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We are so excited to invite you all to the opening event of the 2023 Edinburgh-Durham Advanced Medical Anthropology Workshop. This seminar highlights some of the amazing and innovative work being done in 'public' anthropology, and we are honoured to be joined by two incredible speakers:

Sam Greenspan is an award-winning radio reporter, producer, and artist, specializing in the creation of new radio shows and podcasts. Among many exciting and varied projects, they are the creator of Bellwether, a podcast of speculative journalism. Widely anticipated and hailed as groundbreaking upon its launch, Bellwether reports stories about our relationship with machines—told within the frame of a sci-fi radio serial, set in the future, looking back at our time. You can find more of their work here.

Tanya Luhrmann is a distinguished professor of anthropology at Stanford University. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis. She uses a unique combination of ethnographic and experimental methods and has published widely within and outside academia, including with the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement and more. You can find more of her work here.

The seminar will begin with an introduction to the speakers and their work, and will continue with a discussion and Q&A, led by Robyn Thomas (University of Edinburgh).