PROFESSOR
LENORE
MANDERSON
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
Johannesburg/Gauteng, SA & Melbourne/Naarm, AU
LENORE MANDERSON’S
Agitation
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
1-3 OCTOBER 2025
Agitation is a conference and exhibition, convened and curated by members of Eco-Imagining, a collaborative research project, and the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand.
Lenore Manderson (Wits University), and Eileen Moyer (University of Amsterdam) lead Eco-Imagining, formally titled Ecological Community Engagements: Imagining Sustainability and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Urban South African Environments.
Eco-Imagining was funded by the National Research Foundation and the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) as part of a special initiative on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. The project included colleagues from University of Fort Hare, University of Limpopo, and Rhodes University, with non-government organisations RULIV, Gender CC, The People’s Pantry, and Maker’s Valley, and for Agitation, with the Origins Centre.
2024- 26 PUBLICATIONS IN
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES
FROM RUTGERS PRESS
Reproductive Boundaries
Psychosocial Care and Pregnancy in Switzerland
by Edmée Ballif
Making Down Syndrome
Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan
by Christine Sargent
Connective Tissue
Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India
by Lily N. Shapiro
The Negotiation of Urgency
Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
by Mirko Pasquini
The Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
by Michelle Pentecost
Health, Inequality,
a book series
from Rutgers University Press
series editor Lenore Manderson
Connected Lives
Families, Households, Health
and care in South Africa
edited by
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
& Lenore Manderson
HSRC PRESS
Viral Loads
Anthropologies of urgency
in the time of Covid-19
edited by Lenore Manderson,
Nancy J. Burke, and Ayo Wahlberg.
UCL PRESS
