Westermarck Memorial Lecture, Dec 9, 2009
Westermarck-muistoluento 9.12.2009/ Westermarck Memorial Lecture Dec 9, 2009
Professori Marilyn Strathern (Cambridgen yliopisto) pitää 25. Edvard Westermarck –muistoluennon keskiviikkona 9.12.09 Helsingissä. Luennon otsikkona on ”Comparing Concerns: Some issues in organ and other donations”, ks. abstrakti viestin lopussa. Professori Strathern on kansainvälisesti arvostettu englantilainen antropologi ja Helsingin yliopiston kunniatohtori vuodelta 2006. Professori Strathernin monitieteellinen lähestymistapa sekä laajat tutkimusintressit tekevät hänestä kiinnostavan myös muille kuin antropologeille, erityisesti mainittakoon sukupuolijärjestelmän tutkimus, oikeustiede ja sosiologia.
Suomen Antropologinen Seura on järjestänyt Edvard Westermarck -muistoluennon vuodesta 1983 vuorovuosina Westermarck-seuran kanssa. Westermarck-muistoluennot ovat olleet merkittäviä akateemisia tilaisuuksia, jotka ovat keränneet yhteen useiden eri alojen tutkijoita ja opiskelijoita. Tänä vuonna Suomen Antropologinen Seura järjestää muistoluennon yhteistyössä Helsingin yliopiston Sosiaali- ja kulttuuriantropologian laitoksen kanssa.
Aika ja paikka: ke 9.12.2009 klo 18.00 Yliopistomuseo Arppeanumin auditoriossa (Snellmaninkatu 3, Helsinki 00014, 2. kerros). Tasan klo 18.00 alkavaan tilaisuuteen on vapaa pääsy.
Professor Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge University) will give the 25th annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 in Helsinki. Her lecture is titled “Comparing Concerns: Some issues in organ and other donations” (abstract at the end of this message). Professor Strathern is a renowned English social anthropologist who has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2006. Due to her interdisciplinary approach and varied research interests she also appeals to audiences outside anthropology, such as sociology and gender studies.
The Finnish Anthropological Society together with the Westermarck Society of Finnish Sociologists has organized the Westermarck Memorial Lectures since 1983. These lectures are held annually, alternating between the two learned societies. The Finnish Anthropological Society is organizing this year’s lecture in collaboration with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki.
Time: Wednesday December 9 at 6 pm.
Location: Arppeanum (Helsinki University Museum), auditorium, (Snellmaninkatu 3, Helsinki 00014, 2nd floor). The event is free of charge and starts at 6 pm sharp.
Abstract:
Comparing concerns: Some issues in organ and other donations
In an information society, where overload has become a problem, might anthropology’s comparative method find a new lease of life? This Lecture sets out to test the hunch that it might. A field ever more densely populated with information is that of organ and tissue donation, and the debates to which current practices give rise. Donation is only one of several modes of procurement, organs only one kind of body part that can be donated, and people offer comparisons just as commentators do. Perhaps here is an answer to the question of how to make a reasonable account out of a fraught and infinitely expandable nexus of public concerns. Is it possible to conserve the complexity of the issues while not letting the sheer quantity of information run away with itself? Would following through the comparisons do the trick?