75th Media Anthro­pol­o­gy Net­work: „Meme­ing the Great Reset: Cir­cu­lat­ing post-COVID con­spir­a­cies in the UK Free­dom Movement”
Mon­day, 30 March to Sun­day, 12 April 2026
E‑seminar

Fur­ther details can be found here:

75. E‑seminar: Meme­ing the Great Reset: Cir­cu­lat­ing post-COVID con­spir­a­cies in the UK Free­dom Movement

We’ll be dis­cussing a work­ing paper from Dr Camp­bell Thom­son.> (King’s Col­lege Lon­don) titled „Meme­ing the Great Reset: Cir­cu­lat­ing post-COVID con­spir­a­cies in the UK Free­dom Movement”

The work­ing paper is now avail­able for down­load

On Mon­day, 30 March, I will open the sem­i­nar by intro­duc­ing our appoint­ed discussant(s) and invit­ing them to com­mence the dis­cus­sion by shar­ing their com­ments on the paper with the list. Fol­low­ing this, I will open the floor to all list mem­bers for fur­ther discussion.

We are excit­ed to cel­e­brate the 75th edi­tion of the Medi­aNet E‑seminar series with Campbell’s excel­lent paper, and we hope you will join the con­ver­sa­tion! Please feel free to share this event with col­leagues and stu­dents who might be inter­est­ed, and encour­age them to participate.

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„The Lancet’s Cas­es in Glob­al Social Med­i­cine: a new ini­tia­tive explor­ing how social forces shape health, ill­ness, and care across diverse glob­al contexts”

Each case inte­grates med­ical insight with anthro­pol­o­gy and social sci­ence the­o­ry to pro­vide crit­i­cal, action­able tools for clin­i­cians, pub­lic health prac­ti­tion­ers, and policymakers.

This series will be launched across three lead­ing institutions:

UC Berke­ley (Berke­ley Cen­ter for Social Med­i­cine) – 13 April 2026
April 13 in Berke­ley: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Sir Michael Marmot

Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go (Neubauer Col­legium for Cul­ture and Soci­ety) – 16 April 2026
April 15 in Chica­go: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Sir Michael Marmot

Uni­ver­si­ty of Barcelona (Hub for Glob­al Social Med­i­cine) – 5 May 2026
May 5 in Barcelona: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Fer­nan­do Simón

All events will be acces­si­ble in per­son and via livestream or record­ings, enabling glob­al par­tic­i­pa­tion. The series con­venes an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary group of clin­i­cians, schol­ars, and practitioners.

The Cas­es in Glob­al Social Med­i­cine series presents real clin­i­cal cas­es from around the world, each illus­trat­ing how social deter­mi­nants, such as inequal­i­ty, migra­tion, struc­tur­al vio­lence, and access to care, direct­ly shape clin­i­cal outcomes.

Keynotes

The events will fea­ture keynote address­es by Sir Michael Mar­mot (Berke­ley and Chica­go) and Fer­nan­do Simón (Barcelona), both of whom are glob­al lead­ing fig­ures in the study of social deter­mi­nants of health, high­light­ing how social con­di­tions fun­da­men­tal­ly shape health out­comes and why address­ing them is essen­tial to clin­i­cal care and pol­i­cy. These events are designed for schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers in med­i­cine, pub­lic health, and the social sci­ences, as well as any­one inter­est­ed in advanc­ing health equi­ty through inter­dis­ci­pli­nary collaboration.

Dis­cus­sions will include some of the five already pub­lished cases: 

Case 1

Title: Med­ical com­part­men­tal­i­sa­tion: a patient with chro­mo­some 22q11.2 dele­tion syn­drome in Japan(link is external)
Authors: Kiy­oto Kasai; Yousuke Kumaku­ra; Junko Kitana­ka; Shin-ichi­ro Kuma­gaya; Scott D. Stonington

Case 2

Title: Struc­tur­al inter­com­pe­ten­cy: an asy­lum seek­er with abdom­i­nal pain in Tijua­na, Mexico(link is external)
Authors: Car­los Mar­tinez; Shamsh­er Sam­ra; Todd Schneberk; Han­nah Janeway

Case 3

Title: Lin­guis­tic prag­ma­tism: a woman with pro­gres­sive abdom­i­nal pain in Thailand(link is external)

Authors: Scott Ston­ing­ton; Preeyanoot Surinkaew; Thi­dathit Prachanukool

Case 4

Title: Impro­vi­sa­tion in con­texts of infra­struc­tur­al vio­lence: a physi­cian prac­tis­ing med­i­cine in Sahrawi refugee camps(link is external)

Authors: Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd; Larous­si Mohamed Salem; Theodore L Michaels; Dahaman Bachir Hama­di; Raabub Mohamed-Lamin Meh­di; María Car­rión; Seth M Holmes

Case 5

Title: Medico-legal entan­gle­ment: a woman with abdom­i­nal pain in Peru(link is external)

Authors: Michele Heisler; Mar­vel Celeste Sabi­no Pre­tel; Zoe Boudart; Lutz Oette

We warm­ly encour­age you to join us, either in per­son or online, for this impor­tant glob­al conversation

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Cfp for Pan­el „Deserv­ing Bod­ies, Con­test­ed Injuries: Moral Economies of Work­er Health”
Orga­niz­ers: Zeynel Gül (Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois, Chica­go) and Gabriela Morales (Scripps College)
Dis­cus­sant: Alex Nad­ing (Cor­nell University)
Nov 18–22, 2026
St. Louis, MO

Deal­dine April 15, 2026

This pan­el cen­ters the moral economies that emerge around sick­ness, injury, and tox­i­c­ex­po­sure stem­ming from work and the work­place. We seek papers that unpack how workers,medical providers, legal experts, occu­pa­tion­al safe­ty experts, and employ­ers eval­u­ate bodilyharm—and its pre­ven­tion and compensation—in the work­place. What kinds of work and whatkinds of harm do these actors ren­der vis­i­ble or invis­i­ble? Giv­en that occu­pa­tion­al health is ahigh­ly state-cen­tered con­cept, what notions of fair­ness, val­ue, and accept­able risk do peo­ple­with occu­pa­tion­al injuries mobi­lize with­in and beyond reg­u­la­to­ry discourses?Occupational health offers a unique van­tage point for observ­ing how the „wor­thi­ness” of lives isd­if­fer­en­tial­ly dis­trib­uted. Fur­ther, the slow vio­lence of chron­ic dis­ease and dis­abil­i­ty due to workex­tends biopol­i­tics beyond the sim­ple bina­ries of liv­ing or dying (Liv­ingston 2005; Puar 2017). Yet, like oth­er bio­med­ical fields (Street 2014), occu­pa­tion­al health is also less sta­ble and uni­fiedthan it might first appear; it requires con­tin­u­al coor­di­na­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of what con­sti­tuteswork, the work­place, and work­place harm. The mul­ti­plic­i­ty of actors involved in such­co­or­di­na­tion puts pres­sure on per­spec­tives that view the moral econ­o­my as a mono­lithic­concept emerg­ing sole­ly as a response to aggres­sive mar­ket economies (see also Fassin 2015on this point). We ask: what inter­me­di­ary components—such as health sys­tems, families,courts, and bureaucracies—are engaged in the pro­duc­tion and cir­cu­la­tion of morals and val­ue­saround the injured worker’s body? How do the dynam­ic inter­ac­tions between these com­po­nents­gen­er­ate new cat­e­gories, iden­ti­ties, and val­ues while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly dis­pers­ing the knowl­edge­and vis­i­bil­i­ty of harm? Even fur­ther, for work­ers and providers alike, insti­tu­tion­al assess­mentsand com­pen­sa­tion for harm can be unsatisfactory—and lead to alter­na­tive ways of relat­ing toin­jury and expo­sure. How, we ask, might we also reimag­ine what con­sti­tutes health in rela­tion towork (or work in rela­tion to health), with­in and beyond cap­i­tal­ist systems?

Please send a title and an abstract for your paper (of no more than 300 words) togmorales@scrippscollege.edu and zgul2@uic.edu by April 15, 2026

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