Borders, Boundaries and Thresholds of the Body 

12-13 June, 2009


Confirmed speakers

Please follow the links below for abstracts and biographies.

Ellen Balka (Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; Professor, School of Communication, & Director, Assessment of Technology in Context Design Lab, Simon Fraser University; Senior Research Scientist, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health)

Simon Cohn (Medical Anthropologist, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge)

Thomas Csordas (Cultural and Psychological Anthropologist, University of California, San Diego)

Elena Gonzalez-Polledo (PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, UCL) 

Monica Greco (Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London; Research Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung)

Mark Lazarus (Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Rheumatology Research, UCL)

Annemarie Mol (Socrates Professor Social Theory, Humanism & Materialities University of Amsterdam)

Maryon McDonald (Fellow in Social Anthropology, Robinson College, Cambridge)

David Napier ( Social Anthropologist, Professor, UCL)

Signe Nipper Nielsen (PhD candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

Emilia Sanabria (Research Fellow, École des hautes études en sciences sociales / CNRS, Paris, France)

Susan Leigh Star (Doreen Boyce Chair in Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh)

Gail Weiss (Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences, George Washington University)

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