On March 29, 2011, Nikolas Rose gave a talk here at the University of Chicago entitled “Governing Conduct in the Age of the Brain.” The lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Clinical Ethnography Workshop, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Medicine, Body, and Practice Workshop, is available for viewing in …
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Dispatches from the Neurosociety
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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"Epidemics": a special issue of Behemoth
The electronic journal Behemoth which “focuses on the general problem of the fading and/or failing state,” has a new themed issue which focuses on epidemics, more specifically exploring “critical issues arising within the new problem space of emerging infectious diseases,” (Caduff 2010). As Carlo Caduff argues in his introduction to the volume,
“In the aftermath of the Cold
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João Biehl and Peter Locke on "Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming"
The June issue of Current Anthropology includes includes an article by Princeton’s João Biehl and Peter Locke (who has written for Somatosphere in the past): “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming.” One of the wonderful things about CA articles is the commentaries genre — and this particular piece includes comments by Michael M.J. Fischer, Vanessa Fong, Angela Garcia, …
"Neuroscience, power and culture": a special issue of History of the Human Sciences
As noted in the excellent H-Madness blog, the most recent issue of History of the Human Sciences is guest edited by Scott Vrecko and devoted to “Neuroscience, Power and Culture,”—a set of issues that we often cover on Somatosphere. The contributors include a number of current and former members of LSE’s BIOS research center.
Here are …
University of Wisconsin’s "What is Human?" initiative
The number of interesting conferences and lectures in medical anthropology and STS available online is growing steadily. In addition to not having the time to attend all of these conferences, we soon won’t have time to listen to all of them online.
The latest one I’ve come across is a project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Humanities Center called “…