CURRENT EVENTS
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 17th April: Tracey Chantler (LSHTM) 'Community Engagement and Ethical Practice in Vaccine Research'. More details here
PAST EVENTS - current academic year
Street-level health workers in six African cities - shifting geographies of work, responsibility and entitlement, Workshop at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine April 2nd 2012, 2pm-5.30pm (note revised time)
Discussant: Doreen Massey (Open)
LSHTM Main Building, Keppel Street, Manson Theatre. More details here
CANCELLED Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 20th Mar: Paulina Tindana - apologies for the short notice
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 6th Mar: Ferdinand Okwaro "In/dependent collaborations: Perceptions and experiences of African scientists in transnational HIV research". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, Feb 21st: Jennifer Tappan "Local (Dis)engagement as a Catalyst for Shifting Biomedical Practices and Programs: The Story Behind the Story of Nutritional Research, Therapy and Prevention in Uganda". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, Feb 7th: Simon Reid-Henry "What is a spatialised epistemology and what can it offer the study of (non-western) science?". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, Jan 24th: Čarna Brković "'You never know when you might need someone’: biological citizenship in a border town in Bosnia and Herzegovina". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, Jan 10th: Andrew Bowman "An old new green revolution for Africa? The politics and ethics of seed in Zambian history and its relevance today". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 13th Dec: Fanny Chabrol "Gaborone (Botswana): an attractive field site in an era of biomedical research and HIV treatments". More details here
"Memorials and remains of science in Africa: Traces of progress, nostalgia and amnesia" Panel at the 110th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association 2011 Please find more details here.
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 6th Dec: Tom Yarrow "Past Futures: spatio-temporal transformations around Ghana's Volta Resettlement Project". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 8th Nov: Roberta Bivins "Tropical Bodies, Temperate Disease: Responding to Postcolonial Rickets?" More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 1st Nov: Christos Lynteris "The birth of Chinese biopolitics: pneumonic plague, floating populations and medical police in Manchuria (1910-1920)" More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 18th Oct: Uli Beisel "Extending the City: journeys of health care volunteers in and out of Bo, Sierra Leone". More details here
Volunteers, the voluntary sector and voluntarism in Britain and in Africa Conference, 14 October 2011, LSHTM. Please find more details and the programme here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 11th Oct: Catherine Montgomery "STS goes South? Con/traversing public/health". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 4th Oct: Noemi Tousignant "Broken Tempos: Memory, Means and Capacity in a Senegalese University Laboratory". More details here
Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 27th Sept: Benson Mulemi "Managing Cancer, Emotional and Biographic Disruption in a Kenyan Hospital". More details here
Conference Panel: "The Construction of Healthy Spaces - Postcolonial Subjectivities and Governance". Noemi Tousignant, John Manton, Uli Beisel spoke at the CRESC Annual Conference 'Framing the City', 6-9 September 2011 in Manchester.
