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SPA Panel on Political Subjectivity – April 1, 2011, Santa Monica

By Sadeq Rahimi
This article is part of the series:
The biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology this year took place from March 31 to April 3 in Santa Monica, California. Below you will find audio recordings of a panel myself and Byron Good had put together on the topic of political subjectivity. Terry O’Nell requested that her presentation not be published here due to ethical concerns regarding …
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Interviews with Marilyn Strathern on the AAA blog and elsewhere

By Eugene Raikhel

On the AAA’s blog, Virginia Dominguez continues her series of “Inside the President’s Studio” interviews with a conversation with Marilyn Strathern.  As in previous interviews in this series (which have included Carolyn Sargent, Joao Biehl and Agustin Fuentes) the audio of the conversation is accompanied by the text of Strathern’s answers to a few …

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Dispatches from the Neurosociety

By Eugene Raikhel

In December of last year, Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) and the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) organized a conference at Oxford’s Saïd Business School called “Neurosociety: What is it with the brain these days?“  Here’s how the conference organizers described the aims of the meeting:

 The theme of the conference was the rise

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Subjectivity, Politics and Medical Anthropology: The 2010 Marett Lecture by Professor Byron J. Good

By Sadeq Rahimi

It has been a long time since I made my last contribution here. In addition to starting a new job I’ve been deeply involved with blogging and other online activities for the Green Movement in Iran. But I think it’s time for me to come back here, and as a way of working my way back into the topic of …

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Biological and cultural contexts of schizophrenia: a discussion panel

By Eugene Raikhel

A few days ago I mentioned that summaries of the panels from January’s Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR)-UCLA conference on Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder were being posted on the FPR blog.  Now Constance Cummings, Project Director at the FPR, has begun uploading videos of some events to the FPR’s YouTube page.

The first of …