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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Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie
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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
Birthing, Mothering and othering
Konferenz
CFP for a conference in Lausanne, Switzerland
“Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Panel
Hybrid Lecture
CfP for a panel on “Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Anthrostate conference “Shifting States”
22–24 October, 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
✨No registration fee, in-person only. (EASA network on Anthropologies of the State conference)
If the panel abstract below resonates with your research and you would like to join a bunch of friendly people, please send your abstract to Kristine Krause k.krause@uva.nl
The final panel including abstracts need to be submitted 11 April, so we would like have your abstract the latest 9th April.
Junior and PhD researchers particularly welcome.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Shifting states and their histories in institutional care
The anthropology of the state has long argued that states do not exist as coherent units out there but are articulated in practices, spaces and effects. One of the key spaces in which states have effects on their citizens are care institutions. They respond to crucial needs of humans; for instance as places where sicknesses are treated and frail bodies are taken care of. They can also curate major transitions such as birth and death. Care institutions such as hospitals or nursing homes are places defined by particular and persistent forms of interaction. These forms – where and how things are done, when and by whom – have often coagulated over time. They are backed up by legitimations which are not easy to question, because they are part of other non-tangible societal institutions, such as gendered division of labour, kinship and family ideologies which are specific to historically grown care and health regimes. These regimes as part of state governance can bear traces of pasts such as colonial rule, political regimes shifts or specific biopolitical projects of care and control. Institutional care can also be provided by non-state actors on behalf of the state including non-profit, religious or charity organisations but also commercial or even corporatized actors. The reasons why these actors perform or have taken over these tasks, have again their own histories often related to shifts in ways of governance of welfare state regimes.
This panel brings together papers that explore how shifting states and their histories come back resurface, or take unexpected forms within the spaces and practices of institutional care. The papers examine how historical legacies shape and haunt caregiving interactions, institutional routines, and the narratives and positionalities of those involved in these care settings. In asking how these pasts are articulated, linger on or are represented in care institutions this panel understands history not as something waiting to be discovered in the background, but as actively brought up, mobilized and presented in the field or articulated by the ethnographer. The past then becomes “history” through practices of actors in the field or through the analytical work of the ethnographer who identifies history as an absent presence in the studied situation or practice. The paper in this panel interrogate the constitutive moments where history appears, or is brought up in institutional care settings, asking, which positionings, generational memories and narratives become articulated therein.
Organized by the ReloCare Team & friends from the University of Amsterdam
(Mariusz Sapieha, Matouš Jelínek, Veronika Prieler, Shahana Siddiqui , Yuan Yan and Kristine Krause)