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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.
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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
Michael Sappol: Queer Anatomies. Aesthetics & perverse desire in the anatomical image; Or, The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet
Vortrag
Virtual lecture
Dr Michael Sappol: „Queer Anatomies. Aesthetics & perverse desire in the anatomical image; Or, The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet”
IMHAR Salon_Guest: Dr Michael Sappol: „Queer Anatomies”
17.Okt. 2025
16:00–17:30 h/4–5:30 p.m. CET
Moderation: PD Dr. Katharina Sabernig
in English
Sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unmentionables in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline—anatomy—had license to represent the intimate details of the human body—rectum and genitalia included. The images of anatomy could be soberly technical, but just as often monstrous, flirtatious, theatrical, beautiful. And sensual. Anatomical figures gave off heat, provided pleasure and legitimation to the men who produced and gazed upon, and collected, rare books and art. For those men, Anatomy had a privileged status as a foundational subject in art and medical pedagogy, and in the encyclopedic curriculum of Enlightenment discourse. Philosophical, medical and aesthetic competence, all depended on a secure knowledge of anatomy.
Yet our historical actors didn’t openly declare their erotic interests. If, as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick argued, “closeted-ness…is a performance initiated…by the speech act of a silence,” then we need to peer into their textual and representational spaces, and decode their images and actions. Focusing on celebrated atlases and works that danced on the borderline of respectability, Mike Sappol uses queer theory, close reading, and the comparative method to recover the lost world of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment queer anatomy.
Michael Sappol is a historian of the visual culture of medicine and science, and Visiting Researcher in the History of Science & Ideas at Uppsala University. He is the author of Queer Anatomies (2024), Body Modern (2017), and A Traffic of Dead Bodies (2002). He is currently working on a history of photographic anatomy and an exploration of the cultural politics surrounding anatomical objects and collections.
For registration mail to: anmelden@imhar.net.
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