Medical Anthropology in Global Africa:

Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice

Date: September 17 - 18, 2010

 

Venues: The Commons in Spooner Hall and the Spencer Museum of Art, both at the University of Kansas in Lawrence

 

Purpose:

This conference aims to bring together Africanist anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines whose research concerns the intersections among cultural anthropology and medicine, public health, psychology, history, population & development, and science & technology studies.

 

Keynote Address:

Voices from the West African Diaspora in Paris: Bintou's Story and the Prospects for Global Ethnography in Medical Anthropology

Carolyn Sargent, Washington University, St. Louis (more)

Featured Exhibit:

Selected artifacts and photographs from the exhibit project “African Healing Journeys” of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology will be on display the opening reception and throughout the conference at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.

 

Registration:

Registration fees for full-time faculty are $80 for online payment before September 10. ($100 for on-site registration).  The cost for students is $25, whether online or on-site. To register online for the conference, go to the Online Registration page.

**Please note that registration is not complete until you have paid registration fees. To pay fees online, you must go to the Online Payment page.

 

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For further information, please see the contact details below.  If you have any specific requirements, do not hesitate to contact a member of the conference coordinating team: Dr. Kathryn Rhine, Dr. John Janzen, Dr. Glenn Adams, Heather Aldersey

Kansas African Studies Center
Bailey Hall, Rm 10
1440 Jayhawk Boulevard
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045

Phone: (785) 864-3745
Fax: (785) 864-5330
Email: kasc.maga2010@gmail.com