April Newsletter

Posted by C3W Admin on April 23 2024

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NEWSLETTER APRIL 2024

World Health Day

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2024

Welcome to the April edition of our newsletter, where you will find the latest research findings, activities and events.

This edition has

Dates for your diary
Publications
Presentations by the team

I’ve been made aware that the links in the newsletter are on a timer which makes them useless after a while, so I have added the text for the link below the article, so you can still find out more.

News

Session 1— Thursday 7 March 2024. Online lecture. Keynote Professor Dora Vargha. Watch on YouTube

Session 2— Thursday 21 March 2024. Women, professional trajectories and care. Gendering expertise. Watch on YouTube

Session 3— Thursday 4 April 2024. Women’s bodies. Gendering reproductive discourses after WWII. Watch on YouTube

Session 4— Thursday 18 April 2024. Women’s bodies. Family planning and the cold war in Latin America.

Dates for your Diary

May 3 Dora Vargha will be presenting a paper at Johns Hopkins University (Medicine, Science and Humanities) titled “Communist MASH: everyday life at a Hungarian field hospital in the Korean War”

May 11 At the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Kansas City, Dora Vargha will present a paper titled “Socialist medics on the move: Eastern European medical aid and collaboration across the globe 1950-1989”

Presentations by the Project Team

You can catch up on the latest seminar session on YouTube

https://youtu.be/hOl2yfPZ7Z8

Sarah Howard will be presenting in Birkbeck’s lunchtime seminar series on 24 April. Her paper is called ‘Socialist Kindergartens and Public Health in Ethiopia’ and will draw on archival research in Ethiopia and the UK.

Publications

Sarah Howard has written a piece for the site Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, about absurdity and breastfeeding advice in Ethiopia.

It can be found here:
https://allegralaboratory.net/great-job-mommy-on-the-absurdity-of-teaching-ethiopian-women-to-breastfeed/

Research news

Sebastian Fonseca is busy preparing for an exciting summer. He has been awarded an Enhanced Research Award from the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environment of Health (WCCEH) at the University of Exeter.

He explains, the ERA project aims to co-construct an oral history repository for the rural community of Sumapaz, Colombia. The Sumapaz moor is known as the birthplace of the oldest guerrilla organisation in Latin America: the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia FARC. With the 2016 peace treaty in Colombia, the FARC and its associated territories have become accessible for engagement in unprecedented ways. My current research explores the untold health cultures that developed in these territories during the Cold War, at the height of the regional social conflicts between anticommunist regimes and belligerent revolutionaries. As little to no documents can be found on the everyday affairs of the locals, a key source of data is the oral tradition circulating the collective memory. For the Sumapaz locals, this project on oral history helps construct the local patrimony and regional identity – goals that vindicate their rights and consolidate the community’s sense of autonomy.

Lu Chen has also been awarded an Enhanced Research Award from the (WCCEH) at the University of Exeter, to organize a workshop with Dr. Andrea Azizi Kifyasi (Lecturer, Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam) on Socialism and community health care in Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam in August.

The two-day workshop brings together 10 scholars, community health workers, and policymakers to discuss African socialism and community health services in Tanzania. Across diverse sessions including presentations, interactive discussions, and immersive field visits, participants will engage in robust exchanges, drawing from their varied expertise and experiences. They will explore the nuanced intersections of African socialism with the provision of community health care, illuminating how ideological frameworks have influenced health policies, practices, and access within Tanzanian communities. The key questions will be discussed in the workshop including. By fostering meaningful interactions with local participants, the workshop aims to cultivate a deeper comprehension of the historical underpinnings, present-day realities, and future trajectories of community health services in Tanzania.

In May, Dora Vargha will be in New York City, where she will be conducting research at the New York Academy of Medicine Library.