A York University Initiative
Publications
Below is a selection of our papers. If you need access to any, just email us at dae [at] yorku [dot] ca.
Peer Reviewed Papers
2026 Elliott, D. and A. Boudreault-Fournier. The "Havana Syndrome": atmospheres of anxiety and neurological states. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 9(1): 2672234, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2026.2672234.
2026 Opande, Kennedy, P. Mbullo, and D. Elliott. Neurological Imaginaries: Sensorial Experiences among Patients and Clinicians. The Senses and Society, June, 1–13. doi:10.1080/17458927.2026.2693401.
2026 Daza Cardona, J. A. and Elliott, D. Marketing brain images and shaping ways of seeing: a visual analysis of a neuroscientific website JCOM 25(3), A04. https://doi.org/10.22323/157020260122065520
Check out this video of Jorge being interviewed about his research on MoCA and this publication: View video here.
2026 Berkhout, S., E. Panetta, M. Charette, D. Elliott. Illustrating Neurological disabilities: Temporal fictions in public health infographics. BMJ Medical Humanities doi: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013365
2025 Elliott, D. A Forgetful Ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries. American Anthropologist 127(1): 168-175.
2023 Charette, M. and D. Elliott Sensing the Afterlife: Multisensorial ethnography and injured minds. In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Edited by Phillip Vannini. PP. 332-344.
2022 Elliott, D. Medical museums, materiality, and the traumatic brain injury of Phineas Gage. In Making Sense of Medicine: Materiality and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge, edited by Anna Harris. Intellect Press. PP. 365-383.
2022 M. Charette, L. Lima, and D. Elliott Sonic Stories: Living with an Injured Mind. Multimodality and Society 2(2): 165-173.
2022 Elliott, D. The Memory Multiverse: Existential ruptures, familiar faces and injured minds, Special Issue – Madness, edited by Baptiste Moutaud, Terrain 76
2022 Elliott, D. La Mémoire Multivers: Ruptures Existentielles, Visages Familiers et Lēsion Cérébrale. Terrain 76:112-129.
2021 Elliott, D. Sonic art, brain injury, and intimate ethnography: A review of Reassembled, Slightly Askew. Anthropologica 63(1): 1-5.
2019 Elliott, D. Neurological disturbances and time travel. Catalyst: Feminist, Theory, Technoscience 5(2): 1-27.
2018 Elliott, D. Art, Neuroscience, and Ethnography, Platypus, CASTAC (Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing blog).
Other Papers and Publications
2023 Elliott, D. Living with Injured Minds: Findings from Ethnographic Research on Brain Injuries, Brain Injury Society of Toronto, November 29, Toronto.
2021 Elliott, D. and A. Garcia, Writing Life No.8: An Interview with Angela Garcia, Writing Life Digital Series, Somatosphere, February 12.
http://somatosphere.net/2021/writing-life-angela-garcia-denielle-elliott.html/
Conference Papers
2025 Plenary, Social science perspectives on Neurotechnologies in East Africa: Equity, Ethics, and Infrastructure, Brain and Mind Institute Workshop, Nairobi Kenya, April 9 (virtual).
2024 Elliott, D. Out of sync mindbodies, unruly writing. Affect Studies Conference, October 13, Lancaster, PA.
2023 Daza-Cardona, Jorge; Elliott, D. (2023). Postcolonial circulations of a neuropsychological test: a visual analysis of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Website. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Honolulu, Hawaii (Virtual). November 8-11.
2023 E. Panetta and D. Elliott, Imaging brain injuries: The stories and myths that Infographics tell, ISHPSSB annual conference, Toronto, July 13.
2023 (Re)situating Injured Minds, Advanced Study Institute, The Situated Brain Conference, McGill University, Montreal, June 29.
2023 Sensing Injured Minds, Advanced Study Institute, The Situated Brain: Culture, Context and Ecologies of Mind Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, June 27-28.
2023 Ethnography of Invisibility, Deafness Workshop, Quebec City, June 13-14.
2022 Havana Syndrome: Political imaginaries and neuroscience fictions, 4S Annual Conference, Mexico, December.
2022 With Michelle Charette, Situated Neurology: An ethnographic study of neurology in Kenya, Institute for Global Health Research, York University, April 12.
2022 Havana Syndrome: Political imaginaries and neuroscience fictions, McMaster University Seminar Series, March 18, (virtual).
2021 Listening to an injured mind: A sonic installation, Uncommon Senses III, Sensory Ethnography Conference, Montreal (virtual), May 8. (with Michelle Charette)
2020 A magic atelier: time, memory and brain injury, Sensate Memories: A multimedia conversation, Co-sponsored by SFU and CIE (virtual), August 13.
2020 [invited] Neurological Imaginaries: Reflections on time, memoir and multimodal ethnography, York University Theatre and Performance Graduate Colloquium, Toronto, March 10.
2019 Art, neuroscience, and time slippage: A magic encyclopedia, 4S, New Orleans, September 4-7.
2018 Neurological disturbances and time travel, Canadian Association of Anthropology (CASCA) Annual Conference, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, May 17.
2017 A forgetful ethnography, Colleex Workshop, Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-15.
2016 An Ethnography of Invisibility: Neuro-Medicine and Felt Theory, Affective Evidence, AAA, Minneapolis, November 17.
2014 An ethnography of invisibility? African Neuroscience, memory and feeling, Technoscience Salon, York University / University of Toronto, October 10.
Peer Reviewed Poster Conference Papers
2023 E. Panetta, M. Charette and D. Elliott, Visual Culture and Brain Injury: An analysis of neuro-artefacts, 15th Annual Brain Injury Conference, Feb. 10.
2022 M. Charette and D. Elliott, Adopting arts-based methods to explore sensory disturbances among patients with acquired brain injuries, Canadian Association of Neuroscience, Toronto, May.