Registrations are now open for the 2019 SOMAA hui "Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands." SOMAA 2019 will take place from 8:30am-3:30pm on 28 November in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, New Zealand.

The 2019 SOMAA hui is organized into six dialogues, where 12 people will present their work. Instead of presenting in a standard conference format, each dialogue will comprise two people each presenting their work for 10 minutes while also reflecting/engaging with their paired scholar’s work. This experimental format is a way to encourage conversations amongst the SOMAA community not just on the day, but before and after (with the possibility of publication which the organizers are currently coordinating).

The dialogue presenters for this year’s SOMAA hui are:

Mythily Meher & Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich: Bodily Borderlands, Wild Stories, and Taming Them

Pauline Herbst and Susan Wardell: "Look at what you have done (to yourself)": Suffering at the intersection of the individual and the global

Tarapuhi Vaeau and Hayley Aikman: Medical borderlands and marginalized mothers in Aotearoa

Supuni Liyanagunawardena and Jessica Young: Making and Remaking: Negotiations in Medical Borderlands

John Taylor and Tarryn Phillips: Hurricanes and Healing Waters: Faith, agency and change in the context of natural disaster

Courtney Addison and Nayantara Appleton: Consent Forms as/of/in Medical Borderlands

If you would like to attend, RSVP to Pauline Herbst by 20 October 2019. Please set aside $40 (waged) / $20 (student/unwated) to cover costs.

SOMAA2019 is convened by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Mythily Meher, and Pauline Herbst.