Mobility & Epidemics Workshop: Keynote with Professor Seth M Holmes
Description
Join Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology for a keynote and workshop with Professor Seth M. Holmes (Berkeley).
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Keynote with Professor Seth M Holmes
Wednesday 20 July, 14:00 – 16:00 BST
Via Zoom
The first of our workshops for the Health and Migration Network 2022 summer season will feature discussions with Prof. Seth M Holmes (Berkeley), cultural and medical anthropologist, physician and author of the ethnographic Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, based on the author’s extensive fieldwork examining the intimacy of everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in the contemporary food system.
This workshop will combine our Keynote’s presentation based on this reading, and weave it together with themes of mobility and epidemics which will allow for a broader discussion with our audience.
The session will start with the presentation followed by a Q&A with our guest speaker.
***Important – please note
Attendees will be asked to come having read chapters 2, 4 and 5 from the "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies" book.
Chapters 4 and 5 are the most important, and Chapter 2 provides context for them both.
- Holmes, S. M. (2013) Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States / Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois. Berkeley: University of California Press.
If you have any issues accessing the book please email s2134847@ed.ac.uk or s1451881@ed.ac.uk and request a copy.
Mobility and epidemics 2022 workshop overview
Our 2022 theme, “Mobility and Epidemics,” is centred on questions at the heart of medical anthropology's relationship to migration: we are specifically interested in discussing how epidemics can uncover severe health disparities, and the effects they have on intimate and collective political forms of relatedness.
How have epidemic temporalities impacted migration and mobility studies? What promises and possibilities do different research methods hold in exploring everyday migration practices across the globe? How do we as researchers encounter the limits of our expertise?
Over two sessions we will aim to discuss questions of how we respond to the information we collect in our research discourse and practice that may enable us to better illuminate the questions of movement, surveillance, space, temporality and belonging, risk, labour and healthcare bias embedded in medical systems across the globe.
Speaker bio
Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is Chancellor's Professor in the Division of Society and Environment of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. He is a member of the faculty of the Joint PhD Program in Medical Anthropology and affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology as well as affiliated faculty in the Division of Community Health Sciences and the Joint Medical MD/MS Program in the School of Public Health. He is Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in contexts of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.