2023 Conference Schedule

• Dr. Tori Ekstrand, Royster Distinguished Professor and Associate Professor, UNCCH
• Anneliese Brei, Royster Global Conference Steering Committee Member, UNCCH
• Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, Chancellor, UNC-CH
• Dr. Beth Mayer-Davis, Dean of The Graduate School, UNC-CH

• Laura Pratt, Fellowship Programs Coordinator, UNC-CH

Introduced by Chelsea Ducille

“Making Good Medicine: Charting a Course to Reproductive Justice, Healing Pathologies of Power”

In this keynote address we will explore the theme of “Power and Justice” at the intersections of medical anthropology and global health. Medical anthropology has a long tradition of examining how power dynamics within societies get under the skin. I will draw upon the interdisciplinary perspectives of Indigenous scholars and scholars throughout the Global South to frame my approach to understanding reproductive injustices as pathologies of power. Through an exploration of human rights-based approaches in my anthropological and ethnographic research on infant and young child feeding, I will share challenges and opportunities that that often arise in seeking a deeper understanding of power and reproductive justice in different contexts. I will also examine the possibilities and limitations of justice-oriented scholarly research within and across disciplinary borders. The session will be followed by an interactive discussion of how we as scholars engaged in collective action to charting a course to justice in the disciplines, institutions, societies, and communities where we live and work.

• Sandip Kana, History, KCL
• Josh Miller, Nutrition, UNC-CH

Student participants present their own research. Moderated by Victoria Kratel and Kierra Peak.

9:00-9:20 – Heesoo Jang (UNC-CH) “The ‘Nth Room’ Case: Examining the Role of Transnational Digital Platforms and Their Networked Affordances in South Korea’s Mass Digital Sex Trafficking Case”

9:25-9:45 – Nina Altmaier (Tübingen) “Participation, Power, Attention – Human Factors in the Attention Economy”

9:50-10:10 – Emmanuel Amoako (UNC-CH) “Giving Power to the People: Centering Indigenous Sources of Knowledge in Participatory Community Development”

10:15-10:45 – Laura Schelenz (Tübingen) “Social Justice and Technological Futures for Refugees in Europe”

Breakfast provided

Workshop: Equity and Cultural Sensitivity in Research Practice – Self Evaluation

Chelsea Ducille, Maternal and Child Health, UNC-CH

• Saeedeh Babaii, Philosophy and Technology, Tübingen
• Anneliese Brei, Computer Science, UNC-CH
• Jaweria Sarfraz Cheema, Media Studies, Tübingen
• Samantha Eiffert, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNC-CH
• Kingsley Chukwu, Social Sciences, KCL
• Victoria Kratel, Media Studies, Tübingen
• Chris Lane, Human Movement Science, UNC-CH
• Yingtao Li, International Relations, KCL
• Shannon Wheeler, American Studies, UNC-CH

Robert Porter, Teaching Assistant Professor; African, African American and Diaspora Studies, UNC

Student participants present their own research. Moderated by Assa Bamogo and ken Ge.

9:00-9:20 – Kierra Peak (UNC-CH) “Contextualizing Research – Revisiting the Proposal of Black Youth Activist Health”

9:25-9:45 – Mandy Badermann (Tübingen) “Information Flows and Communication Structures in the Context of the Missile Strike at the PolishUkrainian Border”

9:50-10:10 – Vignesh Karthik (KCL) “Representation sans Recognition and Redistribution: Problematising Transformation in Goa through 2021 State Assembly Elections” Co-Authored with Saumya Gupta. Saumya Gupta is a Fellow at Centre for Legislative Research and Education FLAME University Pune, India.

10:15-10:35 – Seonghyun Choi (UNC-CH) “Whose Act of “Seeing” Matters? A Distinction between a Prostitute and a Fornicator in Biblical Literature”

10:40-11:00 – Tara Di Cassio (UNC-CH) “Imagining/Contesting Futures through Palestinian Wall Art and Digital Archive” Breakfast provided

Facilitated by Nina Altmaier, Victoria Kratel, and Kierra Peak

Rebecca Patterson-Markowitz, Geography, UNC-CH

Carpool departing from Taylor Hall (510 Williamson Dr) at 5:15 pm. Dinner available at 6:00 pm. Game begins at 6:35 pm. UNC students attending should pick up tickets/parking passes from Laura before 4:30 pm.

Dinner provided

High and low ropes course activities.Please wear closed-toed shoes and closed you can be active in. You may bring/wear a water bottle, sunglasses, hat, sunscreen, and bug spray as needed.PARKING: Limited parking is available down the hill by the tennis courts and pavilion. Carpooling, walking, or taking the bus is strongly encouraged. Do not park in the upper parking lot!

Breakfast snacks provided

Boxed lunch provided

Victoria Kratel, Media Studies, Tübingen

• Aashka Dave, Information and Library Science, UNC-CH (moderator)
• Nina Altmaier, Media Studies, Tübingen
• Vignesh Karthik, Political Science, KCL
• Josh Miller, Nutrition, UNC-CH

Remarks from conference organizers, participants, and more.

Dinner provided