MHHA is a network of practitioners, researchers and artists across Africa interested in health-related issues.
Our aim is to provide a space for people to develop work in this area, to showcase their projects and to provide information on related initiatives on the continent and beyond.
This event is the first of five events that takes place annually, once in each of the 5 countries that are part of the Re-imagining Reproduction: Making babies, making kin and citizens in Africa project. The keynote speakers will discuss the idea of whether there is a need to re-imagine...
During the first quarter of 2021 UGHE institutionalized Hamwe Festival and other arts in health activities, that transitioned from project in incubation to a university department. To support the new department in the achievement of its mission, UGHE will put a board of external advisors in place. The role of...
Critical Food Studies together with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) will be hosting the Virtual Humanities Conference on the dates 17 – 19 November 2021. This virtual conference seeks to draw innovative humanities and creative work together...
A virtual symposium hosted by the Medical Humanities program at WiSER (university of the Witwatersrand), in conjunction with the Medical and Health Humanities Africa network and the Primary Health Care Directorate (University of Cape Town). The symposium will take place from the 19th October to 13 November 2020.
Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism Jens Seeberg (Editor), Andreas Roepstorff (Editor), Lotte Meinert (Editor) Read more at UCL Press. From the website: Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology...
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