SANDRA BÄRNREUTHER Universität Zürich ISEK Ethnologie Andreasstrasse 15 CH-8050 Zürich sandra.baernreuther@uzh.ch CURRENT POSITION since Aug. 2015 since April 2016 University of Zurich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Oberassistentin (Senior Research Associate and Lecturer) Center History of Knowledge at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Associate Member EDUCATION July 2015 Feb. 2013 March 2013 Oct. 2011 June 2012 Aug. 2010 May 2011 March 2009 Oct. 2004 April 2005 Oct. 2002 Sept. 2004 University of Heidelberg Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) in Anthropology University of Edinburgh AROGYAM Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Affiliated Research Student at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems New York University Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Anthropology University of Heidelberg Magistra Artium (M.A.) in Anthropology, Geography and Educational Science University of Delhi Exchange Student at Miranda House College University of Munster Studies in Anthropology, Geography and Communication Science ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Aug. 2014 July 2015 Jan. 2014 July 2014 March 2014 June 2014 University of Zurich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Assistentin (Research Associate and Lecturer) University of Frankfurt, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Assistentin (Research Associate) University of Chicago, International Studies Program Visiting Lecturer 2011 2013 University of Heidelberg, Institute of Anthropology Adjunct Lecturer (Lehraufträge) Sep. 2009 Dec. 2012 University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe Member of the Research Project Making India a Global Health Care Destination 1
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Aug. 2016 Sep. 2016 March 2014 June 2014 Jan. 2014 Feb. 2014 Feb. 2013 March 2013 Aug. 2010 May 2011 Research Fellowship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Delhi Prize Lectureship at the University of Chicago AROGYAM Fellowship at Jawaharlal Nehru University AROGYAM Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh Fulbright Fellowship at New York University 2010 M.A. Thesis Award from the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg PUBLICATIONS Book 2011 Where Lhas Cannot See It: Geburt in Ladakh - Zwischen lokalen Praktiken, Biomedizin und Biopolitik. Berlin: Weißensee Verlag. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2016 Innovations Out of Place : Controversies Over IVF Beginnings in India Between 1978 and 2005. Medical Anthropology 35(1): 73-89. 2008 Home or Hospital Delivery? The Perception and Use of Biomedicine in a Rural Village in Ladakh. Ladakh Studies 23: 12-19. Others 2011 Invited Book Review: Pinto, Sarah. Where There Is No Midwife. Birth and Loss in Rural India. Anthropos 106.2011.1. FIELDWORK since 2017 Social Planning in India 2015 2016 Post-Doc Research, Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme in the Social Sciences Dynamics of Well-Being (5 months) The Transnational Commodity Chain of a Pharmaceutical 2010-2014 Dissertation Research, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe (18 months) Reproductive Medicine in India 2011 Comparative Research (1 month), In Vitro Fertilization in Germany 2007 Research for the M.A. thesis, German Academic Exchange Service (2 months) Childbirth and Biopolitics in Ladakh 2003 Research Seminar, German Academic Exchange Service (1 month) El Jubeo del Cuy A Healing Ritual in Peru 2
SUPERVISION OF JUNIOR RESEARCHERS Expected 2018 M.A. Thesis of Nicole Ahoya: Medical Tourism between Kenya and India (with J. Quack) Expected 2018 B.A. Thesis of Kendra Bätscher: Gifts in Buddhist India (Working Title) Expected 2018 B.A. Thesis of Jürg Bühler: Social Sciences in India (Working Title) Expected 2018 B.A. Thesis of Marcela Gisler: Hymen Reconstruction in Switzerland (Working Title) 2017 B.A. Thesis of Judith Locher: Reproductive Technologies in Egypt and Lebanon 2017 B.A. Thesis of Sarah Schiesser: Agent Orange and its Impact on Reproduction in Vietnam TEACHING ACTIVITIES (in English and German; B.A. and M.A. Level) March 2014 June 2014 Jan. 2011 May 2011 University of Chicago, International Studies Program Glocal Journeys: The Production and Circulation of Science and Medicine New York University, Department of Anthropology Medical Anthropology (Course Assistant for Prof. Rayna Rapp) University of Zurich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies AT 2017 AT 2017 ST 2017 ST 2017 ST 2016 AT 2015 AT 2015 ST 2015 AT 2014 Introduction to Anthropology (with Annuska Derks, Peter Finke, Mareile Flitsch) Key Concepts in Anthropology (with Annuska Derks, Peter Finke, Mareile Flitsch) Religion, Ethics, Knowledge & Fieldwork: A Masterclass with Michael Lambek (with Johannes Quack) Fieldtrip to India, Data Analysis, Ethnographic Writing India Through Indian Scholars Contemporary South Asia (with Johannes Quack) The Ontological Turn Science under Scrutiny: Its Production and Its Products Introduction to Medical Anthropology University of Heidelberg, Institute of Anthropology ST 2013 ST 2013 WT 2012/2013 ST 2012 ST 2011 Relatedness Reconsidered: Theoretical Approaches to and beyond Kinship Medical Anthropology Meets Biology: Examining Life Sciences, Medical Technologies and Lively Substances Anthropology of Biomedicine Grouping, Looping, Instituting: From A (NT) to Z (izek) (with Jürgen Schlaflechner) Scrutinizing the Nature/Culture Dichotomy: Approaches in Social Anthropology and Science Studies (with Eva Ambos) University of Heidelberg, Institute of Public Health 2012 and 2013 Several short courses for M.A. students in 2012 and 2013 on Medical Anthropology, Culture, Reproductive Health, and Ethnographic Research Methods 3
PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures (selection) Invited for 2018 Race as Risk? Race and ethnicity in medical research and clinical practice in India. Conference: Interrogating the Intersections of Race and Reproduction in Medicine, Science, and Technology. Fordham University, New York City, 14.02.- 16.02.2018. 2017 Innovations Postcolonial: The Making of IVF in India. Colloquium, DFG Graduiertenkolleg Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Die reflexive Herstellung des Neuen, TU Berlin, 07.11.2017. 2017 Surprising Relations: The Untimely Commodity Chain of a Pharmaceutical. Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of Lucerne, 03.05.2017. 2016 Producing Reproductive Medicine: A Hormone and its Transnational Commodity Chain. General Seminar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, Kolkata, 2.12.2016. 2016 The Making of a Pharmaceutical: hcg and its Transnational Trajectory. Colloquium, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 22.09.2016. 2016 Messengers: Reading Transnational Relations between India and Europe Through the Trajectory of Biological Material. Colloquium, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 14.09.2016. 2016 The Travels of a Hormone: hcg and its Historical Trajectory between India and Europe. Fellows Seminar at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi, 30.08.2016 2016 Observing Things You Cannot See? Practices of Knowing in Embryology Laboratories in Delhi. Colloquium at the Department of Social Anthropology, Universität Bern, 03.05.2016 2016 Innovations Out of Place : IVF Beginnings in India and Politics of Knowledge Production. Winter Research Methodology Workshop: Negotiations & Assertions. Engaging with Political Realities in Contemporary South Asia. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, 07.01.2016 2014 Out of Place: Contestations over In Vitro Fertilization Experiments in India between 1978 and 2005. Ethnologiekolloquium, Universität Zürich, 07.10.2014 2012 Bemixt and Between: The Circulation of Gametes in Indian Fertility Clinics. Seminar Series: Globalization and Biomedical Technologies: Circulation, Appropriation and Diversion. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 11.12.2012 2012 Biomedical Lives: Doing Fieldwork on In Vitro Fertilization in Delhi. Medical Anthropology Forum, Universität Heidelberg, 11.07.2012 Conference Papers (selection) 2017 Textures and Transformations. Workshop: Fringe Science and Threadbare Knowledge. University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, 22.06. 23.06.2017 4
2017 The Interdependence of Movement and Stabilization. Workshop: The Emergence and Dissolution of (Medical) Knowledge: Uncertainty and Openness. Center History of Knowledge, Zurich, 31.05.2017. 2017 The Making of a Pharmaceutical: hcg and its Transnational Trajectory between India and Europe. International Conference: Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin. University of Basel, Switzerland, 17.02-18.02.2017 2016 (Re-)storing Reproductive Substances: Biobanks as Transformative Spaces in IVF Hospitals in India. International Conference: Biobanques : Quelles reconfigurations pour le vivant? Approches interdisciplinaires et comparatives. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 12.05.-13.05.2016 2015 The Body in Action: Socio-material Engagements in In-Vitro Fertilization Hospitals in India. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Denver, 11.11.- 14.11.2015 2015 (Medizin) UND (Kultur) in der Ethnologie (with Janina Kehr). Workshop: Was ist Medizin? Perspektiven aus den Medical Humanities. Zürich, 05.11.2015 2014 Spaces of Evidence: Early IVF Experiments in India. 23 rd European Conference on South Asian Studies. Zürich, 23.07.-26.07.2014 2013 Somatic Stories: Bodily Encounters in IVF Clinics in India. Joint International Conference: Encounters and Engagements. Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology. Tarragona, 12.06.-14.06.2013 2013 Endocrine Tales: Communicating With and Through Bodies in IVF Clinics in India. 2. Mainzer Symposium der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften: Praktiken & ihre Körper. Was für ein Artefakt ist der Leib? Mainz, 25.04.-27.04.2013 2012 Good Embryos: Technologies of Selection in IVF Laboratories. International Conference: Selective reproductive technologies routes of routinisation and globalization. Copenhagen, 13.12-15.12.2012 2012 Blurring In Vivo/ In Vitro Boundaries: The Extension of the Body in IVF Clinics in India. 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, 14.11.-18.11.2012 2011 Biovalue. The Case of IVF in India. Annual Conference of the Cluster Asia and Europe. Heidelberg, 05.10.-07.10.2011 2011 Technologies in Circulation: Assisted Reproduction in India. 2nd Annual Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Meeting. Warsaw, 13.06.-14.06.2011 2011 Embryo Ethnographies. The Social Life of Gametes and Embryos. AAS-ICAS Joint Conference. Honolulu, 31.03.- 03.04.2011 2010 Transnational Reproductive Care in India. Reflections of an Intended Mother. 21 st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies. Bonn, 26.07.-29.07.2010 2009 Home or Hospital? Negotiating Childbirth in Rural Ladakh. Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Frankfurt, 30.09.-03.10.2009 5
Poster Presentation 2016 Self-Reported Experiences of In Vitro Fertilization Patients In Urban India A Qualitative Study. 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Fertility Societies. Delhi, 21.09.-25.09.2016 ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND FIELDTRIPS 2017 Workshop: Writing Spaces: Creative Writing for Anthropologists. University of Zurich, 20.11. 21.11.2017 (in cooperation with Anne Breubeck) 2017 Workshop: Fringe Science and Threadbare Knowledge. University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, 22.06. 23.06.2017 (in cooperation with Harald Fischer-Tiné, Bernhard Schär and Johannes Quack) 2017 Workshop:? graphy. Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology. 06.06. 09.06.2017 (in cooperation with Johannes Quack) 2017 Conference: Approaching Biographies, Life-Histories, and Self-Narratives: Transdisciplinary Perspectives from India and Europe. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 30.01. 01.02.2017 (in cooperation with Burton Cleetus, Harish Naraindas and Johannes Quack) 2017 Student Excursion to North India. January 2017 (in cooperation with Julia Eckert, Johannes Quack, und Anna-Lena Wolf) 2016 Workshop: Research in Teams and Reciprocal Anthropology. University of Zurich, 30.05.2016 (in cooperation with Johannes Quack) 2016 Workshop: How to Get Published: PhD and Post-Doc Workshop on Publication Strategies. University of Zurich, 10.03.2016 (in cooperation with Stefan Leins) 2015 Coordination of the Seminar Series (Institutskolloquium) of the Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich during Autumn Term 2015 2014 Panel: Practices of Proof in South Asia: The Production, Negotiation and Use of Evidence in Medicine and Healing. 23 rd European Conference on South Asian Studies. Zürich, 23.07. 26.07.2014 (in cooperation with William Sax) 2011 Panel: Travelling Technologies, Tracing Transculturality: Paradigm Shifts in Science, Medicine and Society. Annual Conference of the Cluster Asia and Europe. Heidelberg, 05.10. 07.10.2011 (in cooperation with William Sax and Sinjini Mukherjee) HONORARY ACTIVITIES since 2016 since 2016 since 2015 since 2015 Member of the Editorial Board of ZANTRO: Zurich Anthropology Working Papers, University of Zurich Member of the Working Groups Medical Humanities and Knowledge and Economy at the Center History of Knowledge, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Co-founder and Co-organizer of the South Asia Forum, University of Zurich (with Johannes Quack) Member of the Gender Equality Commission, University of Zurich 6
since 2015 since 2015 Board member of the Association of the Academic Teaching and Research Staff of the University of Zurich (VAUZ) Participation in advanced training courses for lecturers at the Center for University Teaching and Learning (didactica) at the University of Zurich 2015 2016 Representative of the academic teaching and research staff at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich 2003 2006 Member of the Association of Students (Fachverein) at the Department of Anthropology at the Universities of Munster and Heidelberg LANGUAGES German English, Hindi, Bengali, Spanish, French, Latin 7