Professor Didier Fassin delivered the Roger Allan Moore Lecture on Friday, February 3, 2012 at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
In this lecture, titled, “On Resentment and Ressentiment,” Didier Fassin discusses the differences between the concepts of resentment and ressentiment, specifically as formulated by Jean Améry and the implications of that distinction in …
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 …
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 …
In the summer of 2008 I had the pleasure of beginning my anthropological dissertation fieldwork in Ukraine. I was particularly interested in the mental health field. I had much experience with mental health issues in the U.S. through my Master’s thesis at the University of South Florida where I interned with the National Mental Health Association. I had also worked …
Nearly two decades have now passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Over the next several months we will be running a series of articles which consider a specific issues related to health and medicine in the former Soviet Union. The articles comprising “20 Years After the Soviet Union” will highlight research by anthropologists and other social …