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Anthropology of Health Research Group

The Anthropology of Health group bridges biological and social anthropology, community medicine, evolutionary medicine, social epidemiology and public health. We work on local, regional and international scales. We aim to advance the interdisciplinary anthropological study of health, to critically debate local and international health issues, and to support impact and outreach activities.

Contact Research Co-ordinator: Dr Loretta Lou

 

Staff members

Professor Helen Ball Dr Roslyn Malcolm
Professor Gillian Bentley Dr Declan Murray
Dr Hannah Brown Professor Tessa Pollard
Dr Liana Chase Professor Andrew Russell
Professor Kate Hampshire Professor Bob Simpson
Dr Ben Hildred Dr Jed Stevenson
Dr Jack Jenkins Dr Johanna Thren
Dr Andrea Lambell Dr Tom Widger
Professor Jane Macnaughton  

 

Anthropology of Health Seminars 2024/25

Some of our Evolutionary Anthropology seminars are open to the public alongside our university community. Some are also live streamed through Zoom. For further information about individual seminars or the whole series, please contact Senior Research Administrator, Kate Payne (kate.payne@durham.ac.uk).

Building locations and directions are available through Google Maps.

Please also note that our other Research Groups will be presenting their own seminar series' during this period. You can find details on their Research Group pages: Evolutionary Anthropology (EARG) and Social Anthropology (SARG).

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2024

 

Wednesday 9 October, 15.30 - 17.00 (D217, Dawson Building)

  • WELCOME SESSION

 

Wednesday 16 October, 15.30 - 17.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • Andrea Ford (University of Edinburgh)
  • What is ‘new’ about FemTech? Data, privacy, and quantification”

 

Wednesday 30 October, 13.00 - 14.30 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • Joint seminar with AHRG
  • Eben Kirksey (Oxford University)

 

Wednesday 6 November, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME)
  • Marlee Tichenor
  • The Datafication of Health Policy and Health Data Ecosystems in Senegal

Wednesday 13 November, 15.30 - 17.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • Emmanuel Oladipo (University of Manchester)
  • Belonging in Medicine: An Autoethnographic study through spoken word poetry

 

Wednesday 20 November, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
  • Elisabeth Kirtsoglou – Inaugural Professorial Lecture
  • Title TBA

 

Wednesday 27 November, 15.30 - 17.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • Kateryna Maltseva (NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • Using life history orientation strategy theory to explain how stress in childhood affects health outcomes in adulthood

 

Wednesday 11 December, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre) 

  • LAYTON DIALOGUE
  • ‘Multispecies Ethnography as a forum for dialogue in anthropology’

 

EPIPHANY TERM 2025

 

Wednesday 15 January, 13.00 - 14.30 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar
  • Chris Courtney (Durham University)
  • From Miasmatic Mists to Air-Conditioning Disease: Worrying About Humidity in Chinese History
  • Abstract to follow

 

Wednesday 22 January, 13.00 - 14.30 (D104, Dawson Building)

  • William Tantam (University of Bristol)
  • Virtual abuse, infinite harm: Conceptualising trauma with survivors of online-facilitated child sexual abuse
  • Abstract to follow

 

Wednesday 5 February, 13.00 - 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • SARG & AHRG Joint-seminar
    • Why and how we speak with the dead: an interdisciplinary dialogue on spiritualist practices in China and the UK
  • Adam Reed (University of St Andrews)
    • Living Images: Spiritualism and the equivocations of mediumship
  • Luis Junquiera (University of Cambridge)
    • Divine Influence or Mental Power? Redefining Ritual Healing in Republican China (1912-1949)

 

Wednesday 12 February, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre) 

  • DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME)
  • Tom Neumark
  • Title TBA

 

Wednesday 19 February, 13.00 - 14.30 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • Looking for biosolidarity: The struggle for community-making among eco-anxious climate activists in Britain
  • Bridget Bradley (University of St Andrews)

 

Wednesday 26 February, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre) 

  • DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (DATA THEME)
  • Alberto Acerbi (Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento)
  • Title TBA

 

Wednesday 5 March, 13.00 - 14.30 (D104, Dawson Building)

  • PhD students seminar
  • Off-the-boat 

 

Wednesday 19 March, 15.00 (CLC407, Calman Learning Centre)

  • DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
  • Tom Widger – Inaugural Professorial Lecture
  • Title TBA

 

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Taught Courses

We offer a range of postgraduate taught programmes offering the opportunity to pursue advanced specialist courses and also conversion courses from other degrees.

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Research, Impact and Engagement

We are one of the largest departments of Anthropology in the UK, spanning social anthropology, evolutionary anthropology and the anthropology of health.

Research, Impact and Engagement

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