December 2, 2016

Contribute to a new series: “Aftermath”

This article is part of the series: Aftermath

Somatosphere invites readers to submit to “Aftermath,” a new series examining the consequences of recent nationalist political turns throughout the world, including the US election. We are particularly interested in pieces which reflect on how these events intersect with the thematic concerns of the site – health, medicine and science, broadly construed. We especially welcome pieces which draw on original …

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May 19, 2016

Who’s Playing the ‘Nazi Card’ in Anthropology?: Rhetorical Spectres of Anti-Semitism in the BDS Debate

By David Rosen

Two recent articles by BDS leaders in anthropology have accused boycott opponents of debasing the debate in anthropology, either by playing the “Nazi card” or by introducing the “whiff” or “stench” of anti-Semitism into the arena. The first, Lisa Rofel and Daniel Segal’s piece, “J’Accuse: How Not to Have a Political Debate about BDS,” was recently published in Savage Minds…

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September 30, 2015

Books for review

By Eugene Raikhel and Seth Messinger

A new crop of books has arrived and they need to be reviewed! We are now asking reviewers to complete their pieces within four months of receiving a copy of the book. If you can write your review more quickly, that’s great, but if you don’t think you can manage to finish it in four months, please don’t volunteer. We …

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August 18, 2015

Limn issue no. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies

By Todd Meyers

This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes

We’d like to help spread the word about the recent issue of Limn, edited by Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier and Christopher Kelty, now in print.

From the editors:

“This issue of Limn on “Ebola’s Ecologies” examines how the 2014 Ebola outbreak has put the norms, practices, and institutional logics of global health into question, and examines the new assemblages …

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December 29, 2014

Call for Papers – Comics and Medicine: Spaces of Care

By Todd Meyers

16th – 18th July 2015
Culver Arts Center
University of California, Riverside
Call for Papers

The theme of this year’s conference, Spaces of Care, invites us to think about space as a critical element in health care and comics. Receiving medical treatment can affect how we relate to and interact with each other and our environments. Medical care is often …

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December 10, 2014

Call for book proposals: Anthropologies of American Medicine

By Paul Brodwin

Anthropologies of American Medicine, NYU Press

This book series will feature U.S.-based ethnographic research into the relations between health, culture, power and knowledge. While focused

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Category Archives: Announcements

Contribute to a new series: “Aftermath”

Who’s Playing the ‘Nazi Card’ in Anthropology?: Rhetorical Spectres of Anti-Semitism in the BDS Debate

Books for review

Limn issue no. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies

Call for Papers – Comics and Medicine: Spaces of Care

Call for book proposals: Anthropologies of American Medicine