12 Jun A Lifetime of Drugs 12 June 2019, 16:00 to 17:00 Kane Race is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
15 May Challenges for implementing a global mental health agenda in Brazil: The ‘‘silencing’’ of culture 15 May 2019, 16:00 to 17:00 Francisco Ortega is Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de…
20 Mar Fight For Our Health: Activism in the Face of Health Insurance Precarity 20 March 2019, 16:00 to 17:00 Dr Beza Merid is an LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan.
14 Feb The Missing Swarm: On the nature of collective entomological inquiry 14 February 2019, 16:00 to 17:00 Dr Javier Lezaun is Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at…
15 Jan Impressionable Biologies 15 January 2019, 16:00 to 17:00 We will discuss Maurizio’s upcoming book ‘Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of…
4 Dec Wounds: On the Poetics and Socioaesthetics of Constantine Cavafy's "The Bandaged Shoulder" 04 December 2018, 14:00 to 15:00 James D. Faubion is Radoslav Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty…
28 Nov Pathological desire: Debating addiction and evidence in Putin’s Russia 28 November 2018, 14:00 to 15:00 Dr Eugene Raikhel is Associate Professor and Director for ‘Center for East European and…
24 Oct Consumption in Crisis: Chronic Disease in a Hungry City 24 October 2018, 14:00 to 15:00 We will discuss Branwyn’s draft paper about urban eating between two overlapping crises, a crisis of…
3 Mar 'Beyond trauma' 03 March 2016, 15:00 to 17:00 The Conversation will focus on works of the recently published special section “Beyond trauma”, in…
5 Feb Seth Holmes 'Migrant farmworker injury: pseudo-events and the statistics of suffering' 05 February 2016, 16:00 to 17:00 Seminar discussions around Seth Holmes' draft paper "Migrant farmworker injury" on the topic of…
6 Nov Pharmaceutical geographies: mapping the boundaries of the therapeutic revolution. 06 November 2015, 15:00 to 16:00 Jeremy Greene discusses his chapter draft "Pharmaceutical geographies: mapping the boundaries of the…
3 Nov Good quality: the routinization of sperm banking in China. 03 November 2015, 16:00 to 17:00 Ayo Wahlberg discussed a chapter from his book manuscript "Good quality: the routinization of sperm…
13 May Throwaway medicine: the material afterlives of healthcare in India and elsewhere 13 May 2015, 12:00 to 13:00 Sarah Hodges' visit in discussion relating to her unfinished book about the waste economies of…
6 May Epidemiological reason: epidemiologists, philanthropists and global health 06 May 2015, 16:00 to 17:00 David discussed his draft paper "Epidemiological reason: epidemiologists, philanthropists and global…
26 Nov Affects of social relationships on health care 26 November 2014, 12:00 to 13:00 Simon Cohn discusses his recent opinions on the affects of social relationships on health care in…
12 Nov The political effects of global security practices 12 November 2014, 13:00 to 14:00 Claudia Aradau discusses her research on security practices globally and the political effects of…
27 Oct Social science and politics discussion with Linsey McGoey 27 October 2014, 12:00 to 13:00 Linsey McGoey's research focused on three board areas of sociology, politics, and global health and…
24 Sep Sociology of genomics with Jenny Reardon 24 September 2014, 13:00 to 14:00 Jenny Reardon is the author of "Race to the finish: identity and governance in an age of genomics"…
9 Jun Life science discussion with Kaushik Sunder Rajan 09 June 2014, 11:00 to 12:30 Kaushik Sunder Rajan discusses his book "Biocapital: the constitution of post-genomic life".
13 May "Violence, affect, and the post-traumatic subject" 13 May 2014, 17:00 to 18:30 Professor Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University: ‘Violence,…
17 Mar Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making: global health, postcolonial science, and south african drug discovery 17 March 2014, 12:00 to 13:30 Anne Pollock discusses her ongoing research projects in three areas: feminism and heart disease;…
10 Feb Politics of scientific research and its governance 10 February 2014, 12:00 to 13:00 Javier Lezaun discusses his research on politics of scientific research and its governance.
20 Jan Cultural and political dimensions of cities in Latin America 20 January 2014, 11:00 to 12:30 Austin Zeiderman examined the emergence of risk as a rationality of urban planning and governance in…
5 Dec Social Anthropology with Jacob Copeman 05 December 2013, 11:00 to 12:30 Dr. Jacob Copeman has been Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh since…
27 Nov Document organisation in relation to colonial discipline and biopower 27 November 2013, 11:00 to 12:30 Professor Saunders is a cultural anthropologist of contemporary biomedicine and teaching hospitals.…
20 Jun Anticipation of the Global Onset of Novel Epidemics with Frédéric Keck 20 June 2013, 14:00 to 15:00 Dr Keck is currently a researcher in social anthropology at the National Center for Scientific…
12 Jun Biomedicine and life sciences with Catherine Waldby 12 June 2013, 11:00 to 13:00 Catherine Waldby is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University…
3 Jun Tobias Rees on the emergent phenomena in life sciences and medicine 03 June 2013, 17:00 to 18:00 Tobias Rees is Assistant Professor of Anthropology with a dual appointment in the Departments of…
23 May Governmentality and public reason: Foucault and Rawls 23 May 2013, 16:00 to 17:00 Paul Patton is currently Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales,…
26 Mar Eradicating HIV: examining contemporary biopolitics through the lens of global health 26 March 2013, 11:00 to 12:00 Vinh-Kim Nguyen is Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the University of Montreal.
20 Feb Ciolence, suffering, subjectivity, rupture and recovery with Veena Das 20 February 2013, 15:00 to 16:00 Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and a…
16 Jan Developing a critical theory of late liberalism 16 January 2013, 14:00 to 15:00 Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies at Columbia University.