AGEM
Willkommen bei der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM)
Die AGEM ist ein 1970 gegründeter gemeinnütziger Verein mit dem Ziel, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Medizin, den angrenzenden Naturwissenschaften und den Kultur‑, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zu fördern und dadurch das Studium des interdisziplinären Arbeitsfelds Ethnologie und Medizin zu intensivieren.
Was wir tun
- Herausgabe der Zeitschrift Curare
- Durchführung von Tagungen
- Dokumentation von Literatur und Informationen
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Jean Rouch International Festival
Film
Call for Films
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
Curare Teaching Forum (Special Issue)
Call for Papers
Call for Papers – Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology
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.
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The Burden of Responsibility? Ethics, Power and Practice in Care Settings
Panel
Hybrid congress
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














