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Join us for this EdCMA PhD Masterclass with Professor Cori Hayden!

One of the more disorienting aspects of our current political moment writ large is the rearrangement of analytical and political positions, modes of argument, and polarized “sides” that scramble the coordinates by which presumably-familiar arguments and words work. We will talk about this problem-space in two seemingly distinct contexts: the circulated readings circulated are drawn from work on “Simipolitics” in Mexico, in which revolutionary nationalism becomes a marketing strategy, “markets” dress up like “states,” and the merely generic becomes a mark of distinction. We will also discuss debates around the sciences of Long Covid and post-viral chronic illness, in which familiar, critical terms in medical anthropology (medicalization, Cartesian dualism, the sick role, psychosomatic illness) are being taken apart, put back together, and mobilized in counter-intuitive ways.

This masterclass is aimed at PhD students in Anthropology, STIS, Sociology and Social Policy. Please register your interest no later than Monday 4 November 2024, 4:00pm (GMT).

About our speaker:

Cori Hayden is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducts research on the anthropology of science, technology and medicine in and beyond Latin America. She is a past Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley and former Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. Hayden is the author of When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2003) and The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico (2023, Duke University Press). In addition to her longstanding work on pharmaceutical politics in Latin America, Hayden has written on crowds and crowd theory as a nexus for contemporary market formations, political atmospheres, aesthetic possibilities, and modes of inquiry. She is currently working on a project about the sciences of Long Covid and post-viral chronic illness as contested forms of political argument.

There will be two readings on Simipolitics that students will have to do in preparation for the masterclass: Introduction (for general orientation) and Chapter 2: Simipolitics: State and Not the State. The readings will be sent to those students who have registred to attend, a week before the the masterclass.

This in-person event will take place on Mon 11 November 2024 at 11:00am (GMT) in the Practice Suite (1.12) at the School of Social and Political Science.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn from Professor Hayden and enhance your knowledge and skills in your PhD journey. Reserve your spot now!

Refreshments and a light lunch will be served.

Please note that this event may be recorded. Any recordings will only be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes.