Call for papers! Med Anthro panel, Australian Anthro Society meeting - Alice Springs

[Emma Kowal]

From Andrea Whittaker:

I am organising a panel at this year's AAS conference and thought you might be interested in joining me in wonderful Mparntwe/Alice Springs, 10 - 12 June, 2026, click HERE. Please circulate among your colleagues, Kind regards Andrea

PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT

We invite submissions for the following panel at the Australian Anthropological Society AAS 2026 Conference:

Frontiers of medical anthropology

Andrea Whittaker (Monash University)

Frontiers evokes the crossing of boundaries, be they geographical, biological, epistemological, conceptual, technological or methodological. Accordingly, in this panel we invite papers representing the latest medical anthropology research and lines of enquiry in Australia, to consider how frontiers define and limit, challenge and provoke and who lives in the margins. It also engages with imaginaries of frontiers in the life sciences and medicine. Implicit in the notion of frontiers lie anticipations of the future: how we envisage a thriving society, what technological advances will be available to assist us and how future generations will be supported.

To submit an abstract to this panel for consideration, please follow the instructions at: https://www.aas.asn.au/2026-call-for-papers