The Anthropology of Health group bridges biological and social anthropology, community medicine, evolutionary medicine, social epidemiology and public health. We work on local, regional and international scales. We aim to advance the interdisciplinary anthropological study of health, to critically debate local and international health issues, and to support impact and outreach activities.
Contact Research Co-ordinator: Dr Loretta Lou
Staff members:
Dr Roslyn Malcolm
Professor Helen Ball
Professor Gillian Bentley
Dr Hannah Brown
Dr Liana Chase
Professor Kate Hampshire
Dr Ben Hildred
Dr Jack Jenkins
Dr Andrea Lambell
Professor Jane Macnaughton
Dr Declan Murray
Professor Tessa Pollard
Professor Andrew Russell
Professor Bob Simpson
Dr Jed Stevenson
Dr Johanna Thren
Dr Tom Widger
For further information, please contact Senior Research Administrator, Kate Payne (kate.payne@durham.ac.uk)
MICHAELMAS TERM
Wednesday 9 October (D217, Dawson)
3.30-5:00pm WELCOME SESSION
Wednesday 16 October (CLC407, Top floor of the Calman)
3.30-5:00pm Andrea Ford (University of Edinburgh)
What is ‘new’ about FemTech? Data, privacy, and quantification”
Wednesday 30 October [SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar] (CLC407, Calman)
Wednesday 6 November
DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME) 3pm (CLC407, Calman)
Marlee Tichenor The Datafication of Health Policy and Health Data Ecosystems in Senegal
Wednesday 13 November (CLC407, Calman)
3.30-5:00pm Emmanuel Oladipo (University of Manchester) Belonging in Medicine: An Autoethnographic study through spoken word poetry
Wednesday 20 November DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR, 3pm (CLC407, Calman)
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou – Inaugural Professorial LectureTitle TBA
Week 8/Wednesday 27 November (CLC407, Calman)
3.30-5:00pm Kateryna Maltseva (NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine) Using life history orientation strategy theory to explain how stress in childhood affects health outcomes in adulthood
Week 10/Wednesday 11 December
LAYTON DIALOGUE, 3pm (CLC407, Calman)
‘Multispecies Ethnography as a forum for dialogue in anthropology’
EPIPHANY TERM
Wednesday 15 January [SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar] (CLC407, Calman)
1.00-2.30pm Chris Courtney (Durham University), From Miasmatic Mists to Air-Conditioning Disease: Worrying About Humidity in Chinese HistoryAbstract to follow
Wednesday 22 January (D104, Dawson)
1.00-2.30pm William Tantam (University of Bristol), Virtual abuse, infinite harm: Conceptualising trauma with survivors of online-facilitated child sexual abuse
Abstract to follow
Wednesday 5 February [SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar] (CLC407, Calman)
1.00-3pm Why and how we speak with the dead: an interdisciplinary dialogue on spiritualist practices in China and the UK
Adam Reed (University of St Andrews), Living Images: Spiritualism and the equivocations of mediumship
Luis Junquiera (University of Cambridge), Divine Influence or Mental Power? Redefining Ritual Healing in Republican China (1912-1949)
Wednesday 12 February
DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME), 3pm (CLC407, Calman)
Tom NeumarkTitle TBA
Wednesday 19 February (CLC407, Calman)
1.00-2.30pm Bridget Bradley (University of St Andrews) Looking for biosolidarity: The struggle for community-making among eco-anxious climate activists in Britain
Wednesday 26 February
Alberto Acerbi (Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento)
Title TBA
Wednesday 5 March (D104, Dawson)
1.00-2.30pm Off-the-boat PhD students seminar
Wednesday 19 March
DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR, 3pm (CLC407, Calman)
Tom Widger – Inaugural Professorial Lecture Title TBA
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