The MAE Conference 2025 is an international hybrid conference. The entire conference team is excited to welcome you online and onsite for four days of exchange, engagement and collective thinking on contemporary redefinitions of health and wellbeing. With this conference, we wish to foster care-full discussions so as to further critical understandings of the possibilities and impossibilities of health and well-being today, and to reflect on the role of medical anthropology in the world. Together, we hope to create an engaging space of encounters, debate, collegial critique and friendship. Please take care of each other and help us to make this conference an inclusive and welcoming space for everyone, online and onsite.

We are pleased to announce the public opening event: a roundtable discussion with César Abadía-Barrero, Michele Friedner, and Igor Grabovac, moderated by Janina Kehr. The roundtable will explore the transformative potential of medical anthropology and critical public health in troubled times: how our theories travel, how our methods matter, and how our work can intervene ethically and politically. It will take place on Sep 16, 5pm, in the auditorium HS C1 at Vienna University Campus. All welcome!

The MAE Conference 2025 is convened by the EASA Medical Anthropology Europe Network, the Health Matters Research Group, and the European Association of Social Anthropologists. The MAE Conference 2025 is officially hosted by the University of Vienna. Medical Anthropology Europe is a forum for scholarly and political discussion on the anthropologies of health and medicine in Europe and beyond. Health Matters works at the intersection of Critical Medical Anthropology, Global/Public Health and Feminist Science and Technology Studies, aiming to understand how health matters and how health is mattered. 

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Registration is open until Sept 17, 7 pm.