Alexandra Widmer

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Talks and presentations

2012 – Workshop "Making Human Heredity: Populations and Public Health in the Postwar Era", Cambridge University – Of Indigenous Knowledge and Melanesian Blood: Carleton Gadjusek's Research Practices on Blood and Genetic Diversity in the Western Pacific Islands (1960s-1970s)
2012 – Workshop "Colonial Subjects of Health and Difference", Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin – Low Fertility and the High Bride Price: Imbalanced Sex-Ratios, Human Variation and the Colonial Regulation of Reproduction in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
2012 – Seminar Series MPRG Lipphardt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin – Watermarks of Race and Imperial Demography: The Census, the Sex Ratio and the Bride Price in the New Hebrides
2011 – American Anthropology Association – Time and "the Social": Invoking Pasts and Futures in Images of Collective Existence in Vanuatu
2011 – Workshop "Endangerment and Its Consequences", Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – From Atlas to Ethical Talisman: Felix Speiser's Images of Vanuatu and the Status of Diversity
2011 – Workshop: "Technologies of Belonging: Biology, Race and Ethnicity in Europe", Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – The Depopulation of Melanesia and the Apprehension of Europe: Watermarks of Race in Demographic Debates and Citiizenship Debacles
2011 – Session "Time and the Expert; Temporalities and the Social Life of Expert Knowledge", Canadian Anthropology Association – "I Just Wanted to be Invisible": 'Young Mothers', Gossip and the Weight of Demographic Predictions in Post Colonial Vanuatu
2010 – German Historian Conference – Nuns, New Hebridean Nurses and Ol woman blong ples: Productive Assemblages in the Attempts to Increase the Population in the New Hebrides
2010 – Conference "Medical Crisis and Diversification", European Association of Social Anthropologists, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (with V. Lipphardt and S. Bauer) – Human Biological Diversity in Times of Crisis
2010 – Australian National University – Race, Encounters, and the Constitution of Human Difference
2010 – Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland – Archival Renderings
2010 – Race, Encounters, and the Constitution of Human Difference, Australian National University – Nature/Nurture and the Sociality of Science: Re/Producing a Melanesian Population during the Depopulation of the New Hebrides
2008 – American Anthropology Association – Politicizing Subjects, Contesting Therapies: Christian Conversion and the Struggle for Health, Souls and Meaning in Vanuatu
2007 – American Anthropology Association – Documents, Health Policy and Colonial Attempts to form Modern Subjects in Vanuatu
2006 – Symposium: “Knowledge, Belief, Society” Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. – Of Medicine, Conscience and Belief: The Problem of ‘Insincere’ Converts for Medical Missionaries in Vanuatu