‘The ethnography of everyday life’

On 2 July 2015, to celebrate the forty-year career of Sjaak van der Geest, the founder of medical anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the founder of the journal Medische Antropologie (the journal out of which Medicine Anthropology Theory evolved) a day-long symposium was held on the ‘ethnography of everyday life’. The day culminated with Sjaak van der Geest giving a valedictory lecture in the great Aula of the University of Amsterdam, entitled ‘Hoe bestaat het!? Etnografie als magisch realisme en de ontdekking van het alledaagse’ (How can it be!? Ethnography as magical realism and the discovery of the ordinary). His speech will be translated into English and published by MAT in September 2015.