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
Curare
Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie
Veranstaltungen
Läuft. Die Ausstellung zur Menstruation
Ausstellung
Ausstellung im Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin)
„Läuft. Die Ausstellung zur Menstruation“
06.10.2023 bis 06.10.2024
Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Etwa 2 Milliarden Menschen auf der Welt menstruieren. Über 1,5 Milliarden weitere Menschen hatten ihre Periode oder werden sie bekommen. Seit rund 10 Jahren nun wird die Menstruation in Europa öffentlich diskutiert. Das MEK präsentiert die Ausstellung dazu.
„Läuft“ zeigt eine Geschichte des Pragmatismus und der Utopien, des Erfindungsreichtums und Aktivismus. Dafür versammelt die Ausstellung rund 100 historische und brandneue Menstruationsartikel sowie Werbeanzeigen. Schaubilder, Interviews und Hands-On-Stationen vermitteln den aktuellen Wissensstand. Mit knapp 200 Alltagsgegenständen, Fotos, Grafiken, Zeitungsartikeln und Social-Media-Posts fächert die Ausstellung die Diskurse auf, die Menstruierende seit Jahrzehnten begleiten: Es geht um Themen wie Leistung, Periodenarmut, Müll, „Normalität“, Naturverbundenheit, Stimmung und einige mehr – und natürlich um Aktivismus! Denn im Zentrum stehen die Stimmen und Erfahrungen von Menstruierenden selbst. Wir laden dazu ein, ihnen in Interviews zu lauschen und sich selbst auszutauschen. Filmausschnitte, Musik und Kunstwerke runden die Ausstellung ab.
Mehr Infos unter http://www.smb.museum/flow.
Composing Coexistence: Challenges in Research on More-than-Human Health
Workshop
In person workshop at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg
Doctoral workshop „Composing Coexistence: Challenges in Research on More-than-Human Health”
20–21 Feb 2025
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg
Organized by the research group Medical Anthropology at the BNITM
Environmental disasters and the (re-)emergence of infectious diseases require human health to be considered in relation to the health of animals and the environment. A growing number of social scientists investigate multispecies contact zones and how these are bound up with anthropogenic processes, such as climate change, land use, resource exploitation, pollution and toxicity. Their studies have had an enormous impact on the development of biosocial approaches to multispecies relations.
Anthropological ambitions to compose coexistence in a sensitive way are higher than ever. However, multispecies researchers face several challenges and barriers, for example with regard to inter- or transdisciplinary work. While emphasizing the interconnectedness of humans, animals and the environment, concepts like ‘One Health’ or ‘Planetary Health’ ultimately revolve around questions of human health and well-being. As a result, anthropocentric and human exceptionalist approaches are often promoted, neglecting the perspectives and needs of non-human beings. How can social scientists debunk such approaches? How can we ensure that we do not reproduce these perspectives? How can we address issues of translation, advocacy and agency concerning non-human beings?
With this workshop, we seek to address doctoral researchers from the social sciences and humanities with a keen interest in the study of more-than-human health. Over two days, we will present and discuss our research projects, and engage in creative exercises considering current debates on multispecies methodologies and related obstacles. Furthermore, we are delighted that Giorgio Brocco (University of Vienna) will give a talk on chemicality and toxicity in the plantation world of the French Caribbean.
We warmly welcome applications from doctoral students who are at an early stage of their research or in the post-fieldwork phase. As early-career researchers, our aim is to create a supportive environment where we can strengthen our research topics and connect with researchers who share an interest in exploring the entanglements between human, animal and environmental health.
The workshop will be held in English. If you would like to participate, please send a description of your research project (max. 750 words) and your academic CV to vivien.barth(at)bnitm.de or to erik.zillmann(at)bnitm.de by 30 September 2024.
Health Activism: Instigating Change in Systems of Care
Workshop
Call For Papers for a Workshop at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Call For Papers
Health Activism: Instigating Change in Systems of Care
Hosted by Dr. Natashe Lemos Dekker and Dr. Maria Hagan
Centre for Social Science in Global Health, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Thursday 20th & Friday 21st of February 2025
Cracks and gaps in our health care systems have been increasingly exposed in recent years, both in terms of these systems’ capacity and in terms of restrictions regarding whom they cater to and how. These frailties have been emphasised in moments of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, but also emerge out of shifting political landscapes which seek to restrict the rights of women, asylum seekers and people with a disability, among many others. Against this socio-political backdrop, revived and newly emerging forms of health activism can be distinguished. In many countries around the world, health care professionals, informal caregivers, and those in need of care are actively participating in movements and collective actions, to address injustices and exclusion, and to fill the gaps in existing health care systems.
This workshop seeks to spark conversation around acts of care and social protest, paying close attention to how professional and informal caregivers (ranging from doctors and nurses to patients, families and solidarity actors) engage in forms of activism and galvanise movements to address health concerns and stimulate change in (public) health systems. We are interested in how health activism movements come into being in different global contexts, and how they impact (strengthen or interfere with) vernacular modes of coping with illness, disability, injury and loss. Together, we will interrogate how health activism impacts national health policies and systems, and how such initiatives travel beyond geographical boundaries.
As part of the event, medical and environmental anthropologist Dr. Alex Nading will join us as a keynote speaker. He will give a public lecture on Thursday the 20th of February between 15:00 and 17.00. Dr. Nading is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author of Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement (University of California Press 2014) and of The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua, which will be published with Duke University Press in 2025. keynote speaker. He will give a public lecture on Thursday the 20th of February between 15:00 and 17.00. Dr. Nading is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author of Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement (University of California Press 2014) and of The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua, which will be published with Duke University Press in 2025.
By bringing examples of health activism initiatives from different contexts into conversation, we aim to shed light on the different ways in which these movements are sparked, how they operate and instigate change. The multi-sited thinking developed throughout the workshop will form the basis for a concrete discussion on how collaborative knowledge-building might stimulate practice.
Papers may include, but are not limited to, the following topics (all regional focuses are welcome):
– Grassroots initiatives providing (health)care to under-resourced areas and underserved communities
– Contemporary or historical studies of social movements around issues of health inequality and disability
– Intersections of health, (in)justice, and the emergence of social movements
– Practices of “patient”-led advocacy and activism
– Practices of care and advocacy by professional care providers within spaces of care (hospitals, clinics, health centres, homes, safehouses…)
We will ask participants to circulate short papers before the workshop, so we can familiarise ourselves with each other’s work ahead of time. The workshop will be organised in thematic sessions determined according to the papers we receive, and each participant will shortly present their work (15–20 minutes) followed by comments and discussion. In sum, the workshop will map diverse forms of health activism by bringing together a selection of localized accounts. Honing in on the political layeredness of global health policies and practices, it will shed light on the potential value for global health programmes to engage with local-level initiatives. These conversations will also form the basis for an online publication.
If you are interested in taking part in the workshop, please send an abstract (max. 200 words) of the paper you would like to contribute to the workshop. Please send this to Maria Hagan (m.h.hagan@uva.nl) and Natashe Lemos Dekker (n.lemosdekker@uva.nl) by Monday the 25th of November 2024. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by Monday the 2nd of December 2024.
Lunch will be provided on both days of the workshop. Travel and accommodation costs, however, unfortunately cannot be covered.
This event is supported by a 2024 Social Science in Global Health (SSGH) small grant.