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Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series at LSHTM

Please join us for the first of our LSHTM Medical Anthropology seminars TOMORROW (Tuesday 3rd October) from 4pm-5pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH. We will head out for drinks after the seminar.



Tuesday 3rd October – Branwyn Poleykett (University of Cambridge)

            ‘Decolonising health communication: image and interpretation in Dakar’



Anthropologists of Global Health are increasingly interested in the places and moments at which “health” comes to figure and to matter, tracking states of health through data driven imaginaries to consider the contraction and expansion of political opportunities associated with different scientific and bureaucratic visions of public health.  In response, many medical anthropologists are advocating a parallel “conceptualization of health from other places” (Yates Doerr and Carney, 2015). Based on research with Senegalese artists working in the popular ecology tradition of Set Setal, this paper examines how these artists visually interrogate and construct “health”. Research with artists, I argue, expands the conceptual reach of medical anthropology in important ways. Examining how these actors craft images addressing public health can suggest ways in which we might seek to decolonize, embed and sharpen health communication strategies.





Upcoming seminars:



Tuesday 7th November- Jonah Lipton (London School of Economics)

‘Balancing expectations: social responses to humanitarian intervention in the time of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone’



Tuesday 5th December- Zeynep Gurtin (London Women’s Clinic & Centre for Family Research & University of Cambridge)

‘Understanding egg freezing: bridging clinical and sociological questions to explore a rapidly expanding phenomenon’



For more information please contact: Rebecca Lynch ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Melissa Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)





All welcome, please distribute widely.



Best wishes,

Rebecca and Melissa



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Rebecca Lynch
Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology)

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH
020 7636 8636 ext. 8298

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