Each year, MAYS organises an Annual Meeting for members to meet, network, share their research, and discuss a relevant topic within Medical Anthropology.

This meeting location changes each year and is hosted by the new MAYS coordinator’s university. The next Annual Meeting will be held in 2023 in GENEvA, SWITZERLAND.

MAYS Utrecht, August 2022

The 13th Annual MAYS took place in the Netherlands, at the University of Utrecht. The meeting took an online form, with over 15 participants. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Anthropological Approaches to Healthcare Crisis”. Leading up to the meeting, MAYS organized a panel during EASA 2023 Biannual Conference in Belfast “Grassroot Responses to Healthcare Crisis“.

Please see further information here: Program, Annual Report.

MAYS Warsaw, August 2021

The 12th Annual MAYS took place in Poland, at the University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. The meeting took a hybrid form, part online and part offline, with 10 people coming to Warsaw. The online shift that took place because of the pandemic allows many more participants to take part in conferences, and so 13 more participants from across the globe took part in the Annual Meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Medical Anthropology for all? Changing anthropology in the pandemic world”.

Please see further information here: Program, Annual Report.

MAYS Geneva, September 2020

Originally to be organised at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 11th Annual MAYS meeting took place entirely online. The conference was transformed into a series of weekly meetings throughout September. Under the theme “Medical Anthropology and Its Others: Disciplinarity and a field in motion“, close to 40 participants discussed entanglements and engagements of medical anthropology with other disciplines.

Please see further information here: Program, Annual Report.

MAYS Turin, July 2019

The 10th Annual MAYS meeting took place at the University of Turin on July 4th-5th. Under the theme “Being there. Medical Anthropology in Action“, over 40 participants discussed their experiences with and contemporary challenges of fieldwork in Medical Anthropology. The program also included four workshops and a keynote by Gilles Bibeau.

Please see further information here: Program, Annual Report.

MAYS Berlin, October 2018

The 9th Annual MAYS meeting “Creative Methods and Participatory Arts Research in Medical Anthropology” took place at Freie Universität Berlin on October 5th-6th 2019. During this meeting, around 20 participants discussed their experiences with and potentials of creative methods in anthropological research projects in different groups and workshops.

A conference report was published on the blog Medizinethnologie.

Please see further information here: Program, Annual Report

MAYS Edinburgh, June 2017 

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The 8th Annual MAYS meeting “Medical Anthropology Beyond Academic Borders” was held in Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh. It was organised in collaboration with SoMA (Students of Medical Anthropology) of EdCMA.  It brought together over 25 participants from across Europe, New Zealand, and the United States to discuss the real-world value of their research in three parallel groups, and five different workshops.

Please see more information here: Program, Annual Report

MAYS Lisbon, June 2016

The 7th Annual conference “Intergenerations, temporalities and medical anthropology” took place at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) on the 23 – 24 June of 2016. During the two-days meeting, 20 participants from different countries presented their work in 3 parallel groups.

Please see more information here: Program, Annual Report

MAYS Amsterdam, June 2015

The 6th Annual MAYS meeting “Emotions in/and Medical Anthropology” was held at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) on June 11-12.

A conference report was published on MAT.

Please see more information here: Program, Abstracts

MAYS Berlin, July 2014

The 5th Annual MAYS Meeting “PEER-TO-PEER AID” was held at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, on 4-5 July 2014.The meeting brought together sixteen speakers from eight countries as well as numerous participants who conduct research in various parts of the world. 

A conference report was published on MAT.

Please see more information here: Program

MAYS Tarragona, June 2013

The 4th Annual MAYS Meeting was held at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, June 10-11. More than 100 participants from across the globe discussed the papers of 30 speakers who presented their works in six thematic panels.

A conference report was published on Somatosphere.

Please see more information here: Program, Abstracts, Report

MAYS Paris Nanterre, July 2012

The 3rd Annual MAYS Meeting was held at the Université Paris Ouest in Paris/Nanterre La Défense on July 9-10. More than 60 participants from around the world enjoyed the lively discussions in the panels and workshops. 

Please see more information here: Program, Abstracts, Report

MAYS Warsaw, June 2011

The 2nd Annual MAYS Meeting was held at the University of Warsaw, Poland, on June 13th.

Please see more information here: Program, Poster, Report

MAYS Oxford, July 2010

A MAYS Workshop took place in Oxford University, UK, in July 2010, the day after the international Royal Anthropological Society conference (organized by Prof. Elisabeth Hsu) on medical anthropology in Europe. The student workshop “Shaping our Science. Medical Anthropology, Interdisciplinarity and Public Space” was a collaboration with the Oxford University Anthropological Society. About 40 medical anthropology students from all over Europe participated in the event.

Please see more information here: Program

MAYS Berlin, February 2010

The 1st Annual MAYS Meeting was held at the Free University Berlin, Germany, in February 2010. The goal of this workshop was to bring the members of the newly created network together and give them the chance to meet face to face. In two days, M.A. and Ph.D. students presented their research projects in thematic panels. The about 40 participants came from many different countries: France, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy; one of the speakers even flew all the way from Uganda to participate in the meeting. On the second day, participants had the chance to take part in a workshop on applied anthropology and career paths with Rachael Gooberman-Hill, senior research fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) and committee member of the EASA Medical Anthropology Network, and Kathryn Tomlinson, researcher for the British Ministry of Defense.

Please see more information here: Program