3-1055 HIV/AIDS IN GLOBAL AFRICA: TRACING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 16:00-17:45

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Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Kathryn Angela Rhine ( and University of Kansas)

Chairs: John Janzen PhD (University of Kansas)

Discussants: Janet W McGrath (Case Western Reserve University)

16:00

Africanist Anthropology and the Routinization of Exceptional Disease Misfortunes

John Janzen PhD (University of Kansas)

16:15

Tracing the Virus – Disrupted Reproduction Among Elite Women In Botswana

Astrid Bochow (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

16:30

The Evidence of Things Unseen: HIV, Secrecy, and Wellbeing Among Women In Northern Nigeria

Kathryn Angela Rhine ( and University of Kansas)

16:45

Mothers and Others In the Age of AIDS: Women As the Focus of Health and Development Programs In Rural Malawi

Anat Rosenthal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

17:00

Biomedicine and Public Health As Cultures of Circulation and the Performativity of Biocapital In South Africa

Kirk Fiereck (Columbia University)

17:15

Discussant

Janet W McGrath (Case Western Reserve University)

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