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.
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More Vital Experiments (IUAES 2018, Florianópolis)
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)
Vital Experiments (Kyoto University)
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
The 8th Kyosei Studies Colloquium (Osaka University)
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
From the Microscopic to the Global: Scaling in Medical Science and Technology (IUAES 2015)
First attempt with materials from Vietnam…
Session at the 2015 IUAES Inter-Congress @ Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Acting with Nonhuman Entities
Posthumanist Explorations between Anthropology and Science Studies
Workshop and International Symposium at Kyoto University
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