Seminars

Seminars

The “The European LeviathanMedical Anthropology” seminar series has been held since the establishment of the unit.

Seminar № 38

Coming soon

Seminar № 38

Coming soon

Seminar № 37

Resorts and Balneology in the USSR

Seminar № 36

“Taming” Sexuality In Old Age?
Health Discourses And Social Deviance During State Socialism

Seminar № 35

Bioethics in Genetic Research and Counseling on Two Sides of the Cold Curtain

Seminar № 34

Back to the Things Themselves: Phenomenology & Medicine

Seminar № 33


“Social psychiatry is dead, long live social psychiatry!” Psychiatric governance across political change

Seminar № 32


Contemporary Challenges to Subjectivity: Between Pills and Words

Seminar № 31

Industrial Pollution as a Probe into the Layers of „Socialist Modernization“

Seminar № 30

Psychological Expertise and the Care of the Self

Seminar № 29

The Non-Seeing Body: Sensory Experience And Culture

Seminar № 28

Gerontological Research in the USSR after World War II. Based on Materials from Scientific Conferences and Forums

Seminar № 27

Internationalisation of Medical Care.
Bulgarian Aspects from the Socialist Period

Seminar № 26

Unravelling the Criticism: Socialist Albania’s Examination of Freudian and Neo-Freudian Theories

Seminar № 25

Towards a Global History of the Canned Sardine:
Fish, Labor, Capital

Seminar № 24

The Stigma on Mental Disorders in Bulgaria

Seminar № 23

Reproductive Policies in The Post-War Soviet Union

Seminar № 22

Treatment of Elderly in Albania in the Early Years of Socialism

Seminar № 21

The Mental Asylum as a Social and Political Metaphor

Seminar № 20

The Extension of Creative Longevity

Seminar № 19

Institutionalization of Generational Exchanges in Socialist Bulgaria

Seminar № 18

The Brain Research in Bulgaria (1960s – 1990s)

Seminar № 17

Demographic Anxieties and the Decline of State Socialism

Seminar № 16

Children`s Health Camps in Bulgaria in the period of Socialism

Seminar №15

Traditional Bulgarian Medicine in Ternovka Village, Ukraine

Seminar №14

“We cannot travel abroad, but at least our body organs can”: Pituitary gland export from Bulgaria, 1980s

Seminar № 13

The Reproductive Policies

Medicine and Healthcare in the USSR

The “Modernisation” of the Menstruating Female Body during the Period of State Socialism

The Scarred Bodies (and Fates)

European Researchers` Night 2

European Researchers` Night 1

Far from the People`s Eyes

Seminar № 6

Dr Vladimir Kalaydzhiev or the Embodiment of Modernity?

Seminar № 5

Ageing, Mental Health, and Self-Evaluation

Seminar № 4

Medical Intelligence and the Cold War

Seminar № 3

Leviathan’s Kindest Face: The Caring Party-State and Its Privileged Clients

Seminar № 2 

Children with Disabilities in the Socialist Society: Scholar Discourses and Institutional Care

Seminar № 1

Medical Anthropology – Thematic Fields, Approaches, Trends Seminar Series