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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

  1. Her­aus­gabe der Zeitschrift Curare
  2. Durch­führung von Tagungen
  3. Doku­men­ta­tion von Lit­er­atur und Informationen

Curare
Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie

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Veranstaltungen

09. Okt. – 10. März 2023

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.

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20. Feb. – 21. Feb. 2025

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.

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20. Feb. – 21. Feb. 2025

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. 

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AGEM-Jahrestagung 36
(A)symmetrische Beziehungen
Facetten der Kooperation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag
15.–16. November 2024 im Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus Neuss

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