Weird Fictions Research Group cordially invites you to the very last event this semester!
Agata Chełstowska
Biosocial Groups, Biosocial Criminals – the Body and Medicine as Organizing Agents
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
4:45PM
You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.
Where?
Dobra 55, room: 2.118
(the building features some mobility accommodations: ramp and lift)
What?
Ozempic, abortion pills, the anti-vaxx movement – medical events, interventions, inventions and knowledges are causing new social groups and cultures to form and proliferate. Science and technology studies, as well as medical anthropology offer a social sciences-centered approach to understanding and interpreting the interactions between medicine and technology as well as between medicine and humans as social creatures. The lecture will touch on recent developments in these fields, and show how medical anthropology and cultural studies can shed light on medicine-related social and cultural phenomena.
Who?
Agata Chełstowska – anthropologist, sociologist, lecturer at American Studies Center. She is interested in the intersection of medicine, law, criminalization and gender. She taught at Copenhagen University and Warsaw University. She received the Kościuszko Scholarship to study at the New School for Social Research, New York.
