With apologies for cross-posting
Dear all,
Please find below the programme for the final ESRC-sponsored Vital
Geographies Seminar on "Biosecurity, biopolitics and the spaces of
substantive health rights" on December 14, 2007. Speakers include John
Cornwell (Cambridge University), Vincent Del casina (Cal State Long Beach),
Vinh-Kim Nguyen (McGill), Katerine Storeng (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine) and Andrew Lakoff (UC San Diego).
The seminar will take place at the City Centre, Department of
Geography, Queen Mary, University of London.
For further information and directions, see
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/vital/index.html
Places are free and lunch is included. However, since space is
limited, please email Clare Herrick to confirm attendance at
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Clare Herrick
Department of Geography
King's College London
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Vital Geographies III. Politics: Biosecurity, biopolitics and the
spaces of substantive health rights
Friday 14th December
City Centre Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Queen Mary
College, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS.
10.30
Coffee
11.00
John Cornwell, Jesus College, Cambridge
HIV/AIDS in Uganda and Women's Grassroots Initiatives. John is the
author of a number of acclaimed books about the history of science and
religion. His most recent book is Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to "The
God Delusion.
11.45
Vincent Del Casino, Department of Geography at California State
University, Long Beach, USA,
"Negotiating life, HIV, health and healing in Chiang Mai, Thailand
and Long Beach, California: A complex geography of care in 'oh-so-
different' places", Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. has published numerous
articles and book chapters related to his interest in critical social
theory and health geography with a particular focus on health care
programs for people living with HIV disease as well as HIV prevention
outreach in both Thailand and Long Beach, California.
13.00
Lunch
14.30
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, McGill University
"Experimentality. AIDS relief and the emergence of a military
therapeutic complex in Africa?" Vinh-Kim is a physician and medical
anthropologist, and an associate member of the Department of Anthropology at
MicGill where he has carried out a series of studies into the political and
social impact of AIDS funding regimes in West Aftrica. He was recently
awarded the SSHRC Aurora Prize for his critical work on humanitarian relief.
15.15
Katerini T. Storeng
Meeting the target but missing the goal: global advocacy for
maternal health
Katerini is an anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Health, where she has been involved in a longitudinal
interdisciplinary study exploring the health, social and economic
consequences of severe obstetric complications for women in Burkina Faso and
Indonesia. With Dominique Behague, she has just completed an ESRC-funded
ethnographic study of evidence-based policy-making in international maternal
health.
4.00
Coffee
4.30
Andrew Lakoff
The Materialities of Information: Genomics and Global Psychiatry.
Andrew is an anthropologist in the Department of Sociology at the University
of California, San Diego. For his recent book, Pharmaceutical Reason, he
carried out fieldwork on the role of the global circulation of
pharmaceuticals in the spread of biological models of human behavior.
5.30 Reception
7.00 Dinner
