SMA INVITED SESSION

Thursday, 17 November 2011: 08:00 -11:45

Chairs: P. Sean Brotherton (Yale University), Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Université de Montréal)

and Sarah Franklin (London School of Economics)

Discussants: Lawrence Cohen (University of California - Berkeley), Judith Farquhar (University of Chicago),

Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study) and Veena Das (John Hopkins University )

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Beyond the Nature/Culture Dichotomy to Inextricable Entanglements

MARGARET LOCK PhD (McGill University )

A Child Surrounds This Brain

RAYNA RAPP (New York University)

Biosociality and Epigenomics In An Egyptian Genetics Clinic

SHERINE F HAMDY (Brown University )

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 )

Ontological Mutations and Shape-Shifters: Local Biologies, Indian

Odysseys, and Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies

ADITYA BHARADWAJ (University of Edinburgh)

Discussant

DIDIER FASSIN (Institute for Advanced Study)

Discussant

VEENA DAS (John Hopkins University )

Break

Globalizing Biologies: Making the Subtle Winds Part of An Evidence Economy

VINCANNE ADAMS (University of California - San Francisco)

Contesting the Making of Rural Indians Into Neoliberal Subjects of Biomedicine and

Pharmaceutical Companies

FOUZIEYHA TOWGHI (University of Zurich)

Epigenomes and Inequities: Community Knowledge for a Post-Genomic World

MICHAEL MONTOYA (University of California - Irvine)

Multiplicities of Tuberculosis: Contingency and Contagion In Global Health

ERIN KOCH (University of Kentucky)

Discussant

LAWRENCE COHEN (University of California - Berkeley)

Discussant

JUDITH FARQUHAR (University of Chicago)

Discussion

PAPERS IN HONOUR OF THE WORK OF MARGARET LOCK

BEYOND THE BODY PROPER: BIOPOLITICS AND BIOCONTINGENCIES