Author: Karen-Kathrine Vedel Sørensen

Monday April 27 from 15.00–17.00
Room 16.2.55, Department of Anthropology, CSS

15.00-15.05 Welcome – Antropologforeningen

15.05-15.35 Professor Susan Whyte, Associate Professor Hanne Mogensen  and Professor Emeritus Michael Whyte  from Department of Anthropology will present “Second Chances – Surviving AIDS in Uganda”

15.35-16.05 Professor Lisa Ann Richey from International Development Studies, RUC, will engage in discussion

16.05-16.20 Break

16.20-17.00 Open discussion

As usual we will serve drinks and crispy chips. Registration is not required. We are looking forward to seeing you.

Mandag d. 23. februar kl. 16.00-17.30

Lokale 16.2.55, Institut for Antropologi, Center for Sundhed og Samfund (CSS)

Dette temanummer sætter fokus på menneskets stræben efter at selvudvikle, forandre og forbedre ved hjælp af en mangfoldighed af teknologier og medicinske produkter og servicer, som får afgørende betydning for menneskers selvforståelse og gør kroppen, livet og selvet til et personligt projekt. Tendensen er særligt tydelig inden for sundhed, selvudvikling og kropslig og mental perfektion. Temanummeret går i dybden med eksempler på optimeringspraksisser og de sociale og kulturelle sammenhænge, de eksisterer i, og undersøger, hvordan de forskellige teknikker og praksisser påvirker hverdagsliv og forståelsen af, hvad det vil sige at være menneske.

Ved lanceringen vil redaktørerne sige et par ord om baggrunden for temanummeret efterfulgt af oplæg ved forfatterne Steffen Dalsgaard, Britt Ross Winthereik, Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson, Lærke Riis Pålsson og Maria Holten-Andersen.

Antropologforeningen sørger for forfriskninger til pausen. Arrangementet er åbent for alle, og tilmelding er ikke nødvendigt. Vel mødt!

Narrative, Suffering and Possible Selves:  Moral Experiments in the Good Life

Venue: Center for Sundhed og Samfund (CSS), Øster Farimagsgade 5A, room 5.0.22.

Time: August 18^th 2014 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Host: Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies and the Danish Association of Anthropologists

Abstract:

This talk concerns the cultivation of a subjunctive or “experimental” narrative self.  It is based upon long-term research among African American parents raising children with chronic or severe illnesses and disabilities.  These parents often find themselves propelled to imagine and try to transform their lives. The moral engine of their efforts is a crucial “ground project” (Bernard Williams 1981) that I am calling “care of the intimate other.” There is a temporality to such projects of care that strongly suggests an inherent narrativity to ethical practice and its self-constituting nature. However, the notion of a narrative self has been widely unfashionable in many quarters.  Challenges are the product not only of postmodern/poststructuralist “death of the author” declarations but also emanate from concerns that a narrative self suggests too much coherence and a simple linear life story. Drawing upon one of the parents in my study whose four year old daughter faces probable death, I complicate this coherence portrait by examining how she tries to cultivate uncertainty through the simultaneous nurturing of multiple and mutually exclusive life plots.  This is directly related to her moral concern to cultivate new forms of hope in the face of her child’s grim prognosis.

Cheryl Mattingly, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern California.  Her primary research and theoretical interests include: narrative, moral reasoning and experience, phenomenology, the culture of biomedicine, chronic illness and disability, the ethics of care, and health disparities in the United States.  She has published extensively on these topics and has received several awards from the American Anthropological Association for her publications. Major books include:  Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots:  the Narrative Structure of Experience (Cambridge University Press); The Paradox of Hope: Journeys Through a Clinical Borderland (University of California Press) and Moral Laboratories:  Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press, Forthcoming 2014).

Onsdag d. 4. juni kl. 15.00-17.00 i lokale 35.3.12, Center for Sundhed og Samfund (CSS)

Torsdag d. 15. maj kl. 14:30-16:30 i lok. 4.1.12, Ethnographic Exploratory, CSS.

Endnu en gang inviterer Antropologforeningen til en Monografik Happy Hour. Denne gang med Mads Daugbjergs nye bog “Borders of Belonging. Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site”.

Program:

14:30 – 14:35 Velkomst v. Kasper Tang Vangkilde, adjunkt, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Aarhus Universitet

14:35 – 15:05 Præsentation af ”Borders of Belonging. Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site” v. Mads Daugbjerg, lektor, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Aarhus Universitet

15:05 – 15:35 Diskussion af ”Borders of Belonging. Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site” v. Mikkel Bille, lektor, Institut for Miljø, Samfund og Rumlig Forandring, Roskilde Universitet

15:35 – 15:50 Pause

15:50 – 16:30 Åben diskussion

Som altid vil der være snacks, vin, øl og vand. Arrangementet er åbent for alle, og tilmelding er ikke nødvendigt. Vel mødt!