Working Group Medical Anthropology I Global Health
The working group consists of staff members and PhD students of the Institute of Anthropology and affiliated medical anthropologists. In the regular meetings and workshops, current research projects in medical anthropology are discussed and theoretical questions are further developed. Participation in the meetings (every second Thursday 18:00-20:00) and workshops is by arrangement with Prof. Hansjörg Dilger (contact: hansjoerg.dilger@berlin.de). Appointment coordination via Marcos Andrade Neves (contact: marcos.fan@fu-berlin.de)
Dates summer term 2024
| 02.05.2024 | Veronika Siegl (Universität Wien) | Book Launch of her book Intimate Strangers. Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. Ithaka, NY: Cornell University Press (2023). |
| 30.05.2024 | PamelaFeldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College) | Memory Genealogies and Public Health: Authoritarianism and COVID-19 Rumors in Cameroon |
| 06.06.2024 | Stefan Reinsch (Centre for Educational Research & Centre for Health Service Research, Brandenburg Medical School - Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin) | Tensions in the Professional Identity Formation in the Context of Obesity Care: A Study of Primary Care Physicians and Patients in Rural Germany |
| 13.06.2024 | Anika König (Freie Universität Berlin) | TBA |
| 20.06.2024 | Max Schnepf (Freie Universität Berlin) | PrEPped Intimacies in Berlin |
| 27.06.2024 | Kathrin Bauer (Freie Universität Berlin) | ADHD – a disorder of context? |
| 04.07.2024 | Ursula Probst (Freie Universität Berlin) | Buchpräsentation „Prekäre Freizügigkeiten“ im Schwulen Museum (in German, at 7 p.m.) |
| 11.07.2024 | Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Universität Leipzig) | NCDs and the resourcification of traditional medicine in Zanzibar |
