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 [log in to unmask]. 

 

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