6th Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Annual Meeting, 11-12 June
2015, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research


“Emotions in/and Medical Anthropology”


We are proud to announce the 6th annual MAYS encounter among young medical
anthropology scholars taking place at the Amsterdam Institute for Social
Science Research (AISSR).

This year we will explore the relation between medical anthropology and
emotions. How do we conceptualize emotions as medical anthropologists?
What counts as emotions? Emotions can be enacted and experienced because
of disease and illness, but emotions can also become pathologized or seen
as vectors of well-being. Emotions can be seen as causing illnesses but
they can also result in healing. The analysis of emotions in disease,
illness and recovery is linked to an analysis of illness experience and
health-seeking actions. How do cultural perceptions shape when the showing
of emotions is appropriate and which emotions are culturally
accepted/appropriate? How do patients, healers, physicians, caregivers and
family members negotiate emotions amongst and between each other? What are
the intended and unintended consequences of emotion events and
experiences? In a broader sense, how do we mobilize emotions and how do
emotions mobilize us into certain actions, influence communication, and
navigate us through healthcare systems?

Furthermore, we welcome papers addressing methodological and ethical
issues related to emotions. How are emotions present in our work, how do
we work with them and embody them in our anthropological practice?

Topics for possible papers/panels can include, but are not limited to:

- Emotions and methodology
- Painful emotions, suffering, trauma etc.
- Joyful emotions, friendship, well-being etc.
- Cultural, ontological differences and emotions
- Emotions aimed toward others: care, compassion and worrying
- Embodied emotion
- Politics of emotions
- Emotion discourses and narratives


Format of the meeting:

The conference will have a peer-review structure. We believe this
structure is of great value since everyone will have the opportunity to
receive feedback and engage with each other's work, making the encounters
most productive. There will be two parallel group sessions, containing
eight presentations each. They will include paper presentations of ten
minutes followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Participants will be asked
to submit their papers ahead of time so that everybody can read them
beforehand. Furthermore, we will assign ‘presenter tandems’. This means
that someone else will present your paper and comment on it, and you will
be asked to comment on your tandem partner’s paper. This has proven to be
a productive format that guarantees each presenter will receive
well-founded feedback and typically initiates a constructive discussion.
Infos about workshops and a keynote lecture will follow in due time.

Registration fee:

There will be a small registration fee of 10 Euros per person to be paid
upon arrival to cover expenses for snacks, coffee, etc. We are currently
exploring funding possibilities. Unfortunately we will not be able to
refund speakers’ travel costs and strongly encourage you to search for
funding options in your own institutions.


Time line:

We invite you to submit an abstract of max. 300 words. After the
notification of acceptance you will be requested to submit your complete
paper, which should be no longer than 5,000 words (excluding references).

Abstract submission at [log in to unmask]

Deadline: February 1st 2015

Notification of acceptance: 1st March 2015

Deadline for paper submission: 1st May 2015


We are looking forward to reading and hearing about your research projects
and welcoming you in Amsterdam!


MAYS Coordinators:

Natashe Lemos Dekker (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research)
Judith Schühle (Freie Universität Berlin)

-- 
Judith Schühle M.A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
DFG-Projekt "African Medical Migration"

Institut für Ethnologie // Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin
Landoltweg 9-11
14195 Berlin
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+0049 30 838-59284

http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/forschung/arbeitsstellen/medical_anthropology/index.html

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