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September 29th

18.00 Bishkek time

Approaching mental health on a global scale with particular reference to low- and mid-income countries raises issues concerning the disregard of the local context and values and the imposition of values characteristic of the Global North. Seeking a philosophical viewpoint to surmount these problems, I will argue for a framework in psychiatry that incorporates value pluralism, particularly in relation to the Global South context, while also emphasizing personal values such as the choice of treatment...

October 5th

18.00 Bishkek time

I will critically assess the statements that personalized medicine could bring forth a 鈥渃ost-effective鈥� healthcare planning globally in the future. I argue that a feminist approach needs to consider not only the extent in which preventive healthcare, central for the cost-effectiveness of personalized medicine, is able to incorporate both biological and social basis for diseases but also how the future plans are formed in relation to a transnational market logic....

October 13th

18.00 Bishkek time

It is a common view that ideas and viruses share key features such as stickiness,听resilience, and contagiousness. A corollary of this view, popularized by such books as听Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point (2002), is that epidemic models can also be听used to explain 鈥渟ocial epidemics鈥欌�� 鈥� when ideas and products become popular in an听uncontrolled manner. In recent years, epidemiology in general has received great听impetus from the rise of network analysis as an independent and interdisciplinary field听of inquiry. Ever since its inception, the tools of network analysis have been employed听to study the spread of phenomena as diverse as epidemics, wildfires, and earthquakes.
Following these developments, this paper will give a concrete example of how听network analysis can improve our understanding of the way in which new ideas were听circulated throughout history...

October 20th

18.00 Bishkek time

Modern state borders and language barriers in East-Central Europe have resulted in isolated national narratives of the past. Contemporary post-Medieval categories of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism have also harmed understanding of the history of the region and prevented international comparison. Similarly, a focus on available sources - typically Latin texts produced by the ecclesiastical hierarchy in cities - has resulted in seeing the period from the eyes of the elites. This paper introduces a project, soon to begin, based at Charles University in Prague, which attempts to address these limitations. ...

October 29th

18.00 Bishkek time

Beowulf is the longest and most sophisticated work of Old English poetry. Produced in England听around 800 AD, it tells a relatively straightforward story about a hero who defeats three听monsters and becomes a king, set in sixth-century Scandinavia. But its interests are dizzyingly听complex, swooping backward and forwards through different lives, exploring a range of听interpersonal relationships, relentlessly reflecting on the nature of storytelling, and on the听function of time...