„Läuft. Die Ausstel­lung zur Menstruation“

06.10.2023 bis 06.10.2024
Muse­um Europäis­ch­er Kul­turen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Etwa 2 Mil­liar­den Men­schen auf der Welt men­stru­ieren. Über 1,5 Mil­liar­den weit­ere Men­schen hat­ten ihre Peri­ode oder wer­den sie bekom­men. Seit rund 10 Jahren nun wird die Men­stru­a­tion in Europa öffentlich disku­tiert. Das MEK präsen­tiert die Ausstel­lung dazu.

„Läuft“ zeigt eine Geschichte des Prag­ma­tismus und der Utopi­en, des Erfind­ungsre­ich­tums und Aktivis­mus. Dafür ver­sam­melt die Ausstel­lung rund 100 his­torische und brand­neue Men­stru­a­tion­sar­tikel sowie Wer­beanzeigen. Schaubilder, Inter­views und Hands-On-Sta­tio­nen ver­mit­teln den aktuellen Wis­sens­stand. Mit knapp 200 All­t­ags­ge­gen­stän­den, Fotos, Grafiken, Zeitungsar­tikeln und Social-Media-Posts fächert die Ausstel­lung die Diskurse auf, die Men­stru­ierende seit Jahrzehn­ten begleit­en: Es geht um The­men wie Leis­tung, Peri­o­den­ar­mut, Müll, „Nor­mal­ität“, Naturver­bun­den­heit, Stim­mung und einige mehr – und natür­lich um Aktivis­mus! Denn im Zen­trum ste­hen die Stim­men und Erfahrun­gen von Men­stru­ieren­den selb­st. Wir laden dazu ein, ihnen in Inter­views zu lauschen und sich selb­st auszu­tauschen. Fil­mauss­chnitte, Musik und Kunst­werke run­den die Ausstel­lung ab.

Mehr Infos unter http://www.smb.museum/flow.

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Work­shop „Food Sys­tem Temporalities”
Jan­u­ary 9th and 10th, 2025
Uni­ver­si­ty of Cambridge
Ali­son Richard Build­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, Cam­bridge, UK
Organ­is­ers: Eliz­a­beth Fox (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge) & Thomas White (King’s Col­lege London)
Keynote Speak­er: Prof Heather Pax­son (MIT)

This two-day con­fer­ence seeks to exam­ine the tem­po­ral­i­ty of food pro­duc­tion, cir­cu­la­tion, and con­sump­tion. By high­light­ing how time and its reck­on­ing shape and are shaped by the pur­suit of the edi­ble, our aim is to move beyond sim­plis­tic dichotomies between cap­i­tal­ist accel­er­a­tion and slow food sus­tain­abil­i­ty to elu­ci­date food’s dis­junc­tive rhythms and the work that goes into man­ag­ing them.

Stud­ies of food and food sys­tems have tend­ed to pri­ori­tise space, or place, over time. How­ev­er, the pro­duc­tion, cir­cu­la­tion, and con­sump­tion of food are also inher­ent­ly time-bound process­es that involve numer­ous tem­po­ral regimes, the man­age­ment of which require dis­tinct forms of work. Pro­duc­ing edi­ble things requires nav­i­gat­ing sea­sons, growth cycles, mar­ket fluc­tu­a­tions, and food’s inher­ent per­isha­bil­i­ty. We ask, for exam­ple, how does a tem­po­ral lens on grow­ing, pick­ing, slaugh­ter­ing, stor­ing, or fer­ment­ing lead us to recon­cep­tu­alise the labour of mak­ing or metabolis­ing the edi­ble? How might ques­tions of food sov­er­eign­ty and food jus­tice be approached dif­fer­ent­ly with ref­er­ence to time, rather than loca­tion? How are changes to sea­son­al rhythms caused by cli­mate change affect­ing the ways food pro­duc­ers antic­i­pate the future? Are new ‘time-less’ food labelling regimes chang­ing atti­tudes to per­isha­bil­i­ty and waste? What about the bod­ies of ani­mals, pushed to mature at ever faster rates in the inter­ests of prof­it or sus­tain­abil­i­ty? We wel­come empir­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal inter­ro­ga­tions of these and relat­ed questions.

Please sub­mit abstracts of approx­i­mate­ly 300 words to Eliz­a­beth Fox (ef434@cam.ac.uk) by August 31^st 2024.

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CfP for pan­el on „Car­cino­gen­e­sis, Tox­i­c­i­ty and the Epi­dem­ic of Cancer”
Health, Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) Con­fer­ence at Durham University
23–24 April 2025
Dead­line 13th of January

If you would like to join the pan­el, please sub­mit an abstract of 250 words via the Abstract Man­age­ment por­tal.

CFP: Car­cino­gen­e­sis, Tox­i­c­i­ty and the Epi­dem­ic of Cancer

The cli­mat­ic and envi­ron­men­tal changes brought about by the forces of indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, cap­i­tal­ism, empire, and glob­al ‘devel­op­ment’ are becom­ing increas­ing­ly vis­i­ble. But vital too are changes wrought that are less vis­i­ble – the chem­i­cal alter­ations induced in water, soil, air, crops, ani­mal and human bod­ies that are hav­ing pro­found effects on health and well­be­ing. Respon­si­bil­i­ty and con­se­quences are dis­trib­uted in deeply unequal ways (Choy 2016). In this pan­el we focus specif­i­cal­ly on the car­cino­genic effects of this tox­i­c­i­ty. While sci­en­tif­ic inves­ti­ga­tion into links between indus­tri­al envi­ron­men­tal con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and car­cino­gen­e­sis has been under­de­vel­oped in favour of that which fore­grounds per­son­al agency and indi­vid­ual choice, a grow­ing body of anthro­po­log­i­cal schol­ar­ship has begun to reori­ent this research agen­da. Draw­ing on exam­ples such as peanut pro­duc­tion in Sene­gal (Tou­sig­nant 2022), open-pit min­ing in Spain (Fer­nán­dez-Navar­ro et al., 2012), nuclear waste dis­pos­al in the USA (Cram 2023 & Mas­co 2021), and agri­cul­tur­al pes­ti­cide use in Kenya (Prince 2021), schol­ars have start­ed to probe the con­nec­tions between cor­po­rate and indus­tri­al inter­ests and the ‘epi­dem­ic’ of can­cer, in an effort to think through the rela­tion­ship between the liv­ing and its milieu in nov­el ways (Can­guil­hem 2001). We invite papers that advance these analy­ses of ‘car­cino­genic account­abil­i­ty’, and exam­ine how risks of car­cino­genic expo­sure are made vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble, embraced and resist­ed, and stud­ied. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in research which under­takes semi­otic and mate­r­i­al cul­tur­al analy­ses of the fol­low­ing con­cepts: ‘exposed’, ‘tox­ic’, ‘safe’, ‘car­cino­genic’, and/or inter­ro­gate the eth­i­cal, epis­temic, and reg­u­la­to­ry con­junc­tures with­in which these cat­e­gories operate. 

You do not have to be an RAI or ASA mem­ber to pro­pose a paper. 

Pro­pos­als should con­sist of: 

- The title of the panel
– The title of the paper you wish to present
– An abstract of no more than 250 words. 

Paper pro­pos­als must be sub­mit­ted via the sub­mis­sion sys­tem and will be reviewed by pan­el convenors. 

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