Scientific Program
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Panels, Roundtables, and Labs
1. Health in/and Crisis
Panels
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36. Exploring health in the context of territorial inequalities
Conveners: Daniele Karasz, Sladana Adamovic, Adrienne Homberger
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-2
Jónleyg Djurhuus: (Im)mobilities: Managing moral, structural and geographical boundaries to health care and social services in a small-scale island society in the Nordics
Emma Fàbrega Domènech: Struggling to Make Health Matter: Community-Driven Responses and Social Innovation in Montcada i Reixac, a peripheral Barcelona Municipality
Stephaine Meysner: Territorialising Cancer Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights From Within England’s North-South Divide
Keshav Sawarn: Territorial Inequalities and Community Resistance: Ethnographic Insights into Structural Health Disparities in Rural Jharkhand
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42. History in Care: Tracing Historical Entanglements
Conveners: Kristine Krause, Monika Palmberger
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 4-0-4
Devin Flaherty: Hospice as History in the American (Post)Colony
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves: Remnants of Care: Afterlives of a Lethal Drug
Inga Haaland: Growing Up in the Clinic: Intergenerational Care and the Role of Clinics for GenZ Born with HIV
Marie Leine: Uneasy Care: Tracing Silences and Recognition in Danish Shelters
Veronika Prieler: “Places of new community and cultural centers”: Care homes for Transylvanian Saxons in Germany
Julia Rehsmann: Digital divides and hidden labour during Covid-19
Milena Wuerth: 'Transforming' UK mental healthcare? A case study of continuities in psychiatric care from the archives of one London hospital
Yuan Yan: Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors People with Dementia in an Urban Care Home in China
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45. Making sense of mortality in the era of polycrisis
Conveners: Maija Butters
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2
Tenzin Namdul: Death and Happiness: Exploring the Temporalities of the Meditated Death and Everyday Life in Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Tukdam
Sandrine Ndahiro: Politics of death in Necropolitical and Deathscape sites
Sam Power Nelson: Dissolving the Self: Death, Consciousness, and Ontological Imagination in a Time of Crisis
Yvon van der Pijl: Remember Us: Ecological Grief & Response-Ability through Ritualization and Performative Arts
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49. (Post)socialist health and medicine: examining alternative political economies, biopolitics and circulations
Conveners: Alila Brossard Antonielli, Nils Graber
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 6-0-1
Barbora Buzássyová: An alternative approach to eradicating child malnutrition: Czechoslovak nutritionists, Psophocarpus and the East – South scientific cooperation during the Cold War
Amelie Katczynski: Training nurses as vanguards of public health? Ethnographic insights from a nursing school in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Jasmina Polovic: Transition in Session: Adequacy of Mental Health Services on the Ground
Anita Prsa: A road to ‘custodial’ post-Yugoslav welfare state: Development of volunteerism and civil society in the case of Croatian palliative care
Zoé Richard: “The working Unified Health System” in a post(anti)-socialist context: emergence and persistence of a new public infectious diseases hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Olga Temina: Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us
Shu Wan: Medicine or Miracle?: The Cure of Hearing Loss and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China
Phoebe Zhou: Socialist Cure for a Distressed Post-socialist Society: Re-Imagining Psychiatry Amidst China’s Mental Health Crisis
Roundtables
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R11. Crisis of Digital Addictions: Anthropological Perspectives on a Growing Concern
Conveners: Suzana Jovicic, Joseph Tulasiewicz
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Henni Alava: Painful screentime: morality, addiction and care at pediatric pain clinics
Isabelle Fioroni: Comforted or Controlled? The Ambivalence of Human-AI Relationships
Pietro Vereni: Data Reliability and Cultural Intimacy: Understanding Social Media’s Impact Among Italian Adolescents
Xin Zhan: Can’t Stop Coding: The Addictive Nature of Work in Techno-Capitalism
2. Health and Environment
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4. Intersecting Frontiers: Towards understanding intersections among climate change, culture, gender, and health in the Anthropocene
Conveners: Sadiq Bhanbhro, Inayat Ali
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 & 3 | Room 2-0-1
Ana Cerezuela, Anna Molas, Helena Montasell: Making future in a changing climate: Maternal experiences of environmental risk and strategies for sustaining life in Barcelona
Farzana Habib: Syndemics of Food Insecurity, Mental illness, Tobacco use and Gender: Exploring the vulnerability of slum women in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Eswarappa KASI: Health Emergency of Gond and Panika Women during the Pandemic: An Empirical Study from Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh, Central India
Isabelle Lange: Heat, risk, and gendered agency: Technocratic responses to climate change and the politics of maternal health
Young Su Park: Gendered Vulnerabilities of Female-Headed Households and Health Impact of Climate Crisis in Kiribati
Isabella M. Radhuber: Health Under Climate Pressure: An Emerging Research Agenda
Megan Schmidt-Sane: Climate change, informality, and sexual and reproductive health: An emergent “syndemic” in Kampala, Uganda
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24. Decoupling Health and Well-Being in Contexts of Conflict and Environmental Distress
Conveners: Ahmad Moradi, Letizia Bonanno
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
Yasmynn Chowdhury: Remaking life otherwise: Relational well-being across the Rohingya diaspora [working title]
Roos Metselaar: In the absence of a solution. An ethnographic study on living a good life with PFAS.
Gauri Pathak: "We have been raised on dust, we come from dust”: Toxic exposures and permeable bodies in a South Asian cement factory
Gloria Perez-Rivera: Being Alive or Having a Life: Colombian Displaced Older Adults' Understandings of Rural Lives, Well-Being and Health
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26. Unstable Environments: Health and Healing in Remote Places
Conveners: Meoïn Hagège, Laura Burke
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Charles Beach: "Working Remote" in health development research: digital methods and state neglect in periurban migrant communities of the Colombo-Venezuelen borderlands.
Shagufta Bhangu: Morality and Healthcare in India's Frontiers
Jihui Kuang: Invisible Sacrifices: Pneumoconiosis as Marginalized Health
Wren Wilson: Remote but Resilient: HIV, Stigma, and State Absence on a Scottish Island
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32. Rethinking Species Extinction and Disease Eradication
Conveners: Rebecca Marsland, James Staples
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-4
Michele Friedner: Eradicating Deafness but Abandoning Deaf Children?
Maki Kitagawa: Erasure or Hunt? Practical and Ethical Contradictions of CSF Control in Japan
Rebecca Marsland: Eradicating Extinction: Contradictions in Beekeeping
James Staples: Leprosy elimination and the social lives of bacteria
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33. Places of well-being: exploring space and relationality in redefining the concept of well-being
Conveners: Danai Toursoglou-Papalexandrou, Dimitris Ballas, Elli Papastergiou
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-4
Emma Lengle: Urban planning as care and of care: approaches to ecosocial inequities in health and well-being in Norwegian city government
Nese Oztimur: Healing Through Place: Spatial Practices and Wellbeing Among Syrian Women in Istanbul
Elli Papastergiou: Is simply green enough for well-being? Unpacking the complex relationship of urban green space and subjective well-being.
Marie Voerman: “Community empowerment and resilience: local perspectives and collaborative public health interventions for systemic change in ecosyndemic neighbourhoods in the Netherlands” – a Protocol Paper
Roundtables
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R02. Bodies and Environments as Infrastructure: Injury, Extraction, and Resistance in Transnational Food Systems
Conveners: Gerardo Rodriguez Solis, Seth M. Holmes
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Kamil Matuszczyk: ‘What could happen to me? A brick won't fall on my head.’ Reflections from field research on the safety and health of Ukrainian seasonal workers in agriculture in Poland
Paul Sperneac-Wolfer: Knowing heat. Conflicts around greenhouse heat stress management in Austrian agro-industrial food production.
Jakub Stachowski: Navigating Precarious Lives: Migrant Workers in the Norwegian Salmon Industry
Mael Vizcarra, Alesandra Tatić: Where’s the Proof? : The Production of Evidence in Food System Worker Labor Struggles
3. Disability and Chronicity
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3. Confronting the Inevitable
Conveners: Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2 | Room 4-0-6
Elspeth Davies: Challenging the Inevitability of Cancer Deaths in the UK’s National Health Service
Sinem Gunes: “They Don’t Know Either”: Side Effects, Hormonal Therapy, and the Limits of Medical Knowledge in Breast Cancer Care
Annette Leibing: Inevitable aging: Punks’ and Jehova’s Witnesses’ ‘apocalyptic futures’
Jaya Mathur: Skimming the Edge of the Painful Body: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Contested Disease Category of Fibromyalgia in India
Anthony Rizk: At the end of privatized healthcare: Economic collapse and the alter-politics of health in Lebanon
Arnav Sethi: ‘Still Sub-Therapeutic’: Ethnographic Reflections on Evidence-Based Lithium Prescribing in the UK
Livia Wright: Confronting the Inevitable: Dementia Between Medical and Social Worlds
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9. Sustaining life in debilitated environments: expanding ideas of contagion, chronicity and care in the “age of disability”
Conveners: Júlia Fernandez, Rosamund Greiner
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-6
Samiksha Bhan: Dis/abling Cure: Medical humanitarianism, therapeutic markets and the failure of proximate care for thalassemia-affected in India
Emma Bunkley: Interembodiment, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Health
Maria Elisa Dainelli: The contagion of suicide: Good and bad death in ethnoclinical context.
Marcela González-Agüero, Valentina Turén, Angélica Farías-Cancino: Appealing for the right to live: Care, precarity and the risk of a slow death for Chilean children and young people with SMA
Daniela Jacob Pinto: Feeling each other's pain: injury and healing amongst citizens mutilated in protests in present day France
Narod Seroujian: Debilitated Bodies, Relational Wounds: (Un)stitching Care in Lebanon
Ramsha Usman: Always Injured, Never Disabled: Workers Health in Sustainable Ecologies of Production
Lindsay Vogt: Others in the Self: (Inter)corporeality and Affective Entanglement between Mother, Daughter, and Home in End-of-Life Care
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17. Care and Transition in Chronic and Rare Conditions
Conveners: Malgorzata Rajtar, Eva-Maria Knoll
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 & 3 | Room 4-0-6
Valentine Gourinat, Francesca Incagli, Alice Colombo, Martina Lanza, Ruta Butkeviciene, Lina Danuseviciene, Yaël Slaghmuylder, Emelien Lauwerier, Lisa Gittel, Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom, David Le Breton, Hélène Dollfus: Transitions to Adulthood for Youth with Rare Genetic Eye Diseases: A Sociological Analysis of Care, Support, and Quality of Life
Nicoletta Diasio: Parents in between: medical transition and intergenerational relationships in France
Valentina Turén, Marcela González-Agüero, Constanza Quezada, Ivonne Vargas: Living against time: Care, chronicity and legal struggles of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Chile
Clara Fabian Therond: The changing nature of hope: following its journey across pathways of personalised medicine care in late stage cancer treatment settings
Yiting (Eliza) Ge: Imagining the Future Elsewhere: Hope, Transnational Care, and Rare Disease Patients in China
Meng Kou: Endless pain, hope that is not understood, eternal mental strength
-Ethnography of migrant family with young adult patient of sickle cell disease in France
Zuzanna Kuffel: "Complicated" Veins in "Complicated" Women: Pelvic Venous Insufficiency as Condition Multiple
Ilaria Lesmo: Generatively Unsettling Care: On Distrust and Failure in Transition to Imagine New Forms of Care
Claire Mavis: Diagnosed and Dumped: hEDS Care and the Diagnostic Moment
Sabina Vassileva: The Loop in Transition: Attending to Hormonal Intra-actions in Automated Diabetes Care
Syeda Shajeela Shawkat: The Social Body in Focus: Constructing Personhood through Intimacy
Malgorzata Rajtar: In limbo. Entanglements of care, ethics, and law in transition processes of people with rare diseases
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19. Entangled temporalities of the experience of “chronic living” with technological devices
Conveners: Agathe Camus, Lucie Dalibert, Valentine Gourinat
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 4-0-5
Lydie Bichet: Living with Chronic Illness and Technological Devices: DT1 as “Another Pace of Life”
Enka Blanchard: At the mercy of a potentiometer: device repairability and disabled temporalities
Agathe Camus, Valentine Gourinat, Lucie Dalibert: Technological assemblages and bodily intimacies: An exploration of the chronic experiences of diabetics with multimorbidity
Sally Cross: Forecasting the fog: navigating crip time with health-tracking apps
Gabrielle Hanley-Mott: Function, Fantasy, and Fragility: Imaginaries and Realities of High-Tech Hand Prostheses
Mathilde Lancelot, Sonia Desmoulin: Living with or accompanying chronic illness and technological care: different logics of temporal entanglements
Chenchen Ma: Folding Care Practices: Temporality and Prosthetic Rehabilitation
Anna Christina Maukner, Ellen Algera: "I realised relatively quickly that it really stressed me out": Temporalities in self-tracking with long COVID
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21. Exhaustion as a temporal and social predicament
Conveners: Mette Bech Risør, Ayo Wahlberg, Emily Mendenhall, Karin Friederic
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 4-0-5
Camilla Braendstrup Laursen, Cecilie Winther Bang, Helle Løn: Embodied Well-being: Energy, Exhaustion, and Bodily Difference among Danish School Children strup Haslund-Thomsen, Charlotte Nørkjær Eggertsen, Søren Hagstrøm, Sine Agergaard
Karin Friederic: From Burnout to ME/CFS: Legibility, Chronicity, and the Changing Diagnostic Politics of Exhaustion in Sweden
Fred Haocheng Lai: The Night’s Wound: Dementia, Care, and Ordinary Exhaustion in Extraordinary Times
Antti Lindfors: Exhaustion and Its Discontents: Functional Disorders and Therapeutic Polarization
Ida Vandsøe Madsen: Imaginal Worldbuilding: How family caregivers of people with dementia in Denmark endure exhaustion
Nana Francisca Schottländer: The Resting Lab: The practice of resting against the odds
Robert Smith: Chakkar: the embodiment of systemic exhaustion
Tanisha Spratt: Resisting Racialised Exhaustion: The Power and Politics of Black Joy
Roundtables
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R03. Tracing Neurodiversity in the Global South: Reimagining Identity, Community, & Care
Conveners: Paras Arora, Shubha Ranganathan
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Izem Aral: Reimagining Local Worlds of Neurodiversity: Self-cultivation and Terbiye at a Disability Awareness Event in Istanbul
Patrick Mckearney: Diverging from Diversity: Intellectual Disability in Kerala
Tanushree Sarkar: All in good time: Temporality, coloniality, and the construction of dis/ability in the global South
Chetan Sastry Vijayakumar: Finding ‘neurodiversity’ in Indian mental health spaces
Shubhangi Vaidya: EXPLORING NEURODIVERSITY IN INDIA FROM A LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE
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R15. The Role of the Disabled Artist in the Polycrisis — Lived Experience, Chronicity, and Interdependence
Conveners: Justus Harris, Liza Bernstein
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-6
Phyllisa Deroze: Between Highs and Lows: Artmaking in the Rhythms of Diabetes
Justin Dougan-LeBlanc: Lived Experience as a Disabled Deaf Artist: The Impact of Core Memories on Artistic Expression and Innovations
Justus Harris: How Disabled Creators Deal with Pervasive Cultural Ableism (Dawn Gibson)
Donney Rose: Disrupting the 24-Hour Myth
4. Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction
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14. Forever Chemicals and Reproductive Health: Anthropological Perspectives on Inequities, Alternatives, and Policy Dialogs
Conveners: Pratyusha Kiran
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-6
Eleonora Bechis, Giovanni Lorenzi, Stefano Avanzi: Negotiating Environmental Harm: A Comparative Ethnography of PFAS-Affected Communities in Piemont, Veneto and the Lyon region
Edmée Ballif: Toxic reproduction: Preventing endocrine disruption in an unequal world
Marie de Lutz: Materialities of menstrual health: menstrual technologies, toxicants, and sex hormones in the Women of the Sea surf club
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18. Navigating Reproductive Ambivalence: Strategies and Subjectivities across the Global North and South
Conveners: Poonam Kamath, Luminita Mandache
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 6-0-1
Shalini Singh, Éva Beaujouan: Uncertainty in Parenthood across the Reproductive Life Course
Orit Chorowicz Bar-am, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Elly Teman: The Elephant in the Womb: Biological Reality and its Exclusion from Surrogacy Narratives
Poonam Kamath: #KinderwunschVerbindet: Navigating (Re)productive Precariousness, Digital Biosociality and Biosolidarity in the German Instagram space
Carola Lorea: To be childless is to be whole: Tantric renunciate couples and post-secular approaches to voluntary childlessness
Luminita Mandache, Jessica Jerome: Unreproducible Past and Uncertain Futures: the social meaning of female voluntary sterilization in Northeast Brazil
Hamida Massaquoi: Reproductive Misfortune: The Social Navigation of Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood in Adonkia, Sierra Leone
Maureen O'Dougherty: Family Lessons: Young Brazilian Women Carve Out a Future With or Without ChildrenTurið Hermannsdóttir: Emerging reproductive narratives/subjectivities in a turbulent time and small-island context, the Faroe Islands
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22. Neo-Eugenic Practices and Reproductive Governance across the Globe
Conveners: Lucia Gentile, Clémence Jullien
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-5
Clémence Audran: What are the limits of an ethical human genetic selection? Results of an exploratory survey in France (2023-2025)
Jiaqi Liu, Dong Dong, Jianfeng Zhu, Liuxu Chen, Jiayu Li, Mei Ding, Rui Jiang: Reproductive Governance and Transnational PGT Practices among Chinese Couples
Amélie Neuve-Eglise: Shaping the unborn child in contemporary Iran. Between intimacy and politics, representations and practices of pregnant Shia Muslim women
Sachiyo Yagi: Justification for Egg Freezing: Reproductive Optimisation and Moral Tensions in Contemporary Japan -
35. Redefining Reproductive Temporalities: Bodies, Gender, Care, and Contestations in Health and Well-Being
Conveners: Falia Varelaki, Alessandra Brigo, Manon M.S. Vialle
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2, 3, 4 | Room 4-0-5
Beatriz Aragón Martín: “Too young to be pregnant”: temporal regimes as a racializing technique in healthcare in Spain
Roberta Dieguez: The use of gestational age limits as a political strategy to achieve total criminalization of abortion in Brazil
Selen Gobelez: Temporalities in Tension: Embodied Experiences of Birth in a Neoliberal Healthcare System in Turkey
Anika König: Reproductive Temporalities at the Margins: Uncertainty, Anticipation, and the Extended Time of Assisted Conception
Marie Lafon--Bach: (Re)defining postpartum temporalities in the digital arenas
Hélène Malmanche: Temporalities of Miscarriage in Medical Care Experiences and Across the Reproductive Life Course
Diana Marre: Advanced Maternal Age: reproductive temporalities in Spain and UK
Rishita Nandagiri: Abortion Time(s): Examining time and temporalities in abortion trajectories
Raphaël Perrin: Dating pregesnancies for abortion: medical act or political choice?
Tamara Roma: A Critique of Gestational Time Limits. A Comparison of Discourses from Historical Abortion Regulations.
Veronika Siegl: Temporal attunements as modes of doing good care in prenatal counselling and decision-making
Manon Vialle: Dating Gestation: Temporal Politics of Reproductive Care across Europe
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37. Genital Expectations: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Gendered Meanings, Norms, and Practices Surrounding Genitalia (V3 Part I)
Conveners: Hannelore Van Bavel, Vivien Lou
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1
Federica Manfredi: Neglected Vulvas. An anthropological research-actions about vulvar health, taboo and social invisibility
Myriam Raboldt: »...gesellschaftlich gesehen ist man nach so einer OP halt niemand mehr.« -- Eine qualitative Studie zu cis Männern mit Genitalverletzungen
Divya Rai: Absent Flesh, Present Claims: Genitalia, Recognition, and State Intervention in Hijra Lives in Uttar Pradesh, India
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39. Obstetric Violence, Care, and Technologies
Conveners: Elif Gül, Rodante van der Waal
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Daiva Bartušienė: “Women like you don't give birth”: autistic women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in Lithuania"
Maksuda Khanam: ‘The risk is yours if something happens to your baby’-an exploration of obstetric violence during childbirth among middle class women in Bangladesh
Ivana Nikolić: "Pregnancy Hurts—Get Over It”: The Normalisation of Obstetric Violence in Serbia and its Human Rights Implications
Syahirah Rasheed: Bidan, Bismillah, Biomedicine: Muslim doulas build epistemological bridges against obstetric violence in Singapore
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40. Environments of Care and Harm: Pushing the Boundaries of SRHR Research
Conveners: Andie Thompson
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Vanessa-eduardo Arteaga Bernal-erazo Acosta: The power of ancestral philosophy Alli kawsay (Buen Vivir) in indigenous movements of Colombia - Ecuador vs. exclusion by big mining, contribution Rights of Mother Nature from the global south
Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Rishita Nandagiri, Kinga Jelinska, Ernestina Coast, Joe Strong: Constellations, crises and care: the role of Women Help Women in COVID19-shaped abortion trajectories
Shahana Siddiqui: The Road to Bangladesh Climate Reality is Paved with Good Intentions and Reproductive Regimes
Andie Thompson: Maternal susceptibility: ontologies of toxic exposure
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41. Care Unsettled: Queer in Medical Anthropology
Conveners: Christopher Zraunig, Max Schnepf
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 4-0-6
Rhea Bose: Reimagining Care: Looking at Diverse Understandings and Practices of Transmasculine Gender Affirmation in Mumbai, India
Anahí Farji Neer: Trans Healthcare and Professional Reflexivity in Argentina: Queering Medical Authority?
Moxi Ochsenbauer: The Unmaking of ESI: Reflections on Political Backlash, Queer Grief, and Care in Buenos Aires
Celeste Pang: Stranger Than Family: The Queer Socialities of Dementia Care
Max Schnepf: What Sticks: PrEP, Responsibility, and the Pleasure of Not Caring
Kenan Gu: From “Fangzhi” to “Fangzhi”: The Logic of Prevention and Care in AIDS Policies and Everyday Lives of Gay and MSM Communities in China
Christopher Zraunig: Tinkering with Touch: Queering Care through Sexual Assistance in Geriatric Institutions. -
47. The Uterus: Knowledges, Practices, Imaginaries
Conveners: Leah Eades, Marie de Lutz
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 6-0-1
Clarissa Cavalcanti: Yo me sentía un bicho raro: Experiences and trajectories of women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome
Leah Eades: Two Wombs of One’s Own: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Congenital Uterine Anomalies
Raisa Ferrer Pizarro: The Tacit Organ: Presence and Omission of the Uterus in Obstetric Communication in Peru
Ema Hresanova: ‘Everything is the way it should be’: The ethical work of the uterus and moral assemblages in Czech women’s birth narratives
Ji-young Lee: Transgender Inclusive Uterus Transplantation
Patricia Li Leiter: Endometriosis: The Politics of Underdiagnosing Disease
Paula Martone, Anna Molas: Just like a real uterus? Insights from health professionals and parents on the promises of the Artificial Placenta
Andrea Whittaker, Sophia Avice, Cal Volks: Imaginaries and Practices of the Uterus in Uterus transplantation
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R13. “Reproductive Justice”: Are We Doing Justice to the Term?
Conveners: Kim Sigmund, Shahana Siddiqui
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-6
Md Asaduzzaman: Wombs Under Watch: Reproductive Struggles in the Shadow of Care of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay: Just for whom? Problematising Reproductive Justice in India
Andrea Del Pilar Trujillo Rodríguez, Guilherme Lamperti Thomazi, Cristiane da Silva Cabral: Reproductive Justice for All? Challenges Faced by Trans Men and Transmasculine People in Brazil
Simon Fern: Reflections on care from work with immigrant mothers in Spain
Christlord Foreste: From Slavery to Biocapitalism: Race, Gender, and Power in Contemporary Reproductive Technologies
5. Medicine and Technologies
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1. The rise of the Digital Imaginaries: Redefining global health and well-being
Conveners: Edwin Ambani Ameso, Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Egnonnam Sandra Dellya Zannou: Care trajectories and experiences of breast cancer patients: a socio-anthropological analysis based on cases observed at the CNHU-HKM in Cotonou
José Pinto Da Costa: Reimagining Portuguese Digital Healthcare: Future-makers’ insights and concerns
Sanaullah Khan: Public Health echo chambers: Contested "science" and vaccine denialism on digital platforms
Shweta Rani: Seeing without data: A Case of Dengue Control in Delhi -
8. Bridging the Divide: Connecting Humans and Technology in Algorithmic Cultures
Conveners: Zongtian Guo, Michal Frumer, Mette Høybye
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-4
Ismail Umar: Imagining AI Futures: Socio-Technical Imaginaries Among Healthcare Professionals in a Dutch Hospital
Matteo Valoncini: Algorithmic identities and the digitalization of care: an ethnography of General Practice in Italy
Sophie Wagner: Living in the Loop: Tech Imaginaries and Patient Labor in Type 1 Diabetes Care
Klara-Aylin Wenten: Feeling Technology: How Emotion AI Rewrites Bodies, Emotions and Genders
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15. The platformization of medicine? Digital diagnostics, advanced therapies, and drug repurposing
Conveners: Sarah Wadmann. Anna Brückner Johansen, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek, Laura Emdal Navne
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-2
Marie-Laure Guilland, Claire Beaudevin, Séverine Louvel: Crafting customized centralization: platformization of genomics in rare diseases in France
Anna Brueckner Johansen: Platformization of payment? Curating value in gene therapy
Michael Morrison: Adaptive manufacturing: Initial thoughts on an emerging manufacturing platform for personalised medicine
Mette N. Svendsen, Laura Emdal Navne: Wayward platformization: genomes as doppelgangers in transnational relations -
25. From Welfare to Watchful Care: Digital Surveillance and State-Citizen Relations
Conveners: Laura Louise Heinsen, Nete Schwennesen, Mikkel Kenni Bruun
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1
Nilufer Akalin: From Care to Control: The Hidden Surveillance Network in Immigrant Healthcare
Kristina Grünenberg, Line Hillersdal: Surveillance care: techno-care arrangements in South Korean eldercare
Laura Louise Heinsen, Nete Schwennesen: From Surveillance to Distributed Attention: Reframing Digital Surveillance in Dementia Care
Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, Anders Albrechtslund, Virginie Behar, Polina Velyka: Responsibility and Intentionality in Socio-Material Assemblages: Data-Intensive Surveillance in Dementia Care -
30. Health as ecology: promises of health and well-being in biotechnological approaches across humans and more-than-humans
Conveners: Victor Secco, Charlotte Brives
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2
Luciano Ferrari: I Am Not Your Data: Valuable Microbes and the Measure of Goodness
Mikko Jauho: Health from biodiversity: microbes-mediated interventions for allergy control
Sylvain Lallier: The microbiome multiple. Beyond a metagenomics-driven technological determinism
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38. The Politics and Epistemologies of Collaboration: Inter/Transdisciplinarity as Method in Techno-Human Data Assemblages
Conveners: Lisa Lehner, Roberta Raffaetà
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2
Andrea Butcher: Opportunity or Iconoclasm? Moments of inspiration and doubt in interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund: Medical anthropologists in global ‘One Health’ assemblages: Interrogating science-driven collaborations
Hana Porkertová: ConceptLeaks: Reflections on the collaboration across disciplinary membranes
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46. Sociality with/through AI in Health and Medicine: Current Figurations, Imagined Futures
Conveners: Bernhard Hadolt
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-2
Tanja Ahlin, Anna Mann: Ambivalent Socialities: Resistance, Relationality, and Care Robots in Clinical Settings
Jorge Castillo-sepúlveda: Time re-configured: five shifts in the configuration of medical temporality mediated by Artificial Intelligence. A multi-sited case study in Chile.
Hannah Piehl: Reconfiguring Trust: A Cartography of Trustworthiness of AI Systems in Healthcare
Meiting Wang: Designing Care: Investigating Care Ethics and Developer Responsibility in AI Mental Health Applications
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48. Epistemological bounds of medical technologies: Iatrogenic effects and new conceptions of health
Conveners: Alexandra Jønsson
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2, 3 | Room 4-0-2
Bodil Just Christensen: Pharmacological innovation and health inequity: an ethnographic study of Wegovy in severe obesity
Natalia Filar: Psychiatric self-diagnosis through social-media as a response to socio-economic inequalities in Polish medical services
Sarah Wadmann, Laura Emdal Navne, Mette Hartlev: Resource constraints and patient rights: the co-production of medical and regulatory innovation in the Danish welfare state
Kelly Mulvaney: History in Cervical Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology, or, Is Cervical Cancer a 'Sexually Transmitted Disease'?
Maurizia Mezza: Rendering Side Effects Visible: Pharmacovigilance, Iatrogenesis, and the Politics of Recognition
Charlotte Nørholm, Mette Terp Høybye: Mass Testing, Riskscapes, and Diagnostic Biocitizenship: Ethnographic Perspectives on COVID-19 Testing in Denmark
Anna Louise Skovgaard, Mette Terp Høybye: Medical decision-making in the subjunctive mood. An ethnographic study of the enactment of shoulder care
Costanza Torre: Side effects as sites of contestation: ethnographic reflections on experiences of care and oppression in the global migration regime
Roundtables
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R04. Weight loss on prescription: New drugs, new moral challenges, and new types of weight stigma?
Conveners: Pernille Andreassen, Fernanda Scagliusi, Alexandra Brewis
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-2
Rachael Drewery: Accessing weight loss medication within an intensive, multi-component weight management programme
Sissel D. Jensen: Tinkering with Weight Loss Medication: GLP-1ra, Clinical Care, and Moral Negotiations in Danish General Practice
Fernanda Scagliusi: From “Ozempic is my best friend” to “Ozempic made me do a bariatric”: Experiences of Brazilian fat women with GLP-1 agonists.
Megan Warin: ‘Dear Science’: How the weaponisation of nutrition science tools serve commercial markets of weight loss injectables
Oli Williams: How will the availability of GLP-1 drugs shift weight management norms and influence weight stigma?
6. Plural Perspectives on Health and Healing
Panels
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2. Engaging Plurality, Negotiating Diversity: Sowa Rigpa Practices and Perspectives in/on a Changing World
Conveners: Stephan Kloos, Barbara Gerke
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 & 4 | Room 4-0-3
Elizabeth Turk: Searching for the ‘root cause’ of illness and moral aetiology in Mongolian health settings
Kei Nagaoka: Herbs, Senses, and Sowa Rigpa: An Ethnographic Study of the Embodied Experience of Herbal Medicine in Arunachal Pradesh, the Eastern Himalayas
Stephan Kloos: Rethinking Participant Observation: An Exile Perspective on Tibetan Medicine
Barbara Gerke: Negotiating Legitimacy and Healing: Plural Landscapes of Sowa Rigpa and Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India and Bhutan
Stacey Van Vleet: Bonesetting between Tibetan scholarly medicine and Mongolian "common knowledge"
Patricia Mundelius: A Paradoxical Kind of Suffering: Negotiating Emotional Care within Sowa Rigpa Consultations in Europe
Isabella Würthner: The Female Reproductive System And The Role Of Gender-Specific Infectious Diseases In The Tibetan World
Dara Bramson: Braiding Knowledges: Ethnographic Case Studies of Sowa Rigpa in Exile -
7. Addiction in New Cultural and Class Contexts
Conveners: Joseph Tulasiewicz, Bhrigupati Singh, Alastair Parsons
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Armaan Mullick Alkazi: Stuck between mahols (atmospheres) : binge drinking on the street in Delhi.
Lucy Clarke: "Don't worry about the God stuff": How secularity shapes recovery in London's Twelve Step Fellowships
Raffik Poole: Dependence in Recovery: Healing Suicidal Ideation with Ketamine.
Glikery Ulunov: Misuse as Adaptation and the Breakdown of Adaptation: Control and its Limits in Russian Gabapentinoid Use
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12. More-than-human health: challenging anthropocentric paradigms through post-humanist, ecofeminist, indigenous and decolonial perspectives
Conveners: Daniela Calvo, Sabina Vassileva
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2 | Room 4-0-4
Daniela Calvo: Towards a reconceptualization of relational health: Health and more-than-human entanglements in Candomblé
Verónica Calvo Valenzuela: The Where to land? workshops: A therapeutic space at the crossroads of ritual and pragmatic exercises.
Jui-Hsin Cheng: “Green Vitality” from Germany to Taiwan: Exploring the cross-cultural transplantation of naturopathy and healing practices
Aparna Raghu Menon, Pia Kontos: Listen Louder: Decolonizing Autistic Non-Vernal Communication via Posthumanist Thought
Claudia Lang: Coastal distress: The biomorality of ecological loss in Kerala, India
Daniel Münster: Soils, carbon, and microbes. Biochar and the limits of more-than-human health
Piera Talin: Otherwise ontologies in ayahuasca ritual experience: plants, spirits, and healing.
Natalia Tolsty: Multiple Dimensions of Body Image and Human Agency among Indigenous Communities in Los Altos de Chiapas, Mexico
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16. African perspectives on health and wellbeing
Conveners: Ellen Forsman Larsson
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-4
Peter Hoesing: “The Things of Culture”: What the Durability of African Traditional Medicine Means for Postmodern Medical Anthropology
Geoffrey Nwaka: Towards Decolonizing Medicine and Healthcare: The Place of African Health and Healing Traditions
Marta Scaglioni: Beyond Extraction: Centering Tunisian Perspectives in Microbiome Research
Zelealem Leyew Temesgen: The perceptions and expressions of death among the Amhara people of Ethiopia
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20. Interrogating Medical Pluralism in Global Health: Navigating Diverse Forms of Healing and Caring in the Contemporary Healthcare Framework
Conveners: Daniele Mario Buonomo, Xu Liu, Matteo Valoncini
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2, 3 | Room 4-0-4
Bregje De Kok: Re-worlding reproductive knowledge: Whose and what knowledge counts?
Andreadi Simanjuntak, Fotarisman Zaluchu: Interrogating the Use of Ginger to Understand the Complexity of Bataknese Notions of Well-Being
Alex Gateri: Medical Pluralism in Global Health and One Health: The Chagga medicine and antimicrobial optimization efforts
Avilasha Ghosh: Medical Multiplicity and Care Rationalities in the Local Clinics of Delhi
Gregory Haimovich, Herlinda Márquez Mora: Indigenous Midwifery in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: Exploring the Limits of Medical Pluralism
Baris Kamyab Muhammedrezai: Intersecting Healing Systems: Medical Pluralism, Psychiatry, and Religion in Turkey.
Simona Maisano: Navigating Pluralism: Ethnographic Insights from Multilingual Healthcare Encounters
Sachi Matsuoka: The Changing Landscape of Plurality in Ayurveda in Kerala, India: Interactions Between Institutional Medicine and Informal Practitioners ‘Vaidyams’
Yuri Nonami: Community-Based Practice of Ayurveda in Japan: A Case Study from Miyazaki Prefecture
Maria Trifon: Healing at the crossroads: medical pluralism and Orthodox Christian spirituality in Romania
Prashant Vijay: Confrontation and Coexistence: Medical Pluralism among Gond Community of Chhattisgarh, India
Kh Neil Young: Rethinking Health Pluralism through Traditional Healing System: A Sociological Exploration of the Poumai Naga Community -
29. Perception through Interaction/Interaction through Perception
Conveners: Michele Friedner, Cordelia Erikson-Davis
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Cordelia Michele Erikson-Davis: Beyond the Neural Code: Rethinking Perception through Retinal Prostheses and Perception as Constitutive Interaction (PCI)
Helma Korzybska: Interactions in and with perception. Shifting perspectives to relearn to see or hear
Susanna Trnka: Traversing: Bodies, Technologies, and Movement
Sina Susanna Schüttler: Bridging Ethics and Experience in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy -
31. Challenging dominant medico-political models through sensory ecologies of health
Conveners: Josephine Biglin, Kristina Baines, Elisabeth Hsu
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-3
"Dhruv Gautam: The Materiality of Psychic Lives: Spatial and Material Healing in an In-Patient Psychiatric Ward and a Healing Shrine in North India"
Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, Varvara Borisova: The Sensorium of Metabolic Evasion: Mitigating Toxic Cocktails in Phytotherapeutic Practice
Kaja Skoftedalen: Exploring therapeutic spaces of dhikr, a devotional sufi practice, in Southeastern Tanzania
7. Doing Medical Anthropology
Panels
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6. FRICTIONS IN HEALTHCARE ETHNOGRAPHY AS A MOTOR FOR IMPROVEMENT
Conveners: Giulia Sinatti, Jennifer Creese, Julie Salvador
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-4
Madalina Alama: “Is this true… what I heard? Five hundred dollars for an interview?”
Jesse Bia: Inducing Success: Navigating the Frictions of a Biomedical Scandal
Eliška Bydžovská: Friction and Positionality in Palliative Care: A Nurse-Researcher's Perspective
Michelle Parsons: Misalignments in research on a defunded global health project in Kabul, Afghanistan
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10. Exploring healthcare and research as creative practices
Conveners: Annekatrin Skeide, Jeannette Pols
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2 | Room 4-0-5
Sandra Baernreuther: Ghosts of Digitalization: Storying India’s Digital Health Transformation
Tanja Bukovčan: Foregrounding Creativity in Later-Life Sexuality: Rethinking Health, Aging, and the Good Life
Rebecka Fleetwood-smith: Hospital Reimagined: Using an artwork to explore the dynamic hospital environment
Claire Harris, Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic: Situating care and creative practice in research
Ella Hillström: A Praxis of the Tentacular Face: A Somatic Essay
Mizuki Igata: Uncertain Scripts: Exploring Theatre Practice as Care in Mental Health
Martin Høybye, Marie Hallager Andersen, Sarah Pini, Mette Terp Høybye: “Like being invited into another”: A film about co-creative movement in cancer rehabilitation
Taylor Riley, Tatiane Muniz: “Not terribly arty”: Some complexities of using photovoice in biosocial ethnographic research
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13. Multi-perspectival ethnography in medical anthropology
Conveners: Kiara Wickremasinghe, David Mosse
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 & 4 | Room 4-0-5
Janette Lindroos, Henni Alava :Gaining, Holding, and Sharing Knowledge in Ethnographies of Doubtful Pediatric Conditions
Neda Deneva, Diotima Bertel, Julia Himmelsbach, Beatrix Wais-Zechmann, Eva Reitner: Making Pain Personal: Embodied Relationships and Reflexive Multiplicity in Collaborative Research
Irene Maffi, Daniel Delanoë: On the collaboration between anthropologists and ethnopsychiatrists: two experiences in France and in Italy
Eva Steinberger, Obinna Eze: Navigating multi-perspectival collaboration: Reflections from a Nigerian-German anthropological tandem in a transdisciplinary One Health project
Sandra Staudacher, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund: Navigating Multi-Perspectival Participation: Ethnographic Insights from the Swiss Long-Term Care Sector
Heidi Fjeld, Theresia Hofer: What Collaborations, With Whom and How? The Ethics and Ends of Ethnographic Fieldwork with Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China
Anne-Sophie Guemon: From “Fangzhi” to “Fangzhi”: The Logic of Prevention and Care in AIDS Policies and Everyday Lives of Gay and MSM Communities in China
Susan Whyte, Hanne Mogensen: Covid 19 in Uganda: Multiple perspectives on uncontrolled youth and life course interruptions -
23. Doing Care: pedagogy, methodology, fieldwork
Conveners: Arushi Sahay, Alankrita Anand
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 6-0-1
Cynthia Beavin: How abortion doula training can build empathetic research skills in qualitative interviews
Imogen Bevan: Sugar consumption as care, research on sugar consumption as care?
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Sualeha Shekhani, Priya Sharma: A caring ethics and ethics of caring: Reimagining ethical praxis using feminist ethics of care in multidisciplinary research on health and well-being
Carolina Espinosa-Escobar, Tirsa Colmenares-Roa, Sahira De Padua Cabrera, Aczel Sánchez-Cedillo, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas: Weaving bonds of care from ethical-methodological alerts in research with renal and liver transplant recipients
Regan Gee: Knowledges, care, and settler-colonialism: A CBPR study at an Indigenous-serving school
Katherine Mason, Andrea Flores: Tracking Covid-19 with First-Gen Students and First-Time Ethnographers: Building a "Transformatively Supportive" Collaborative Ethnography
Neha Nimble: Caring by Design: Implementing Human-Centered Design (HCD) in Indian Public Health
Harshal Sonekar: Caste and The Changing Nature of Care: An Anthropology Study of Madhya Pradesh, India -
34. Organizing Care as a research practice: Imaginative approaches
Conveners: Sabya Van Elswijk, Matouš Jelínek
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1
Sara Gerotto: Following policies of care: engaged anthropology through "the frontline" of a community-based health experience
Siënna Hernandez: From Paper to Practice: The Material Life of Care
Amelie Lange: Synchronising Multiple Temporalities of Care - Chronic Pain Management in the Danish Welfare State
Jitse Schuurmans: Timing the End of Life: Choreographing Rhythms in Advance Care Planning
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43. Co-produced Intersectional Justice and Trauma-informed ethnographic research methodologies: emancipation and inclusion possibilities and co-optation risks
Conveners: Carolina Borda, Xandra Miguel Lorenzo
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3
Elena Blanco de Tena-Dávila, Mercedes Serrano Miguel, Ángel Martínez Hernáez: The Guide to Collaborative Medication Management in mental health: an ethnographically co-produced empowerment-generating tool
Liam Gilchrist: Biomedical Discourses and Community-Institutional Power Relationships: An Ethnographic study of UK Community Based Participatory Research.
Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Thomas Osborn: Recovery College students’ self-care practices awareness: from crisis prevention to routine.
Nel Vandekerckhove: “Are You Really in Pain?”: Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain Patients and the Potential of Trauma-Informed Care Methods in Pain Research and Pain Medicine. -
44. The Politics of Health Care: Exploring Methodological Approaches to Exclusive Rationalities and Practices in Healthcare Systems
Conveners: Sabine Hess, Reza Bayat, Marie Fröhlich
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 2-0-4
Reza Bayat: Borders of Healthcare / Healthcare as Bordering Process: The Production of Healthcare for Migrants in Germany
Sweta Dash, Jith Jagajeevan Remadevi, Surekha Garimella: Centering Sensitivities and Voices: Co-Producing Elements of an Intervention for Strengthening Community Voice in Urban Health Systems
Marie Lison Fröhlich: “So, who’s responsible here?”: An Ethnographic Reproduction Regime Analysis on Health Policies as Bordering Mechanisms
Carolina Garzon-Esguerra: Migration, research, illness: interdisciplinary methodological itineraries
Camille J. Laufer: Challenging Institutional Rationalities: Trans Self-Injection Workshops as Ethnographic Sites of Resistance
Yuqi Liu, Binhui Liu: Lost in Translation: Linguistic and Epistemic Insecurity in International Students’ NHS Experiences
Garvita Singh: Scoring Chronicity as Disability: Pain Disability Questionnaire in the Global South
Lot Tiebosch: On the Threshold of Care: Exploring Oscillating Compassion and Liminality in Dutch Healthcare for the Uninsured and Uninsurable
Roundtables
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R01. Material Certainties: Critical Reflections on the Future of Ethnographic Research in Disease and Pain
Conveners: Jose Manuel Allard Serrano, Sofia Ceresuela Del Valle, Rodrigo Diaz-Canio
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-4
Enka Blanchard: Pain and utilitarianism in disability studies
Livia Fernandes, Cheryl Davies, Jean Hay-Smith, Chrystal Jaye, Hemakumar Devan: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS OF A PAIN SERVICE: HIDDEN MESSAGES IN ENVIRONMENT AND INTERACTIONS
Maria Fernanda Pineda, Antonia Catalan, Maria Vega, Sebastian Castro, Teresita Gutierrez, Vicente Gomez: Towards more effective organ donation systems through design -
R06. Structural Competency: Tracing the Influence of Social Structures in Health as a Research and Teaching Agenda
Conveners: Mirko Pasquini, Margret Jäger
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-4
Nilufer Akalin: Immigrant-blind care: How immigrants experience the “inclusive” health system as they access care
Sofia Bowen: Historical Echoes of Structural Competency: Insights from Chile’s Mid-Century Psychiatric Reforms
Margret Jaeger, Monika Gritsch: Introducing structural competency in the German speaking world to tackle inequalities
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R07. Doing Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene
Conveners: Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Ivana dos Santos Teixeira: Reclaiming human-animal traditions as collective protection: about the toxicity of the meat industry in a community in the pampas of Brazil.
Jennie Gamlin: How can we make Indigenous people the ‘forces and agents of history’, by making their knowledge travel?
Victor Secco: Divining the Planetary Microbiome: AI, genomics and the future of situatedness in the life sciences
Paola M. Sesia: Health challenges in the Mexican Anthropocene: Contributions from a Critical Medical Anthropology located in the Global South
Rano Turaeva: Ethnographic Frictions in Disability Care: Shifting Paradigms in Uzbekistan’s Healthcare System
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R08. Applied Medical Anthropology in Times of Crisis
Conveners: Silvia Wojczewski, Viktoria Adler, Anna Christina Maukner, Ruth Kutalek
Presentations:
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
Nadine Beckmann, Sophie Everest: Humanising outbreak response: doing anthropology in the context of public health emergencies
Doris Burtscher: Applied Medical Anthropology in Humanitarian Contexts: Insights from Médecins Sans Frontières
Tamara Giles-Vermick: Sonar-Cities: A research-action for tackling vulnerabilities among urban populations facing climate-induced health emergencies and disasters
Young Su Park: Anamnesis of Crises: Historicity of Crises and Vulnerable Populations in Ethiopia and Kiribati
Ursula Wagner: Humanitarian health response for Ukrainian refugees in the Republic of Moldova -
R09. Crossing Boundaries between Medical Anthropology and Biomedicine (AGEM Roundtable)
Conveners: Ehler Voss, Márcio Vilar, Stefan Reinsch
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-4
Christine Holmberg: Building bridges: Understanding medical care at the crossroad from anthropology and epidemiology
Seth M. Holmes: Roundtable
Stefan Reinsch: Reflections on lerning to 'think, act and feel like a physician'.
Torsten Risør: Torsten Risør
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R12. Closing the distance? Medical anthropology between (health) activism and academia
Conveners: Sara Gerotto, Lucia Mair
Presentations:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2
Gregory Haimovich: Participatory Action Research on Linguistic Rights in Health Care: The case of Proyecto Xochiuehpol
Vivian Rocio Laurens-Rengifo: Blurring the lines between academia and activism: lessons from scholars/activists in Colombia
Youness Loukili: Counter-storytelling by local people as a means of criticizing and redesigning policies: The Case of Covid-19 in Urban Settlements in Morocco
Wren Wilson: HIV Activism, the Zero Transmission Goal, and Medical Anthropology in Scotland
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R14. How do hospitals (continue) to matter to anthropologists?
Conveners: Fanny Chabrol, Amina Soulimani
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-4
César Abadía-barrero: Can hospitals be decolonized/Are hospitals being decolonized?
Janina Kehr: On the more-than-medical in hospitals today
Mirko Pasquini: The Hospital as a Social laboratory. Investigating Privatisation and Healthcare Change Through the Lenses of Emergency Room Overcrowding.
Harris Solomon: Glitch Medicine: Cyberattacks and the Hospital's limits
Alice Street: The hospital as landfill: Burying, storing, and burning medical waste
Master Students’ Panel
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Emerging perspectives: Master’s students panel on critical engagements in medical anthropology
Conveners: Andreas Krauskopf, Paula Pospichal, Agnes Köchl
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2, 3 & 4 | Room 4-0-3
Meera Brennan: Within and Beyond the Shadows: Sapphic Well-Being in Contemporary Italy [Master's Thesis]
Paula Eikelboom: When do young people between 15 and 18 years old feel good enough about themselves in the Netherlands
Tsumugi Hanada: Embodied Narratives: On Chronic Illness, Multiplicity, and Autoethnography
Bronte Jones: “You’re the mother because the baby is in your belly”: The experience of accessing assisted reproduction as a trans or nonbinary person in the UK
Rahel Koch: Medical Knowledge on Spotify: The potentials of patient-led podcasts to democratize knowledge of under-recognized diseases
Agnes Köchl: #Millionsmissing: ME/CFS patients in Austria and their fight for visibility and recognition
Andreas Krauskopf: Epistemological encounters: Differing understandings of mental illness in an Austrian refugee home
Paula Pospichal: Dealing with Uncertainty: Women's Lived Experience with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Tirza Stock: Making Mothers - Motherhood in the context of assisted reproductive technologies
Ofir Tenenbaum: Aging (un)‘successfully’ within a collapsing state: How Upper-middle-class Jewish-Israeli elders’ navigate gerontological frameworks of health and wellbeing under realities of socio-political collapse?
Wendi Xu: The Peeking Ghost on the Deathbed: End-of-Life Care under the Promise to Modernity in China
Labs
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Labs
Abstract
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Lab1. Cesar Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Ruth Anderwald, Stefan Schneider - Lab title: Sensory Engagements with Microbes, Interdisciplinary Explorations of Human-Microbe Relation Affordances
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-2
Lab2. Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Dorte Bjerre Jensen - Rest as resistance - exploring restorative practice in overstimulating times
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2
Lab3. Kathryn Burns, Nuria Rossell, Jullia Challinor - Food as a Technology of Care: A Feminist Perspective on Nutrition, Well-being, and Health
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2
Lab4. Maurizia Mezza, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Shahana Siddiqui, PhD, University of Amsterdam - Stitching Meaning: Feminist Textures in Theory and Practice
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-4
Lab5. Hannelore van Bavel, Vivien Lou - Meet Vulvarium and Enter a Gallery of Vulva Statues (V3Part II) - featuring a case study from 'Panel 37: Genital Expectations'
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1
Lab6. Oli Williams, Glenn Robert, Bertil Lindenfalk - Researching and Improving Health(care) Post-Participatory Turn: can Elinor Ostrom's principles for collaborative group working help?
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2
Lab7. Alice Street, Millie Marriott Webb - Deconstructing devices: A practical laboratory in medical plastic
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-3
Lab8. Gianna Paniagua - Solving Communication Obstacles in Teen Support Groups: A Narrative Medicine Workshop
Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-3
Lab9. Anne-Sophie Reichert, Esther Vorwerk - In Our Own Measure: A FLINTA Workshop on Healing & Embodiment
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-1
Lab10. Ranjini Raghavendra - LAB: Health, Well-Being and Emerging Digital Technologies