TALKS AND EVENTS
—Talks and Events Organized—
Screening and discussion of the Baldwin-Buckley Debate
Earlham AAAS program (October 8, 2021)
Trauma and image At the intersection of acupuncture, film, and ethnography
Earlham College Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Feb 22, 2020 )
You Cannot Form the Words: Diagnosis, Fragmentation, and the Presence of Illness
Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine workshop: “The Work of Diagnosis” (October 19, 2018)
A Public Dialogue on Safety and Policing in Baltimore
(April 26, 2018)
The Body as Stranger: A Case Study of Acupuncture in the Midst of a Cancer Scare
Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2018 Graduate Conference: “Being with Others” (April 4, 2018)
How to Read Ethnography: From Zora Neale Hurston to James Baldwin
Anthropology and Literature workshop at Johns Hopkins (March 30, 2018)
Holding a Space: Locating Therapy in Two American Acupuncture Clinics
The Johns Hopkins Anthropology Colloquium Series (January 30, 2018)
Spaces that Heal: Therapy and Material in an American Acupuncture Clinic
Princeton Anthropology 2017 Graduate Conference: “Ethical and Political Materialities” (December 8, 2017)
Impressions of American Acupuncture: The Needle as Transitional Object
The Fellows Symposium at the Hopkins Center for Advanced Media Studies (April 20, 2017)
Arty-facts of Ethnography: Art and Anthropology in Conversation
Johns Hopkins Anthropology Department (April 19, 2017)
Interpreting Scientific Experience: Workshop and Reading Group
Johns Hopkins Anthropology Department (2015–2016)
Ours are the Ordinary Struggles: Cynicism and Uncertainty on a Sex Worker’s Stroll
2016 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (November 19, 2016)
Life on Patrol: An Ethnographic Examination of Police Work on the Streets of Post-Freddie-Gray Baltimore
2016 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (November 17, 2016)
A Labor of Love: Work and American Life in Acupuncture and Anthropology
Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2015 Graduate Conference: “Affecting Labor” (March 27, 2015)
When I Walk Out, Something is Better: Acupuncture, Healing, and “Reagency”
Program for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins Workshop with Karen Barad (March 14, 2015)
What is the Name of this Medicine? Uncovering National and Public Making Projects in the Semantic Field around Chinese Medicine
Johns Hopkins East Asian Studies 1st Annual Symposium on Public Health in Asia (February 28, 2014)
Assessing Diagnosis: A Performative Theory Approach to the Language of Contemporary East Asian Medicine in the United States
8th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (September 11, 2013)
Meta-synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Patient Experiences of East Asian Medicine
8th Annual Congress of the International Society for Complementary Medicine (April 11, 2013)
Reclaiming Truth: Obligations, Methodologies, and Implications
Johns Hopkins Anthropology Department graduate student conference (April 19–20, 2013)
Scientific Inquiry and the Enhancement of Tradition: Rethinking the Role of Inheritance for Chinese Medicine in the United States
New School for Social Research 2012 Graduate Student Conference: “Inheritance” (April 28, 2012)
Touching the Subjectless Self: Intimate Transitions in Community Acupuncture
Program for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins Annual Seminar (April 6, 2012)
Living Names: Encountering Naming Ethnographically
Johns Hopkins Anthropology Department (March 10, 2012)
Only Ghosts Know: Name Play in the Chinese Translation of a Tintin Adventure
“Living Names” workshop by the Johns Hopkins Department of Anthropology (March 10, 2012)
Betrayal and Community Acupuncture: Concept, Object, Method, Moment
The Johns Hopkins Anthropology Colloquium Series (December 1, 2011)
Archaeological Practice and the Entanglement of Tools
Stanford Archaeology Center 2011 Graduate Student Conference: “Entanglement in Archaeology” (April 16, 2011)
—Discussant—
Crafting Aspiration through Creative Forms
Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2015 Graduate Conference: “Enacting Aspiration” (April 19, 2017)