Programme

Thursday, 29 November 
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30Rudolf Richter, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Univ. of Vienna: Opening
Bernhard Hadolt & Thamar Klein: Welcome / Introduction
09:30 - 11:00 Panel 1: The Interstitial Body
 Saida Hodžić: Corporeal Critique: The Political Work of Bodily Matter in Ghana
 Karin Eli: Liminal Living: Eating Disorders and the Interstices of Being and Coping
 Andrew Russell & Jane Macnaughton: The mindful smoker – a prolegomenon for future work in tobacco control
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Iman Al-Ghafari: The Lesbian Body in the Arab Cultures: Between the Medical Gaze and the 'Ethical Gaze'
 Thamar Klein: Betwixt and Between: The medicalisation of liminal gendered citizens in South Africa
 Florian Hahn: Male Abortion Experiences. Conceptualizing Interstices by Focusing on Experiences
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:30 Andrej Subota-Belak: Research of Romany (Gypsy) health-disparity after ‘anthropology of biomedicine’
 Andrei Mihail: Recipient of Romania: Dealing with a transplant surgery in an eastern developing country
 Hubert Wierciński: Cancer and main sources of knowledge and authority in Poland – a case study of Warsaw and Bialystok, northeastern Poland
 Medard Djatou: Albinism and Cultures in Cameroon. peoples with albinism'identity through social makers (social names, alimentation and Burial ceremonies) among the Bamileke and the Beti ethnic groups.
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30 Panel 2: Interstitiality in Global and Transnational Spaces
 Gordon A. Lurie & Sue G. Lurie: Transnational Professionalization and the Role of the American Medical Association of Vienna and the American Medical Society of Vienna in the 20th Century
 Heidi Pichler: Traumatic impact of (ritual) debt bondage and sexual exploitation: Interstices of public health, medical anthropology and religious studies
18:00 - 19:00Reception
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Friday, 30 November 
09:00 - 10:30 Roberto Oliveira: Germs: Global as Gold
 Ofra Greenberg: National – Global Organ Trade
 Keren Mazuz: Care in-between Cultures: Folding Paper Swans by Filipina Caregivers in Israel
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00Panel 3: Interstices in defining and shifting diagnostic notions in psychiatry and beyond
 Raymond Massé: Moving beyond binary reasoning in psychiatric diagnosis: the case of depression and creole language of distress in the Caribbean
 Federica Guglielmo: Memory vs memories: reburial practises in postgenocide Rwanda.
 Helmar Kurz: Spiritism and Psychiatry in Brasil. Practices and Discourses in the Field of Religious and Scientifical Hybridisation
Claudia Lang: Neurochemistry, doshas, and evil spirits: Following 'depression' in the biopsychiatric, Ayurvedic and religious mental health care of Kerala
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00 Panel 4: “Trust” Versus “Efficacy”? Legitimizing Medicine(s) in Spaces of Contestation
 Viola Hörbst: Street sold pharmaceuticals: icons of contested quality, confidence and distrust
Caroline Meier zu Biesen: Notions of efficacy around a Chinese medicinal plant: Artemisia annua – an innovative AIDS-therapy in Tanzania
 Johanna Gonçalves Martín: Paths of health: Yanomami and medics interaction in Amazonian Venezuela.
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
 16:30 - 17:30Mayarí Hengstermann: Questioning and challenging the differences: A fieldwork experience in rural Guatemala
Hannah Lesshafft: Performative healing: between ‘deception’ and imaginative medical practice
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Saturday, 1 December 
09:30 - 10:30 Bori Fernezelyi: An ethnography of gratitude money: the doctor-patient relationship in post-socialist Hungary
 Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka: Trust, efficacy and uncertainty: Health-seeking strategies and practices of the inhabitants of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Panel 5: The spaces between: subjectivity and emotions in the field
 Salma Siddique: Transactions and emotions: Managing uncertainty and torture trauma when working therapeutically with survivors of politically motivated
 Prachatip Kata: Paradox of the observer on fieldwork at the margin: From an observer to an object of power gaze.
 Frédéric Balard: From Mathusalem to «tatie Danielle»: emotions and feelings of the ethnographer towards frail elderly people
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Kathryn Bouskill: Holistic Humor: The Ethnographer’s Role in the Use of Humor as a Coping Mechanism
 Grace Akello-Ayebare: The high prevalence of schistosomiasis, challenges in chemotherapeutic approach: how subjective engagements influenced action and innovative strategies for control in Uganda
 Soledad Jiménez Tovar: How to become a medicine woman? Explanations about pain felt by medicine person in Mexico and Kazakhstan
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Wrap-up session
15th Anniversary Conference of the Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association e.V. | Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1  | 1010 Wien