology

Thursday, February 5^th
Alexander Moffett, University of Chicago, CHSS/Prtizker School of Medicine
Title: Generic Images of Disease: The Uses of Collective Investigation, 1880-1890

Thursday, February 19^th
Dan Choffnes, Carthage College, Biology
Title: Tea, Health, and Profits in Contemporary Fujian
Discussant: Heangjin Park, University of Chicago, Anthropology

Wednesday, March 4^th
Panel: Katrina and the Canicule: vulnerability and citizenship in the aftermath of environmental disaster

Anne M. Lovell, Université de Paris René Descartes, CERMES3
Title: Taking the pulse of the citizenry: disaster-related death and the statistics wars of Katrina

Richard Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Title: Chasing Ghosts: Risk and Marginalization in the 2003 Heat Wave Disaster

Cosponsored with The France Chicago Center, Department of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Human Development, Workshop on Self and Subjectivity

Spring 2015

Thursday, May 5^th
Sabrina Datoo, University of Chicago, History
Title: Fashioning Muslim Life: Yunani Medicine and Muslim Liberalism in Colonial India, c. 1880-1930

Thursday, May 14^th
Projit Bihari Mukharji,University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science
Title: Pranic Vitalism: Vernacular Vitamins to Radicalize the Biopolitical Subject, Bengal, c. 1920-1947
Discussant: Sabrina Datoo, University of Chicago, History 

Wednesday, May 27^th
Francis McKay, University of Chicago, Anthropology and CHSS
Title: Mindless: Affects, practical wisdom, and the Global Crisis in Depression

Wednesday, June 3^rd
Megan Crowley-Matoka, Northwestern University, Medical Education-Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Title: Operating (for) Legitimacy: Pain, Ambiguity, and Surgical Recursion in “Failed Back Surgery Syndrome”
Discussant: Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago, Anthropology