[STS-Africa] Book Talk with Abigail Neely and Stacey Langwick

[Laura Meek]

*apologies for cross-posting*



Dear colleagues,



All are welcome at this upcoming event organized by the Centre for the
Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Details below and
poster attached.



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*HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series*



*Reimagining Social Medicine from the South*



Friday, March 25 @ 9pm Hong Kong



Other Time Zones:



9am EST (New York) / 1pm GMT (London) / 3pm SAST (Cape Town) / 4pm EAT (Dar
es Salaam)



Delivery: via Zoom

Registration Weblink: https://bit.ly/3sq5mYN

Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.



Speaker: *Abigail Neely, PhD* (Assistant Professor of Geography, Dartmouth
College)



Discussant: *Stacey Langwick, MPH & PhD *(Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Cornell University)



Moderator: *Laura Meek, PhD* (Assistant Professor, Centre for the
Humanities and Medicine, HKU)





*Abstract:*

In *Reimagining Social Medicine from the South*, political ecologist
Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine’s possibilities and limitations
at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health
Centre (PCHC) in South Africa. The PCHC’s focus on medical and social
factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africa’s
systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft
illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. By rewriting the
story of social medicine from Pholela, Neely challenges global health
practitioners to recognize the multiple worlds and actors that shape health
and healing in Africa and beyond.





*Speaker Bio:*

*Abigail H. Neely* is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth
College. Her work examines the histories and presents of biomedicine and
traditional medicine in rural South Africa through political ecology and
medical anthropology lenses. In addition to her book, *Reimagining Social
Medicine from the South*, she has published in geography, anthropology, and
African Studies journals. She is a committed teacher and advocate for a
more diverse and inclusive university and a mom to two energetic boys.





*Discussant Bio:*

*Stacey A. Langwick* is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Anthropology at Cornell University. She is author of *Bodies, Politics and
African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania *(2011) and co-editor
of *Medicine, Mobility and Power in Global Africa* (2012). Her articles and
essays have appeared in *American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology,
Current Anthropology, Science, Technology and Human Values, **and Medical
Anthropology*, as well as a number of edited volumes. She is currently
working on a second sole authored book entitled *Medicines That Feed Us:
Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World*.


Laura A. Meek, PhD (she/they)
Assistant Professor
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
e: lameek at hku.hk  |  t: (852) 3917 7937

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2021. Azizi: Gender, Relationality, and the Embodiment of *Mawazo *in
Tanzania <https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12368>. *Anthropology and Humanism*.
(Early View.)

2021. The Grammar of Leprosy: Temporal Politics and the Impossible Subject
<http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5525>. *Medicine Anthropology
Theory*. (Open Access.) Recipient of the MAE–MAT Early Career Paper Award.

2021. Knowing Better? Epistemological Bounds in MAQ from 1975-2021
<https://medanthroquarterly.org/teaching/rta/issue-3-knowing-better-epistemological-bounds-in-maq-from-1975-2021/>.
*Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Reading the Archive*. (Open Access.)
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