「まなびのカフェ中学生・高校生をはじめとした一般の方々に、教員・大学院生・学部生が、研究内容をわかりやすく伝え、参加者とともに語りあい、対話の場をつくります」（https://www.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/mirai-kyoso/about）
カフェで薬？いいえ、オランダの話ではない…。明日、前に住んでた茨木に戻って、生涯学習センター「きらめき」で自分の研究について話すことになりました。「学びのカフェ」という阪大人科・未来共創センターの企画。どちらかと言えば、「教える」より、「一緒に考える」場を作りたいけど、なかなか一筋縄ではないんです。
日時：2019年2月3日（日）14：00～16：00
場所：生涯学習センター ４階405室 （中央図書館北隣）
主催：茨木市（文化振興課保健医療課）・大阪大学人間科学部未来共創センター
This year’s second overseas conference was held in Sydney at a new and fancy conference centre in Darling Harbour. With some of my Japanese colleagues, we have created a digital essay on the “Anthropologies of Science and Technology in Japan,” which was part of the new exhibition called STS Across Borders. The best for the genre is probably “experimental.” Not only we, even the organizers did not know how it was going to be. It was fun though and we hope to continue tinkering with this text-like-archive-of-genealogies.
This year I go to two international conferences during the summer. Both conferences are in the southern hemisphere, so they’re a sort of escape from the summer heat in Japan. In July, I organized a session at the IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) conference in Florianópolis, Brasil with two colleagues from Japan and Italy. It is a follow-up of the workshop we held in Kyoto University this February with many new presenters and topics, but still mostly an attempt to explore posthuman ways of life and especially the role of pharmaceuticals in shaping it.
Vital Experiments: Living (and Dying) with Pharmaceuticals after the Human (IUAES 2018, Florianópolis)
This workshop is part of a collaborative research project on the pharmaceutical entanglements of life and its anthropological exploration. Participants will provide their own accounts on this broad topic from herbal medicines in Ghana and India to polypharmacy in Taiwan, and more. We hope to discuss how drugs, pills, herbs and vaccines are instrumental in the shaping of what has come to be called ‘experimental societies’ and how these changes situate many around the world in an extended space between bench and bedside.
VITAL EXPERIMENTS: Living (and Dying) with Pharmaceuticals after the Human
We organised this colloquium with my colleague at Osaka University Kimura Yumi to finally bring in nonhumans into the ongoing conversations about kyosei. Might be too early (or too late?), but he work of Scott Simon from Ottawa University and Kosaka Yasuyuki from Kyoto University will for sure have many interesting interferences and hopefully some of our anthropocentric friends will bring something home from the event.
MULTISPECIES MEETS KYOSEI: Plants, Birds and People
As part of a collaborative project at Minpaku on care in anthropology with a focus on Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe, I will talk, once more, about how experiment and care fold into each other in clinical trials across Hungary and Japan. I have written and presented about this both in Japanese and in English, but most listeners are very skeptic to these ideas. I’m sure I’ll have a hard time, again.
Thinking about an Anthropology of Care: A Discussion with F. Aulino and J. Danely (Minpaku)
『思想』エドゥアルド・ヴィヴェイロス・デ・カストロ特集号に寄稿したエッセイが刊行。VdCへの歓喜…と思ったら…ちょっと違います。実は、「糖尿病」と「ミミズ」をつなげて、いや、互いに畳み込み合え、代謝の効果を考え続けるという内容（よく分からないと思ってる方、ぜひエッセーを読んでみてください）。特集全体もややこだわった試みです。フランスと日本とブラジルを結びつけることで、哲学を人類学するような試行錯誤。檜垣立哉先生、 山崎吾郎さん、そして編集部のみなさま、お誘い・特集の編集、ありがとうございました！
metabologies 