Teilnehmer

Stefan Beck (European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)

Stefan Beck is Professor for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He has conducted fieldwork in Cyprus and Germany focussing on genetic screenings, organ donation and the social history of public health programs. His work concentrates on knowledge practices in biomedicine, their social and cultural implementation and their impact on notions of health, body and shifting configurations of solidarity and moral practices. Together with colleagues he founded the Collaboratory: Social Anthropology and LifeSciences at Humboldt University at Berlin (http://www.csal.de) in 2004 as a platform for interdisciplinary research and teaching at the crossroads of medicine and sociocultural anthropology.

Sven Bergmann (European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)

Sven Bergmann is a cultural anthropologist and a Ph.D. student in the DFG post-graduate program "Gender as a Category of Knowledge" at Humboldt-University Berlin. His current research project is concerned with multi-sited-ethnographic research of economics, significances and practices of gamete donation in Europe. Other research interests include: transnational migration, urban planning/gentrification and surveillance technologies. He is co-editor (with Regina Römhild) of "Global Heimat. Ethnografische Recherchen im transnationalen Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main 2003. Recent Publications include "Anti-Nomadische Mobilität - Das hessische Projekt Elektronische Fußfessel als Überwachung und Inszenierung von 'Normalität'" in: Zurawski, Nils: Sicherheitsdiskurse: Angst, Kontrolle und Sicherheit in einer gefährlichen Welt, Frankfurt/Main 2007; "Global City Revue" (with innenstadtgruppe ffm-of) in: DRESDENPostplatz, ed.: "So weit war ich mit meinen Gedanken gekommen, als plötzlich der Frühling hereinbrach", Berlin 2007.

Aditya Bharadwaj (School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh)

Aditya Bharadwaj teaches Medical Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies. His principal research interest is in the area of New Reproductive, Genetic and Stem Cell Biotechnologies, and their rapid spread in diverse global locales ranging from South Asia to the United Kingdom. His interests also include medical sociology, anthropology of India, globalization, science and technology studies, ethnographic research design, and methodology. Aditya has published in peer-reviewed journals such as ‘Social Science and Medicine’, ‘Anthropology and Medicine’, and ‘Health, Risk and Society’, and has contributed chapters in University of California Press edited collections. He recently completed a co-authored book, Risky Relations: Family, Kinship and the New Genetics (Berg, 2005). He is currently writing his first solo-authored book Conceptions: Infertility and Technologies of Procreation in India and co-authoring a book titled Local Cells and Global Science: The Proliferation of Stem Cell Technologies in India.

Christine Bischof (European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin)

Christine Bischof is a sociologist working in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University Berlin. She works in the BMBF financed research project "Imagined Europeans" which focuses on the construction of the Homo Europeans in nutritional epidemiology and food production. Her principal research interests are in the area of life sciences and gender studies. She also does research on public health, migration studies, age studies and qualitative social research. Selected publications include: "Interkulturelle Öffnungsprozesse ambulanter Pflegedienste in Theorie und Praxis. Dokumentation des Modellprojektes zur Interkulturellen Öffnung der Diakonie in Berlin", Berlin 2005. "Versorgung älterer MigrantInnen: Vorgehensweisen und Erfahrungen mit interkulturellen Öffnungsprozessen am Beispiel dreier Diakonie-Sozialstationen Berlin." In: Migration und Soziale Arbeit: Heft 2, 2004, Frankfurt am Main.

Tanja Bogusz (Humboldt-University Berlin)

Tanja Bogusz is Assistant Professor for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University Berlin since May 2008. She finished her Ph.D at the Free University Berlin in the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology in November 2006. Her Ph.D work was published in 2007 with the Titel: Institution und Utopie. Ost-West-Transformationen an der Berliner Volksbühne. Bielefeld: Transcript 2007 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts782/ts782.php. From February 2007 to April 2008 Tanja Bogusz was Assistant Professor for Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Her Research Interests are Theories of Practice, Pragmatism, Sociology of Culture and History of Sociology

Willemijn de Jong (Ethnology, Zurich University)

Willemijn de Jong is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Zurich. She teaches in the fields of kinship, family, gender, anthropology and social security, bodies and technologies, and theories in recent anthropology. She did fieldwork in Indonesia, India and Switzerland. She published on intercultural communication in Switzerland, on work, marriage and gender, material culture, as well as on sociopolitical transformations and ritual revitalization in Flores, Eastern Indonesia, and on social security and ageing in Kerala, South India. Currently, she is heading the SNSF-funded research project titled "New Reproductive Technologies and the Making of Bodies, Persons and Families in Russia and Switzerland" in the context of which she also conducts research in Switzerland.

Jeanette Edwards (Social Anthropology, University of Manchester)

Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Balamand, Beirut (2007, 2008), at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2006), at the Universidad Autonoma, Barce-lona (1998), and at the Women’s Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley (1998). Her research focuses on kinship and new reproductive and genetic technologies and more recently on religion, and she has a long standing interest in the anthropology of Britain. She was principal investigator an EU-funded project ‘Public Understanding of Genetics’ (PUG) and has recently been looking ethnographically at the contemporary and burgeoning interest in genealogy and family history. Her publications include: Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (2000, Oxford University Press); 'Creativity' in English Baptist understandings of assisted and assisting conception (2007, in Hallam, E. & Ingold, T. (eds). Berg); with C. Salazar, ‘European Kinship in the Age of Bio-technology’ (2008, Berghahn Books); with P. Harvey and P. Wade, Technologised Vision: Technologised Bodies (2008, Berghahn Books).
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/about/staff/edwards/

Sarah Franklin (Bios-Centre, London School of Economics)

Professor Sarah Franklin has written and edited 15 books on reproductive and genetic technologies, as well as more than 70 articles, chapters, and reports. She has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryo research, and stem cells. Her work combines traditional anthropological approaches, including both ethnographic methods and kinship theory, with more recent approaches from science studies, gender theory, and cultural studies. Professor Franklin studied for her PhD at the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies, taking her doctoral degree in 1992. From 1990-1993 she worked both in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. She was appointed to the first Chair of its kind in the UK, in the Anthropology of Science, at Lancaster University in 2001. In 2004 she moved to the LSE to a chair created for her in the Department of Sociology and linked to the BIOS Centre. Throughout her career she has worked closely with clinicians and scientists in an attempt to widen sociological engagement with emerging issues in bioscience and biomedicine by developing collaborative partnerships with the professional and communities, policy makers, and patient groups most closely involved in areas such as assisted conception, embryology, hES derivation, and cloning. Her most recent book, published in May 2007, is entitled Dolly Mixtures: The remaking of genealogy.

Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Studies, University of Cambridge)

Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent is a final year Ph.D student in the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Her thesis is a qualitative exploration of Turkish women’s experiences of IVF. More broadly she is interested in bodies, gender, biomedical technologies, and reproduction. She is a co-convener of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum (CIRF), which was set up in 2005 to promote interdisciplinarity and exchange among researchers interested in issues of ‘reproduction’.

Bernhard Hadolt (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)

Bernhard Hadolt is a social anthropologist with a specialisation in medical anthropology. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna and a M.Sc. in Medical Anthropology from Brunel University, London. Currently he is working as a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, and as a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. In 2007/08 he was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Communication Design, Osaka University, Japan. His research interests include human reproduction and the assisted reproductive technologies, the new genetics and biomedical technologies, suffering and chronicity, epilepsy, theory in medical anthropology and the anthropology of the body.

Sulamith Hamra (European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)

Sulamith Hamra has been a Research Fellow in the research project 'Kinship as Social Practice and Representation' since April 2008. From 2004 to 2007 she worked in the same project as a student assistant. Sulamith has studied History and European Ethnology in Berlin and is currently also doing an internship in the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Her M.A. thesis examines the societal notions of family and children which adoptive parents have to deal with during the lengthy adoption procedures. It is published online under the title: "Eltern-TÜV? - Standardisierung und Normalisierung von Elternschaft am Beispiel von Adoptionsbewerbern und Adoptiveltern" (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/master/hamra-sulamith-2007-07-23/PDF/hamra.pdf).

Viola Hörbst (Ethnology and African Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)

Viola Hörbst is a postdoc at the Institute for Social Anthropology and African Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Her postdoc project ("Life Experience, Social Handling, Transformation") focuses on infertility and In Vitro Fertilization in Bamako (Mali) and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research interests are: transfer of reproductive technologies, hospital ethnography, processes of globalization and transnationalism in medicine. Her regional focus is: Mesoamerica (Mexico), West Africa (Mali). Her most recent Publication is: "Focusing Male infertility in Mali: Impacts on Gender Relations and Biomedical Practice in Bamako." In: Brockopp, Jonathan and Thomas Eich (eds.): Muslim Medical Ethics: Theory and Practice. Indiana University Press.

Marcia Inhorn (Middle Eastern & North African Studies, University of Michigan)

Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (School of Public Health), the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (School of Medicine), and the Program in Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. A medical anthropologist specializing in Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and in vitro fertilization in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past 20 years. She is the author of three books on the subject, Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U Pennsylvania Press, 1994). Currently, she is conducting a Fulbright and National Science Foundation funded study of "Globalization and Reproductive Tourism in the Arab World," based at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and IVF-Michigan.

Maren Klotz (European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)

Maren Klotz is a research fellow and PHD student at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-University. She is writing her PHD within the "Kinship Cultures" project supervised by Michi Knecht and Stefan Beck, she is also an associate of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society in Exeter. Her PHD focuses on different familial and regulatory strategies of kinship "knowledge-management" within realm of assisted conception. Maren has studied European Ethnology, North-American Studies, and Communication Science in Berlin and also holds a MSc from the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society in Exeter, UK. Selected publications include: Globale Verwandtschaft ("Global Kinship") and Doing Kinship in British Parliament: Selfish parents - disruptive children?, Both published in: Verwandtschaft machen. Adoption und Neue Reproduktionstechnologien in Deutschland und der Türkei. Berliner Blätter. Ethnologische und ethnographische Beiträge, Bd. 42, 2007.
http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__de/4925/default.aspx

Michi Knecht (European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)

Dr. Michi Knecht is a researcher and lecturerer at the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She is a co-director of the research project 'Kinship as Social Practice and Representation' (SFB 640, together with Dr. Stefan Beck) and member of the executive board of the 'Collaboratory Social Anthropology and Life Sciences'. Her main areas of research are new reproductive technologies and kinship, the anthropology of life sciences, and urban spectacles of difference. A selected list of publications includes: Zwischen Religion, Biologie und Politik. Eine kulturanthropologische Analyse der Lebensschutzbewegung ("Between Religion, Biology, and Politics. A Cultural Anthropological Analysis of the Pro-Life Movement in Germany") Lit-Verlag 2006; Verwandtschaft machen. Neue Reproduktionstechnologien und Adoption in Deutschland und der Türkei ("Making Kinship. New Reproductive Technologies and Adoption in Germany and Turkey") Berliner Blätter. Bd. 42 2007; Plausible Vielfalt. Wie der Karneval der Kulturen denkt, lernt, und Kultur schafft. ("Feasible Diversity. How the Carneval of Cultures Thinks, Learns and Creates Culture"), Panama-Verlag Berlin, 2005, with Levent Soysal).
http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__de/3971/default.aspx

Eva-Maria Knoll (Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)

Eva-Maria Knoll is a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Social Anthropology Research Unit. Her main research interests include tourism, science and technology, gender relations, medicine and body concepts. She has co-edited "Ritualisierungen von Geschlecht" 2006 WUV and "Handbuch Globalisierung. Sozialanthropologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zur Praxis" 2009 Suhrkamp. One of her most recent publications is "Fortpflanzungsmedizin als gesellschaftliche Irritation: Diskurse über 'Jungfrauen-Geburten'", in: Pethes/Schicktanz (Hg.): "Sexualität als Experiment. Identität, Lust und Reproduktion zwischen Science und Fiction" 2008 Campus.

Marit Melhuus (Social Anthropology, University of Oslo)

Marit Melhuus is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of social anthropology, University of Oslo. She has done fieldwork in Argentina (with a focus on peasants and peasant integration, among landless tobacco growers in the province of Corrientes); Mexico (with a focus on gender and gender imagery, morality, notions of honour and shame in a mestizo, Spanish speaking village in the State of Mexico) and Norway, where she has been engaged in research on kinship, biotechnology, and legislative processes. This research had prompted a current interest in the relationship between science, religion and government. Most recent book: Holding Worlds Together. Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging (edited with Marianne Lien) 2007, Oxford: Berghahn Books; and Present Ethnographies (edited with Jonathan Mitchell and Helena Wulff), forthcoming.

Babette Müller-Rockstroh (Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)

Babette Müller-Rockstroh is a research fellow in the research group ‘Biomedicine in Africa - Anthropology of Law, Organization, Science & Technology’ at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. She finished her PhD on obstetric ultrasound technology transfer to Africa at the STS Department of Maastricht University, Netherlands in 2007. Her current project focuses on Safe Mother-and Childhood in the Era of Antiretroviral Treatment in Tanzania. Her research interests include anthropology of medical science and technology, theory in anthropology of health and anthropology of care, new reproductive technologies, hospital ethnography, and new forms of medical / therapeutic governance. Her most recent publication is "Ultraschall in Tansania. Von den Knifflichkeiten eines Medizintransfers nach Afrika" (GID Spezial ‘Nord-Sued-Transit’, 6, 50, pp.30-40).

Michal Nahman (Sociology and Criminology, University of Western England, Bristol)

Michal Nahman is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Western England, Bristol. Her work has examined the transnational and national dimensions of ova exchanges between Israel and Romania. Between 2000 and 2005 she conducted her Ph.D on: "Israeli Extraction: An Ethnographic Study of Egg Donation and National Imaginaries." Her most recent publications are "Nodes of Desire: Transnational Egg Sellers As Theorists of Reproduction in a Neo-Liberal Age" (European Journal of Women’s Studies. 2008/15:2) and "Embryos are our babies: condensing the body in Israeli ovabdonation" in Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade eds. Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies: Anthropological approaches to a new politics of vision. Oxford and New York 2008. (in press)

Ferhunde Özbay (Sociology, Bogazici University)

Prof. Dr. Ferhunde Özbay is retired part-time lecturer at the Bogazici University Sociology Department since 2006. She has held a chair since 1989 and has taught courses at undergraduate and graduate levels on topics as Population Studies, Migration, Family and Kinship, as well as Research Methods. Ferhunde Özbay has also analyzed historical data and used oral history in some of her research projects. She has received multiple awards for her work, among them a recognition for her contributions to the establishment of the Anthropology Department at Yeditepe University in 2008. Among her publications are: "Migrant Domestic Workers: A New Public Presence in the Middle East?" In: Seteney Shami (Ed.): Publics, Politics and Participation: Locating the Public Sphere in the Middle East and North Africa, New York, forthcoming (2008) and "Fremde Töchter in den Häusern: Cariyeler, Evlatliklar, Gelinler" , Verwandtschaft machen-Reproduktionsmedizin und Adoption in Deutschland und der Türkei, edited by Stefan Beck, N. Cil, S. Hess, M. Klotz, M. Knecht, in Berliner Blatter, Heft 42, 2007, 32-62. (published in Turkish in 2003, Iletisim) as well as: "Adoption and Fostering" in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Leiden 2004.

Shalini Randeria (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Zurich University)

Shalini Randeria is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Delhi and Heidelberg and completed her Ph.D and habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. She was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Max Weber Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich and Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University Budapest.  She is currently president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Senate member of the German Research Foundation and one of the Members of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften and Werner Reimers Stiftung of the University of Frankfurt. Her research interests include legal anthropology and the transformation of the nation state, civil society, processes of globalization, anthropological demography and developmental studies as well as post-colonial theory.

Elizabeth Roberts (Inst. for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan)

Elizabeth Roberts is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Residential College for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Michigan. In 2006 she published her Ph.D-Work with the Title "Equatorial In-Vitro: Reproductive Medicine and Modernity in Ecuador". She has done ethnographic research in IVF clinics and on organ donation and kidney transplantation in Equador. Among her most recent publications are "The Traffic Between Women: Female Alliance and Familial Egg Donation in Ecuador." In: Marcia Inhorn and Daphna Carmeli (Eds.): Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnolgies (in press) and "Biology, Sociality and Reproductive Modernity in Ecuadorian In-Vitro Fertilization." In: Sahra Gibbon, Carlos Novas (Eds.): Making Biosociality: Biologies and Identities in Formation, Routledge 2008.

Michael Schillmeier (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)

Michael Schillmeier is lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Munich University/ Germany. He studied sociology, psychology and political science at the universities of Regensburg/Munich (Germany) and received his PhD from Lancaster University/UK. He writes on the material dynamics of societal ordering and change, cosmopolitanism, globalizing risks, sociology of the body/the senses and dis/ability, the societal relevance of objects and the heterogeneity of the social. Recently published work includes 'Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation. Blindness and Money in Everyday Life', Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space, 2007; 'Politik des Behindert-Werdens. Behinderung als Erfahrung und Ereignis [The Politics of Becoming-Disabled. Disability as Experience and Event] in: Werner Schneider / Anne Waldschmidt (Eds.): Disability studies, Kultursoziologie und Soziologie der Behinderung. Erkundungen in einem neuen Forschungsfeld. Bielefeld: transcript, 80-99, 2007; 'Kosmo-politische Ereignisse. Zur sozialen Topologie von SARS' [Cosmo-political Events – Towards a social topology of SARS] together with Wiebke Pohler, Soziale Welt 57, 2006.

Shahanah Schmid (Social Anthropology, Bios-Centre, LSE London/Zürich)

Shahanah Schmid is a PhD student at the BIOS centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics; affiliated researcher in the Zurich-based SCOPES project "New Reproductive Technologies and the Making of Bodies, Persons and Families in Russia and Switzerland"; and teaching assistant in the Sociology department at LSE. Her PhD research, entitled "Reproductive medicine in context. 'Knowledge cultures' of IVF in German speaking Switzerland" focuses on local specificities of discourses of IVF and how they relate to equally local imageries of the nation, gender and kinship. Shahanah studied sociology, social anthropology and pedagogy at the University of Zurich, and has also worked there as a research assistant in the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Publications include "Entmachtung der Natur?" In: Rosa, Die Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung Nr. 31, 2005/Oktober, pp. 22-24, and "Promotion an der London School of Economics. Ein Erfahrungsbericht" In: universelle Nr. 8, Februar 2008, pp. 27-32.

Carmel Shalev (Law Faculty, University of Tel Aviv)

Dr. Carmel Shalev is a human rights lawyer and ethicist, who specializes in reproduction, health and biotechnology. She earned her doctoral degree at Yale Law School in feminist theory on reproductive rights. She has worked in government and academia in Israel, and the public bodies she has served on as an independent expert include the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and Israel's National "Helsinki" Committee for Genetic Experiments in Human Beings. She now teaches at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and other academic institutions in Israel, and works as an international consultant on biomedical research ethics. She is currently visiting the Institute for Medical Ethics and History at the University of Göttingen as Maria Goeppert-Mayer Guest Professor.

Bob Simpson (Anthropology, Durham University)

Since 2001 Bob Simpson has been carrying out research into the reception of new reproductive and genetic technologies in developing world contexts. This research builds on his earlier research interests in kinship, knowledge transmission and ideas of health and well-being. His work has focused particularly on the encounter between challenging technological developments and local systems of values and beliefs in Sri Lanka. In 2002-03 he completed a 15 month Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Biomedical Ethics to develop this research. The Sri Lankan research is now part of a larger project which explores the relationship between science, ethics and culture across South Asia. This project investigates international science collaborations and their relationship with bioethics. The work is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain and carried out in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex.