j.kehr[at]mhiz.uzh.ch
http://www.mhiz.uzh.ch/Personen/Kehr.html
http://janinakehr.wordpress.com
Since 2011: Research fellow, Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Ph.D., Anthropology, Ecole des hautes études en science sociales Paris and Humboldt University Berlin (cotutelle de thèse).
Dissertation ‘The disease without a future. Anthropology of tuberculosis in France and Germany’. Advisors: Didier Fassin and Stefan Beck
2010–2011 Coordinator, Graduate Student Network Réseau Santé et Société, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord, Saint-Denis, France.
2007 Instructor, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2006-2010 NaFöG Research Grant, Berlin
2005 DEA (Diplôme d’études approfondies), Anthropoloy, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France
2004 Mag. Soc., Ethnology and Political Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
2001-02 Exchange Student, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Research Interests
Infectious diseases; social inequalities in health; medicine and migration; global health; ethnography of the state; politics in medicine
Research Area(s)
Europe (Germany; France)
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
2011. (Eds., with Jörg Niewöhner and Joëlle Vailly) ‘Leben in Gesellschaft. Biomedizin, Politik, Sozialwissenschaften’. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
2011. (Eds., with Joëlle Vailly and Jörg Niewöhner) ‘De la vie biologique à la vie sociale. Approches sociologiques et anthropologiques’. Paris: La Découverte.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
2012. ‘Blind Spots and Adverse Conditions of Care. Screening Migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany’. In: Sociology of Health & Illness, vol. 34, n. 2 (February 2012).
2012. ‘Réaliser un doctorat en sciences sociales de la santé: financements, pratiques de recherche et enjeux de professionnalisation’. In: Socio-logos. Revue de l’association française de sociologie (7). Varia (February 24). http://socio-logos.revues.org/2629 (with Fanny Chabrol and Moritz Hunsmann).
2012. ‘Le “Réseau des Jeunes Chercheurs Santé et Société”: un acteur des sciences sociales de la santé’. In: Socio-logos. Revue de l’association française de sociologie (7) (June 19). http://socio-logos.revues.org/2671 (with Marc Bessin, Fanny Chabrol and David Michels).
Chapters in Edited Books
2011. ‘Die Dichte sozialer Leben. Zur Tuberkulose Umgebungsuntersuchung’. In: Niewöhner, J.; Kehr, J. and J. Vailly (eds.): Leben in Gesellschaft. Biomedizin, Politik, Sozialwissenschaften. pp. 299-330. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
2011. ‘L’épaisseur des vies sociales. A propos du dépistage de la tuberculose’. In: Vailly, J.; Kehr, J. and J. Niewöhner (eds.): De la vie biologique à la vie sociale. Approches sociologiques et anthropologiques, pp. 267-297. Paris: La Découverte.
2011. (with Joëlle Vailly and Jörg Niewöhner) ‘Einleitung. Zonen des Existentiellen. Leben verstehen, Leben schützen, Leben gefährden’. In: Niewöhner, J.; Kehr, J. and J. Vailly (eds.): Leben in Gesellschaft. Biomedizin, Politik, Sozialwissenschaften. pp. 9-28. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
2011. (with Joëlle Vailly and Jörg Niewöhner) ‘Introduction. Espaces vitaux. Connaître, protéger, exposer la vie’. In: Vailly, J.; Kehr, J. and J. Niewöhner (eds.): La vie en sociétés. Biomédecine, Politique, Sciences Sociales, pp. 9-25. Paris: La Découverte.
2010. ‘Geographien der Gefahr. Warum wieder über die Tuberkulose gesprochen wird’. In: Dilger, H. and B. Hadolt (eds.): Medizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt. pp. 151-169. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.
2009. ‘The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a ‘Social Disease’ in French Public Health’. In: Kalitzkus, V. and P. L. Twohig (eds.): The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease. pp. 99-124. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Other
2013. Review of ‘The Moral Neoliberal. Welfare and Citizenship in Italy’ von Andrea Muehlebach. In: Social Anthropology, August Issue.
2013. ‘Georgians love their live too’. In: Pratiques, n. 61, avril (with Caroline Izambert and Michael Neumann).
2013. ‘Affaire des tuberculeux d’Europe de l’Est: mais où est passé le bon sens sanitaire’. In: L’humanité hebdo, 7-13 février (with Caroline Izambert and Michael Neumann).
2011. Radiosendung ‘Comment la biomédecine change nos vies?’, Autour de la question, Radio France International, 16 June 2011 Link to the Podcast
2004. ‘Tagungsbericht zum 22. Fortbildungsseminar des Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung “Medizin und Reisen”’. In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 27 (2): 161-163.
2001. ‘Tagungsbericht zur Konferenz “Biomedizin Macht Diskurs” Universität Hannover’. In: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, 43. Jahrgang, Heft 4/5: 703-705.
Conference Presentations
2013. ‘Evidence from below. Pratiques de savoir et innovations pragmatiques aux marges de l’Etat’. Paper for the International Conference ‘Producing Knowledge – Governing Populations’, University of Lyon, Septembre 2013
2013. ‘The Second Modernity of Plagues: The European Crisis and the Timeliness of Diseases of the Past’. Paper for the Conference of the European Sociological Association, 28-31.8.2013, Turin, Italy
2013. ‘Layered Modernity: L’existence contemporaine de la tuberculose’. Invited Paper for the Research Seminar of the Department for the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France
2012. ‘The Disease Without a Future. Anthropological Reflections on Tuberculosis’. Invited Paper for the Research Seminar of the Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, 11 December 2012, Zurich.
2012. ‘The white coat – or who is still wearing it?’ Invited lecture for the seminar on the History of Medical Objects, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Basel, 3 December 2012, Basel.
2012. ‘La complexité de la prise en charge de la tuberculose’. Invited Paper for the 3rd TB Day of the Seine-Saint-Denis Region, Conseil général, 22 November 2012, Bobigny.
2012. ‘The Durative Presence of a Disease Without a Future’. Invited Paper for the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Anthropology, University of Luzern, 2-3 November 2012, Luzern.
2012. ‘Is this the end? The Eclipse of the Therapeutic Revolution’, International Conference, DRUGS Research Network of the European Science Foundation, Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, 4-6 October 2012. Organizers: Flurin Condrau, Sandra Eder, Niklas Ingold, Janina Kehr, Betina Siegle-Antunes
2012. ‘Reflections on Inclusion/Exclusion. Tuberculosis screening of migrants’. Invited Paper for the Launch Event ‘The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions’, University of Leicester, 4 September 2012, Leicester.
2012. ‘Mycobacterial Matters: Differentiating Disease Etiologies’. Paper presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, 10-13 July 2012, Paris. Panel W 104 ‘Matters of Concern. Negotiating Un/Certainties in health related sciences, policies and experiences’.
2012. ‘Screening at the Margins of the State’, Paper presented at the Governance of Infection Workshop, Department of Anthropology / Department of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, 14-16 June 2012.
2012. ‘La maladie sans avenir. Point de vue anthropologique sur la tuberculose’. Invited Paper for the 1st TB Day of the Val-de-Marne Region, Créteil Hospital, 31 May 2012, Créteil.
2102. ‘The Governance of Infection: On the Politics and Poetics of Contagion’. Workshop, Department of Anthropology and Department of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, 14-16 June 2012. Organizers: Carlo Caduff, Mark Honigsbaum, Janina Kehr.
2012. ‘La paysage de la santé publique en France’, Advanced Training Seminar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord, 7 October 2010. Organizers: Fanny Chabrol, Janina Kehr.
2010. ‘Scaling Comparisons: Some theoretical, methodological and practical issues of ethnographically comparing in medical anthropology’. Vortrag gehalten am 12.2.2010 im Rahmen des 1. StudMedAnth Meeting am Institut für Ethnologie der Freien Universität Berlin.
2010. Konferenzorganisation: ‘La professionalisation en sciences sociales de la santé’ mit Fanny Chabrol und Gabriel Girard. Interdisziplpinäres Forum am Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord in Kollaboration mit IRIS, CERMES und dem Réseau des doctorants Santé et Société, 14.1.2010.
2009. ‘Echelonner les matrices comparatives: Quelques propositions stratégiques pour la comparaison ethnographique en anthropologie’. Vortrag gehalten am 11.6.2009 im Rahmen der Sommerschule des Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) ‘Comment comparer? Pratiques et methodes de la comparaison dans les sciences sociales’, Biarritz.
2007. ‘Tuberkulose und ihre Behandlungspolitiken. Eine ethnographische Betrachtung von Public Health Praktiken und Immigrationspolitiken im 21. Jahrhundert’. Vortrag gehalten am 28. September 2007 auf der Jubiläumstagung der AG Medical Anthropology der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde ‘Medizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt’, 27.-29. September 2007, Berlin.