Author: MAYS

We are happy to announce that the 5th Annual MAYS Meeting will take place on July 4-5 at the Freie Universität Berlin.

The meeting will be smaller than the previous MAYS events in order to foster an even more productive exchance of thoughts among the participants in the familiar enjoyable MAYS atmosphere.

Apart from paper presentations in two parallel working groups with plenty of room for discussion, there will be two expert-led, practice-oriented workshops of interest to junior scholars in Medical Anthropology.

For more information please download the full Call for Papers HERE.

We cordially invite you to send your abstract to mays.easa@gmail.com by February 23rd.

We’re looking forward to getting to know your work and meeting you in Berlin!

Dominik Mattes (MAYS Coordinator) and the organizing team at FU:

Mustafa Abdalla, Anika König, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Ursula Probst, Britta Rutert, Miriam Weihe

The final program and abstract list for our meeting in Tarragona are now downloadable here.

We would like to cordially invite you to attend the public co-lectures that will be part of the international summer school “Well-being at the margins: Seeking health in stratified landscapes of medicine and healing” at Freie Universität Berlin:

22 July 2013

9.30 am – Introduction by Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin) & Anita Hardon (University of Amsterdam)

10.00 am – “Engaging care, citizenship and sovereignty: dialectices of theory and ethnography” by Miriam Ticktin (New School for Social Research, New York) & Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Université de Montreal, Collège d’Etudes Mondiales, Paris, University of Amsterdam)

23 July 2013

9.00 am – “Somatic modes of attention: embodying inequality and structural violence” by Heide Castañeda (University of South Florida) & David Napier (University College London)

25 July 2013

9.00 am – “Syndemics, insecurity and access to health care in Zimbabwe and Nepal” by Lenore Manderson (Monash University) & Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh)

26 July 2013

9.00 am – “Ethical choices and challenges in the anthropology of health” by Sylvie Fainzang (Cermes3/Inserm, Paris) & Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 
Download poster here.





Thank you and warm regards on behalf of the organizing team,
Dominik Mattes
(Freie Universität Berlin)

The preliminary program for our upcoming annual meeting in Tarragona (10-11 June) is now online. Please download it here.

All abstracts of the meeting are available here.

Looking forward to a great event and to seeing you in a few weeks!

For those of you who will attend the joint conference after our 4th annual MAYS meeting: Please take a look and register for one of the the exciting skills workshops that will be offered during the conference: http://antropologia.urv.es/encounters/

On the same page you can register for a guided tour through the beautiful city of Tarragona!

We’re looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks!

The registration for the annual meeting closed on March 20th. If you have further questions concerning the meeting, please feel free to contact the MAYS coordinators.

Dear MAYS members, 

The registration for our 4th annual meeting in Tarragona is now open. Please fill in this registration form

MAYS 2013 Registration

and make sure you have registered by March 20th in order to give our organizing team in Tarragona the chance to negotiate affordable accommodation for you.

Thank you very much and see you in Tarragona!

Kate & Dominik

The aim of the joint EASA/SMA conference in Tarragona, Spain is for these two networks to meet, but also to engage colleagues from areas of the world where professional medical anthropology networks and societies are not well formed, especially in Africa, South America, Asia, and the Pacific. We have been awarded funds from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to facilitate participation in the conference by a more geographically diverse population of medical anthropological researchers. We invite you to register and participate in the Tarragona conference, and encourage you to apply as needed for the Global Network Travel Award.

The Global Network Travel Award is a competitive, need-based award to facilitate attendance and participation in the EASA/SMA Joint Conference in Tarragona, Spain (June 2013). Ideal candidates will come from developing contexts and/or parts of the world where a professional network or society of medical anthropologists has not yet formed or is only minimally developed. Applications will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Scientific Committee. Awardees may be invited to take leadership roles within the conference proceedings.

Application Procedure

To apply, please send a one-page description of need, and your proposed paper/poster/video (Word or PDF format, if possible) to Professor Cartwright’s email carteliz@isu.edu no later than March 1, 2013. Award recipients will be notified by April 1, 2013. Award funds must be used to subsidize travel, conference fees and accommodations. The Conference will be held in English, however, every effort will be made to facilitate translation through volunteer student translators and multi-lingual signage.

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SMA Student Travel Fellowships: Deadline March 1, 2013

The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) is pleased to be able to offer its student members a limited number of $800 student travel fellowships for travel to the 2013 SMA/EASA meeting in Tarragona, Spain. Eligibility is restricted to student members of the SMA who are (1) presenting at SMA/EASA meeting, or (2) presenting at the Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) meeting and attending the SMA/EASA meeting. Fellowships will be awarded based on the clarity, significance and innovation of their submitted abstract, and the strength of a letter of support from a faculty member who can discuss the significance of their presented work.
Eligibility Requirements (must meet all four)

(1) Submit proof of current student SMA student membership
(2) Submit proof of registration for the SMA/EASA conference
(3) Submit a copy of your SMA/EASA or MAYS paper abstract (due February 15, 2013 via conference website)
(4) Submit a letter of recommendation from an advisor
Application Procedure

Please compile all the supporting materials into ONE file and save in pdf format. Email materials and direct any inquiries to the SMA 2013 Student Travel Fellowship Committee at smaawards@gmail.com by March 1, 2013. Fellowship award winners will be notified by April 1, 2013. Awards will be formally announced, and checks will be presented, at the SMA business meeting in Tarragona, Spain.

For additional details, see the conference websites:

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This MAYS meeting will precede the Joint International Conference “Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology” (http://easaonline.org/networks/medical/events.shtml).

Similar to our previous meetings, we would like to provide you with an opportunity to get to know each other and to discuss your work, even if it is at an early stage of research. We invite papers from across a broad range of Medical Anthropology topics that pay special attention to the theme of “impediments and catalysts” of creating “new agendas” for Medical Anthropology.

For further information please download the call for papers here: CFP MAYS 4th Annual Meeting 2013

Deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2013.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to write to mays.easa[at]gmail.com.

We are very much looking forward to receiving your abstracts and to seeing you in Spain in June 2013!