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Spring 2024

Fridays 1.00 - 3.00pm | Daryll Forde Seminar Room | Department of Anthropology

Bring your lunch! To be followed by drinks/snacks in the staff common room.

19 January - Dr Freya Jephcott (Senior Research Associate in Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge)Ìý
"Ineffective responses to unlikely outbreaks: Hypothesis building in newly emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks"

26 January - Dr Dalia Iskander (Associate Professor and Head of Medical Anthropology, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº)
"Empowering’ bodies: how and why making photographs makes children ‘do’ malaria differently"

2 February – Dr Gabriel Scheidecker (Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich) and Dr Francesca Mezzenzana (Senior Researcher, Rachel Carson Centre, University of Munich)
"Speaking across audiences: insights from researching childhood"

CANCELLED – 9 February – Dr Jo Cook (Reader in Anthropology, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº)
"Cultures of Euphoria: Making the Anthropological Case for Joy"

23 February - Dr Iliana Sarafian (Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº)
"Reproducing ‘Gypsyness’: Roma women and the morality of childbirth"

1 March – Dr Alison Macdonald (Associate Professor and Director of Education, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Anthropology) and Caroline Oliver (Associate Professor and Co-Director of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôºâ€™s Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity and the Migration Research Unit)
"Embodied learning and sensory needs: a person-centred approach to inclusive education"

8 March – Dr Amber Benezra (Assistant Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology, Stevens Institute of Technology)
"The Social Microbiome: What Anthropology, Race, and Equity Have to do with Microbes"

15 March - Dr Eben Kirksey (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford)
"Approaching the Virosphere in Thailand: Multispecies Interactions in Cave Temples"

If you are unable to join in person, please join via theÌýÌýon Microsoft Teams.

Spring 2023

A5.02 IOE (please note the room change)Ìý&ÌýMS Teams

Audience members are welcome to join online through the on Microsoft TeamsÌý(if you are not a ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº student/staff and would like to join as a guest, please email Anthropology Communications).

The Med Anth Seminar is ‘flipped’. This means that each week, the audience reads the paper in advance of the seminar and comes to the seminar ready to ask the author questions. Each week, papers will be uploaded to the .

19 January -ÌýJason Danely (Oxford Brookes University)

26 JanuaryÌý-ÌýEmily Wentzell

2ÌýFebruary -ÌýChikako Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University)

[Cancelled due to strike action] 9ÌýFebruaryÌý-ÌýNicole Fabricant

Reading Week

23 FebruaryÌý-ÌýJarret Zigon (University of Virginia)

[Cancelled]Ìý2ÌýMarch -ÌýNatali Valdez

9ÌýMarch -ÌýSarah Pinto (Tufts University)

[Cancelled]Ìý16 March -ÌýDvera Saxton

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