News & Events

On the 18^th November at 14.00 o’clock Luca Chiapperino will speak about “The biosocial origins of heatlh and disease: Critique, collaborations, interventions”.

Gabriel Scheidecker, assistant professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, and Anna Mann would like to warmly invite you for the third talk of our series “Ethnographic Interventions. Engaging with the sciences of maternal and child health”.

Gabriel Scheidecker, PI of the project “Saving brains?”, and Anna Mann are organising a series of talks that explore how to engage ethnographically/with qualitative methods with the sciences of maternal and child health and the knowledge they produce. The talks might be of particular interest to all those working on trans- and interdisciplinarity research.

2nd - 6th June, 2025 - Workshop - Theorizing through the mundane: storying transformations in healthcareTheorising through the mundane: storying transformations in healthcare (PDF, 252 KB) 

4th April, 2025 - Workshop - How Less Becomes More: Thinking through limits in biomedicine.

29th November 2024 - Mette N. Svendesen talks on Questions of nearness: an ethnography of how piglet research contributes to human reproduction

19th April, 2024 - Klaus Hoeyer talks on Data-intensive medicine: is there a role for social analysis?

16th February, 2024 - Francis Lee talks on Ontological overflows and the politics of absence

17th February, 2023 - Stine Adrian talks on Leaking milk, and falling hair: Embodid experiences and technological remaking's of becoming a mother to a dead child

23rd November, 2022 - Sonja Jerak-Zuiderant talks on Making con-tact, Doing difference: An inquiry into listening for difference, touching storytelling, and metaphysical commitments in (spiritual) care and scientific practices