Conference: Global Health in a Turbulent Middle East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives
Friday, September 26
Anthropology, 10 Sachem, Room 105
Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,
Council on Middle East Studies, Council on African Studies, and
Department of Anthropology
9:00-9:15, Welcome and Introduction
Marcia C. Inhorn, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University
Panel I. Conflict and Health
Chair, Hani Mowafi, Yale School of Medicine
9:15-9:30, War Biology and Antimicrobial Resistance: Tracing the Ruination of Healthcare in the Middle East
Omar Dewachi, Rutgers University
9:30-9:45, Intergenerational Health Impacts of Military Violence in Iraq
Kali Rubaii, Purdue University
9:45-10:00, Changing Narratives of Cancer: Conflict and Blame in a Collapsing Beirut
Livia Wick, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
10:00-10:15, Strengthening Public Health Surveillance in Conflict Zones: A Case Study from Sudan
Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale School of Public Health
10:15-10:45, Q&A
10:45-11:00, Coffee
Panel II. Medical Humanitarianism
Chair, Salmaan Keshavjee, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Harvard Medical School
11:00-11:15, The Making of Syrian American Medical Humanitarians
Rania Kassab Sweis, The University of Richmond
11:15-11:30, Gaza, Medical Humanitarianism, and Islamic Heroics: The Case of Mohammed Taher
Sa’ed Atshan, Swarthmore College
11:30-11:45, Prosthetic Promises: Global Health, Technological Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Aftercare
S. Can Akisoz, University of California, Los Angeles
11:45-12:00, Genealogies of the Psychosocial: Post-Disaster Psychiatry in Turkey
Christopher Dole, Amherst College
12:00-12:15, Precarious Chronicity: Stigma, HIV, and Humanitarianism in Beirut, Lebanon
Lizzy Berk, Southern Methodist University
12:15-12:45, Q&A
12:45-2:00 Buffet Lunch
Panel III. Maternal Health in Troubled Times
Chair, Aalyia Sadruddin, Wellesley College
2:00-2:15, “It's always gender foq rasna:” The Shaping of Gendered Subjectivities through Projects of Humanitarian Reproductive Care
Morgen Chalmiers, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine
2:15-2:30, Exploring the Role of Midwives in Contraception and Abortion Care in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons Learned from Tunisia
Angel Foster, University of Ottawa
2:30-2:45, Abortion as Refusal: Reposing the “Woman Question” in Morocco and Beyond
Jess Newman, Cornell University
2:45-3:15, Q&A
3:15-3:30, Coffee Break
Panel IV: The Fate of Children
Rijul Kochhar, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
3:30-3:45, Deafness as Global Health Concern in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Timothy Loh, Princeton University
3:45-4:00, Care and Chromosomes in Troubled Times
Christine Sargent, University of Colorado, Denver
4:00-4:15, The Fate and Future of Children in Gaza, Sudan, and Beyond
Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University
4:15-4:45 pm, Q&A
4:45-5:00, Concluding Remarks