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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Self-Management of Chronic Disease: critical perspectives

  Panel038 - EASA2016 Conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

  This panel will bring a critical reflection on self-management of chronic disease from a variety of theoretical, methodological and epistemological lenses. Both empowerment and autonomy as medical concepts and chronic disease as form of living will be theoretically and empirically addressed.

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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Predatory Museum

  39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

  Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator?  Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Derivation, transformations and innovations. Around and beyond assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs)

  Panel P097 - EASA2016 Conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

  This panel focuses on the many biomedical reproductive practices and objects which are often approaches as the search for or deviation from a specific family model and which rather suggest the emergence of a multiplicity of practices which develop and expand within, around and beyond kinship.

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