M.A. Health and Society in South Asia

27/07/2022

You are cordially invited to our last Medical Anthropology Forum lecture of this semester!

Next Tuesday, on the 2nd of August 2022, at 5:15 pm (CET) we will be welcoming Purbasha Mazumdar (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute, Geneva) who will present online a paper with the title "The Coming Crisis: Antibiotic Resistance and the (un-)Making of Efficacy".

HeiConf Link: https://audimax.heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/p6x4-ewug-k7jk-vc3v

We hope to see you all there!

12/07/2022

Join us to the next MAF lecture, which will take place next Tuesday, on the 19th of July 2022, at 5:15 pm (CET).

Our guest speaker, Amishi Panwar (Health Care Research, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, England) will present online a paper with the title "Banking On Cord Blood: Decoding Amulets & Canisters In Chennai".

Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81137587851?pwd=Q1J5UlFsUGRoNWQvZmpqT1ZXbnJOQT09

23/06/2022

Next Tuesday at 5:15 pm (CET) we will be welcoming Babette Babich as our next guest speaker at the Medical Anthropology Forum!

Prof. Babich will present online a paper with the title "Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis in a Time of Covid: ‘The Expropriation of Health’."

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83212239850?pwd=NXV4czlSVnI1cTJsRHk3VUFaenB5UT09
Meeting ID: 832 1223 9850
Passcode: 874873

We hope to see you (virtually) there!

01/06/2022

Join us to the next MAF lecture, which will take place next Tuesday, 7th of June 2022.

Our guest lecturer Stuart Earle Strange (Department of Anthropology, Yale-NUS College, Singapore) will present a paper entitled "Animal Bodies, Divine Presences and the Interpretation of Control in Contemporary Singapore" in room 110.02.05 (Institute of Anthropology, 2nd Floor) at 5:15 pm(CET).

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

25/05/2022

Next Tuesday, 31st of May, we will be hosting Borayin Larios (University of Vienna, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Austria) as the second guest speaker of our Medical Anthropology Forum series.

Dr. Larios will be presenting his talk "Eating for the Nation –The Biopolitics of Consumerism in Contemporary India" in room 110.02.05 (Institute of Anthropology, 2nd Floor) at 5:15 pm (CET).

We hope to see you there!

18/05/2022

You are warmly invited to the first lecture of this term's Medical Anthropology Forum, which will take place next Tuesday on the 24th of May 2022 at 5:15 pm (CET).

Our guest lecturer, Bridget Bradley (Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, Scotland) will present online her paper "The Politics Of Ecological Emotions: Comparing Anxiety And Anger As Responses To The Climate Crisis In Britain."

Link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84323173302?pwd=TDExNE1tQWVhWVh5ZHMzR1JrQ3hLZz09

Meeting ID: 843 2317 3302
Passcode: 155749

10/05/2022

We are excited to announce the lineup of speakers for this term's Medical Anthropology Forum!

12/07/2021

Tomorrow at 4:15 pm (CET) we are having the last session of this semester's Medical Anthropology Forum series.

Our last guest speaker will be Professor Laurence Kirmayer who will present online a lecture entitled: "Locating the Missing Person in Personalized Medicine and Psychiatry".

Link: https://zoom.us/j/95230369627?pwd=dC9iQjF2NkUyTXJ2TGtvWmpxOFRMUT09
You hope to see you there for the talk and later on discussion!

28/06/2021

Tomorrow we will be welcoming Claudia Lang as the fourth guest speaker of the SoSe21 Medical Anthropology Forum.
Her talk will take place as usual online at 5:15 pm (CET).
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92030763034?pwd=R1lZY2diRXoxUjZkeFBvUTFQWThOdz09

We hope to see you (virtually) there!

28/11/2020

This Tuesday, on the 1st of December, from 16:15 to 17:45 (CET), Prof. Harish Naraindas (School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) will present a talk entitled "
Privileging the Body: The Bio-materialisation of Medicine and the Advent of 'Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry' " at the Medical Anthropology Forum.

The talk will take place on HeiConf (link: https://audimax.heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/eeqy-cvcg-jrzy-uurt).

You do not need a HD university account to access the virtual conference room.

However, to prevent any technical problems we highly recommend avoiding the use of Safari as a browser and use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.

For information on the communication tool HeiConf, please refer to : https://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heiconf

12/06/2020

The deadline for our application period is 3 days away!

Due to the current situation, regarding the COVID-19 virus, we accept online applications too.

Please visit our website https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/ for further information on how to apply.

We are looking forward for your applications!

04/06/2020

Dear all,

This is a reminder for the online screening of Dr. Poltorak's ethnographic documentary “The Healer and The Psychiatrist”, which is going to be performed next Tuesday, on the 9th of June, at 17:15 pm.

The documentary, which is the result of twenty years of social anthropological research, engages with traditional and psychiatric treatments in the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u and explores the dialogic discourses of mental health, aiming to provide a deeper contribution to the growing global mental health crisis.

After the end of the documentary a virtual Q&A will be held, moderated by Professor Sax.

Please note that if you wish to participate in the screening and the following discussion session you will need to register at the email: [email protected]

For more information please visit:

The Healer and the Psychiatrist 2019, 74 min Synopsis On the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u, the traditional healer Emeline Lolohea treats people affected by spirits. One day away by ferry, t…