Call for Films for the next edi­tion of the „Jean Rouch Inter­na­tion­al Festival”

We are pleased to announce the open­ing of the call for films for the 45th edi­tion of the Jean Rouch Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val, which will be held from May 7 to 14, 2026.

Our pur­pose is to reflect the vital­i­ty of social sci­ences research and to give an insight into the diver­si­ty, cre­ativ­i­ty, and orig­i­nal­i­ty of cin­e­mat­ic gen­res and narratives.

Sub­mis­sions are open until Novem­ber 16, 2025

for doc­u­men­tary films com­plet­ed after Novem­ber 17, 2024 (dead­line for the pre­vi­ous call for films).

The entry fee is €10 per film until Octo­ber, 19th then €15 from Octo­ber, 20th.

Please sub­mit your films as soon as possible:
https://filmfreeway.com/JeanRouchInternationalFilmFestival

All mem­bers of the pro­gram­ming com­mit­tee are look­ing for­ward to dis­cov­er­ing your films!

For any infor­ma­tion request, please con­tact: submissionsjeanrouchfestival@gmail.com
The last edi­tion of the fes­ti­val on video

For the first time, thanks to the amaz­ing work of Léa Bernard, Célimène Mar­rac­ci, Inga Pet­rosyan, Lisa Rame­court, Noame Toumi­at et Osman Yıl­maz, stu­dents at EHESS, we inter­viewed the film­mak­ers who attend­ed the fes­ti­val in 2025!

Farah Kassem, Ruth Beck­er­mann, Emmanuel Gri­maud, Mat­ti­js van de Port, Cate­ri­na Pasquali­no, Pas­cal Cesaro, Anu­pa­ma Srini­vasan et Anir­ban Dut­ta… They explain how their film was made and give their vision of doc­u­men­tary cinema.

Watch it now on YouTube and on our new Canal U channel!

A project coor­di­nat­ed by:

Béné­dicte Bar­il­lé, Tilou Mar­tin, Gaia Mar­i­ana Rangel Pena­gos, Michel Tabet, Alex­ia Van­hée, Nina Wöhrel

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CfP fpr Spe­cial Issue: Curare Teach­ing Forum
Dead­line for sub­mis­sions: Octo­ber 20, 2025

In issue 48(2025)2 of Curare, we will con­tin­ue our Teach­ing Forum series in form of a spe­cial issue and there­fore ask med­ical anthro­pol­o­gists about the texts, books, films or oth­er media that they like to use in teach­ing. We are inter­est­ed in the fol­low­ing questions: 

* Why is your favourite text or medi­um espe­cial­ly suit­able for teach­ing med­ical anthropology?
* What can be demon­strat­ed or dis­cussed par­tic­u­lar­ly well using the text or medi­um in question?
The for­mat of the texts are open, they could include short essay­is­tic texts, the­o­ret­i­cal review arti­cles and per­son­al reviews of many years of teach­ing experience. 

Any­one inter­est­ed in writ­ing a text in Ger­man or Eng­lish is wel­come to con­tact the edi­to­r­i­al board at curareteachingforum@agem.de.

Please find for­mer con­tri­bu­tions to the Curare Teach­ing Forum at the fol­low­ing links:

Eit­en­berg­er, Mag­dale­na & Lehn­er, Lisa 2022. Teach­ing Mul­ti­plic­i­ties. Von der Arbeit mit mul­ti­me­di­alen Arbeit­en. Curare 45, 2: 101–105: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1480/1500

Olarte-Sier­ra, María Fer­nan­da 2022. On Bod­ies and Our Own Bod­ies. Care and ­ Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty When Teach­ing about Death and Loss. Curare 45, 2: 106–109: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1481/1525.

Betsch­er, Silke & Falge, Chris­tiane 2021. Kol­lab­o­ra­tiv und Online Forschen mit Studieren­den und Stadtteilforscher*innen in Zeit­en von Coro­na. Curare 44, 1–4: 176–179: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/15860

Wolf, Ange­li­ka 2021. The Spir­it Catch­es You and You Fall Down. Die Fasz­i­na­tion ethno­grafis­ch­er Fall­beispiele in der Lehre. Curare 44, 1–4: 180–183: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1587.

Irwin, Rachel 2020. Covi­dog­ra­phy. Teach­ing Ethno­graph­ic Meth­ods in a Pan­dem­ic. Curare 43, 1–4: 152–155: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1537.

Jäger, Mar­gret & Wächter, Afsaneh 2020. Teach­ing Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy in Front of the Screen. A Short Essay on Online Teach­ing With Med­ical Stu­dents Dur­ing Sum­mer Term 2020 in Aus­tria. Curare 43, 1–4: 156–159: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1538.

Jäger, Mar­gret (2020). Zu Besuch beim Hausarzt. Dr. Peri­no über die Schul­ter schauen. Curare 43, 1–4: 160–162: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1539.

Klinke, Nola; Brown, Shan-Estelle; Althuis, Aj; Math­ews, Jana; Namin­git, Sheryll; Pieczyn­s­ki, Jay Rollins; Rus­sel, Emi­ly Rollins & San­ti­a­go-Nar­vaez, Bren­dal­iz 2020. Teach­ing COVID-19 in a Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Team. Empha­siz­ing Holism and the Rel­e­vance of Anthro­pol­o­gy. Curare 43, 1–4: 163–67: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1540.

Stei­gler, Kathrin 2020. Medi­zin­sys­teme in Afri­ka. Kom­mu­nika­tion­s­the­o­retis­che und kul­tur­al­is­muskri­tis­che Per­spek­tiv­en. Curare 43, 1–4: 168–171: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1541.

Krause, Jan­i­na 2020. „The Egg and the Sperm“. Zur Gemachtheit biol­o­gis­ch­er Wis­sens­bestände über Geschlecht. Curare 43, 1–4: 172–174: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1542.

Wolff, Eber­hard, Der Benjamin’sche „Chock“ in der Lehrdi­dak­tik. Curare 43 (2020) 1–4: 175–176: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1543.

Ame­lang, Katrin 2019. Ray­na Rapp’s „Real-Time Fetus“. Aktuell gebliebene Denkanstöße eines fem­i­nis­tisch-medi­z­inan­thro­pol­o­gis­chen Blicks auf Ultra­schall­bilder in der Prä­na­tal­diag­nos­tik. Curare 42, 1+2: 91–93: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1631.

Keck, Ver­e­na 2019. Von bali­ne­sis­chen Heil­ern zu ART und „cyborgs“. Eine Ein­führung zur Band­bre­ite und Rel­e­vanz der Medi­zineth­nolo­gie. Curare 42, 1+2: 94–95: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1632.

Park, Sung-Joon. Think­ing-with favorite reads in the anthro­pol­o­gy of glob­al health and envi­ron­men­tal health. Curare 42, 1+2: 96–100: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1633.

Eeuwijk, Peter van 2019. Von Ayahuas­ca bis Crit­i­cal Glob­al Health. Wan­del und Beständigkeit in der medi­zineth­nol­o­gis­chen Lehre. Curare 42, 1+2: 101–105: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1634.

Rehs­mann, Julia 2019. Food for (Stu­dents’) Thought. Graph­ic Nov­els in der medi­z­inan­thro­pol­o­gis­chen Lehre. Curare 42, 1+2: 106–108: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1635.

Simon, Michael 2019. Arthur E. Imhofs Arbeit­en zur His­torischen Demogra­phie. In Curare 42, 1+2: 109–112: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1636.

Wöh­lke, Sabine 2019. Todo sobre mi madre. Ein Filmtipp für medi­z­inan­thro­pol­o­gis­che und ‑ethis­che Lehre zum The­ma Organtrans­plan­ta­tion. Curare 42, 1+2: 113–116: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/1637.

Kind regards from the
Curare Edi­to­r­i­al Board

Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie
Curare. Jour­nal of Med­ical Anthropology

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Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft Eth­nolo­gie und Medi­zin (AGEM)
Asso­ci­a­tion for Anthro­pol­o­gy and Med­i­cine (AGEM)
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CfP for pan­el ‚The Bur­den of Respon­si­bil­i­ty? Ethics, Pow­er and Prac­tice in Care Settings’
World Anthro­po­log­i­cal Union (WAU) 2025 Congress
Novem­ber in Antigua, Guatemala

The Con­gress allows both online and face-to-face par­tic­i­pa­tion and we would love to receive your proposals

Dead­line for sub­mis­sion is May 3rd, 2025. More infor­ma­tion about sub­mis­sion here: Here you can find infor­ma­tion about sub­mis­sion: https://www.waucongress2025.org/call-for-papers/

The Bur­den of Respon­si­bil­i­ty? Ethics, Pow­er, and Prac­tice in Care Settings

Abstract
Med­ical anthro­pol­o­gists have long inter­ro­gat­ed the mean­ings and prac­tices of care, from inti­mate forms of care­giv­ing to insti­tu­tion­al sys­tems that admin­is­ter and with­hold care (Klein­man 1997; Mol 2008). Like­wise, respon­si­bil­i­ty with­in health set­tings has been exam­ined in terms of blame, account­abil­i­ty, and moral oblig­a­tion (Farmer 2004; Fassin 2012; Demi­an, Fuman­ti, Lyn­teris 2023). How­ev­er, we think that the inter­sec­tion of the­o­ries of care and of respon­si­bil­i­ty could ben­e­fit from fur­ther explo­ration. We begin by ask­ing: What do we mean when we speak of respon­si­bil­i­ty in con­texts of care? We encour­age con­trib­u­tors to crit­i­cal­ly reflect on the speci­fici­ties that the term ‚respon­si­bil­i­ty’ assumes in care set­tings com­pared to oth­er con­texts, as well as on the ambi­gu­i­ties and dif­fi­cul­ties involved in defin­ing what respon­si­bil­i­ty con­sists of in such set­tings. How are prac­tices of care entan­gled with respon­si­bil­i­ties, both assumed and imposed? How do indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions nego­ti­ate the bur­den of care, and who is deemed respon­si­ble when care falls short or results in harm? What hap­pens when respon­si­bil­i­ty is frag­ment­ed or resist­ed, and how are these process­es shaped by pow­er rela­tions, gen­dered expec­ta­tions, and neolib­er­al policies?
This pan­el seeks con­tri­bu­tions that inves­ti­gate the inter­sec­tions of care and respon­si­bil­i­ty in health con­texts glob­al­ly. We invite paper pro­pos­als focus­ing on the intri­cate and often con­test­ed rela­tion­ship between care and respon­si­bil­i­ty with­in (but not lim­it­ed to) health and heal­ing prac­tices. In an era marked by increas­ing­ly com­plex health sys­tems, struc­tur­al inequal­i­ties, and glob­al crises, the ethics and pol­i­tics of care have tak­en on renewed sig­nif­i­cance. At the same time, notions of respon­si­bil­i­ty are being rede­fined, dis­trib­uted, and resist­ed across mul­ti­ple actors, includ­ing patients, fam­i­lies, health­care pro­fes­sion­als, com­mu­ni­ties, and states
We encour­age sub­mis­sions that crit­i­cal­ly exam­ine the ways in which care is both an eth­i­cal prac­tice and a site of pow­er, and how respon­si­bil­i­ty is ascribed, inter­nal­ized, or con­test­ed in dif­fer­ent med­ical and socio-polit­i­cal landscapes.

We wel­come papers engag­ing with, but not lim­it­ed to, the fol­low­ing themes:

- Moral economies of care and the dis­tri­b­u­tion of respon­si­bil­i­ty (Mol 2008; Han 2012);
‑Care work and the bur­dens of respon­si­bil­i­ty with­in fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties (Tick­tin 2011; The­len 2015);
‑Inter­sec­tions between care, respon­si­bil­i­ty and gen­dered expec­ta­tions (Glenn 2012);
‑Insti­tu­tion­al care prac­tices and sys­temic fail­ures in assum­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty (Gar­cia 2010; Liv­ingston 2012);
‑The impact of neolib­er­al reforms and poli­cies on shap­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties (Muehle­bach 2012);
– Health poli­cies and the del­e­ga­tion of respon­si­bil­i­ty to patients and care­givers (Biehl 2013);
– Indige­nous, fem­i­nist, and decolo­nial per­spec­tives on care and respon­si­bil­i­ty (Brig­gs and Man­ti­ni-Brig­gs 2003; Puig de la Bel­la­casa 2017);
– The role of the state in care pro­vi­sion and the pol­i­tics of neglect (Das 2015; Red­field 2013);
– Glob­al health inter­ven­tions and transna­tion­al respon­si­bil­i­ties (Nguyen 2010; Adams 2016).

More info at https://www.waucongress2025.org/panel/?id=892

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