Selected Presentations & Talks
November 22, 2025: “The Ghosts We Eat: Unseen Entities Forming and Deforming Our Food Systems” Executive Roundtable/Townhall
Organizer: Seth M. Holmes, University of California, Berkeley, Mael Vizcarra
Presenter(s): Alesandra Tatic, Universitat de Barcelona, Gerardo Rodriguez-Solis, University of California, Berkeley, Paul Sperneac-Wolfer , Mael Vizcarra , Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Anthropology, Dvera Saxton , Brenda Gutierrez Mora
Discussant: Cristiana Bastos, University of Lisbon, Seth M. Holmes, University of California, Berkeley
September 17, 2025: Crossing Boundaries between Medical Anthropology and Biomedicine (AGEM Roundtable)
September 18, 2025: Bodies and Environments as Infrastructure: Injury, Extraction, and Resistance in Transnational Food System
July 2025: “Food Circuits: The Invisibilisation of Connections Between Migrants and Societies, Humans and Environments” at the University of Porto, Portugal “In Progress. Research in Sociology. Presentation of doctoral students' work", organized by the PhD course in Sociology at the Department of Sociology at FLUP
https://isociologia.up.pt/en/events/progress-research-sociology-conference-seth-holmes
June 21, 2025: The Case Series in Global Social Medicine: an inter-disciplinary toolkit
June 22, 2025: Fracturing the Medical Student Habitus: Imagining Clinical Ethnography in Undergraduate Medical Education
June 22, 2025: Precarious labour (Chair)
October 15, 2024: Presentation of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States at L’hydre aux mille têtes in Marseille, France.
July 2024: Investigating Infrastructures of Injury and Inequity in Transnational Industrial Food Systems
April 23, 2024: An Embodied Ethnography of Fresh Foods Production: Bodies, Fruits, Migrations Seminar
May 2024: “Professeur Invité: Aux marges de la prise en charge médico-sociale en contexte de migration.” Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris, France.
May 2024: “Professeur Invité: Fruits frais, corps brisés: Les travailleurs agricoles migrants aux États-Unis.” Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris, France.
https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2024/04/23/lic-migrations-accueille-seth-holmes/
March 2024: “Migració, desigualtats socials i salut.” 50è aniversari de la Facultat de Geografia i Història de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Feb 2024: Keynote: Structural Competency, Climate Change and Migrant Farmworker Health.” Western Migrant Stream Forum. Seattle, WA.
Working Conference on Liberation Medicine at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
Feb 2024: Liberation Medicine, Reflection, Practice and the Future (Discussant)
Feb 2024: Learning Racism, Learning Resistance, Medical Students and Social Change (Keynote)
June 2023: “Professeur Invité: Fruits frais, corps brisés: Les travailleurs agricoles migrants aux États-Unis.” Center for North American Studies (CENA), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Paris, France.
May 2023: “Social Inequalities and Health” Séminaire du Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (CERMES3), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
May 2023: “Migrations, Discriminations, and Social Inequality in Health” Séminaire du Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (CERMES3), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
May 2023: “Professeur Invité: Training for Unequal Care.” European Center of Sociology and Political Science (CESSP), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Paris, France.
May 2023: “Professeur Invité: Collaborative Research on Health and Social Inequity.” Interdisciplinary Institute of Social Issues (IRIS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Paris, France.
November 2022: Critical Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Health: Roundtable. American Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA.
May 2022: Panel Chair: Sociocultural Aspects of Clinical Training, Anthropological Perspectives. UCLA 2022 MD/PhD SSH Conference
SO YOU WANT YOUR RESEARCH IN THE NYTIMES?: HOW TO GARNER MEDIA AND PUBLIC INTEREST IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Location: Room 121, West Level 1
Date: Saturday Nov. 23, 2019, 4:15-6:00PM
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Title: Environmental & Health Justice for Indigenous/Migrant Farmworkers & their Families: Community-Based Participatory Research as an Engine of Comprehensive Change
Location: CSU Stanislaus - Social Justice in the Central Valley Conference, MSR 130
Date: Thursday, November 7, 3PM
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Title: FIRST TIME HOME Premiering at the Portland Film Festival
Location: Portland, Oregon
Date: October 9th
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Down on the Farm with Tom Willey
November 7, 2025: PHYSICIAN-ANTHROPOLOGIST SETH HOLMES
Exploiting migrants for backbreaking farm labor is not a California invention. Romanians and Syrians harvest asparagus in Germany. Moroccans and Ecuadorans pick oranges in Spain, while Mexicans and Central Americans pick strawberries here. Physician-Anthropologist Seth Holmes coordinates an international FOODCIRCUITS team exposing ‘invisibilized’ relationships between fresh foods we enjoy and the wellbeing of migrant laborers. Join Seth’s FOODCIRCUITS team in conversation with “Down on the Farm” host Tom Willey.
Listen to the FOODCIRCUITS team radio interview here: https://tdwilleyfarms.com/november-7-physician-anthropologist-seth-holmes/
July 10, 2025: “(Un)globalizations, inequalities and citizenship: the exploitation of labor” presentation at the Portuguese Congress of Sociology “Challenging Democracies: Risks and Uncertainties,” University of Azores, Portugal
https://xiii-congresso-aps.eventqualia.net/en/2025/home/
June 26, 2025: “Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-production and Destruction of Bodies of People, Land and Water” at the Collège de France The social production of health inequalities: theoretical approaches and empirical data. International perspectives symposium
https://www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/symposium/the-social-production-of-health-inequalities-theoretical-approaches-and-empirical-data-international/enviro-anthropo-genesis-the-co-production-and-destruction-of-bodies-of-people-land-and-water
Sept 12, 2024: HHS Speaker Series - Seth Holmes "STRUCTURAL COMPETENCY: NEW MEDICINE FOR THE INEQUALITIES THAT MAKE US SICK"
July 18, 2024: Movilidad transfronteriza y salud: etnicidad, desigualdad y ritualidad (SP) (Panel Discussant)
July 23, 2024: (Un)doing the anthropology of health care crisis: Structural Competency and health care professionals [Medical Anthropology Europe (MAE)] (Roundtable Discussant)
July 26, 2024: Towards a new anthropology of work futures [Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)] (Panel Discussant)
June 2024: Fostering Networks of Social Science and Health in Europe: The New Interinstitutional Hub for Global Social Medicine
VIII MARC Colloquium: “Social inequalities, networks and health”, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Seminar "Borders, temporalities, materialities through the lens of health"
April 14, 2024: “Introducting Mara Buchbinder: Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs: Doctoring in an Age of Medical Mistrust”, National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Chapel Hill, NC.
March 2024: “Social Anthropology of Medical Training.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 2024: “Collaboration in the Anthropology of Borders and Bordering.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
American Anthropological Association
November 2023: Co-chair “Storying Otherwise: On the Possibilities of Creative Ethnographic Writing”
November 2023: “SAW’s Conrad M. Arensberg Award: Celebrating the Contributions of Harsha Walia”
November 2023: “Collective Healings from the Global South, Part 2” Follow-up Panel Discussion
November 2023: Panel chair, “Culture and the Making of Modern Medicine: History and Medical Anthropology”
Film screening of First Time Home and panel discussion with filmmakers at the University of Bergen, Norway
https://www.uib.no/en/globalchallenges/163267/film-screening-first-time-home-and-panel-discussion
April 2023: Bioethics Lecture: Structural competency: new frameworks to understand and respond to inequities in health
https://utswmed-ir.tdl.org/items/e5ef9dd5-0e89-44b4-a1b1-6cdb253e5d4c
John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University
April 2023: “Annual Honors College Lecturer: Gastro-Nationalism and Invisibilization in Transnational Food Systems.”
April 2023: “Annual Honors College Lecturer: Symbolic and Structural Production of Health Inequities in Transnational Context.
March 2023: “Indiana Grown? Querying Human Dimensions and Sustainability Implications” Panelist. Aaronson Science and Society Lecture Purdue University,
March 2023: “Keynote Lecture: How Social Inequity Comes to Be Treated as Natural How Social Inequity Comes to Be Treated as Natural.” Aaronson Science and Society Lecture Purdue University,
January 2023: “Annual Lecturer: Migrant Health and Health Care: Social and Political Aspects.” National Farm Medicine Center. Minneapolis, MN.
May 2022: Co-Chair “Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis Panel.” European Association of Social Anthropology. Belfast, Ireland.
Part 2: Medically Marginalized Populations.
Please join us on April 22, 2020 at 4:00 PST/7:00 EST for a webinar with healthcare workers, activists and scholars to discuss structural competency innovations and opportunities in the era of COVID-19!
VOLUNTEERS, BORDER CROSSERS, AND SPACES OF SOLIDARITY: THINKING BEYOND HUMANITARIANISM
Location: Room 121, West Level 1
Date: Saturday Nov. 23, 2019, 10:15-12:00PM
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Immigration and Inequality in Our Food System, and the Need for Change
Location: Yale University, Room 105, 10 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511
Date: Friday, November 1, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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Title: Examining Environmental/Health Injustices Facing Indigenous/Migrant Farmworkers: Participatory Research Partnerships with Agricultural Communities in Florida and California’s Central Valley
Location: CSU Stanislaus - Social Justice in the Central Valley Conference, Snider Recital Hall
Date: Thursday, November 7 at 8PM
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