EMPIRICAL GLOBALIZATION RESEARCH
Professions, medical practices, and travelling knowledge Conference hosted by the DFG-project “Glocalization of medical professional knowledge and practice” (Glopro)
March 25th and 26th 2021 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Online Organizers: Tao Liu, Benjamin Quasinowski, Ilka Sommer, Anja Weiß, Sarah Weingartz
The conference will take place online. External participants please register with Ms. Maren Klingler at maren.klingler@uni-due.de by March 18th.
Here a brief insight into the program (March 25th):
13.00 – 13.15 CET Official Start and Welcome
13.15 – 14.00 CET Keynote Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College and Harvard University): Transnational Education: The Impact on Knowledge Production, Circulation, and Regulation
14.00 – 14.15 CET – Short Break –
14.15 – 15.45 CET Panel: Transnational Civil Society I (Chair: Ilka Sommer)
- Bettina Mahlert (University of Innsbruck): Global inequality and development: New perspectives for empirical globalization research
- Ludger Pries (Ruhr-University of Bochum): Transnational forced migration: between global and local approaches
- Lakshmi Krishnakumar N. (SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai): When the Global comes to the Local: A Study of Ayurveda in Kerala
15.45 – 16.00 CET – Short Break –
16.00 – 17.00 CET Plenary: How to study the global? Theories and concepts (Chair: Anja Weiß)
- Hannah Bradby
- Tobias Werron
- Tao Liu
17.00 – 17.45 CET – Long Break/Breakout Sessions –
17.45 – 18.30 CET Keynote Stefan Timmermans (University of California, L.A.): The Cultural Authority of Health
18.30 – 18.45 CET – Short Break –
18.45 – 20.15 CET Panel: Medicine (Chair: Sarah Weingartz)
- Loes Knaapen (University of Ottawa): Transnational control of standard multiplicity: competition, certification or distribution of ‘local’ standards
- Lucia Candelise, Antoine Kernen, Jean-Marie Oppliger (Universityof Lausanne): Chinese medicine in Cameroonian and Gabonese medical pluralism. The reappropriation of Chinese medical practices and product by Cameroonian and Gabonese therapists
- Hilal Bal Eryılmaz (Istanbul Technical University): Local Reflections of Global Trends: Anti Vaccination Movement in Turkey
20.15 – Open end – Breakout Sessions (on demand)