June 2010

 

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

The role of charitable organizations and donor countries in the development of vaccines.  Presenter, "Anthropological Connections", CASCA Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 1-3

 

May 2010

 

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Political Economy of Knowledge for Development: The Case of South America.  Presenter, "World Economic Crisis of 2008 and its Impact on Latin America" forum, Historical Materialism International Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13-16

 

March 2010

• Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Health Information - Is It A Public Good? Discussant, Seminar / Web Cast for the Canadian Agency for Drug and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 30

• Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Research, Development & Innovation: Who gets what and who doesn't? Invited speaker, Anthropology Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 22

• Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Public Lecture: Safer, Better, Faster: Will Drugs and Vaccines Be Safer or Just Easier to Get? Invited lecturer, Lansdowne Lecture 2010, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 18

• Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Health Inequities: A Vaccine for Meningitis in A sub Saharan Africa. Invited speaker, Global Health Conference 2010: "The Spread of Disease", Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 5

Feburary 2010

• Dr. Farah Huzair, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

H1N1: Promises and Challenges for the Vaccine Industry. Invited speaker, Situating Science Seminar Series, Kings College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

January 2010

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Knowledge for Development:Theoretical Perspectives and Current Debates. Invited speaker, International Development Studies Visiting Speakers Program, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
  
  Politics of Knowledge for Development. Invited speaker, Global Development Series, International Development Studies Visiting Speakers Program, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 15 

 

 

December 2009

• Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Pregnant? Project of Identity: Prophetic Medicine, Secular Biomedicine & Conflict in Pakistan's Northern Areas. Medical Pluralism: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Imagination of Healing session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, December 2-6

 

 

November 2009

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
  

Synergies and Tensions between Rural Social Movements and Professional Researchers. Surendra Patel Memorial Lecture Series, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 20

• Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

As'Sihr, Kala Jadu, Badal (Islamic Socery, Black Magic, Revenge): Woman-Centered Ritual Practice and Subversive Social Agency in Pakistan's Northern Areas. Ethnographies of Islam Workshop, Aga Khan University, London, UK, November 5

 

 

October 2009

• Dr. Farah Huzair, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Innovation, Production and Regulation of the H5N1 Vaccine in Canada. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 28-31

• Dr. Mavis Jones, CIT-PART Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Optics and opacity: The politics of transparency in the modernization of drug regulation. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 28-31

• Dr. Amrita Mishra, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reorganizing the Pluri-National State in Bolivia. Invited speaker, Transformation: Latin American on the Move, International Development Series International Symposium, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 2-3

Dr. Borda-Rodriguez (center), presenting at Transformation: Latin American on the Move, International Development Series International Symposium at Saint Mary's University, Halifax [Canada], 2009

 

 

September 2009

• Sharon Batt, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 

• Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 

Politics in the Guise of Deliberative Democracy: Regulating Private Goods for the Public's Health. Working with Policy Wonks: Undisciplined Perspectives on Health Policy session. Session organizers: Sylvia Abonyi, Janice Graham, James Waldram. Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-28. 

• Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Targated Doctors, Missing Patients: Obstetric Health Services and Sectarian Conflict on Northern Pakistan. Medical Anthropology and Conflict Double-Length Workshop organizer for the Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27

 

 

 August 2009

• Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Culture and the Illness Experience: Cultural Competency from an Anthropological Perspective. Culturally Competent care: Clinical Skills and Research Base. Family Medicine residents, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, August 27

January 2009 

• Dr. Barbara Mintzes, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Dr. Georges Menahem, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Paris 13 University

How can the Decommodified Security Ratio assess the economic security provided by healthcare and disability benefits? [abstract]

 

 

 October 2008 [Junior Scholar Lecture Series]

• Dr. Alexandra Widmer, Assistant Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada

   

   

  Citizen, Consumers and Bio-political Forms of Power: Thinking about Health, Responsibility and Entitlement from Vanuatu to Canada

• Dr. Amrita Mishra, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

   

  From Pap Classification to Bethesda 2001—Relating the development of a Diagnostic lexicon to Triage systems

• Dr. Farah Huzair, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 

   

  Exploring Innovative Capabilities; the Case of the Hungarian Agri-Biotech Sector

• Dr. Michael Reinsborough, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

   

  Governance and the power to manipulate unknown materials