João Biehl
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Lectures

  • “The Judicialization of the Right to Health in Brazil: Enacting Magical Legalism and Prospecting Biopolitical Futurity” – Talk at Yale University (2019)
  • “Entrementes | Devires,” Keynote Address: XIII Reunião de Antropologia do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2019)
  • “Listening and Seeing: An Homage to Eduardo Coutinho” (2015) 
  • “Reflections on mestiçagem/mestizaje and race in critical theory” (Race and Citizenship in the Americas: Then and Now, Princeton University, 2013) 
  • “Seminário Direito à Saúde: Desafios para a Universalidade” (Plenário do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho, Brasília, 2013)
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Videos

  • Jacobus Fellow Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie from Alumni Engagement, Princeton University (2020)
  • Princeton Global Health Program (2016)
  • “The Ebola Epidemic: An Update from West Africa” – Video Chat with Raphael Frankfurter and Elisabeth Donahue (2015) 
  • “Princeton Grad Leads Group Responding to Ebola in Sierra Leone” – Video Chat with Raphael Frankfurter (2015) 
  • “Princeton’s Involvement in Global Health” by Susan Fou (2011) 

Interviews

  • Pandemic and Chaos: Where to Next, Brazil?
  • Covid-19 and Amazonia’s Future
  • Covid-19 in Brazil Today: Reckoning with the Pandemic in the Global South
  • Migrations Series: João Biehl in Conversation with Arcadio Diaz-Quinones and Adriana Petryna (Labyrinth Books, Princeton, 2018)
  • “Bala mágica não funciona em saúde” (Revista Época, 2013) 
  • João Biehl: Award-winning Princeton anthropologist (Interviewed by Virginia Rosa Dominguez) 

 Reports

  • “Amazonian Leapfrogging” (2019) 
  • “A world without the Amazon? Safeguarding the Earth’s largest rainforest is focus of Princeton conference” (2019)
  • “Putting service into focus at Princeton” (2019) 
  • “Princeton’s new Brazil LAB leads relief efforts for Brazil’s National Museum lost to fire” (2018)
  • “Political challenges, not just scientific ones, shape response to epidemics” (2015)
  • “Class Snapshot: Health and the Social Markers of Difference” by Michael Hotchkiss (2014) 
  • “FACULTY AWARD: Biehl to receive Staley Prize for book” (2013)
  • “Biehl explores consequences of Brazil’s constitutional right to health” by Catherine Zandonella (2013) 
  • “Princeton and São Paulo: Academic Partnership Leads to Real World Impact” (2013) 
  • “Four faculty members honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students” by Michael Hotchkiss (2012) 
  • “Biehl awarded Wellcome Medal for medical anthropology” (2010)
  • “Biehl wins anthropology book award” (2008)
  • “Investigating clues to a life, Biehl discovers larger reality” (2007)
  • “Anthropologist Biehl wins major book award” (2007)
  • “Biehl book garners awards” (2005)
  • “Four faculty members recognized for outstanding teaching” (2005)
  • “Princeton gives highest awards to top students” (2005)
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