Events

Event calendar

In this section we present selected events from the interdisciplinary field of anthropology and medicine.

We appreciate any references to relevant events. Please send an e-mail to events@agem.de

Apr 26 – Apr 27, 2025

Salze und Anorganika

Con­fer­ence

Phar­maziehis­torische Bien­nale der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie

Phar­maziehis­torische Bien­nale der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Phar­mazie (DGGP) zum The­ma „Salze und Anorganika”
26. und 27 April 2025
Lüneburg

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Kon­takt: Kathrin Bosse-Bringe­watt (gbringewat@yahoo.de, 040–89018831)

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May 6, 2025

Nick Long: The hypnotist’s dilemma: mystical recuperation, counterproductive care, and the anxieties of symbolic healing

Pre­sen­ta­tion

Hybrid Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy seminar

Please join us for our May LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy sem­i­nar with Dr Nick Long, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at LSE.
May 6th 2025, 4pm bst
In per­son at LSHTM – room G41 Kep­pel Street, or Online (fol­low the link above). Please note this sem­i­nar will not be recorded.

Dr Long will be pre­sent­ing “The hypnotist’s dilem­ma: mys­ti­cal recu­per­a­tion, coun­ter­pro­duc­tive care, and the anx­i­eties of sym­bol­ic healing”

Abstract: Thou­sands of Indone­sians have embraced hyp­nother­a­py as a means of address­ing per­son­al and med­ical issues in a man­ner that moves away super­nat­ur­al forms of ‘tra­di­tion­al heal­ing’ and towards notions of a psy­cho­log­i­cal self. Such projects of ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal mod­erni­sa­tion’ are nev­er­the­less unset­tled when patients arrive com­plain­ing of super­nat­ur­al afflic­tion. Hyp­nother­a­peu­tic prin­ci­ples rec­om­mend accept­ing the client’s real­i­ty and work­ing sub­junc­tive­ly with­in it, yet by doing so one risks being cod­ed as the exact­ly the kind of tra­di­tion­al heal­er from which one wish­es to dis­tance one­self. Trac­ing respons­es to this dilem­ma with­in clin­i­cal prac­tice, this paper sug­gests that anthro­po­log­i­cal the­o­ries of ‘sym­bol­ic heal­ing’ and ‘sub­junc­tive med­i­cine’ need to be updat­ed to reflect the dif­fi­cul­ties cer­tain sym­bols can present in set­tings with anx­ious and frac­tious rela­tions to devel­op­men­tal­ist ‘moder­ni­ty’.

Biog­ra­phy: Dr Nick Long is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence (LSE). Along­side recent work on respons­es to COVID-19 in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand – includ­ing co-found­ing the Care And Respon­si­bil­i­ty Under Lock­down (CARUL) research col­lec­tive, he has long-term inter­ests in psy­cho­log­i­cal anthro­pol­o­gy and the anthro­pol­o­gy of Indone­sia. He is cur­rent­ly work­ing on an ESRC-fund­ed study of Indonesia’s hyp­nother­a­py cir­cuit, and won the 2019 Stir­ling Prize for Best Pub­lished Work in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Anthro­pol­o­gy for his arti­cle ‘Sug­ges­tions of Pow­er: Search­ing for Effi­ca­cy in Indone­si­a’s Hyp­no­sis Boom’.

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Aug 27 – Aug 30, 2025

DDD17 Conference: The Politics of Death

Con­fer­ence

Con­fer­ence at Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty, the Netherlands

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for the upcom­ing DDD17 Con­fer­ence: The Pol­i­tics of Death, tak­ing place 27–30 August 2025 at Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty, the Netherlands! 🖤

🔗 Click here to reg­is­ter — but don’t wait too long: reg­is­tra­tion clos­es Fri­day, 16 May 2025.

Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store:

🧠 Inspir­ing sessions

A wide range of pan­el ses­sions, includ­ing paper pre­sen­ta­tions, round­ta­bles, and workshops.
👉 Get a sneak peek at the cur­rent programme

🎤 Thought-pro­vok­ing plenaries

Keynote by Dr. Kami Fletcher
Expe­ri­en­tial keynote by Prof. Enny Das
A ple­nary round­table on euthana­sia in the Dutch context
👉 Read more about the ple­nar­ies here

🎉 Excit­ing extras!

A Death Book Club 📚
Guid­ed Dark Tourism tours in beau­ti­ful Utrecht 🏛️
A unique Death Muse­um excur­sion to Amsterdam 🚋
A three-course veg­e­tar­i­an Con­fer­ence dinner

👉 Read more about the addi­tion­al events here

We warm­ly invite you to join us in Utrecht this sum­mer to explore, reflect on, and dis­cuss all things death. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you there!

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Oct 15, 2025

Cripping Reproductive Justice: Rethinking Reproductive Futures

Con­fer­ence

A sym­po­sium in Barcelona, Spain

Call for Papers for „Crip­ping Repro­duc­tive Jus­tice: Rethink­ing Repro­duc­tive Futures”
Sym­po­sium tak­ing place on Octo­ber 15, 2025, in Barcelona, Spain

This event will bring togeth­er schol­ars and activists to explore the inter­sec­tions of dis­abil­i­ty and repro­duc­tive jus­tice, fos­ter­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dia­logue and chal­leng­ing ableist assump­tions in repro­duc­tive and sex­u­al health poli­cies, prac­tices, and movements.

Keynote Speak­er: Dr. Ali­son Kafer

Dr. Ali­son Kafer is Direc­tor of LGBTQ Stud­ies and Embrey Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Wom­en’s, Gen­der, and Sex­u­al­i­ty Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Fem­i­nist, Queer, Crip and co-edi­tor of Crip Genealo­gies. Her work, includ­ing con­tri­bu­tions to Crip Author­ship and Fight­ing Mad: Resist­ing the End of Roe v. Wade, explores dis­abil­i­ty and queer crip world-mak­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly at the inter­sec­tions of repro­duc­tive, envi­ron­men­tal, gen­der, and racial justice.

We invite abstracts (max. 300 words) for 15-minute pre­sen­ta­tions in Eng­lish that cen­tre dis­abled people’s expe­ri­ences and crit­i­cal­ly engage with repro­duc­tive and dis­abil­i­ty jus­tice frame­works. Con­tri­bu­tions from diverse perspectives—including crip the­o­ry, spec­u­la­tive meth­ods, and inter­sec­tion­al jus­tice approaches—are high­ly encouraged.

Key Details:

📅 Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: April 25, 2025
📢 Noti­fi­ca­tion of Accep­tance: May 30, 2025
📍 Event Date & Loca­tion: Octo­ber 15, 2025 | Barcelona, Spain
📩 Sub­mit abstracts & queries to: Dr. Han­nah Gib­son (Hannahgrace.Gibson@uab.cat)
For more details, please find the full Call for Papers attached. We would appre­ci­ate it if you could cir­cu­late this among your net­works and col­leagues who may be interested.
We look for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tions and/or attendance!
Best regards,
Dr. Han­nah Gib­son and Lau­ra San­miquel Molinero.
AFIN Research Group
Uni­ver­si­tat Autóno­ma de Barcelona 

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Past events

2025

Apr 22 , 2025

Mona Sawy: Coptic Medicine and its Remedies. Exploring an Ancient Pharmacopoea

Presentation

Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) Pisa, Italy

Link to this event

Apr 14 , 2025

CfP: The Doctor. Contemporary perspectives

Panel

Call for Papers for a panel at AAA

Link to this event

Mar 27 - Mar 29, 2025

10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology: Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices

Workshop

Workshop at the Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

Link to this event

Feb 20 , 2025

Caroline Culen: Lost in Transition - Young people in transition from pediatrics to adult medicine

Presentation

Online lecture

Link to this event

2024

Nov 15 - Nov 16, 2024

AGEM-Jahrestagung 36 | (A)symmetrische Beziehungen. Facetten der Kooperation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag

AGEM event

36. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM) in Kooperation mit dem Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss und der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction der Universität Bremen im Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss

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