Author: MAYS

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!

We are very happy to announce the Joint International Conference “Encounters and Engagements – Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology” organized by the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Society for Medical Anthropology, the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ (EASA) Medical Anthropology Network, and the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), 12-15 June 2013, in Tarragona, Spain.

Please find the call for papers here: CFP SMA/EASA/URV Conference 2013

The joint conference will be preceded by our next MAYS annual meeting that will take place on 10-11 June 2013. The CFP and further information on the MAYS meeting will be available on this website shortly. So please check again within a few days…

We are very much looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at these great events in Tarragona next summer!

An international summer school in medical anthropology, will take place at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, from July 22th – July 26th, 2013. 
     >> Deadline for abstract submission is July 15th, 2012. 
     >> CFP on Freie Universität Berlin website

The summer school focuses on “Well-being at the Margins: Seeking Health in Stratified Landscapes of Medicine and Healing.” We invite advanced PhD students and junior scholars to submit abstracts, focusing on one (or more) of the themes addressed in the following panels:

1) Structures of inequality
2) Citizenship and belonging
3) Embodiment of exclusion and insecurity
4) Ethics of researching suffering and inequality

The summer school offers the opportunity to discuss ideas and results with renowned senior scholars and advanced students, and to participate in a number of related activities such as a one-day field-trip and an interdisciplinary round-table discussion. We aim at preparing the papers for publication, either in an edited volume or in a peer-reviewed journal.

Confirmed speakers are:

Heide Castañeda (University of South Florida, USA)
Sylvie Fainzang (Inserm/Cermes3, Paris, France)
Ian Harper (Unviersity of Edinburgh, UK)
Lenore Manderson (Monash University, Australia)
David Napier (University College London, UK)
Vinh-Kim Nguyen (University of Montréal, Canada)
Peter Redfield (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Miriam Ticktin (New School for Social Research, New York, USA)

 
For questions and queries, please contact the organizers at fu.berlin.medanthro@gmail.com 

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Organizing team:

Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Anita Hardon (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Claire Beaudevin (Cermes3/Ifris, Paris, France)
Susann Huschke (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Katerina Ferkov (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Dominik Mattes (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)