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Office Address Institute of Social Anthropology University of Basel Münsterplatz 19 CH-4051 Basel Switzerland

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Academic Education • M.A. (Medieval and Modern History), University of Basel, 1985 • Diploma, Postgraduate Course on Developing Countries (NADEL), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETH Zürich), 1988 • Ph.D. (Social Anthropology), University of Basel, 1997 • PD Dr. Habil. (Medical Anthropology), University of Zürich, 2018

Current University Employments and On-going Academic Activities (1997-2018)

UNIVERSITY OF BASEL/SWITZERLAND: Senior Scientist and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropolo- gy, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), 2000-

Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Master‘s Degree in Sustainable Development (MSD), University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland): Course (‘Seminar’) ‘Political Ecology from an Anthropological Perspective: Global Transformations and Physical Environment’, 2006- (Each Autumn Semester) (Teaching Assignment) Course (‘Exercise’) ‘Professional Field: Applied Anthropology’, 2011, 2013 (Teaching Assignment) Project Course ‘NGOs as Actors of Development’ with Master Students to Tanzania, 2010 Project Course ‘Moving Bodies and Connecting Minds in Urban Tanzania’ with Master Students to Tanzania, 2015 (Teaching Assignment)

Senior Researcher in the ‘Medical Anthropology Research Group’ (MARG) at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland),

1 and at the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI), Basel, (Member of the Study Groups ‘Appropriation and Health’ and ‘Trust and Health’), 2006-

SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL/SWITZERLAND: Senior Lecturer in ‘Medical Anthropology’, Certificate of Advanced Studies ‘General Tropical Course’ (ATK), Basel, 1997- (Annual Block Course) Senior Lecturer in Master in Epidemiology Course ‘Key Issues in Public and International Health’, Basel, 2015-2016 (Teaching Assignment) Senior Lecturer in Master in Epidemiology Course ‘Public Health across the Life Course’ 2017- (Teaching Assignment) Project Leader, Department ‘Epidemiology and Public Health’ (EPH), Unit ‘Society, Gender and Health’, Group ‘Health Social Sciences’, Basel, 2013- Member of Core Group ‘Development of Health Social Sciences Programme in Swiss TPH’ Teaching Fellow at Swiss School of Public Health (SSPHPlus)

UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH/SWITZERLAND: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Uni- versity of Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland): Course ‘Medical Anthropology’, 1997-2007 (several 3-semester cycles with ‘Introduction into Medical Anthropology’ [‘Vorlesung’], ‘Current Issues in Medical Anthropology’ [‘Proseminar’], and ‘Applied Medical Anthropology’ [‘Übung’]) (Teaching Assignment) Course (‘Seminar’ and ’Proseminar’) ‘Urban Health’, 2000-2001, 2008 (Teaching Assignment) Course (’Seminar’) ‘Anthropology of Ageing’, 2008, 2014 (Teaching Assign- ment) Course (’Proseminar’) ‘Anthropology of Ivory Coast’, 1997-1998 (Teaching As- signment) Course (‘Proseminar’) ‘Anthropology of Indonesia’, 2002-2003 (Teaching As- signment) Course (‘Seminar’ and ‘Proseminar’) ‘Anthropology of Southeast Asia’, 2004- 2005, 2006-2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 (Teaching Assignment) Course (‘Seminar’) ‘Anthropology of Development of Southeast Asia’, 2011 (Teaching Assignment) Course (‘Seminar’) ‘Political and Cultural Transformations in Indonesia’, 2013 (Teaching Assignment) Course (‘Exercise’) ‘Introduction into Scientific Working’, 2011 (Teaching As- signment) Research Excursion ‘Political and Cultural Transformations in Indonesia’ with Bachelor and Master Students to Indonesia, 2011, 2013, 2015 Research Associate, 2017-

Lecturer in ‘Medical Anthropology – Ethnomedicine – Ethnobotany: An Intro- duction’ at the ‘Certified Advanced Studies in Ethnobotany and Ethnomedi- cine’, Institute of Systematic Botany and Institute of Complementary Medi- cine, University of Zürich, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 (Annual Block Course)

UNIVERSITY OF BERN/SWITZERLAND: Guest Lecturer in ‘Migration and Public Health’, Master of Public Health (MPH) Course, Switzerland, University of Bern, Bern, 2000- (Biennial Block Course) (Teaching Assignment)

Senior Scientist and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropolo- gy, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland), 2014-

UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG I.BR./GERMANY: Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Albert- Ludwigs-University, University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br. (Germany) Course (‘Seminar’) ‘Current Debates in Medical Anthropology’, 2004- (Teach- ing Assignment)

UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG/GERMANY: Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Heidel- berg, Heidelberg (Germany), Course (‘Seminar’) ‘Gerontoethnology’, 2008 (Teaching Assignment)

UNIVERSITIES IN INDONESIA: Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine (Institute of Public Health; Post- graduate Course), ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Manado, 2000- (in Modular Form)

Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP; Insti- tute of Social Anthropology), ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Manado, 2000- (in Modular Form)

Guest Lecturer in ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ and ‘Cross-Cultural Re- search’, Faculty of Theology, Postgraduate Course, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon, 1991- (in Modular Form)

Guest Lecturer in ‘Social Anthropology’, Faculty of Social Sciences and Fac- ulty of Nursing, University of Sari Putra Indonesia Tomohon (UNSRIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon, 2012- (in Modular Form)

UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES IN SWITZERLAND: Guest Lecturer in ‘Culture and Knowledge’ at Careum AG, Centre for Learn- ing for Healthcare Professions, Zürich (Switzerland), 2011- (Semester Block Course, Each Semester) (Teaching Assignment)

3 Current and Past Academic/Applied Activities

Associate Consultant in the Expertise Sector ‘Institutional Strengthening and Social Development’ of PT. Pugajinou (International Consultants Ltd.), Jakarta (Indonesia), 2009-

Permanent Member of ‘The Commission for Projects and Programmes of Protestant Swiss Missions’, mission 21/Bread for All (BFA)/Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern, 2008-

Member of the Expert Group ‘Formulation of a Successor Strategy for Migra- tion and Health’, the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SMF), University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2006-2007

Member of The National Commission ‘Development Aid: Projects and Pro- grams’, Bread For All (BFA)/Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern, 1995-1999, 2007-

Member of the Permanent Consultancy Commission ‘Health Sector and Pro- jects/Programmes’, mission 21, Basel (Switzerland), 2005-

Member of the International Commission ’Southeast Asia: Development Poli- cies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines’, mission 21, Basel (Switzer- land), 2005-

Guest Lecturer in ‘Medical Anthropology’, Course ,Rational Drug Manage- ment (RDG) in International Health’, Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) and De- partment of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health (ATHÖG), University of Hei- delberg, Basel, 2003-2005

Member of the National Consultative Board on ‘Access and Benefit Shar- ing/ABS: Good Practice for Academic Research on Genetic Resources’ of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) (incl. Follow-up Group), 2003-

Project and Program Officer for Several Development Projects and Programs in Indonesia (North and Central Sulawesi, Irian Jaya/Papua (-1999), Jakarta and West-Java) at Asia Desk of Swiss East Asia Mission (SOAM)/Basel Mis- sion (BM) (-2000) and its successor mission 21 (Department ‘International Relations’), Basel (Switzerland; since 2001), 1992-2002

Member of the Working Group ‘Public Health and Medical Anthropology in Swiss Public Health Courses’ of Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) of the Swiss Society of Anthropology, 1998-2002

Member of the National Coordination Group ‘Indonesia-East Timor and Swit- zerland’ of Major Swiss Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), 1998-1999

Member of the Swiss-Ghanaian Working/Planning Group ‘Establishing of the Centre for Psychiatry and Applied Anthropology’, University of Legon (Ac-

4 cra, Ghana): Medical School, Department of Psychiatry; University of Basel: Institute of Anthropology, 1997-1998

Member of the Coordination Group ‘Transcultural Psychiatry and Migration’, University of Basel: Institute of Anthropology and University Polyclinic of Psychiatry, 1997-1998

Member of the Swiss-Indonesian Project Group ‘Investigation, Promotion and Development of Herbal Medicines and their Proper Use in Minahasa and Sangihe-Talaud (North Sulawesi, Indonesia)’, Health Foundation of The Evangelical Minahasa-Church, Tomohon (YKG, North Sulawesi, Indonesia); Indonesian Department of Health; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia); University of Basel: Institute of Anthropology; University of Zürich: Institute of Systematic Botany, 1996-1999

Member of the International Swiss-German Commission ’Non-Government Organizations (NGOs): Development Policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philip- pines’, Evangelical Development Agencies and Missions (EHM), 1995-2003

Chairman of The National Commission ‘Development Aid: Projects and Pro- grams’, Bread For All (BFA)/Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern, 1997-1999

Member of the National Working Group ‘Development Aid: Projects and Pro- grams’, Evangelical Development Agencies and Missions (EHM), 1995-1999

Academic Assistant, Department of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Museum of Cultures, Basel, 1993

Member of the National Board of the Interdisciplinary Committee for Medical Anthropology (IKME) of the Swiss Society of Anthropology, 1992- (Chairman 2001-2005; Vice-Chairman 2005-)

Member of the Indonesia Commission of the Swiss East Asia Mission (SOAM), Adliswil (Switzerland), 1992-1998

Research Activities (Partly with Own Fieldwork)

Indonesia (Provinces North Sulawesi and Gorontalo), Head: Dr. Peter van Eeuwijk: Social Anthropology, Epidemiology and Infectious Biology: ‘Molecu- lar, Clinical, and Anthropological Study of Unknown Fever: A Study of People with Wild Animal Exposure in Indonesia’, 2 months, 2016-2017

Angola (Bengo, Juanza Norte and Uige Province), Head: Prof. Pascal Mäder: Epidemiology and Social Anthropology: ‘Use of Folk Medicine to Cure Sleep- ing Sickness: A Case Study in Angola’, 2015-

Indonesia (Sulawesi, Maluku, Papua, Jawa), Head: Prof. Heinzpeter Znoj and Prof. Christian Gerlach: Social Anthropology and History: ‘Churches as

5 Agents in Sustainable Development Projects: the Case of Indonesia’, 9 months, 2014-

Tanzania (Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar), Head: Prof. Brigit Obrist: Social An- thropology: ‘Ageing, Agency and Health in Tanzania’, 10 months, 2012-2015

Laos (Saravane Province), Head: PD Dr. Peter Odermatt and Prof. Kongsap Akkhavong: Public Health, Epidemiology and Social Anthropology: ‘Rolling out Preventive Chemotherapy to Achieve Rapid and Sustained Impact on Ophistorchiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Lao People’s Demo- cratic Republic: An Intervention Study in Saravane District’, 9 months, 2009-2014

Tanzania (Rufiji and Dar es Salaam), Head: Dr. Peter van Eeuwijk: Social An- thropology: ‘From ‘Cure to Care’ Among the Elderly. Old-Age Vulnerability in Tanzania’, 12 months, 2008-2011

Indonesia (North Sulawesi): Social Anthropology: Growing Old in the City. Health Transition among the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 36 months, 2000-2002, 2003

Ghana (Accra and Western Region), Head: Dr. Kojo Koranteng: Social An- thropology and Psychiatry: Mental Disorders, Transcultural Psychiatry and Applied Anthropology, 3 months, 1997

Tanzania (Dar es Salaam), Head: Dr. Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk: Social An- thropology: Household Decision Making in Health Care, 4 months, 1995, 1996

Papua New Guinea (East Sepik Province), Head: Dr. Brigit Obrist van Eeu- wijk: Social Anthropology: Community Development, 3 months, 1993

Indonesia (North Sulawesi): Social Anthropology: Health Seeking Behaviour of 3 Peasant Communities, 30 months, 1990-1992, 1993

Indonesia (North Sulawesi), with Dr. Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk: Social An- thropology: Illness and Decision Making of Mothers with Children under Five Years, 8 months, 1991, 1992

Madagascar (South Madagascar), with Dr. Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk: Social Anthropology: Material Culture, 2 months, 1989

Indonesia (North Sulawesi): Social Anthropology: Primary Health Care and Traditional Medicine, 11 months, 1987-1988

Pakistan (Baluchistan): Social Anthropology: Social Network and War, 3 months, 1986

Surinam (Central Surinam): Social Anthropology and Ecology: Ecology and Land Use, 6 months, 1986

Indonesia (Ceram/Moluccas): Social Anthropology: Tribal Community versus Nation Building, 4 months, 1984

Indonesia (North Sumatra): Social Anthropology and Contemporary History: History of Head-Hunting, 3 months, 1982

Member of University Board/Committee

Research Commission, Member and Site Collaborator, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel (Switzerland), 2015-

Interfaculty Curriculum Commission/Teaching Commission, Master‘s De- gree in Sustainable Development (MSD), Representative of University Staff Group II, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), 2008-

Board of Institute, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), 2003-

Research Grants (Projects and Foreign Researchers)

State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) (Bern), 2016-2017, as Head of Project: Seed Money Research Project ‘Molecular, Clinical, and Anthropological Study of Unknown Fever: A Study of People with Wild Animal Exposure in Indonesia’, Institute of Social Anthropology and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), Faculty of Medicine, ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia)

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Department ‘Sustainable Develop- ment at Universities Programme’, 2014-2016, as Lecturer and Course Devel- oper in the Project ‘Linking Sustainable Development, Equity and Health: Triggering Debates across Disciplinary Boundaries’, Institute of Social An- thropology, Center for African Studies, and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2014-2016, as Scientific Project Coordinator: Research Project ‘Churches as Agents in Sustainable Develop- ment Projects: the Case of Indonesia’, Institute of Social Anthropology and History Department, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2014-2015, as Scientific Project Coordinator and Co-Investigator: Research Project ‘Ageing, Agency and Health in Tanzania’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), Part II

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2012-2014, as Scientific Project Coordinator and Co-Investigator: Research Project ‘Ageing, Agency and

7 Health in Tanzania’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), Part I

World Health Organisation (WHO), 2009-2013, as Co-Investigator and Social Scientist Consultant: Research Project ‘Rolling out Preventive Chemotherapy to Achieve Rapid and Sustained Impact on Ophisthorchiasis and Soil- Transmitted Helminthiases in Lao PDR: An Intervention Study in Saravane District’, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Ba- sel (Switzerland), National Institute of Public Health of Ministry of Health Lao PDR, Vientiane (Lao PDR), and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

UBS Optimus Foundation (Zürich), 2009-2011, as Co-Investigator and Su- pervisor: Research Project ‘Impact of Educational Videotapes on Soil Trans- mitted Helminth (STH) Infection Risk Behaviour of Schoolchildren in Hunan Province, China’, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland University, Brisbane (Australia) and Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

Office for Educational Grants Kanton Basel-Stadt (Basel), 2008, as Head of Project: Foreign Researcher Exchange Involving Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2008-2011, as Scientific Project Coordinator: Research Project ‘History of Health Systems in Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa): Swiss Mission Hospitals and Rural Health Delivery in the 20th Century’, Department of History and Institute of Social Anthro- pology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2008-2011, as Head of Project: Research Project ‘From ‘Cure to Care’ Among the Elderly. Old-Age Vulnera- bility in Tanzania’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Ba- sel (Switzerland)

Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE, Bern), 2005, as Coordinator for Research Partnership and Exchange of For- eign Researcher Involving Faculty of Medicine, ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Institute of Social Anthropol- ogy, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland) and Swiss Tropical Institute (STI), Basel

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2003 and Follow-ups, as Head of Project: Research Project ‘Growing Old in the City. Health Transition among the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. An Anthropological Approach to Old-Age Research’, Part II

Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern), 2000-2002, as Head of Project: Research Project ‘Growing Old in the City. Health Transition among the El-

8 derly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. An Anthropological Approach to Old-Age Research’, Part I

Nikolaus und Bertha Burckhardt-Bürgin-Foundation (Basel), 1992: Partici- pation in 12th International Conference on the Social Sciences and Medicine in Peebles (UK) as Part of On-going Research

Swiss National Science Foundation (Basel), 1991, as Junior Researcher: Re- search Project ‘Between Traditional Medicine and Primary Health Care: Changes in Local Health Care of Rural Minahasa (North Sulawesi, Indone- sia)’ with Special Focus on Malaria and Diarrhea

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)/Postgraduate Course on Developing Countries (NADEL, ETH Zürich), 1987-1988, as Trainee: Re- search Project ‘Traditional Medicine in Minahasa (North Sulawesi, Indone- sia): Local Healers and their Patients’

Academic Post-Doctoral Fellowships

University of Leiden, Leiden (The Netherlands), International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), on ‘Growing Old in the City. Health Transition among the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. An Anthropological Approach to Old-Age Research’, 2003

University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), Australian Centre for Inter- national and Tropical Health and Nutrition (ACITHN), with Professor Lenore Manderson on ‘Health Behaviour and Malaria’ and ‘Global Aspects in Local Health Care’, 1998

Member of the Following Academic Organizations o Swiss Society of Anthropology (SEG) o European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) o American Anthropological Association (AAA) o Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) Interdisciplinary Commission for Medical Anthropology (IKME) (Chairman 2001-2005; Vice-Chairman 2005- 2007) o German Society for Anthropology (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical An- thropology, Berlin (Board Member) o Society for Ethnomedicine (AGEM), Andechs (Germany) o Network ‘Medical Anthropology’ of the European Association for Social An- thropologists (EASA) (Representative for Intersection and Cross- Disciplinarity 2010-2014, Deputy Chairman 2014-) o Society of Medical Anthropology (SMA) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)

9 o European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Leiden (The Netherlands)/Naples (Italy) (Board Member Representing Central and South Europe 2004-2007) o Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV), Leiden (The Neth- erlands) o Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS), Bern (Auditor 1998-) o a+ Platform ‘Ageing Society’ of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAW), Bern, Switzerland (Academic Member) o Geneva International Network on Ageing (GINA WHO), Geneva, Switzer- land o Swiss Society of Gerontology (SGG), Bern o Centre of Gerontology, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (Academic Member) o African Research on Ageing Network (AFRAN), Oxford (UK) o Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE), USA o Aging and Life Course Interest Group of the American Anthropological As- sociation (AAA), USA

Conferences and Seminars (2000-)

As Co-Organizer:

Joint International Conference ‘Bodies in Transition – Power, Knowledge and Medical Anthropology’, Member of the Scientific Committee, organised by EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal), July 5-7 2017

Joint International Conference ‘Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin‘, Member of the Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee, organised by Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS SEG), Ar- beitsgruppe Medical Anthropology DGV and Wiener Dialoge der Medizinan- thropologie, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), February 17-18 2017

Joint International Conference ‘Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogat- ing Theory, Policy and Practice’, Member of the Scientific Committee, organised by EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) London Medical Anthropology Committee, University of Sus- sex, Brighton (UK), September 9-11 2015

International Conference ‘Medical Anthropology at the Heart of Public Health and Biomedicine’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS SEG), Swiss Trop- ical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, University Hospital Ba- sel and Charité Berlin School of Public Health, Basel (Switzer-land), June 4- 5 2015

10 Spring Symposium 2015 ‘Community Participation in Public Health: What’s the Added Value in Research and Implementation?’ Swiss Tropical and Pub- lic Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 23 2015

Masterclass (with Jay Sokolovsky) ‘Globalization and Aging: Changing Inter- generational Relations and Social Network’, Institute of Social Anthropology and Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S), University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 7-8 2015

Annual Conference of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG), ‘Social Anthro- pology and Global Transformations’, Organisation Committee, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Museum of Cultures, Basel, and Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, October 31-November 1 2014

International Conference ‘Enabling Disability and Processes of Learning’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Ethnographic Museum and De- partment of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), October 25-26 2013

International Seminar ‘Images of Care’ as Module of the Swiss Graduate Pro- gram in Anthropology of Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) organised by Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Bad Schauenburg (Switzerland), September 6-7 2013

Stream Leader and Organizer of Panel 5 ‘Lifecycles and Health’ and Member of the Scientific Committee at the Joint International Conference ‘Encoun- ters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology’ organised by the EASA Medical Anthropology Network/AAA Society for Medical Anthropology/Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV Tarragona), Tarragona (Spain), June 12-14 2013

International Workshop ‘Ageing, Health and Care in Tanzania and Indonesia’ with representatives of different public and private institutions from Tanza- nia and Europe organized by HelpAge Inter-national Tanzania and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Dar es Salaam (Tan-zania), April 4-5 2013

International Workshop ‘Advancing Health Care Services for Older Persons in Africa’ with representatives of different public and private institutions from Eastern and Southern Africa and Europe organized by Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, and Institute of Social An- thropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), February 14-15 2013

Conference ‘’Shattering Culture’ – Diversity in Health Care. Comparative Per- spectives across Swiss and American Medicine’ with Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Colleagues, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), University Hospital Basel, and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Ba- sel (Switzerland), October 25-26 2012

11 Symposium ‘Current Topics in Medical Anthropology’ with Anita Hardon, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 26-27 2012

Conference ‘The History of Health Care in Africa: Actors, Experiences, and Perspectives in the 20th Century’, Department of History, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), September 12-14 2011

Conference ‘Global Health Perspectives from Medical Anthropology’ with Mark and Mimi Nichter, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, and Institute of So- cial Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), June 6-7 2011

International Advisory Bord Meeting II of the Research Project ‘History of Health Systems in Africa’, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 12 2010

International Advisory Bord Meeting I of the Research Project ‘History of Health Systems in Africa’, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 2-3 2009

Masterclass (with Prof. Martin Endress) ‘Trust and Health/Trust and Con- flict’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and Institute of Social An- thropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 20 2008

Conference ‘Primary Health Care and Social Equity: Illusion or Reality?’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Basel (Switzerland), September 12- 13 2008

Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology (SEG), ‘New Themes in Social Anthropology’, Organisation Committee Institute of Social Anthropology and Museum of Cultures, Basel, November 30-December 1 2007

Conference ‘Age, Aged and Ageing: Culture, Health and Ageing. Old-Age Vul- nerability in Africa-Asia-Latin America and Europe’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Basel (Switzerland), October 26-27 2007

Workshop ‘Medical Anthropology in Situation of Conflict’, German Society for Anthropology (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Basel, Feb- ruary 12 2005

Conference ‘Medical Anthropology between Theory and Practice: the 10th An- niversary of IKME/CIAM’, Interdisciplinary Committee for Medical Anthro- pology (IKME), Basel (Switzerland), September 20-21 2002

12 Seminar ‘Traditional Remedies in Minahasa Medicine’, Postgraduate Pro- gram, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), January 7 and 17 2002

Seminar ‘Gender 2000’, Christian Foundation for Higher Education (YPTK), Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indone- sia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), March 17-18 2000

As Panel/Workshop Convenor:

Panel ‘Ageing Bodies in Transition: Old Age, Health and Care on the Move’ at the Joint International Conference ‘Bodies in Transition – Power, Knowledge and Medical Anthropology’ organised by the EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal), July 5-7 2017

Panel ‚Ageing in Sub-Sahara Africa: Shifting Landscapes of Moral Neoliberal Reforms’ (with Brigit Obrist) at the 7th European Conference on African Stud- ies (ECAS 2017) organised by the Centre for African Studies Basel, Universi- ty of Basel, and the Swiss Society for African Studies in Basel (Switzerland), June 29-July 1 2017

Panel ‚Gutes Altern, würdevolles Sterben: Bürokratisierung, Biopolitik und der Wert des Lebens‘ at the Joint International Conference ‘Transfiguratio- nen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin‘ organised by Medical Anth- ropology Switzerland (MAS SEG), Arbeitsgruppe Medical Anthropology DGV and Wiener Dialoge der Medizinanthropologie, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), February 17-18 2017

Panel ‘Summary and Discussion’ at the International Conference ‘Does Reli- gion Make a Difference? Discourses and Activities of Religious Development NGOs’ organised by the Center for Religion, Economy and Politics, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), November 9-11 2016

Panel ‘Global Ageing: Towards a Shift from Cure to Care’ at the Joint Inter- national Conference ‘Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice’ organised by EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) London Medical Anthropology Committee, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), September 9-11 2015

Workshop ‘Interfaces Medical Anthropology – Public Health: Towards a Joint ‘Health Social Science’’ at the International Conference ‘Medical Anthropolo- gy at the Heart of Public Health and Biomedicine’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, University Hospital Basel and Charité Hospital Berlin, Basel (Switzer- land), June 4-5 2015

Panel ‘Participatory Approaches in Research’ at the ‘Spring Symposium 2015 ‘Community Participation in Public Health: What’s the Added Value in Re-

13 search and Implementation?’ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 23 2015

Panel ‘‘Global Aging’ – New Perspectives on Social and Cultural Transfor- mations of Old Persons` Health and Care’ at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG), ‘Social Anthropology and Global Transfor- mations’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Museum of Cultures, Basel, and Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 31-November 1 2014

Stream ‘Lifecycles and Health’ and Panel 5 ‘Lifecycles and Health: Elderly Persons’ at the Joint International Conference ‘Encounters and Engage- ments: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology’ organised by the EASA Medical Anthropology Network/AAA Society for Medical Anthropolo- gy/Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV Tarragona), Tarragona (Spain), June 12- 14 2013

Panel ‘Negotiating Values: Care Support, Solidarity and Elderly People’ at European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Maynooth (Ireland), August 24-27 2010

Panel ‘Migrants’ Pathways to Health Care: Access Barriers and Patterns of Resilience and Mutuality’ at European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Ljubljana (Slovenia), August 26-29 2008

Joint Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) and the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS), Convenor of the Joint Panel ‘Changing Boundaries and Border Crossings in African Health Care: Trans- formations in National and International Policy and Practice’, Freiburg i. Br. (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland), May 14-17 2008

Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology (SEG), ‘New Themes in Social Anthropology’, Convenor of Joint Panel ‘Health on the Move – Health and Illness in a Globalising World’, Institute of Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Basel (Switzerland), November 30-December 1 2007

10th Jubilee International Conference ‘Medicine in Context: Illness and Health in an Interconnected World’ of German Society for Social Anthropolo- gy (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Panel ’Urbanization – a Danger for Health?’, Berlin (Germany), September 27-29 2007

Panel ‘Appropriation: What Can this Concept Contribute to Medical Anthro- pology?’ at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropolo- gy (Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft, SEG/SSE), Lausanne (Swit- zerland), November 30-December 2 2006

Panel ‘Nutrition for the Body, Food for the Mind’ at European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Vienna (Austria), September 8-12 2004

14 Panel ‘Transformations in Health Care Systems in Southeast Asia’ at the IVth Conference of the European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EU- ROSEAS), Paris (France), September 1-4 2004

Scientific Presentations (2005-)

Paper ‘Medical Anthropology in Switzerland and Beyond’ (with Brigit Obrist) presented at the Re-search Colloquium of the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Lucerne, Lucerne (Switzerland), March 21 2018

Paper ‘Ageing and Health across the Spectrum of High-, Middle- and Low- Income Countries’ presented at the International Swiss Public Health Con- ference ‘Personalized Health from a Public Health Perspective’, Panel ‘Linking the Sustainable Goals and Public Health’, organised by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, The Swiss Society for Public Health and the Swiss School of Public Health, Basel (Switzerland), November 22-23 2017

Paper ‘The Making of Contextual Sustainable Development: Protestant Eth- nic Churches in East-ern Indonesia and Their Discourses of Development’ presented at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropol- ogy (SEG), ‘Norms and Alternatives’, Panel ‘Christianity, Development and Sustainability in the Global South’, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (Swit- zerland), November 11 2017

Paper ‘’Ageing, Agency, Health and Care in Urban Indonesia’ presented at the 1st Southeast Asia Meet Up Event ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Southeast Asia’, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), September 15 2017

Paper ‘Use of Herbal Medicine in the Management of Trypanosomiasis in An- gola’ by Vahekeni, Nina, Neto, Pedro Menezes, Kayimbo, Malilo Kaluiji, van Eeuwijk, Peter, Mäser, Pascal, João, Pedro Guilherme, Théophile, Josenan- do, Wolfram, Evelyn, da Costa, Esperança and Falquet, Jacques presented at the 65rd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medic- inal Plant and Natural Product Research, Basel (Switzerland), September 3-7 2017

Paper ‘Public Health and Challenges in Qualitative Research: Example from Indonesia and Laos’ presented at the Open Lecture in Celebration of the 8th Dies Natalis Faculty of Public Health, ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), May 5 2017

Paper ‘Ageing, Health and Care in Indonesia and Tanzania. From Old-Age Vulnerability to Old-Age Resilience’ presented at the Research Colloquium organised by the Department Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Lucerne, Lucerne (Switzerland), March 8 2017

15 Paper ‘Ageing Populations in Asia and Africa. Health Transition and Envi- ronmental Exposure: A Social Science Perspective’ at the Japanese-Swiss EcoHealth Colloquium organised by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Bonn (Germany) and the Inter-University National Institutes for the Humani- ties Tokyo, Basel (Switzerland), 10-12 January 2017

Summary Paper ‘Does Religion Make a Difference? A Conclusion’ at the In- ternational Conference ‘Does Religion Make a Difference? Discourses and Activities of Religious NGOs in Development’ organised by the Centre for Re- ligion, Economics and Politics (ZRWP), Faculty of Theology, University of Ba- sel, Basel (Switzerland), November 9-11 2016

Paper ‘Religion and Ageing in Indonesia and Tanzania: When Older Persons Need Care’ presented at the International Conference ‘Religion and Ageing in Global Perspective’ organised by Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel and Vereinigtes Evangelisches Hilfswerk (VEM), Wuppertal (Germany), De- cember 11-13 2015

Paper ‘From Cure to Care: Becoming Old and Diabetic in Tanzania’ presented at the Joint International Conference ‘Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice’ organised by EASA Medical An- thropology Network and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) London Medical Anthropology Committee, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), Sep- tember 9-11 2015

Paper ‘Ageing, Health and Care in East Africa. Elderly People and their Vul- nerability and Resources in Tanzania’ presented in the Lecture Series ‘Wel- fare Regimes in Developing Countries’ at the Institute of Sociology, Social Politics and Social Work, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), March 31 2015

Paper ‘Churches as Agents in Sustainable Development Projects: The Case of Protestant Ethnic Churches in Indonesia’ presented at the International Workshop ‘Churches as Agents in Sustainable Development Projects: The Case of Indonesia from Perspectives of Social Anthropology and History’ at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, March 19/20 2015

Paper ‘Ageing: A New Health Challenge’ presented at the Seminar ‘Ageing, Agency and Health’ at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Zanzibar City (Tanzania), and the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), January 19 + 21 2015

Paper ‘From Cure to Care: Becoming Old and Diabetic in Tanzania’ presented in the Panel ‘Aging, Elderly, and End-of-Life Care’ at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington (USA), De- cember 6 2014

Paper ‘Demographic Development and its Effects on Society and Develop- ment in Subsahara Africa and in Tanzania’ presented at ‘Africa Day’ of the

16 Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Federal De- partment of Foreign Affairs, in Bern, May 15 2014

Paper ‘Global Aging in Indonesia and Tanzania’ presented with Brigit Obrist in the Colloquium Series ‘Global Aging’ at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Basel, February 19 2014

Paper ‘Transgressing Norms of Care: Older Persons Providing Elder Care in Tanzania’ presented in the Invited Session ‘Intergenerational Dynamics in Africa Today: Changing Perspectives and Practices’ at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago (USA), November 22 2013

Paper ‘Ageing and Engagement: Older Persons Providing Care for Frail Older Persons in Tanzania’ presented in the Panel ‘Lifecycles and Health’ at the Joint International Conference ‘Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology’ organised by the EASA Medical Anthro- pology Network/AAA Society for Medical Anthropology/Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV Tarragona) in Tarragona (Spain), June 12-14 2013

Paper ‘Elderly Providing Care for Elderly in Tanzania: Against Conventions – but Accepted’ presented at the Invited International Colloquium ‘Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care’ at the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), May 10 2013

Paper ‘Dignity and Burden – Growing Old in other Cultures and our Culture’ presented at the ‘Afternoon Meeting’ of the Reformed-Protestant Church of the City of Lucerne, Lucerne (Switzerland), May 2 2013

Paper ‘Elderly Providing Care for Elderly in Indonesia and Tanzania: Making Old-Age Vulnerability Visible’ presented at the Invited International Confer- ence ‘Rethinking Care: Anthropological Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin- Work and their Trans-Local Entanglements’, International Research Centre re:work ‘Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History’, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin (Germany), December 6-8 2012

Paper ‘Elderly Providing Elder Care. An Underestimated Commitment in Tanzania’ presented at the 1st IAGG Africa Region Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics ‘Africa Ageing: Beyond Madrid +10’, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (South Africa), October 17-20 2012

Paper ‘Medical Anthropology: The Influence of Culture on Health’ presented in the Semester Inaugural Lecture at the University of Sari Putra Indonesia Tomohon (UNSRIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon, August 27 2012

Paper ‘Who Cares for the Elderly? Perspectives from Africa and Asia’ with Brigit Obrist presented at the ‘Wednesday Colloquium’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 4 2012

17 Paper ‘Ageing, Health and Care. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly Peo- ple in Indonesia and Tanzania’ presented at the Asia Research Institute, Na- tional University of Singapore, Singapore, August 23 2011

Discussant Paper at the Invited Session ‘Circulating the Life Course: Toward an Anthropology of Care and Caregiving’ at the Annual Meeting of the Ameri- can Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans (USA), November 18 2010

Paper ‘Care and Solidarity. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania’ presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Stud- ies (ISEAS), National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 5 2010

Paper ‘From ´Cure to Care´ among the Elderly. Old Age Vulnerability and Re- silience in Tanzania’ presented at the Research Seminar of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), July 9 2010

Discussant Paper at the Technical Meeting of WHO ‘Ageing and Health: From Evidence to Policy’, Geneva (Switzerland), June 3 2010

Paper ‘Care and Solidarity: Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly in Tanza- nia and Indonesia’ presented at the International Swiss-South Africa Semi- nar ‘The Politics of Care, Welfare and Social Cohesion. Intersectional Per- spectives on Redistributive and Liberal Welfare Regimes’, Gender Studies, University of Basel, and National Research Council of South Africa, Basel (Switzerland), May 3-5 2010

Paper ’Focal Points and Transversal Topics. From the Case Studies in Gha- na, Tanzania, South Africa and Ivory Coast’ presented at the International Advisory Board Meeting of the Research Project ‘History of Health Systems in Africa’, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 2 2009

Paper ‘An Anthropological Perspective on Health Care and Support of Elderly People in Urban North Sulawesi’ presented at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Au-gust 28 2009

Paper ‘Health Problems and Care of Elderly People in North Sulawesi’ presented at the Faculty of Public Health, ‘Sam Ratulangi’-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 21 2009

Paper ‘The Problem of Health and Care of Elderly Communities in North Su- lawesi Urban Areas’ presented at the Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catho- lic University of Indonesia, Jakarta (Indonesia), August 14 2009

Paper ‘Applied Anthropology: Agriculture and Nutrition. Examples from Pro- jects in Southeast Asia’ presented at the Seminar Course ‘Applied Anthro- pology – an Overview’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), May 12 2009

Paper ‘Ageing in Insecurity. Health and Care of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tansania’ presented at the Series of Lectures ‘Ageing in the World’, Studium Generale of the University of Leipzig and Grassi Museum of Ethnog- raphy Leipzig (Germany), April 29 2009

Paper ‘From Fieldwork to Fair Trade Project. Medicinal Plants in North Sula- wesi, Indonesia’ presented at the Certificate Course of Advanced Studies University of Zurich in Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine, Institute of Sys- tematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), March 7 2009

Paper ‘Trust and Care’ presented at Masterclass (with Prof. Martin Endress) ‘Trust and Health/Trust and Conflict’, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Swit- zerland), December 20 2008

Paper ‘Age, Ageing and Growing Old in Tanzania’ presented at the ‘Wednes- day Colloquium’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 3 2008

Paper ‘Old-Age Vulnerability in Tanzania’ presented at the Academic Course ‘Current Research in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Epidemiology’ at the Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), Novem- ber 25 2008

Paper ‘Palm Wine and Sate for the Ancestors’ presented at the ‘University Basel Open Night’ in the Social Anthropology Lecture ‘Cultures of Festivities’ at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel (Switzerland), September 19 2008

Paper ‘From ´Cure to Care`. Old-Age Vulnerability in Urban Indonesia’ presented at 2nd International Mainz Symposium ‘Anthropology in the 21st Cen- tury’: ‘Reflections on Old Age and Ageing in Past and Present. Biological and Cultural Perspectives’, University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany), April 4 2008

Paper ‘The Concept of ´Medical Pluralism` in Times of Globalisation: a Medi- cal Anthropology Perspective’ presented at the Lecture Series ‘Pluralism in the Health Sector’ of the University of Bern (Switzerland), December 6 2007

Paper ‘Introduction: What Means ´Health on the Move in a Globalising World` in Contemporary Medical Anthropology?’ presented at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology (SEG), ‘New Themes in Social Anthropology’, Joint Panel ‘Health on the Move – Health and Illness in a Globalising World’, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, and Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Basel (Switzerland), December 1 2007

Paper ‘From ´Cure to Care` among the Elderly: Old-Age Vulnerability in Tan- zania: A New Research Project’ presented at the ‘Wednesday Colloquium’,

19 Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), No- vember 14 2007

Paper ‘Banyak Suka, banyak Duka: Ageing and Health in Urban Areas of North Sulawesi, Indonesia’ presented at the Academic Department Meeting, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland), November 9 2007

Discussant Paper ‘Urbanization – a Danger for Health?’, presented at the 10th Jubilee International Conference ‘Medicine in Context: Illness and Health in an Interconnected World’ of German Society for Social Anthropolo- gy (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Panel ‘Urbanization – a Danger for Health?’, Berlin (Germany), September 29 2007

Paper ‘The Case Study ´Elderly People` in North Sulawesi’, presented at the International Conference ‘Socialisation of the Programme of the National Commission ‘Ageing’ and its Role in Striving for Increased Autonomy of El- derly People in Indonesia’, the National Commission ‘Ageing’ of the Republic Indonesia (KOMNAS ‘Lansia’) and the Indonesian Association of Epidemiolo- gists (JEN), ‘Diponegoro’-University of Semarang (UNDIP), Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia), July 21 2007

Paper ‘Bapak Dokter and the Pills: Urban Elderly and their Health-Seeking Behaviour in North Sulawesi, Indonesia’ presented at the Annual Assembly of the Indonesian Association of Physicians (IDI), North Sulawesi Branch, Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 12 2006

Paper ‘Many Burdens, Little Dignity. Ageing in Indonesia. Health and Grow- ing Old in Urban North Sulawesi, Indonesia’ presented in the Joint Advanced Seminar ‘Age and Ageing – a Cross-Cultural Comparison’, Institute of Social Anthropology and Institute of Gerontology, University of Heidelberg, Heidel- berg (Germany), May 24 2006

Paper ‘Many Burdens, Little Dignity. Ageing in Indonesia’ presented in the Series of Lectures ‘Cultures of Ageing’, Centre of Gerontology, University of Zurich, Zurich, December 21 2005

Paper ‘Elderly People in North Sulawesi: Lessons Learnt from Joint Anthro- pological and Public Health Research’, presented at Seminar Session of the Postgraduate Program, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), October 20 2005

Paper ‘Traditional Medicine in Minahasa and Sangihe Communities: Which Future in Transforming Indonesia?’, presented at Seminar Session of the Postgraduate Program, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), October 18 2005

20 Paper ‘Pains, Pills and Physicians.Therapy Choice and Medication of Urban Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia’ presented at the International Work- shop ‘Rapport au Corps, Relation Thérapeutique et Circulation des Savoirs sur le Médicament’, University of Montreal, Montréal (Québec, Canada), May 27-28 2005

Paper ‘International Public Health. Humanitarian Aid in Refugee Camps’ presented at the International Workshop ‘Medical Anthropology in Situation of Conflict’, German Society for Anthropology (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Basel, February 12 2005

Paper ‘Many Burdens, Little Dignity. Ageing in Countries of the South’ presented in the Series of Lectures ‘World Health’, Geographic-Anthropological Society (GEG), Basel, January 13 2005