Madagascar Workshop Annual Meeting

Description

Johns Hopkins is excited to host this year's Madagascar Workshop, the annual, international meeting of social science and humanities scholars working on Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean. The conference aims to bring together scholars of all levels spread between Madagascar and the surrounding region, America, and Europe.

Alongside several special events, an exciting range of bilingual panels (English/French) will cover regional history, material culture, ritual practice, health and medicine, identity, migration and social change, climate change risk, and science and technology.

Special events during the workshop include a keynote panel with award-winning novelist Michèle Rakotoson on Malagasy literature, memory, and creative futures; an overview of late Johns Hopkins historian Pier Larson's personal archive now housed at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University; and two book launches for new volumes on the region, Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar by historical ethnographer Tasha Rijke-Epstein and Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-Precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar by political ecologist Benjamin Neimark.

These events, panels, and the conference reception are free and open to members of the Johns Hopkins community. Learn more about the program. This is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please register by Oct. 10.

The workshop is sponsored by:

• the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
• the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine
• the departments of Anthropology, History of Medicine, and Modern Languages and Literatures
• the Medicine, Science, Humanities program