Health, Body, Biotechnology: Cultural-anthropological Perspectives Public series of lectures in the framework of the correspondent colloquium for graduate students (pursuing a MA in cultural anthropology) – under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz, Jun. Prof. Dr. Meike Wolf and Dr. Katrin Amelang Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main Summer term 2015, Wednesdays 6-8pm Biomedical knowledge currently takes a key role, when it comes to offering answers to a wide range of social, medical, political and economic problems. Why is sugar bad for your health? When is the right time to have children? How do we want to age and who shall pay for it? How do I avoid getting the flu? When does life begin? Questions like these are by now primarily answered by drawing on biomedical expertise. At the same time biomedical explanations and developments do not remain uncontested but are the subject of societal debate and negotiation. The colloquium focuses on considerations about how the continuous increase of biotechnological procedures and medical knowledge have a shaping influence on numerous aspects of daily life and in doing so are generating body images, socialities and ideas, which present a specific form of how embodied human living is approached. Conversely, the respective versions of embodiment/corporeality affect the way how the perception and dealing with health and illness within a society is medically conceptualized. In this context it has to be discussed how the bio-cultural constitution of health and illness has to be understood from a cultural-anthropological perspective as something that interacts with social patterns of order, concrete environmental conditions as well as sociotechnical forms of practice. This perspective pays attention to the relations between bodies, biotechnologies and health as well as to the categories, techniques of regulation, institutionalizations, norms, ethics and artefacts, which are developed and differentiated in these relations in situated practices. Against this background the colloquium takes up a number of problem areas and scopes of the theme – from reproductive medicine and drug policy through regimes of nutrition to technologies of preparedness – which illustrate the diversity of current social scientific and particularly ethnographic research in the field of health, embodiment and biotechnology, and offers the opportunity to discuss these problem and subject areas from a cultural-anthropological perspective. Campus Westend • Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1 • D-60323 Frankfurt am Main Programm 29.04. „Ebola überall!“ – Biosicherheitsübungen und ihre raum-zeitlichen Arrangements (Meike Wolf & Kevin Hall, Universität Frankfurt) 06.05. On the politics of cause and blame: How can STS and a topological approach contribute to the understanding of disease events? (Linda Madsen, University of Oslo) 13.05. Fast normale Alltage? Normalisierungsprozesse nach einer Organtransplantation (Katrin Amelang, Universität Frankfurt) 20.05. Alles unter Kontrolle: Selbstoptimierung unter Netzbedingungen (Verena Kuni, Universität Frankfurt) 27.05. Vom Diagnostizieren psychiatrischer Erkrankungen: Standards und Skills in psychiatrischen Wissenspraktiken (Martina Klausner, HU Berlin) 03.06. Virtuelle Experimente: Datenökonomien der Gesundheitsforschung (Susanne Bauer, Universität Frankfurt) 10.06. Metis Medicine: Treating Tuberculosis in the Northern Clinic (Janina Kehr, Universität Zürich) 17.06. Raffiniert & reguliert: Das Handels- und Konsumgut Zucker im Blick der Kulturanthropologie (Kerstin Poehls, Universität Hamburg) 24.06. Where Audit and Hospitality Meet: Biomedical Research Governance in the AsiaPacific Region (Rachel Douglas-Jones, IT University of Copenhagen) 01.07. Living (better) with social problems: a preliminary analysis of drug politics in Hungary (Endre Dányi, Universität Frankfurt) 08.07. Was ist in einer Keimzelle enthalten? Klassifikation und Imagination in der Reproduktionsmedizin (Sven Bergmann, Charité Berlin) Seite 2 von 2