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3-0275 BEYOND THE BODY PROPER: BIOPOLITICS AND BIOCONTINGENCIES
Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:  vinh-Kim Nguyen (University of Montreal) and P. Sean Brotherton (Yale University)
Chairs:  P. Sean Brotherton (Yale University) and vinh-Kim Nguyen (University of Montreal)
Discussants:  Lawrence Cohen (University of California - Berkeley), Judith Farquhar (University of Chicago), Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study) and Veena Das (John Hopkins University )
08:00
Beyond the Nature/Culture Dichotomy to Inextricable Entanglements
Margaret Lock PhD (McGill University )
08:15
A Child Surrounds This Brain
Rayna Rapp (New York University)
08:30
Biosociality and Epigenomics In An Egyptian Genetics Clinic
Sherine F Hamdy (Brown University )
08:45
The Politics of Biogenetic Contingency: Sickle Cell Traits, Traces, and the Contested Stakes of Illness In Senegal and the United States
Duana Fullwiley (Harvard University )
09:00
Ontological Mutations and Shape-Shifters: Local Biologies, Indian Odysseys, and Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
Aditya Bharadwaj (University of Edinburgh)
09:15
Discussant
Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study)
09:30
Discussant
Veena Das (John Hopkins University )
09:45
Break
10:00
Globalizing Biologies: Making the Subtle Winds Part of An Evidence Economy
Vincanne Adams (University of California - San Francisco)
10:15
Contesting the Making of Rural Indians Into Neoliberal Subjects of Biomedicine and Pharmaceutical Companies
Fouzieyha Towghi (University of Zurich)
10:30
Epigenomes and Inequities: Community Knowledge for a Post-Genomic World
Michael Montoya (University of California - Irvine)
10:45
Multiplicities of Tuberculosis: Contingency and Contagion In Global Health
Erin Koch (University of Kentucky)
11:00
Discussant
Lawrence Cohen (University of California - Berkeley)
11:15
Discussant
Judith Farquhar (University of Chicago)
11:30
Discussion
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