The Margaret Lock Seminar

In honour of her 85th birthday in February 2021, the Department of Social Studies of Medicine is naming an annual departmental seminar after medical anthropologist Margaret Lock, one of the founding faculty members of the department. The Margaret Lock Seminar will showcase work in medical anthropology and closely related fields, focusing on scholars who engage topics in deep and committed ways, who offer nuanced analyses in global perspective, reflecting the spirit and richness of Professor Lock’s scholarship. SSoM faculty will collaborate with medical anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology to identify and invite speakers. The yearly Margaret Lock Seminar will also be an occasion to announce the student winner of the Margaret Lock Prize. The Margaret Lock Seminar will contribute to the continuous strengthening of ties between SSoM and Anthropology at McGill University.

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

2:30 -4:00PM 3647 Peel Street Room 101

Aidan Seale-Feldman, University of Notre Dame        
                          

Past Speakers

2026

Emily Yates-Doerr, Oregon State University. "Generational Half-life and the Inheritance of Affliction"

2025

Anthony Stavrianakis, CNRS. "What's therapeutic about "club thérapeutique"? On the function and effects of a particular form of institutional psychotherapy"

2024

Eric Plemons, University of Arizona. “What to make of me: Penile and uterine transplant and the surgical future of sex”

2023

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago. “Extractions of Breath: Class Action, Racial Capitalism, and the Unfinished Business of Transitional Justice in South Africa”

2022

Nicole Charles, University of Toronto Mississauga. “Corporeal Traces and Unsettling Truths”