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
LSE Anthropology Friday Seminars Spring Term 2025
Vortrag
Open seminars at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Friday Seminar schedule for the Spring Term. The weekly research seminar on
anthropological theory has been the venue for cutting-edge, intensive
debate on current research in the discipline since
Malinowski’s time at the LSE.
These seminars are open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
Friday, 11am – 1pm
Old Anthropology Library, LSE Old Building, Houghton Street
https://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/events
Spring Term Schedule 2025
9 May 2025
Dislocations of Kinship, Times of Care: “Forced-Marriage” in the UK
Perveez Mody, Cambridge University
16 May 2025
Do We Not Expire? On Cold-chain Logistics and the Bio-governance of Life in
Post-socialist China
Orlando Zhu, LSE
30 May 2025
Horizons of Touch
Serena Dankwa, University of Basel
6 June 2025
Money, Money, Money: Otrygghet (insecurity) and Opportunity in a Swedish Suburb
Ruben Andersson, Oxford University
13 June 2025
‘A Blatant Betrayal’? Dissecting British Narratives of ‘Islamo-Leftism’
and Queerness
Jonathan Galton, UCL
20 June 2025
Stepping into the Same River Twice: Dementia Care as Imaginative Work in Southern
China
Fred Lai, LSE
Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2025
Workshop
University of Kent, UK and online
Birth Rites Collection Summer School
Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2025
The Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials around the Birth Rites Collection, the world’s first and only contemporary art collection dedicated to the subject of childbirth.This intensive programme will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice, this year’s themes and the artworks.
The course is led by artist and BRC Curator, Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan, with guest lectures from leading artists in the field. The course will empower you to articulate your own practice and responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.
Midwives, academics, curators, artists, medics, health professionals, art historians, policy advisors and the general public, who are interested in childbirth through the lens of art, are all welcome. As a participant, you will enter the course with your own skill set and finish, with bespoke visual, filmic and/or performative material, to be used thereafter in your own future work.
Workshops include exploring the ethical, political and visual discourses of birth via text, film, and performance. Additionally, this year, we present a unique opportunity to engage with a curated selection of works from the collection that are not ordinarily accessible to the public.
Themes include:
– Navigating mortality—from preterm birth to post-partum
– Artistic responses to preterm birth.
– How the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives in midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to improve practice and policy.
– The Collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of visual discourses of birth into art history.
– Censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law
Speakers include: Griselda Pollock (online keynote), Anna Perach, Hannah Conway, Courtney Conrad, Catherine Williamson, Andrea Khora, Helen Knowles and Leni Dothan, with more announced soon.
We offer two modalities for this course: one in person, as an intensive four-day program at the University of Kent, and one weekly online course over four weeks, that participants can join from anywhere in the world.
Four-day course (in-person):
Dates: July 7–10, 10–5pm BST (with some late evenings)
Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Cost: £650 per person / £500 concession (for practicing artists, students, and those with a low income).
Capacity: 15 places per course
Accommodation: On-campus accommodation is available at an additional cost.
Four-week course (online):
Dates: Wednesdays, June 11– July 2, 7–9:30pm BST and Saturday, June 28, 2–5pm BST.
All lectures, workshops, and discussions will take place online.
Cost: £550 per person / £400 concession.
A £100 deposit is required to secure a place for either course.
To book your place visit: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school
Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School
Konferenz
Online & in Person Summer School University of Kent, UK (June & July 2025)
Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. This intensive programme will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice, this year’s themes, and the artworks. The Birth Rites Collection Summer School is led by artist and BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan. The course will empower you to articulate your own practice and responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.
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More Info and booking: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school