Mara Köhler

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About

Mara Köhler is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She is interested in medical infrastructures and diagnostic tools.

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Contact Details

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
NIG, 4th floor
Universitätsstraße 7
1010 Vienna

Research

affiliation

Division of Biomedical and Public Health Ethics
Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

mara.koehler@kl.ac.at

selected publications

Public Speaking

May 2025 (Speaker): “Public Health in Private Hands? Taking on Responsibility in Austria’s COVID-19 Testing Infrastructures.” Public Responsibility for Health: An Interdisciplinary Socio-Ethical Workshop. Frankfurt a.M.: Goethe University. 

May 2025 (Co-Author): “SARS-CoV-2 Testing Policies during the Pandemic in Austria.” STS Conference Graz: Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies. Graz: TU Graz.

December 2024 (Co-Author): “Testing bio-governance: The COVID-Pandemic as an Epistemic Window of Opportunity for Comparative Research on the Bio-moralities Shaping Uses of Testing Technologies.” Workshop Testing under crisis / Testing the crises. Athens: University of Athens. 

January 2022 (Speaker): “COVID-19 und Körpertechniken bei Dialoger*innen: Die Formation von ‘temporary withs’.” Workshop Die Corona-Pandemie in Österreich : Sozial- und kulturanthropologische Perspektiven. Wien: Universität Wien.