University of Heidelberg

Bärnreuther, S. (2011). Technologies in Circulation: Assisted Reproduction in India, 2nd Annual Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Meeting. Panel 'Social Life of Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals', Warsaw (Poland), 13-14 June.

Bärnreuther, S. (2011). Embryo ethnographies: The social life of gametes and embryos, AAS-ICAS Joint Conference, Panel 'Health, Technologies and Therapies', Honolulu, 31. March - 03. April.

Picherit, D. (2011). The significance of low caste seasonal migrant labour from Andhra Pradesh in the debates on the agrarian transition. Agrarian transformation in India: And what it means for revolutionary politics, Oxford University, U.K., 13-14 July.

Picherit, D. (2011). Informal migrant labour and their quest for protections: Between market and State, village and cities, caste and political patronage. Actually existing capitalisms in development, Europe-Asia Working Group, conference of European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and Development Studies Association (DSA), York, U.K., 19-22 September.

Picherit, D. (2011). Why local leaders are so keen to fight against poverty? Labour and poverty in rural South India. Conference on Poverty in South Asia, Oxford Department for International Development - British Academy, Oxford University, U.K., 28-29 March.

Picherit, D. (2011).Circulating labour and hierarchies in South India: The social life of debt-bonded labourers in labour camps. Seminar of anthropology of work and labour, London School of Economics (LSE), U.K., 19 January.

Pordié, L. (2011). Making therapies in the wellness industry, AAS-ICAS Joint International Conference “70 Years of Asian Studies”, Honolulu, 31 March– 3 April.

Pordié, L. (2011). The meaning and practice of branding in the wellness industry, Seminar Series UCSF/UCB in Medical Anthropology - University of California, San Francisco, 30 March.

Bärnreuther, S. (2010). Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Transnational Reproductive Care in India, paper given at the European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Bonn, 26-29 July.

Cleetus, B. (2010). Contagious diseases, medicine and the market: The emergence of ayurvedic drug industry in Kerala, Pharmasud Workshop #2 – Indian Research, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 9-11 September.

Cleetus, B. (2010). Locating Ayurveda, Representing science: Reorganisation of indigenous healthcare practices in colonial Kerala, 1900-1960, Pharmasud Workshop #1 – Indian Research, CERMES-IFP, Pondicherry, 9-10 February.

Cleetus, B. (2010). Indigenous medicine, Western science and the market: Evolution of the Ayurvedic drug industry in Kerala, 1903-2003, Pharmasud Workshop #1 – Indian Research, CERMES-IFP, Pondicherry, 9-10 February.

Cyranski, C. (2010). Ayurveda’s Taj Mahal – The Rise of Shirodhara in the Spread of Ayurvedic Tourism in South India. Paper given at an Internal Workshop ‘Asymmetrical Translations. Mind and Body in European and Indian Medicine’, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Studies, Delhi, 25-26 March.

Cyranski, C. (2010). From Healing Practice to Relaxation Technique – The Transnational Reconfiguration of Shirodhara in Indian Ayurvedic Resorts. Paper given at the International Workshop “Transnational Healthcare in Asia”, Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, 04-05 July.

Cyranski, C. (2010). Relax! Refresh! Rejuvenate! Ayurvedic Treatment for Stressed Europeans in South India. Poster presented at the International Conference “The Flow of Concepts and Institutions”, 2010 Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia & Europe in a Global Context’, Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, 06-08 October.

Cyranski, C. (2010). Shirodhara – Ayurveda’s Remedy for Stressed Europeans. Paper given in the Medical Anthropology Lecture Series, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, 08 December 2010.   

Madhavan, H. (2010). Institutions and Innovations in Local Value Chains: Ayurvedic Health Tourism in Kerala, International Conference “Locating the Indigenous. Local, National and Global Forms of Indian Medicine”, University of Calicut, 20-23 October.

Madhavan, H. (2010). Cluster development in ayurvedic pharmaceuticals: evidence from Kerala, Pharmasud Workshop #2 – Indian Research, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 9-11 September.

Madhavan, H. (2010). Growth, Innovations and Transition of a Traditional Knowledge: Modernization and Globalization of Ayurveda in Kerala, paper given at the Academic Seminars of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, June 16.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). “How not alive does a patient need to be to declare him dead?”: Organ Transplantation and its Changing Paradigms in a Transnational Context. International workshop on Transnational Healthcare in Asia, Heidelberg, 4-5 July.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). (Re)Defining the Dead: Circulation of Organs and Transplant Tourism in India. Paper presented at the South Asia Conference, Madison, USA. 17 October.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). Without Bodies and Boundaries: Circulating Organs, Transplantation and Transnational Healthcare in India. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA. 17 November.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). Beyond Bodies and Boundaries: Circulating Organs, Transplantation and Transnational Healthcare in India. Poster at the international workshop titled “Moving Bodies-Transforming Values”- Socio-cultural and Ethical Issues of Transnational Biomedicine, Göttingen, Germany. 27-28 November.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). Organ transplantation and its changing paradigms in a transnational context, paper given at the Workshop « Transnational Healthcare in Asia », Karl Jasper Center, University of Heidelberg, 4-5 July.

Picherit D. (2010). Shifting Narratives between Fit and Injured Bodies: Labour and Health in Debt-Bondage Relationships, American Anthropological Association (AAA), Panel Embodied Economies: Critical Intersections of Work and Health, New Orleans (U.S.), 17-21 November.

Picherit D. (2010). Alcohol, Masculinities and Labour: The Everyday Politics of Drinking and Complexities of Power in Rural South India, Contemporary South Asia Seminar, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford (U.K.), October, 28.

Picherit D. (2010). When Manual Labourers Go Back to Their Village: Labour Migration and Protection in Rural South India. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), Panel Contemporary and Historical Aspects of Labour Regulations and Labour Standards, University of Bonn, Germany, July, 26-29, 2010

Picherit D. (2010). Le retour des travailleurs migrants au village: Contestation et clientélisme en Inde du sud. Séminaire Transversal, UMR 201 – Institut d’Etudes du Développement Economique et Social – Paris 1 – Sorbonne, 14 April.

Picherit D. (2010). Negotiating hierarchies in urban and rural settings: Seasonal labour migration and caste in South India. School of Global Studies, Geography Seminar, University of Sussex (U.K.), 23 February.

Pordié, L. (2010). Branding Indian Aromatherapy, International Conference “Locating the Indigenous. Local, National and Global Forms of Indian Medicine”, University of Calicut, 20-23 October.

Pordié, L. (2010). The new remedies of the royalty. Innovative spaces in the transnational wellness industry, Paper given at the Seminars of College of Social Sciences and Humanities, City University of Hong Kong, 24 August 2010.

Pordié, L. (2010). Hybridity in Tibetan medicine, Workshop “Medicine, Body and Practice”, Department of Anthropologie / Council on Advanced Studies, University of Chicago, 19 May.

Pordié, L. (2010). Transcultural creativity. The spa as a site of innovation, paper given at the Workshop “Transnational Healthcare in Asia”, Karl Jasper Center, University of Heidelberg, 4-5 July.

Pordié, L. (2010). La globalisation thérapeutique dans le monde tibétain, séminaire donné à l’Ecole de hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 17 mars.

Saravanan, S. (2010). Maternal-fetal bonding in the complex setting of transnational commercial surrogacy in India, paper given at the European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Bonn, 26-29 July.

Saravanan, S. (2010). Commercial Surrogacy in India: Objectification of Gestational Mothers and Babies, apper given at the Cluster’s Annual Conference 2010 “The Flow of Concepts and Institutions”, Heidelberg, Oct.

Saravanan, S. (2010). Transnational commercial surrogacy in India from a gender perspective, paper given at the International Conference « Le féminisme à l’épreuve des mutation géo-politiques », 3-5 Dec., Paris.

Wilson, C. (2010). Globalisation, nationalism and medical tourism: Modernist trajectories in transition?, paper given at the Workshop « Transnational Healthcare in Asia », Karl Jasper Center, University of Heidelberg, 4-5 July.

Baujard, J. (2009). The intermediaries of medical tourism, paper given at the International Workshop “Historical and anthropological enquiries on cross-border health care”, Cluster “Asia and Europe”, University of Heidelberg, June 14-15.

Cleetus, B. (2009). Across the borders: Transnational mobility, healthcare and leisure in historical perspective, paper given at the International Workshop “Historical and anthropological enquiries on cross-border health care”, Cluster “Asia and Europe”, University of Heidelberg, June 14-15.

Cyranski, C. (2009). Practicing ‘Precise’ Ayurveda – The Interplay of Ayurveda, Biomedicine and Psychology in an Ayurvedic Hospital in Kerala, South India. Paper given at the International Workshop “Asymmetrical Translations”, Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, 18-19 June.

Cyranski, C. (2009). At the intersection of medical and wellness tourism: Ayurvedic resorts in Kerala, South India, paper given at the International Workshop “Historical and anthropological enquiries on cross-border health care”, Cluster “Asia and Europe”, University of Heidelberg, June 14-15.

Cyranski, C. (2009). Practice, Images, and Processes of ‘Cultural Translation’ in an Ayurvedic Health Resort in Kerala, paper given at the Lecture Series on medical Tourism at the French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry, 9 February.

Cyranski, C. (2009). The Scope of Ayurveda in a Global Scenario, paper given at the 2nd State Conference of the ‘Ayurveda Hospital Managements Association’, Kollam, 29 October.

Madhavan, H. (2009). Market Transitions, Policy Frames and Responses Within: Ayurvedic Medicine in Transnational Perspective, Paper Presented at UNU MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, January 27.

Madhavan, H. (2009). Struggle and Growth of a Traditional Medicine: Ayurveda with a focus on Kerala, paper presented at the Academic Seminar Freiburg University, Germany, January 24.

Madhavan, H. (2009). Status and infrastructure of Ayurvedic healthcare in Kerala, paper given at the Seminar “Science and Humanity”, French Institute of Pondicherry, 27 November.

Madhavan, H. (2009). Globalising an Alternative Medical Knowledge: Modern and Transnational Ayurveda in Perspective, 4th Global South Workshop at Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, October 19-23

Madhavan, H. (2009). Identities and Value Chains of a Global Product: Ayurvedic Health Tourism in Kerala, Conference “Transnational Mobilities for Care: State, Market and Family Dynamics in Asia” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 10-11.

Pordié, L. (2009). The making of transnational babies in India: Reproductive technologies and everyday ethics in society, paper given at the Seminar “Science and Humanity”, French Institute of Pondicherry, 28 November 2009.

Pordié, L. (2009). Tibetan medical knowledge on the market. Encounters between amchi and health tourists in Ladakh, paper given at the 6th edition of the International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden (ICAS), Daejeon, Korea, 6-9 August 2009.

Pordié, L. (2009). Where is India? Locating Fieldwork in the Study of Health Tourism, Paper given at the International Workshop “Historical and Anthropological Enquiries on Cross-border Healthcare”, Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, 14-15 June 2009.

Pordié, L. (2009). The avatars of Ayurveda. Wellness practices, Aromatherapy and the Health Tourism Industry in India, International Conference “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 years of Interdisciplinarity”, American Society for Medical Anthropology (AAA), Yale University, 24-27 septembre.

Pordié, L. (2009). Processes and Places of Therapeutic Innovation in Indian Medicine, communication donnée à la Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan, 28 août.

Pordié, L. (2009). Integrating of Western patients into Indian healthcare. Health tourism and the making of healing practices, “Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare: Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic”, University of Westminster, London, 30 juin-2 juillet.

Pordié, L. (2009). Les enclaves transnationales du tourisme médical, Keynote given at the Colloque International « Santé et mobilités au Nord et au Sud. Circulation des acteurs, évolutions des pratiques », Toulouse, 16-17 septembre.

Wilson, C. (2009). Healthy Consumerism: Marketisation and the Logics of Choice in Kerala, South India, Paper to be given at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 5 June.

Wilson, C. (2009). Connecting to the global marketplace and escaping ‘God’s Own Country’? Perspectives on health and medical tourism from Kerala, South India, paper given at the International Workshop “Historical and anthropological enquiries on cross-border health care”, Cluster “Asia and Europe”, University of Heidelberg, June 14-15.

Cleetus, B. 2008. Branding Ayurveda, Marketing Tradition: The commercialization of indigenous therapeutic practices in Kerala, 1870-1947, paper to be presented at the International workshop ‘The Commercialization of Local knowledge’, University of Warwick, Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, and French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry 5-6 November.

Cleetus, B. 2008. Curing the body and Caring the self: Defining health within biomedicine and Ayurveda in Kerala, 1900-1947, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, ‘History and the Healthy Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine’, Glasgow, 3-5 September.

Cleetus, B. 2008. Subaltern assertion and indigenous medical modernisation in Kerala, 1870-1930, paper presented at the International Conference “Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective”, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 15-17 September.

Pordié, L. (2008). South Asian medicine, clinical research and the market, communication présentée lors de la International Conference “The Commercialization of Local Knowledge”, University of Warwick / French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry, 5-6 November 2008.