Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tentative Conference Agenda

Social Health Conference in Honor of Steven Feierman
With precirculated papers

Friday, 3-5 p.m.
The Global Meets the Vernacular
Chair: Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola University

"Contemporary Struggles for Control over the Knowledge and Value of Therapeutic Plants in East Africa"
Stacey Langwick
, Cornell University

“A Tale of Two Cities:
Cultural and Social Responses to the Global Spread of Dengue Fever, Singapore and New Delhi”
Randall Packard, Johns Hopkins University

"The Social Reproduction of Health: Local and Global Idioms in Central African Communal Politics"
John Janzen, University of Kansas

“The Global Circulation of Risk Interventions”
Robert Aronowitz, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, 9-10.30
The Religious and the Therapeutic
Chair: Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania

“Qur'an Schooling, Healing, and Social Health in Senegal”
Rudolph Ware, University of Michigan

“Creating a State of Public Health: Seasonal Geographies of Collective Healing in Punjab from Late Medieval to Colonial Times”
Lauren Minsky, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and NYU Abu Dhabi

“Health, Welfare, and Politics in Botswana’s Tati Concession:
The Contrasting Recommendations of Isaac Schapera and Kali John Matsheka”
Paul Landau, University of Maryland

Saturday, 11.00-12.30
Tanzanian Afflictions
Chair: Joyce Kirk, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

"The Social Costs of Colonial Production: On Workers’ Health in Tanzanian
Mining Labour Camps, 1930-1940"
Frederick J. Kaijage, University of Dar Es Salaam
To be introduced by Stacey Langwick, Cornell University

“Violence and Affliction in Colonial Zanzibar”
Jonathan Glassman, Northwestern University

Saturday, 2-3.30
Violence, Secrecy, Public Healing
Chair: Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University

"Healing + Violence = Sovereignty: Histories of a Hard Equation.”
David Schoenbrun, Northwestern University

"Privatized Public Healing? Women's narratives of escaping violation in Kampala's violent times."
Holly Hanson, Mt. Holyoke College

"A Nervous State: Healing and Dissent in the Wake of Violence in Colonial Congo"
Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan

Saturday, 4-5.30
Producing the Clinic Today
Chair: Cheikh Babou, University of Pennsylvania

"Coalitions of Care in Global Medicine"
Adriana Petryna, University of Pennsylvania

“Invisible Bureaucrats and Heroic Experts in Botswana HIV Drug Therapy Program 2002-2004”
Elise Carpenter, University of Pennsylvania

“The Moral Intimacies of Care”
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University

Saturday, 5.30-6.30
Discussant of the Day
Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University