giorgio.brocco@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Current Research Project and Doctoral Dissertation<\/strong>
\nZeruzeru and Diverse Shades of Difference. A Study of People with Albinism in Contemporary Tanzania (Working title)<\/span><\/p>\n

Academic Qualifications<\/strong>
\n\u2022 2014-2018 Ph.D. Student, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISKA), Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.
\n\u2022 2013 Visiting Studentship (10 months). Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISKA), Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.
\n\u2022 2011 Master degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Department of Philosophy and Literature, University of Palermo. MA Dissertation: \u201cThe regeneration of the Nannu. Strategies of revival and innovation in the Carnival practices of a Sicilian Town\u201d. Grade: 110\/110 cum laude.
\n\u2022 2008 Bachelor degree in Philosophy and Literature, University of Palermo. BA Dissertation: \u201cThe archbishopric of Monreale and the trials against three \u201cwitches\u201d in Modern and Contemporary Sicily\u201d. Grade: 110\/110 cum laude.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professional Qualifications<\/strong>
\n\u2022 2012-2017 Scientific coordinator of the project \u201cNo More Discrimination Against People with Albinism\u201d (Tanzania). Tulime Onlus (NGO), Italy.
\n\u2022 2012-2014 European Voluntary Service Project Coordinator in Tanzania (Pomerini, Iringa Region). Tulime Onlus (NGO), Italy.
\n\u2022 2013\/2012 October-November Teacher of Swahili Language. Level: Beginners. Number of Students: 14. Tulime Onlus (NGO), Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards and Scholarships<\/strong>
\n\u2022 2014-October 2018 German Education Exchange Service (DAAD), Scholarship for doctoral research project, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.
\n\u2022 2017 Travel Grant for the Conference \u201cTransfigurationen: Medizin macht Gesellschaft macht Medizin\u201d, February 17-18, 2017, Universit\u00e4t Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
\n\u2022 2016 Wenner-Gren Travel Grant for the Conference ASA16, \u201cFootprints and futures: the time of anthropology\u201d, July 4-7, 2017, Durham University, Durham, UK.
\n\u2022 2015 Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG) Travel Grant for the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG), November 12-14, 2017, Institute of Social Anthropology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
\n\u2022 2013 Post-Master Degree Research Grant for Specialization Course Abroad, University of Palermo, Italy.
\n\u2022 Ignazio Buttitta Foundation Scholarship, Award-Grant for MA Dissertation and Research.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Disability; Anthropological Theory and Methodology, Stigma, Inclusion-exclusion, biosociality; Anthropology of Africa (esp. Tanzania)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanzania and Italy (Sicily)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal Articles<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2018 (in preparation). Perception of Albinism in Tanzania in the Wake of Humanitarian Reasons. Minority Report. Mimesis Publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n

2018 (under review). Even though I am an albino, I can participate in the development of my community\u201d: Social classification and new political subjectivities of people with albinism in global Tanzania. Special issue on political subjectivity. Critical African Studies.
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2016. Albinism, stigma, subjectivity and global-local discourses in Tanzania. Anthropology and Medicine, 23 (3): 229-243.
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2015 Labelling albinism: Language and discourse surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania. Disability and Society, 30 (8): Pp. 1143-1157.
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\nConference Presentations (since 2007)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

17-18\/02\/2017. Glocal Understanding of Albinism as a Disability in Tanzania. Presentation at the conference: Transfigurationen: Medizin macht Gesellschaft macht Medizin. General Conference organized by Arbeitsgruppe Medical Anthropology der Deutschen Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde (DGV e.V), Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) der Schweizerischen Ethnologischen Gesellschaft (SEG), Wiener Dialoge der Medizinanthropologie. Universit\u00e4t Basel. Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n

4-7\/10\/2017. Practices of belonging within glocal socio-scapes of disability (with Susanne Kathrin Hoff and Christopher Hohl). Workshop organization within the conference: Belonging: Affective, moral and political practices in an interconnected world. Biannual Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA). Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Insitut f\u00fcr Sozial- und Kul-turanthropologie, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

9-10\/11\/2016. Presentation accepted but declined participation. Fighting against stigma and discrimination: Tulime Onlus and its projects on behalf of people with albinism in Tanzania (2012-2016). Conference: Advancing the Rights of Persons with Albinism in Africa: A Call to Action, University of Pretoria, Sud Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

30-09\/05-10\/2016. Invited Presentation. \u201cEven though I am an albino, I can participate in the development of my community\u201d: Social classification and new political subjectivity of people with albinism in global Tanzania.Presentation at the workshop:Political Subjectivity in Times of Transformation: Classification and Belonging in South Africa and Beyond. Point Sud Conference, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (StIAS), South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

4-7\/07\/2016. Embodying differences: ideas and discourses on albinism in global Tanzania. Presentation at the conference: ASA16, Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Annual Conference, Durham University, Great Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n

23-24\/06\/2016. \u201cAll of the people with albinism die young\u201d: timing albinism in the wake of humanitarian reasons. Presentation at the conference: MAYS (Medical Anthropology Young Scholars) 7th Annual Meeting, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2-4\/06\/2016. Accepted presentation but declined participation. Embodying vulnerability: Albinism in the Wake of Humanitarian Reasons. VI Congresso da Associacao Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA), Futuros Disputados, Universit\u00e0 di Coimbra, Portogallo.<\/span><\/p>\n

20-21\/05\/2016. \u201cI am a disabled person\u201d: The global-local flow of ideas and discourses on albinism in Tanzania. Presentation at the workshop: AG Medical Anthropology, Planungsworkshop 2016, Freie Universit\u00e4t, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

14\/03\/2016. Guaritori magici in Sicilia e Iringa (Tanzania): magari, ciarmavermi e waganga wa kienyeji. Etnografie del Contemporaneo, Museo delle Marionette – Universit\u00e0 di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

22-23\/02\/2016. Narrating New Identities: Albinism in the Wake of Humanitarian Reasons. Presentation at the workshop: Studying Medical Globalization: Historical and Anthropological Investigations – Joint Workshop Freie Universit\u00e4t\/Cermes3-Globhealth, Cermes3, Paris, France.<\/span><\/p>\n

12-14\/11\/2015. Ambiguous Lives: Albinism, Uncertainty and Morality in Tanzania. Presentation at the conference: Annual Meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG) Institute of Social Anthropology, University Bern, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n

04\/12\/2014. \u201cWe are as Normal as Other Individuals\u201d: Life Experiences and Subjectivities of People with Albinism in Tanzania.\u201d Arbeitskreis Medical Anthropology, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Insitut f\u00fcr Sozial- und Kulturanthropolo-gie, Germany.
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28-30\/11\/2014. Zeruzeru and Diverse Shades of Difference. A Study of People with Albinism in Kilolo District, Tanzania. Workshop der AG Medical Anthropology and Der Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde (DVG), Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

19-20\/11\/2014. Fictional Narrative and Auto-Ethnography. Intertwined Methodologies for Ethnographic Fieldwork on People with Albinism in Tanzania. Presentation at the conference : (S\u2019) Explorer une Disposition Anthropologique, Universit\u00e9 de Paris Ouest la Def\u00e9nse Nanterre, France.<\/span><\/p>\n

4-5\/07\/2014. Albinism in Tanzania from the Point of View of a Positioned Researcher. Presentation at the conference: 5th Annual MAYS (Medical Anthropology Young Scholars) Meeting, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

30\/05\/2013. Living with Albinism in Iringa Region: Communitarian Perceptions and Subjective Experiences. Arbeitskreis Medical Anthropology, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Institut f\u00fcr Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

14\/06\/2012. Living with Albinism in Iringa: Between Local Worlds and Transnational Universes. Arbeitskreis Medical Anthropology, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Institut f\u00fcr Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

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