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Apologies for cross-posting- Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series at LSHTM Please join us for the second of our LSHTM Medical Anthropology seminars next Tuesday (7th November) 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 7th November- Jonah Lipton (London School of Economics) 'Balancing expectations: social responses to humanitarian intervention in the time of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone' In 2014 the Ebola virus entered Sierra Leone, soon to become the epicentre of a global health crisis. A state of emergency was declared, propped up by a large-scale and far-reaching humanitarian intervention; characterised by stringent bureaucratic and biomedical protocols, restrictions on social and economic life, and novel monetary flows. The paper - centring on residents of an urban neighbourhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, as well as young men recruited in the formal Ebola response - examines the interaction between the protocols and authoritative structures of the state of emergency and humanitarian intervention with established social routines and responses to 'crisis' in Freetown, through which residents were presented with contradictory, yet neither unfamiliar, sets of social expectations. While some of these tensions centred around practices that risked transmission of the Ebola virus - such as care and burial practices, which have received the most scholarly and humanitarian attention - the paper describes how a wider set of tensions and divergent visions pertaining to social, economic, and political life complexly mapped onto these fault lines, often in ways that challenge analysis of the crisis that pits 'local' culture squarely against 'foreign' humanitarian culture. The paper is informed by 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Freetown, immediately before and during the outbreak. Upcoming seminars: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rebecca Lynch Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH 020 7636 8636 ext. 8298 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************