**CALL FOR PAPERS**
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2012
Drug (Ab)use:
Border constructions and crossings in the anthropology of psychoactive substances
Co-organizers: Tazin Karim, Roland Moore, Gilbert Quintero, Lee Hoffer, and Daniel Lende on behalf of the Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology
This panel invites papers that …
Health In Transition:
Ethnographies Of Bio-Medicine In Post-Socialist Europe
Call for Papers
7-8 June 2012
Kindly hosted by: Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
With notable exceptions, the topics of health and medicine in post-socialist Europe have received limited anthropological attention compared to research on both the global ‘North’ and ‘South’. Implicitly, medical anthropological research from academic institutions in …
Congratulations to everyone who won an award from the Society for Medical Anthropology or one of its interest groups in 2011! (Unfortunately we don’t have a list which includes the titles of all winning submissions):
Indiana University is soliciting proposals from junior scholars for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop, “Therapeutic Encounters: Emerging research in health and medicine in Eastern Europe,” to be held April 13-14, 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Eligibility: Graduate students and recent PhDs from any field who are engaged in health- and medicine-related research in Eastern Europe. We particularly invite …
The Association of Africanists in Germany e.V. (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) has extended their call for abstracts for their 2012 conference on Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders in Cologne, Germany. Not all of the panels will be held in English; however, several of them specifically request applicants to hand in abstracts in English. Topics of panels range from governance, language and …
Next year’s Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, hosted by the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, will be held on July 5-7, 2012 and will be devoted to global mental health. Here’s the abstract for the event:
The emerging field of global mental health aims to address the enormous disparities in mental health outcomes
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