Events, Conferences, and Symposia

Medicine, Markets, and Bodies Fall 1999 Colloquium Series

Sponsored by:

Institute for International Studies
Human Rights Center
Program in Medical Anthropology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Professor of Anthropology and Co-founder, Organs Watch

"Bodies of Apartheid: The Ethics and Economics of Organ Transplantation in South Africa"

Tuesday, September 28^th 4:30 PM 442 Stevens Hall

Co-sponsored by:

the Berkeley-Stanford Joint Center for African Studies

Paul Rabinow

Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology; author of French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

"Truth, Ethics, Genomics: The Case of Iceland"

Wednesday, September 29^th 12:00 Noon 221 Kroeber Hall (The Gifford Room)

Eric Klinenberg

Center for Urban Ethnography and Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley

"Beyond Body Politics: The Social Autopsy of a Natural Disaster"

Wednesday, October 6th 1:00 PM 223 Moses Hall (IIS Conference Room)

Linda Hogle

Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics

"Public Good, Private Rights, and Inviolability of the Body in the New Germany"

Friday, October 22^nd, 1:00 PM Gifford Room, 3rd Floor, Kroeber Hall

Inaugurating Organs Watch: Documenting and Preventing Human Rights Abuses

A Panel Discussion with

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Lawrence Cohen, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Discussant: Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley

Monday, November 8^th, 12:15 PM 223 Moses Hall (IIS Conference Room)

Lawrence Cohen

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-director, Organs Watch

"Where It Hurts: Indian Material for a Sociology of Transplantation"

Tuesday, November 23^rd, 4:00 PM 221 Kroeber Hall (The Gifford Room)

Hernan Reyes, MD

International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva;Visiting Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia University

"The Prisoner’s Body"

Wednesday, December 1^st, 4:00 PM 223 Moses Hall (IIS Conference Room)

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