When:
Friday, May 5, 2017
4:00 PM - 6:45 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, The Leopold Room, Harris 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0
All are welcome to attend.
Contact:
Natasha Dennison
(847) 491-3525
Group: Global Medical Cultures and Law (Buffett Institute)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
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
May 5-7, 2017 | Medical Cultures, Traditions, and Law
Friday, May 5 | 1881 Sheridan Road . Harris Hall 108 . Evanston Campus
4:00 – 5:45PM | KEYNOTE DIALOGUE
“Intellectual Property, Debt, and Traditional Knowledge"
MADHAVI SUNDER
Law, University of California Davis
CHIDI OGUAMANAM
Law, University of Ottawa
CHAIR HELEN TILLEY
History, Northwestern University
5:45 – 6:45PM | KEYNOTE RECEPTION
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
When:
Saturday, May 6, 2017
8:30 AM - 7:45 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, The Leopold Room, Harris 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0
All are welcome to attend.
Contact:
Natasha Dennison
(847) 491-3525
Group: Global Medical Cultures and Law (Buffett Institute)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
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
Click here to rsvp
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
When:
Sunday, May 7, 2017
8:45 AM - 12:30 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, The Leopold Room, Harris 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0
All are welcome to attend.
Contact:
Natasha Dennison
(847) 491-3525
Group: Global Medical Cultures and Law (Buffett Institute)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
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
Click here to rsvp
Program Details
Sunday, May 7 | 8:45AM – 12:30PM
1881 Sheridan Road . Harris Hall 108 . Evanston Campus
9:15 – 11:00AM | PANEL 5
"Enabling Restrictions: Law, Medicine, and Female Sterilization in Costa Rica"
MARÍA CARRANZA
INCIENSA, University of Costa Rica
&
STEVEN PALMER
History, University of Windsor
SIRI SUH
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
"Globalizing Reproductive Health in Senegal: The Troubled Medicalization of Abortion in an Illegal Landscape"
CHAIR NOELLE SULLIVAN
Anthropology, Northwestern University
11:30AM – 12:30PM | WRAP-UP + BRUNCH (provided with rsvp)
New Research and Publishing Opportunities
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