AGEM
Willkommen bei der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM)
Die AGEM ist ein 1970 gegründeter gemeinnütziger Verein mit dem Ziel, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Medizin, den angrenzenden Naturwissenschaften und den Kultur‑, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zu fördern und dadurch das Studium des interdisziplinären Arbeitsfelds Ethnologie und Medizin zu intensivieren.
Was wir tun
- Herausgabe der Zeitschrift Curare
- Durchführung von Tagungen
- Dokumentation von Literatur und Informationen
Curare
Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie
Veranstaltungen
Ethics seminars for 2024
Workshop
Offered by the St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity (France)
St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity is pleased to announce the following Ethics seminars for 2024
Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Contributions from the Arts and Humanities (February 11–17, 2024, in Rome, Italy)
Ethics Educators Workshop (September 16–20, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Bioethics Colloquium (September 23–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Health Care Ethics: Catholic Perspectives (October 22–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
More info here
If you are interested in participating or have questions about the seminars, please contact Dr. Jos Welie MA, MMeds, JD, PhD, FACD directly: info[at]saintandre.org.
Health and more-than-human entanglements in African and Afro-diasporic religions
Panel
Hybrid panel in Johannesburg
Panel „Health and more-than-human entanglements in African and Afro-diasporic religions”
WAU Congress
Johannesburg, 11–15 November 2024
Modality: hybrid
Deadline: 13 May 2024
Link for submission: https://waucongress.org/call-for-papers/
Organizers:
Daniela Calvo (Kyoto University)
Francesca Bassi (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia)
Ran Muratsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Abstract:
The aim of this panel is to bring together ethnographies, as well as theoretical and methodological reflections on the diverse ways in which more-than-human beings entangle in the process of health and illness, in the framework of African and Afro-diasporic religions. Anthropology started to blur the borders between the biological and the social, the human and the non-human, and to consider health in a posthuman perspective, examining how more-than-human beings – including humans and other beings, considered as pertaining to the “natural realm” like animals, plants, minerals, forests, the earth etc.; those of the “technological realm” like objects, artifacts, medical instruments etc., and those of the “spiritual realm” like spirits, ancestors, divinities and forces – entwine and intermingle with one another, and participate in the process of health and illness. Health (intended in a broad sense, including biopsychosocial, ecological, economic and spiritual aspects, and related to participation with forces and energies) is impacted by more-than-human relations in different ways. Henceforth, we can consider human health to be enmeshed in multiple and complex relations with more-than-human beings, and the various ways in which more-than-human beings participate in healing rituals and therapeutic spaces (Chams & Dansac 2022). In addition, ecological issues, the health of the earth, waters, forests, animals, plants and ecosystems (Gottieb 2009), and interspecies relations are addressed concurrently. Since the ontologies of African and Afro-diasporic religions suggest interconnectivity, interdependence, and mutual in-becomings among more-than-human beings, they provide an intriguing framework for thinking about health and more-than-human entanglements. In fact, humans, and, more generally, more-than-human beings, have been analysed through dimensions like relationality (Bastide 1993), incompleteness and conviviality (Nyamnjoh 2017), translation, affect, mutual in-becomings and participation in the flows of life and materials (Calvo 2022), porosity of ontological borders, transformations and hybridizations. Based on the aforementioned perspectives, we propose to examine how the processes of health and illness are conceived, lived and enacted in African and Afro-diasporic religions, taking into account the multiple entanglements among more-than-human beings, as well as the ways in which more-than-human beings participate in healing rituals and other practices (taboos, daily behaviours, food, personal hygiene, prayers etc.) meant to preserve or restore (individual and collective) health, and in facing health crises. Thus, this panel proposes to explore how, within African and Afro-diasporic religions, more-than-human beings participate in the production of the body, health, and healing; how more-than-human entanglements emerge in the experiences of health, illness, and healing rituals; which cosmopolitics and ontologies emerge in therapeutic spaces; which practices are enacted regarding animals’, plants’, the earth’s and other beings’ health; how religious healing spaces interact with other medical systems; what “healths” and cosmopolitics emerge from fieldworks conducted amid ecological disasters, political-economic instability, wars and health crises, and related issues.
For any question, you can contact me: dnlclv7@gmail.com
Daniela Calvo
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Kyoto University
Jon Wagner: Visual Literacy and Alzheimer’s Caregiving
Vortrag
Lecture in the frameworks of The Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA webinar series “Images, Ageing and Care”
Jon Wagner (Professor Emeritus, UC Davis): “Visual Literacy and Alzheimer’s Caregiving”
Hosted and moderated by Paolo Favero (ViDi/UAntwerp and VANEASA).
Monday 13th May 2024
5:30PM to 7:00PM CEST, 4:30PM to 6:00PM BST, 8:30AM-10:00 PDT (Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7557790079?pwd=S3o4dDI0a214K2gxM1R2TVZCTXc0QT09; Meeting ID: 755 779 0079; Passcode: 8YcsCF)
The talk (which will also host some interactive moments) will focus on visual literacy skills and materials as a resource for caregivers of people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.