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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field
RAI Conference on 1-2 July 2010 at the University of Oxford,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and St. Antony’s College
Medical anthropology has just as long a history in Europe as in North America. However,
European medical anthropologists are often unknown in Britain. One reason is that they
often do not write in English or only sporadically. Perhaps, precisely due to the different
languages, different medical anthropological perspectives have had time to gain some
maturity and develop into sometimes quite distinctive schools. After the first RAI
conference on “Medical Anthropology in Britain Today” in September 2007, this second
RAI conference will invigorate our own medical anthropological teaching and research
by getting to know and interacting with mostly, but not exclusively, European colleagues.
Thursday, 1st July, 12 pm onwards: registration
1.30 pm Welcome by Hilary Callan, Director of the RAI
1.45 pm Welcome by Dr. Melissa Parker, Chair of the RAI Medical Anthropology
Committee (Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Centre for
Research in International Medical Anthropology, Brunel University)
Four speakers who shaped the field will discuss as common theme how they
experienced the emergence of this field that we today may call medical anthropology,
what was an issue of concern at the time, what were themes of research that mattered,
who chiselled out a pathway, how and when, who were the other players in related fields,
what were the major challenges they faced?
Dr. Gilbert Lewis (Department of Social Anthropology, St. John's College, University of
Cambridge): “Opening expectations: perspectives on medical anthropology before and
after practice in the field”
Prof. Tullio Seppilli (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and
Philosophy, University of Perugia): “Itineraries and spcificities of Italian medical
anthropology”
Prof. Sjaak van der Geest (Medical Anthropology, University of Amsterdam): “Xenophilia
and the rise of medical anthropology in the Netherlands”
Prof. Armin Prinz & Dr. Ruth Kutalek (Ethnomedicine Unit, School of Public Health,
Medical University of Vienna): “The Development of Ethnomedicine / Medical
Anthropology in Germany and Austria”
Four Round Table Panelists of the “second generation” will comment on further
developments within their fields:
Prof. Anne-Lise Middlethon (Section for Medical Anthropology and Medical History,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo);
Prof. Hansjoerg Dilger (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universitaet,
Berlin);
Dr. Sylvie Fainzang (Anthropology, National Institute of Health, Paris);
Dr. Helen Lambert (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol)
Friday 2 July 2010, 9 am – 6.30 pm
The second day is devoted to three panels on current issues within medical
anthropology, each of which will be introduced by a keynote speaker and
complemented by speakers whose papers will be recruited through a competitive
call for papers.
Panel one: Medical anthropology and the psychological sciences
Keynote speaker: Prof. Rene Devisch (Department of Anthropology, Catholic University
of Leuven): “Rethinking the intercultural and interhuman legitimacy of endogenous
medical anthropology and clinical psychoanalytical reflexivity”
Panel two: Controlling chronic illness: cross-cultural perspectives
Keynote speaker: Prof. Susan Whyte (Department of Anthropology, University of
Copenhagen): “Time, sociality and control in lives with long-term illness”
Panel three: Biopolitics and hegemony in medical anthropology
Keynote speaker: Dr. Giovanni Pizza (Sezione Antropologica, Dipartimento Uomo &
Territorio, University of Perugia): “Second nature: on Gramsci's anthropology”
Plenary discussion, chaired by PD Dr. Brigit Obrist (Associate Professor,
Ethnologisches Seminar, Universitaet Basel), Chair of the EASA medical anthropology
network; panellists will include Prof. Josep Comelles (Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarrgona), and others.
Registration: £30.- for salaried staff, £15.- for student
CALL FOR PAPERS
The RAI medical anthropology committee invites proposals for contributions to
one of the three above panels by at the latest 15 th January 2010. The call for
papers is open to anyone who has an academic affiliation and feels they can
contribute to the above themes. The selection panel (the chair of the committee,
the organizer of the conference and two other committee members) will consider
scholarly quality and originality, as well as the fit of the paper into the panel and
the conference overall. We are hoping to identify between three and six speakers
per panel. Please send the title, a 500-word abstract and a postal address,
indicating your affiliation, in an email to: [email protected] For any
other queries, please contact: [email protected]
Saturday, 3 July 2010
A one-day conference on “Shaping our Science Medical Anthropology,
Interdisciplinarity and Public Space”, organized by the EASA Medical
Anthropology Network Student Officers, invites papers by graduate students.
Exact topic yet to be announced. For further information, please contact
[email protected] and [email protected]