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29 October 2025
16:00 - 17:30

treatment: ailment (artistic afterlives of fieldwork and its possibilities)

This presentation contextualises and reproduces a lecture-performance given as part of an artist residency at the biennial conference of the European Association of the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH), held in Oslo in 2023.

Precedented Times: Thinking with African Health Histories After the Chainsaw Comes for Global Health
22 October 2025
12:30 - 13:50

Precedented Times: Thinking with African Health Histories After the Chainsaw Comes for Global Health

EdCMA Lunchtime Brown Bag Seminar with global health historian Marissa Mika.
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21 October 2025
14:00 - 17:00

Autumn 2025 Global Mental Health Day

You are invited to join us for an exciting global mental health event which will be hosted in-person and online.
Misoprostal & Maternal Mortality
22 September 2025
13:00 - 14:30

Misoprostol & Maternal Mortality: Reproductive Justice in West Africa

Reproductive Justice Seminar Series 2025-26
Misoprostol is recognized by health authorities in Burkina Faso and Senegal as an essential obstetric drug in the fight against maternal mortality. However, access to misoprostol remains unequal and selective. How do we explain the gap between its official status and the reality of unequal access?
Ethical Pressures Colloquium June 2025
27 June 2025
10:00 - 16:00

Ethical Pressures Colloquium: How to Think - Caring for Knowledge Sharpened by Violence

For this summer's Ethical Pressures Colloquium, we are happy to invite you to a day under the heading of 'How to Think - Caring for Knowlege Sharpened by Violence'.

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26 June 2025
18:00 - 19:00

The question of the public space in today’s society

Between June 26th and June 28th EdCMA, SPS Research Directorate, and the French Institute are hosting Professor of Philosophy Sandra Laugier, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Professor Richard Rechtman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, EHESS.
Global Mental Health Day 13 June 2025
13 June 2025
09:30 - 16:30

Global Mental Health Day June 2025

Join us for the annual spring Edinburgh Global Mental Health day. This online and in-person event brings together University of Edinburgh students, alumni, staff, and external colleagues with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of global mental health.
ECR Workshop 12 June 2025
12 June 2025
09:30 - 12:30

Global Mental Health ECR Workshop

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in global and cross-cultural mental health? The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and the Global Mental Health Collaborative is pleased to invite you to a workshop with Dr Rochelle Burgess, Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice at University College London.
The Method is Listening 06June2025
06 June 2025
12:00 - 13:30

The Method is Listening: Sounding Out Reproductive Resistance

Join us, and our guest speakers, Dr Liz Gre and Princess Banda, for Seminar 6 of our Reproductive Justice Mini-Seminar Series.
From Fieldwork to Front Page Event 28 May 2025
28 May 2025
14:00 - 16:00

From Fieldwork to Front Page: Pitching Your Research to the Public

Turn research into headlines! Learn to pitch and write for the media in this hands-on workshop for anthropologists.
Reproductive Justice Network Seminar 5
27 May 2025
12:00 - 13:30

Families in transit through Mexico: care, love, isolation, and violence

Join us, and our guest speaker, Dr Alejandra Diaz De Leon, for Seminar 5 of our Reproductive Justice Mini-Seminar Series.
Gendering Settler Colonialism Gala Rexer 23 May 2025
23 May 2025
12:00 - 13:30

Gendering Settler Colonialism: From Reproductive Injustice in Occupied East Jerusalem to Israel’s Genocidal War on Gaza

Join us and our guest speaker, Dr Gala Rexer, for Seminar 4 of our Reproductive Justice Mini-Seminar Series.