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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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 …
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 …
At the website for Dalhousie University’s Novel Tech Ethics team — headed by bioethicist Françoise Baylis — you can watch a lecture by Somatosphere contributor Michael Oldani titled “Tales from the Script: Insider/Outsider Perspectives on Pharmaceutical Industry Sales Practices.“ Oldani was a pharmaceutical sales representative for Pfizer before becoming a medical anthropologist (he and I constituted two-thirds of …
Videos of several of the plenary talks from this year’s Society for Cultural Anthropology conference on Natureculture – which Stephanie Lloyd recently reported on for Somatosphere — are now available for viewing and listening on the Cultural Anthropology journal website and on a Vimeo site.
I am embedding videos of the talks by Judith Farquhar and Donna Haraway below, …
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| Alan Macfarlane interviews Clifford Geertz in 2004. |
As a number of anthro blogs have mentioned in the past, Alan Macfarlane, of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, has assembled a massive online archive of video materials, including a lot of in-depth interviews with anthropologists. The interviews, which were conducted over the past thirty years, range from a late-1970s …