The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) together with the Brazil Initiative at LACS feature presenters from diverse disciplines. LACS organizes and sponsors more than 50 public lectures, workshops, performances, and conferences over the course of the academic year.
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International Colloquium on Knowledge Networks and Health Innovation in the (North and South) Americas
This two-day colloquium assembles leading health researchers from Canada, the United States, Cuba, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Portugal to look at patterns of collaboration driving innovations in medical and public health research, practice, and policy in the Americas from the late 19th century to the present. Participants will present new research on alternative players within traditional groups of health practitioners (communist public health specialists and veterinarians, for example); and on actors outside the formal health sector such as feminist organizations, artists and architects, public policy managers, and patient activists. The colloquium will lay out an agenda for the next stage in thinking about the “Americas dynamic” in the interplay of global and local in health innovation.
Schedule of Events:
Day 1 – Ann Arbor Conference Room, U-M Detroit Conference Center
9:00 – 9:15 » Opening Remarks by STEVEN PALMER, University of Windsor, Canada; and ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN, University of Michigan, USA
9:15 –10:30 » Specialist Practitioners: Inter-American and Anti-American Networks
GILBERTO HOCHMAN, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “The Red Network: Doctors, Internationalists, and Public Health in Cold War Brazil”
JOEL HOWELL, University of Michigan, USA; SIMONE KROPF, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: "Medicine, Technology and Politics: Interamericanism and US-Brazil Exchanges in Cardiology in the 1940s"
10:30 – 10:45 » Coffee break
10:45 – 12:45 » Feminists: Eugenics, Biotypology, Reproductive Rights
CAROL VIMIEIRO, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil: “Average, Normal and Beautiful: Bodily Representations in Brazilian Biotypology, 1930-1940”
ALEXANDRA STERN, University of Michigan, USA: “Genetics and Genomics in Latin America: From Eugenics to Social Justice Uses of Genetics”
MARÍA CARRANZA, Inciensa, Costa Rica: “The Awakening of the Women’s Movement to Therapeutic Sterilization and Abortion in Costa Rica: Tracing the Propagation of an Interest.”
ANNIKA HARTMANN, Justus-Liebig University, Germany: “Discussing the Beginning of Human Life – Medical Knowledge, Transnational Population Politics and the Abortion Debate in Guatemala in the 1970s.”
12:45-1:45 » Catered lunch in Center
1:45-2:45 » Academics: Styles of Health Research in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Windsor
ELEANOR MATICKA-TYNDALE, University of Windsor, Canada: “Health Research and Community Connections”
STEPHEN PENDER, University of Windsor, Canada: “Friendship, Counsel and Compassion in Early Modern Medical Thought: Expanding the Notion of Health Networks”
JENNIFER WILLET, University of Windsor, Canada: “INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology”
2:45 – 3:30 » Brazilians: FIOCRUZ
NÍSIA LIMA, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “Fiocruz: From National to Global Matrix of Health Research” // Commentary by Diego Armus, Alexandra Stern, Steven Palmer
3:30 – 3:45 » Coffee break
3:45 – 4:45 » Keynote Presentation by MARCOS CUETO, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “Lost in Translation? Brazil, AIDS, Anti-retrovirals, the World Health Organization and Global Health, 1996-2005”
4:45 – 5:00 » Presentation on Digital Network Mapping by University of Windsor History Seniors: Salma Abumeeiz, Kyle Lariviere, and Kayla Dettinger
5:00 – 6:00 » Reception: Greetings from Douglas Kneale, Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Windsor, Michael Siu, Vice-President or Research and Innovation, University of Windsor, and Nísia T. Lima, Vice-President of Education and Communications, FIOCRUZ.
6:00 » Conference Dinner – Tapas – Participants and Guests at La Feria, 4130 Cass Ave, Detroit
DAY 2 – Ann Arbor Conference Room, U-M Detroit Conference Center
9:00 – 10:30 » Clinicians, Technicians, Veterinarians: Alternative Networks to the North
FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍNEZ-ANTONIO, Universidade de Evora, Portugal: “Spanish and Cuban Scientific Connections with Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th Century with Respect to Yellow Fever”
REINALDO FUNES, University of Havana, Cuba and Yale University, USA: “Canadian Animal Genetics and Stockraising in Socialist Cuba, from the Revolution to the Collapse of the Socialist Bloc”
10:30-11:00 » Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 » Journalists, Activists, Public Policy Players: Ethics and National and Transnational Networks
INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail reporter, 2015 Michener Award Recipient:
Interview by Steven Palmer about her coverage of the Thalidomide Victims’ Association 2015 petition to Canada’s Parliament for just settlement.
SUSAN REVERBY, Wellesley College, USA: Interview by Palmer and Erin Gallagher-Cohoon about her experience of unusual degrees, for a historian) of notoriety for uncovering the US Public Health Services inoculations of Guatemalans with syphilis in 1946-47, research that led to an official apology to the people of Guatemala by the United States government.
12:30 » Catered Lunch in Conference Center
1:30-3:00 » Artists, Designers, Architects: Miracles in Modern Medicine
Screening of the film, “Miracles in Modern Medicine”, 1967, 19 mins. Directed by Robert Cordier; cinematography by John Palmer
STEVEN PALMER, University of Windsor, Canada: “International Art and the Making of the Meditheatre at the Montreal World Exhibition (Expo 67)”
KIRSTEN OSTHERR, Rice University, USA: Critical commentary on the significance of the Expo medicine film by the author of Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television and Imaging Technologies (Oxford, 2012)
JOY KNOBLAUCH, University of Michigan, USA: Critical commentary on the architectural elements of the Man and His Health pavilion and its Meditheatre, where the Expo medicine film was shown, by the author of "The Work of Diagrams, From Factory to Hospital in Postwar America," Manifest, A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism (2013).
3:00-3:15 » Coffee break
3:15-4:00 » Multiple Actors, Multiple Locations
DIEGO ARMUS, Swarthmore College, USA: “Global and Local in the History and Historiography of Cigarette Smoking”
4:00-4:30 » Plenary discussion About Networks in History and in Historical Research
4:30 » Closing Cocktail – Renaissance Court of The Detroit Institute of the Arts
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The event is free and open to the public, and parking is convenient and free at:
University of Michigan Detroit Center
3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
*mid-town at Woodward and Mack, right beside Orchestra Hall
Organizer: Steven Palmer, Canada Research Chair in History of International Health, University of Windsor
Co-sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazil Initiative at LACS, University of Michigan
Schedule of Events:
Day 1 – Ann Arbor Conference Room, U-M Detroit Conference Center
9:00 – 9:15 » Opening Remarks by STEVEN PALMER, University of Windsor, Canada; and ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN, University of Michigan, USA
9:15 –10:30 » Specialist Practitioners: Inter-American and Anti-American Networks
GILBERTO HOCHMAN, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “The Red Network: Doctors, Internationalists, and Public Health in Cold War Brazil”
JOEL HOWELL, University of Michigan, USA; SIMONE KROPF, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: "Medicine, Technology and Politics: Interamericanism and US-Brazil Exchanges in Cardiology in the 1940s"
10:30 – 10:45 » Coffee break
10:45 – 12:45 » Feminists: Eugenics, Biotypology, Reproductive Rights
CAROL VIMIEIRO, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil: “Average, Normal and Beautiful: Bodily Representations in Brazilian Biotypology, 1930-1940”
ALEXANDRA STERN, University of Michigan, USA: “Genetics and Genomics in Latin America: From Eugenics to Social Justice Uses of Genetics”
MARÍA CARRANZA, Inciensa, Costa Rica: “The Awakening of the Women’s Movement to Therapeutic Sterilization and Abortion in Costa Rica: Tracing the Propagation of an Interest.”
ANNIKA HARTMANN, Justus-Liebig University, Germany: “Discussing the Beginning of Human Life – Medical Knowledge, Transnational Population Politics and the Abortion Debate in Guatemala in the 1970s.”
12:45-1:45 » Catered lunch in Center
1:45-2:45 » Academics: Styles of Health Research in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Windsor
ELEANOR MATICKA-TYNDALE, University of Windsor, Canada: “Health Research and Community Connections”
STEPHEN PENDER, University of Windsor, Canada: “Friendship, Counsel and Compassion in Early Modern Medical Thought: Expanding the Notion of Health Networks”
JENNIFER WILLET, University of Windsor, Canada: “INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology”
2:45 – 3:30 » Brazilians: FIOCRUZ
NÍSIA LIMA, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “Fiocruz: From National to Global Matrix of Health Research” // Commentary by Diego Armus, Alexandra Stern, Steven Palmer
3:30 – 3:45 » Coffee break
3:45 – 4:45 » Keynote Presentation by MARCOS CUETO, FIOCRUZ, Brazil: “Lost in Translation? Brazil, AIDS, Anti-retrovirals, the World Health Organization and Global Health, 1996-2005”
4:45 – 5:00 » Presentation on Digital Network Mapping by University of Windsor History Seniors: Salma Abumeeiz, Kyle Lariviere, and Kayla Dettinger
5:00 – 6:00 » Reception: Greetings from Douglas Kneale, Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Windsor, Michael Siu, Vice-President or Research and Innovation, University of Windsor, and Nísia T. Lima, Vice-President of Education and Communications, FIOCRUZ.
6:00 » Conference Dinner – Tapas – Participants and Guests at La Feria, 4130 Cass Ave, Detroit
DAY 2 – Ann Arbor Conference Room, U-M Detroit Conference Center
9:00 – 10:30 » Clinicians, Technicians, Veterinarians: Alternative Networks to the North
FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍNEZ-ANTONIO, Universidade de Evora, Portugal: “Spanish and Cuban Scientific Connections with Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th Century with Respect to Yellow Fever”
REINALDO FUNES, University of Havana, Cuba and Yale University, USA: “Canadian Animal Genetics and Stockraising in Socialist Cuba, from the Revolution to the Collapse of the Socialist Bloc”
10:30-11:00 » Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 » Journalists, Activists, Public Policy Players: Ethics and National and Transnational Networks
INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail reporter, 2015 Michener Award Recipient:
Interview by Steven Palmer about her coverage of the Thalidomide Victims’ Association 2015 petition to Canada’s Parliament for just settlement.
SUSAN REVERBY, Wellesley College, USA: Interview by Palmer and Erin Gallagher-Cohoon about her experience of unusual degrees, for a historian) of notoriety for uncovering the US Public Health Services inoculations of Guatemalans with syphilis in 1946-47, research that led to an official apology to the people of Guatemala by the United States government.
12:30 » Catered Lunch in Conference Center
1:30-3:00 » Artists, Designers, Architects: Miracles in Modern Medicine
Screening of the film, “Miracles in Modern Medicine”, 1967, 19 mins. Directed by Robert Cordier; cinematography by John Palmer
STEVEN PALMER, University of Windsor, Canada: “International Art and the Making of the Meditheatre at the Montreal World Exhibition (Expo 67)”
KIRSTEN OSTHERR, Rice University, USA: Critical commentary on the significance of the Expo medicine film by the author of Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television and Imaging Technologies (Oxford, 2012)
JOY KNOBLAUCH, University of Michigan, USA: Critical commentary on the architectural elements of the Man and His Health pavilion and its Meditheatre, where the Expo medicine film was shown, by the author of "The Work of Diagrams, From Factory to Hospital in Postwar America," Manifest, A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism (2013).
3:00-3:15 » Coffee break
3:15-4:00 » Multiple Actors, Multiple Locations
DIEGO ARMUS, Swarthmore College, USA: “Global and Local in the History and Historiography of Cigarette Smoking”
4:00-4:30 » Plenary discussion About Networks in History and in Historical Research
4:30 » Closing Cocktail – Renaissance Court of The Detroit Institute of the Arts
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The event is free and open to the public, and parking is convenient and free at:
University of Michigan Detroit Center
3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
*mid-town at Woodward and Mack, right beside Orchestra Hall
Organizer: Steven Palmer, Canada Research Chair in History of International Health, University of Windsor
Co-sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazil Initiative at LACS, University of Michigan
| Building: | Detroit Center |
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| Event Type: | Conference / Symposium |
| Tags: | History, Latin America, Medicine |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Institute |
| Upcoming Dates: |
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
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