One of the lectures that will be present at Summer Academy Urban Transitions: Heritage, Health, and Sustainability in the Smart City is ANNE MARIE SAMUELS.

Annemarie Samuels is an assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has extensive research experience in Indonesia on the topics of narratives, morality, care, HIV/AIDS and disaster and a broad interest in psychological anthropology, narrative studies, phenomenology, and medical anthropology.

From January 2017 to December 2018, Annemarie is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and Leiden University with the project The Power of Silence: A Medical Anthropological Approach to AIDS Care Narratives. In this project she develops a theoretical and methodological approach to the role of silences within illness narratives. She focuses specifically on the narratives of people living with HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.

Her most recent publications include Embodied Narratives of Disaster: The Expression of Bodily Experience in Aceh (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), Seeing AIDS in Aceh: Sexual Moralities and the Politics of Invisibility in Post-Reconstruction Times (Indonesia), and Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia (American Anthropologist).

She is co-editor of Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practice, Community, and Authority in Contemporary Aceh (Brill, 2015). She is presently completing a book manuscript that is based on her doctoral research in Aceh, and which is titled After the Tsunami: The Remaking of Everyday Life in Aceh, Indonesia.

Summer Academy Urban Transitions, The first event – a master class/summer academy is jointly organized by Leiden University, the University of Indonesia (Jakarta), and Gadjah Mada University (Yogyakarta). It brings together scientists and scholars from the faculties of medicine, humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences to formulate interdisciplinary approaches to tackling a complex Indonesian and global challenge.

If you are not affiliated to Leiden University or University of Indonesia or Gadjah Mada University, but you are interested to join the academy, please contact us at info@universiteitleiden.id