Guests 2018

Jeanette Edwards

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Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She has carried out ethnographic research on kinship and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK, convened and directed an EU-funded collaborative project on ‘public understandings’ of genetics, and was recently chair of a Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party focusing on cosmetic procedures.

The Body, Beauty and Botox: Revisiting the ‘Awkward Relationship’ Between Feminism and Anthropology

Christiana Giordano

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Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (University of California Press, 2014)  addresses the politics of migration in Europe through the lens of ethno-psychiatry and its radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of recognition of foreign others. Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (University of California Press, 2014)  addresses the politics of migration in Europe through the lens of ethno-psychiatry and its radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of recognition of foreign others.

Exceeding Crisis: The Psychic Life of Drawings

Richard Rottenburg

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Richard Rottenburg is professor of anthropology at the University in Halle, where he has founded a research network focusing on the anthropology of ‘Law, Organization, Science and Technology’ (LOST). In January 2019 he will join the WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research as Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies. Inspired by social studies of science and technology and renditions of pragmatist social theory, the emergence of material-semiotic orderings and their institutionalizations are at the heart of his current work.

Critique, Post-Foundationalism and the Need to Do the Right Thing

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