Description:

The faculty conveners of the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group have joined forces to examine three phenomena over the long 20th century: the globalization of biomedicine, the codification of traditional medicine, and the constitutive role of the law in these processes.

SPECIAL EVENT presented by the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group at the Buffett Institute

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Program Details

Saturday, May 6 | 8:30AM – 5:30PM
1881 Sheridan Road . Harris Hall 108 . Evanston Campus

9:15 – 11:00AM | PANEL 1

PROJIT MUKHARJI
History + Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
"Common Law Ayurveda: A Legal History of Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth-Century South Asia"

PAUL JOHNSON
History, University of Michigan
"Possessed Persons and Legal Persons in Brazil"

CHAIR REBECCA SELIGMAN
Anthropology, Northwestern University

11:15AM – 12:30PM | PANEL 2

ROSEMARY COOMBE 
Law, Communication and Culture, York University
*"The Future and Frontiers of Culturalized Properties in the Global South"
(*pre-circulated paper available online)

COMMENTATOR KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN
Anthropology, University of Chicago

CHAIR LAURA PEDRAZA FARIÑA
Law, Northwestern University

2:00 – 3:45PM | PANEL 3

BRIDIE ANDREWS
History, Bentley University
"Western Understandings of Dang gui: Identification, Extraction, and Regulation"

STACEY LANGWICK 
Anthropology, Cornell University
"Troubling Rights: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Modern Herbalism in Tanzania”

CHAIR LINDA BARNES
Medical Anthropology, Boston University

4:15 – 5:30PM | PANEL 4

KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN 
Anthopology, University of Chicago
*"Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics"
(*pre-circulated paper available online)

COMMENTATOR ROSEMARY COOMBE
Law, Communication and Culture, York University

CHAIR CAROL HEIMER
Sociology, Northwestern University

Funded by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies in support of its Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group

with co-sponsorship from
The Science in Human Culture Program
The 2016-2017 Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science in Human Culture

image credit: The Citadel of Drugs, Franco Assetto, 1955