DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
All lectures take place at 3647 Peel Street at 3:30 pm, Don Bates Seminar Room 101 until noted otherwise.
Please note that seminar times MAY VARY, so be sure to check each individual listing carefully!
SEMINARS WINTER 2013
January
- Thursday 17th, 1:30 p.m
Senior Research Scholar, Hastings Center (co-sponsored with McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit)
"On What Neuroscience Can --and Can't --Teach Us about the Self"
- Wednesday 30th
Postdoctoral fellow, Social Studies Of Medicine, McGill University
"A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation & Altruism in an Age of Strangers"
February
- Wednesday 13th
PhD Anthropology, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Health and Well-Being, Princeton University.
"How to do Things to Children with Words: Language, Ritual, and Apocalypse in Pediatric HIV Treatment in Botswana"
- Wednesday 27th
Prof.Nancy Leys Stepan (re-scheduled for Fall 2013)
Professor Emeritus in History, Columbia University,Mailman School of Public Health
"Utopias and Practical Outcomes:Disease Eradication and its Controversies"
March
- Wednesday 13th
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University
"Declarative Bodies & the Making of a Postwar Medical Morality: The Case of Research Ethics Committees"
- Wednesday 20th
Professor in Sociology, Columbia University
"For a Sociology of Expertise: The Social Origin of the Autism Epidemic"
April
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Monday April 8th, Peterson Hall , room 116 , 3460 McTavish Street
Associate Professor in Anthropology, Cornell University (co-sponsored )
"Debt, Credit and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan"
SEMINARS FALL 2012
September
- Wednesday 5th
Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
"A Material Politics of Distinction: Generic Drugs and their Multiples"
October
- Wednesday 17th
Professor in History and Classical Studies, McGill University
"Global Health Histories and the Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century"
October
- Wednesday 31st
Professor in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
"Reinventing Chronic Disease in the 20th Century"
35th ANNUAL OSLER LECTURESHIP
November
- Wednesday 7th
Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine
Professor of History
Director, Center for the Study of Society and Medicine
Director, Center for Medicine as a Profession, Columbia University
"Medical Professionalism: The Past Record & Future Prospects"
The event will take place at 6:00pm
R. Palmer Howard Amphitheatre
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Room 522
DR. MARTIN A. ENTIN LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
November
- Monday 26th
Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney
"Sorcery, Cannibalism and Medical Science: Creating Value in Kuru Research"
The event will take place at 6:00pm
Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law
Moot Court Room
3644 Peel Street
December
- Wednesday 5th
Professor of Surgical Education, Division of Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
"Simulation-Based Re-Enactment: a New Approach to Capturing Surgery's Past"
SEMINARS WINTER 2012
January
- Wednesday 18th
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medical Anthropology, Princeton University
"Medical Multiplicity: The plural sovereignties of global health in Mozambique"
February
- Friday 10 at 4:00 PM (Arts Council Room, Arts Building)
Professor, ETH, Zurich
" Sex, Crime, and the Media: The Relevance of Scandals for Historical Epistemology"
March
- Thursday, 8 at 6:00 PM (Moot Court, Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law)
Allan Grant Mclear Professor, Department of History, The University of Chicago
" Medicine and the Crisis of Intellectual Property"
- Wednesday 14, at 3:30 PM
Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University
" A World Without Pretense? Honest and Dishonest Signaling in Everyday Life"
- Wednesday 28, at 3:30 PM
Assistant Profesor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
"Empathy Beyond the Human"
April
- Wednesday 4, at 3:30 PM
Visiting Professor of Social Psychology and Organizational Psychology, University of Siegen
"Commodification of the Body and its Parts"
SEMINARS FALL 2011
- September 21st
"The Sexualization of Cancer: A case study in Sex as Health"
- November 9
"Bearing Witness to Atrocity: Theological Sources of a New Secular Morality"