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- Fields of competency (research & teaching): general social anthropology, medical anthropology, Middle-Eastern studies, qualitative research methods, epistemology, research ethics

- Fields of interest: genetics,reproductive health, public health policies, communicable diseases, biomedical technologies, Middle-Eastern studies, bioethics, research ethics

- Current research: Member of
TeGALSI (Research project « Direct to consumer genetic testing: motives, developments and consequences »), led by Pascal Ducournau, Inserm Toulouse, France. Netnography of the uses of DTCGT (UK, USA, France).
Genomics and clinical genetics in the Arabian Peninsula.

|| INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES & COLLOQUIUMS

October 2011 | International Symposium "Genetics as Culture in a Consumerist Age", Innsbruck, Austria
    Title: "Confiscating Biopolitics in a Paradoxical Way? An Anthropological Study of DTCGT Users’ Motives and Perceptions" (with P. Ducournau)
- September 2011 | 1st annual congress of the AFEA (French Association for Ethnology and Anthropology), EHESS, Paris
   Title: "Normalité, identité, virtualité. Apports thématiques et méthodologiques de l’étude de la génomique personnalisée sur Internet"
- August 2010 | Biennal conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Maynooth, Ireland
    Title : « Individual and national crises: management of inherited blood disorders in the Sultanate of Oman, as a source of new technologies and categories. »
- July 2010 | WOCMES-3 (3rd World Congress for Middle-Eastern Studies), Barcelona, Spain
    Title: « When biomedicine and a disease “appear” simultaneously: inherited blood disorders in Oman and creation of the healthcare system »
- July 2010 | 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference, University of Exeter, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, UK
    Title: « How Do Genetic Knowledge and Biotechnologies Interact with Social and Political Institutions? Example of Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman. »
- March 2010 | International Workshop “Regionalizing Oman. Political, Economic and Social Dynamics”, Institute for Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany
    Title: « The blood of “Sinbad’s descendants”: political and social stakes of inherited blood disorders in Oman, revealing local and transnational dynamics »
- October 2008 | Colloquium « Teaching anthropology today », Keble College, Oxford University, UK
    Title: « Teaching « anthropology at home » abroad…and at home. Crossed experiences from France and the Sultanate of Oman. »
- January 2007 | International congress « Anthropology face to face with its objects », Marseille, France, Provence University/IRD
    Title: « Quid of Sindbad’s descendants’ red corpuscles ? » [in French]
- June 2006 | WOCMES-2 (Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies), Amman, Jordan
    Title: « Omani women and inherited blood disorders » [in English]
- December 2005 | International Colloquium « Writing locally History of Sciences », CEDEJ, Cairo, Egypt
    Title: « Anthropology of Health in Oman : “free fieldwork, but…“ About the introduction of genetics in Oman » [in French + English]
- March 2005 | International Colloquium 'Foresee and foretell the disease. From divination to pronostic', AMADES Association, Locarno, Switzerland
    Title: « Fore-see without fore-tell ? Emergence of prenatal diagnosis in Oman », [in French]
- December 2004 | International Colloquium "Modernity and modernization of medicine in the Near-East" - French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey
    Title: « A medicine without past ? » [in French]
- July 2004 | XVIIIth congress of French Association for Muslim and Arab World Studies, Lyon, France, Policitical Studies Institute
    Title: « Prenatal diagnosis in Oman » [in French]
- July 2003 | XVIIth congress of French Association for Muslim & Arab World Studies, Paris, France, Sorbonne
    Title: « Obstetrical ultrasound in Oman », [in French]

|| SEMINARS

- Oct. 2011 | Seminar series “Cousin marriages and the medicalisation of spouse selection” du Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, Universty of Oxford, UK
    Title: "Composite Proximity, Genetic Burden & Social Value. Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman."
- June 2011 | International workshop: "Direct To Consumer Genetic Testing: motives, developments and consequences", Inserm U558, Toulouse, France
    Title: « Génétique en ligne, une biopolitique en mutation ? »
- Feb 2011 | Research seminar "Mondialisation of health and drugs in the XXth century", EHESS, Paris (dir. Maurice Cassier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière)
- Feb 2011 | Research seminar of the Norbert Elias Centre,"Sciences, Natures, Societies", Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
    Title: "Anthropology of medical genetics in the Arabian Peninsula"
- Jan 2011 | Research seminar, ADES team, Victor Segalen University, Bordeaux, France. Session "Islams & Health" (dir. Laurence Kotobi)
- November 2010 | Monthly research seminar "Regulation, norms and knowledge in the fields of health and mental health", Cermes3 (CNRS / Inserm / EHESS / Paris Descartes University), Villejuif, France
    Title: "Haemoglobinopathies in the Sultanate of Oman",
- June 2010 | Project workshop: "Direct To Consumer Genetic Testing: motives, developments and consequences of an emerging offer", Inserm U558, Toulouse
    Title: "Netnographying the Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Uses"
- June 2010 |
Research seminar, ANR Project "Prenatal Diagnosis & Prevention of Handicaps", Cermes (CNRS UMR 8169 – INSERM U 750), Villejuif-Paris
    Title: "Prenatal Diagnosis & Genetics in the Gulf."
- June 2008 | Results meeting of FamGUARD project (Family Genetic Understanding of Autosomal Recessive Diseases in Oman), Sultan Qaboos University, Oman - Coll. of Medicine, Dpt of Genetics
    Title: « Medical anthropology and genetics. Useful comparisons. »
- October 2006 | Doctoral Seminar, CReCSS, Mediterranean House for Human Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France
    Title: « Ethics and Medical Anthropology » [in French]

|| POSTERS IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

- March 2011 | Beaudevin & Ducournau “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Users’ Perceptions”, Human Genome Meeting (Dubai, UAE)
   [poster displayed here:
http://tegalsi.hypotheses.org/publications-tegalsi]

|| DIFFUSION OF ANTHROPOLOGY OUTSIDE ACADEMIA, RESULTS DISSEMINATION IN THE FIELD

- April 2011 | Oman Hereditary Blood Disorders Association, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
    Title: « Inherited Blood Disorders: patients' everyday life» [in English]
- May 2010 | Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Hematology Dpt, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
    Title: « Inherited Blood Disorders in the Omani Society: an Anthropological Approach » [in English]
- April 2010 | Oman Hereditary Blood Disorders Association, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
    Title: « Inherited Blood Disorders in the Omani Society: Results of an Anthropological Research with Patients and Doctors » [in English]
- January 2006 | AMADES Association, Marseille, France
    Title: « About a doctoral research in Oman : representations and stakes abour inherited blood disorders » [in French]
- December 2005 | Conference at French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences, Sana’a, Yemen
    Title: « Anthropology of health in Oman : around birth and inherited blood disorders » [in English + Arabic]

> Social Anthropologist
(PhD, 2010 & MA, 2004:
University Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III, France; BA 2001: Lyon 2 University, France)
- IFRIS post-doctoral research fellow at the Cermes3 (Research Centre Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health, Society - CNRS UMR 8211 / Inserm U988 / EHESS / Paris Descartes University)
- Corresponding researcher, CEFAS (French Social Sciences Research Centre, CNRS), Sanaa, Yemen & Norbert Elias Centre (UMR 8569), Marseille, France

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