Organizers of panels and discussants


Mental health and psychiatry
Johannes Quack
Ph.D.
Discussant




Heidelberg University 

Email: j.quack@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Focus of research:
·                     Popular Hinduism,
·                     Medical Anthropology (Mental Health),
·                     Anthropology of Religion,
·                     Secularism and Non-Religion,
·                     Ritual Theory
Read more: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/person/persdetail/quack-1.html?no_cache=1




Nina Grube
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel




Westphalian Wilhelm University of Munster
Institute of Social Anthropology
Email: ngrub_01@uni-munster.de

Focus of research:
·   Medical Anthropology ,
·   Transcultural Psychiatry & Mental Health,
·   Migration & Transnationalism,
·   Hospital Ethnography, Biomedical clinical psychiatry
·  Ritual healing & African Pentecostal churches in Germany
Read more:  http://www.uni-muenster.de/Ethnologie/Personen/Grube/index.html  




Health revisited: 
understanding the search for well-being 
in social, economic, emotional and political contexts 

Izabella Main
Ph.D.
Discussant


Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan 
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Email: imain@amu.edu.pl

Focus of research:
·                     Polish migration in the UK and Spain
·                     Foreigners in Poznań
·                     Health, life style, access to healt care
·                     City – spaces and people
·                     Memories and histories of communism
·                     Polish-German relations

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/izabella-main

Pauline Huet
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel



Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III
Email: pln.huet@gmail.com

Focus of research: 
·   Medicalization of societies
·   Links beteween medical and religious thought
·   Spiritual healing and seek for well being.

Social life of medical technologies 
and pharmaceuticals

Claire Beaudevin
Ph.D.
Discussant, 
Member of organization comitee




Paris Descartes University/Cermes3
Research Centre Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health, Society
Email: claire@beaudevin.net
Focus of research:
·   Medical Anthropology: genetics, biomedical technologies, reproductive health, bioethics
·    Middle-Eastern studies: Sultanate of Oman
Read more: http://www.beaudevin.net   and  http://www.cermes3.fr/spip.php?article478

Caroline Meier zu Biesen
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel


Free University of Berlin
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Email: caromzb@gmx.de

Focus of research:
·   Traditional medicine, Medicinal plants,
·   Bio-prospecting, Bioethics,
·   Anthropology of pharmaceuticals,
·   HIV/AIDS, Malaria
·   Applied Anthropology  
·   Regional research focus: Tanzania, Ethiopia
Read more: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/mitarbeiter/freie/meier_zu_biesen/index.html

Reproduction and population politics
Erica van der Sijpt
Ph.D.
Discussant






University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Email: E.vanderSijpt@uva.nl

Focus of research:
·   Reproductive health
·    Pregnancy loss, abortion
·   Sexuality, gender
·   Motherhood, kinship
·   Body politics
Read more: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/e.vandersijpt/

Edit Szénássy
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel


Charles University Prague
Institute of Ethnology
Email: szedit18@yahoo.com

Focus of research:
·   Reproduction
·   Gender
·   Development

Biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and religious healing 
Vlad Naumescu
Ph.D.
Discussant


Central European University, Budapest
Departament of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Email: naumescuv@ceu.hu

Focus of research:
·   Religion in postsocialist context,
·   Ritual, temporality and materiality in Eastern Christianity,
·   Pragmatics of religious transmission,
·   Role of imagination in religious learning

Read more: http://web.ceu.hu/soc_ant/faculty/namescu.htm

Natalia Weimann
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel



Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Email:nicolina@poczta.onet.eu
kleine.aurelia@gmail.com

Focus of research:
·   Medical anthropology: health promotion, well-being in social/economical/political contexts, CAM
·   Ethnic identity of minorities: creating versus living it
·   Design management; cooperation between designers and social/cultural scientists
·   Use of language in contemporary society: oral versus literacy, Internet-based market as an act of verbal communication
·   Public relations and marketing in practice
 Migration and health
Stéphanie Larchanché
Ph.D.
Discussant


IRIS-EHESS and Centre Françoise Minkowska, Paris
Email: larchanche@minkowska.com
Focus of research / Interests:
·         Mental health
·         Immigration
·         Health systems
·         Cultural mediation

Read more: http:/ http://iris.ehess.fr/document.php?id=509
Susann Huschke
Ph.D. Candidate
Organizer of panel
Member of organization comitee


Free University Berlin
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Email: susann.huschke@gmail.com

Focus of research:
 ·   Illegal Migration and Health
·   Latin American Migrants
·   Health Care and Human Rights
·   Engaged/Activist Anthropology
Read more: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/arbeitsstellen/medical_anthropology/personen/mitglieder/huschke/index.html

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