SPRING 2019
April 10: Sanja Miklin (Comparative Human Development PhD Candidate), “What’s in a name, what’s in a death?: Ontology of ‘Suicide’ and the Semiotics of Suicide Deaths”
Discussant: Alexandra Brewer, Sociology
April 24: Rachel Howard (Anthropology PhD Student) “Experts and Ethics: The Politics of Research After the Hospital”
Discussant: Jiyea Hong, Anthropology
May 8: Jessica Cooper (Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology + School of Law, Cornell University), “At Wit’s End: Unexpectations of Personhood in California’s Public Mental Health Clinics”
Discussant: Katie Gibson, SSA
May 22: Rebecca Lester (Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis), Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America. Co-sponsored with Disability Studies Workshop.
May 29: Shruti Vaidya (Comparative Human Development, PhD Student) “Entanglements of the Public and the Private: Case Studies on Disability and Sexuality in India”
Discussant: TBA
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If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please email Stephanie Palazzo, spalazzo@uchicago.edu.
WINTER 2019
January 16: Andrea Ford (Social Science Division and Anthropology Postdoctoral Fellow), “Near Birth: Embodied Futures in California”
Discussant: Stephanie Palazzo
February 13: Katie Gibson, (Social Service Administration PhD Candidate), “Being ‘In Feeling’: Empathy and Expertise in Therapeutic Encounters with Traumatized Youth”
Discussant: Emily Claypool
February 26: Betsey Brada (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Reed College), co-sponsored with African Studies Workshop
Location: Wilder House
February 27: Hiroko Kumaki (Anthropology PhD Candidate), “People of the Soil: Building Trust for Disaster Mental Health Care in Fukushima, Japan”
Discussant: Andrea Ford
March 6: Damien Droney (SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow) “Ontologies of National Science: Plants and Careers at the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine”
Discussant: Judith Farquhar
March 13: Bill Nickell (Associate Professor, Chair of the Slavic Department) “Franklinization in American and Soviet Medicine”
Discussant: Eugene Raikhel
**Rescheduled from January 30**
AUTUMN 2018
October 10: Meet and Greet
Gather for food, drinks, and conversation to kick-off 2018-2019
October 17: Emily Wilson, “Healing Touch: Professional Cuddling in the United States,” PhD Student, Comparative Human Development
Discussant: Lily Ye, Comparative Human Development
October 31: Rebecca Ewert, “Psychiatric Legitimacy as a Social Problem in the Making,” PhD Student, Sociology
Discussant: Steve Server
November 7: Peggy O’Donnell, “Forensics after Atrocity,” Lecturer and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, History
Discussant: David Ansari
November 28: Wilfried Lignier, “Why Self-Medicalizing?: The Case of ‘Intellectual Precocity’ in France,” Junior Research Sociologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, Visiting Professor Sociology
Discussant: Rebecca Ewert
Papers will be made available in advance via email request, spalazzo@uchicago.edu.
If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please email Stephanie Palazzo, spalazzo@uchicago.edu.