Conference Agenda

October 28th – 29th 2016

McGill Faculty Club - 3450 McTavish 


Friday, October 28th 2016


Opening Session:  2:00-2:15 p.m.

Dr. David Eidelman, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) & Dean – Faculty of Medicine

Welcome and Opening Remarks


Session 1: 2:15-4:00 p.m.

Sharon Kaufman, Professor Emerita and Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.  

Ordinary Medicine: Evidence, Experiments and the Tyranny of Standards

Keith Wailoo, Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs, Dept. of History and Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

Learning from Pain: Social Analysis and the Gatekeepers of Relief 


Coffee Break: 4:00-4:15 p.m. - Foyer


Session 2: 4:15-6:00 p.m.

Junko Kitananka, Professor Department of Human Sciences, Keio University, Tokyo.

Psychiatric Screening for Secrets: A New Care of the Self in Japan

Dominique P. Béhague, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society Vanderbilt University, Senior Lecturer King’s College London

Notes on the political and moral life of psychiatric epistemes in Southern Brazil: from the clinic to the longue durée


Saturday, October 29th 2016


Session 3: 09:00-10:45 a.m.   

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University         

Biomedical Imaginaries: Translational Medicine in Comparative Perspective

Gil Eyal, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

What are likely to be the looping effects of 'personalized' (or 'precision') medicine? 


Coffee Break: 10:45-11:00 - Foyer           


Session 4: 11:15-1:00     

Shigahisa  Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University

Digital history and the depths of the forgotten past        

Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

The Analog Patient: Towards a Media History of Medicine


Lunch: 1:00-2:00 p.m.       


Session 5: 2:00-3:45 p.m.             

Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Anthropology and Global Health, École de Santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Graduate Institute Geneva; Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris)

Of what is global health the symptom: authorization, value, and anticipation after Ebola

Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College, University of London

From Social Studies OF Medicine to Social Science IN Medicine?


Closing remarks: 3:45 -4:15             

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