In this guest post, medical anthropologist Associate Professor Susanna Trnka discusses how the COVID-19 lockdown gives us the opportunity to reflect on the importance of movement in our lives.
Why questions of inequality need to be at the forefront of conversations about Coronavirus
10 questions with ... Jacqueline Leckie
SOMAA 2019 Dialogue Presentations and Registration Information
Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa (SOMAA) 2019 convenors Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Mythily Meher, and Pauline Herbst are happy to share the dialogue presenters for this years SOMAA hui, Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands. SOMAA2019 will be held on 28 November in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, New Zealand. If you would like to attend, RSVP to Pauline Herbst by 20 October 2019.
SOMAA2019 Call for Proposals - Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands
2018 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards
A number of graduate students gave high quality presentations at the 2018 ASAA/NZ ‘Improvising Lives’ conference held in Wellington earlier this month. ASAA/NZ is pleased to announce the 2018 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards.
PhD scholarship opportunity on the topic 'Accessing Assisted Reproduction: Social Infertility and Family Formation'
10 questions with ... Tanisha Jowsey
Marsden success for Associate Professor Sharyn Graham Davies
10 questions with ... Susan Wardell
SOMAA Symposium 5 December 2018
10 questions with ... Susanna Trnka
Associate Professor Jacqueline Leckie awarded prestigious research fellowship
Call for proposals for new Routledge book series: Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
New publication on Housing Children in South Auckland
Housing Children: South Auckland The Housing Pathways Longitudinal Study is an important new study about housing and wellbeing in New Zealand by anthropologists Kathryn Scott, Julie Park, and Patricia Laing.
CFP: Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa Annual Symposium
Formed in 2016, the Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa (SOMAA) is a national collective for medical anthropologists working in or on Aotearoa (or interested in research/issues here). SOMAA will be launched at a one day symposium in Wellington on 15 February 2017, with Professor Marcia Inhorn from Yale as keynote. The call for papers is now open.
Public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand: Dr Catherine Trundle
This post continues our series on public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand. This week we profile Dr Catherine Trundle from Victoria University of Wellington.
New grants for Pacific Projects available from the Health Research Council
Interview with Dr Barbara Andersen, Social Anthropology, Massey University (Auckland)
On Wednesday 9 March 2016 Dr Barbara Andersen gave an ethnographically rich seminar titled "Gender, Infrastructure, and Health Care in Papua New Guinea" at Victoria University of Wellington. Harriet Lane-Tobin took the opportunity to interview Barbara, the newest permanent staff member in Social Anthropology at Massey University (Albany), about her research.
