ACM Inter­ac­tive Health 2026
Ear­ly July, Por­to, Portugal
https://ih.acm.org/

About:

The ACM Inter­ac­tive Health Con­fer­ence (IH) is a new con­fer­ence that aims to be the lead­ing venue for pre­sent­ing work at the inter­sec­tion of Human-Com­put­er Inter­ac­tion (HCI) and Health. The con­fer­ence will wel­come all kinds of work in this space, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to: the study of health prac­tices; the devel­op­ment of meth­ods and the­o­ries for engag­ing users and cre­at­ing human-cen­tered health tech­nolo­gies; or the design, eval­u­a­tion, and imple­men­ta­tion of health tech­nolo­gies to sup­port health and well-being.
Participate:

IH 2026 offers var­i­ous ways to par­tic­i­pate. Authors can sub­mit an extend­ed abstract in the fol­low­ing categories:

Short Forms – Pre­sen­ta­tions for new, emerg­ing, and engag­ing con­tri­bu­tions at the con­fer­ence as a poster;
Demos and Exhi­bi­tions – Sub­mis­sions for on-site demon­stra­tions of inter­ac­tive technologies;
Work­shops – Pro­pos­als for a one-day event for focused dis­cus­sion and for­mu­la­tion of shared goals and agen­das with­in the IH com­mu­ni­ty about key topics;

Doc­tor­al Col­lo­qui­um – Appli­ca­tions for Ph.D. stu­dents to receive men­tor­ships and share research among a small group of peers;
Ear­ly Career Work­shop – Appli­ca­tions for ear­ly career researchers (up to 5 years post-Ph.D.) to attend a one-day event to explore their pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties and goals, learn from one anoth­er, and dis­cuss top­ics most impor­tant to them.

We will also open a call for „Relat­ed Con­tri­bu­tions”, papers pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished in oth­er con­fer­ences or jour­nals with an impor­tant mes­sage for the com­mu­ni­ty, which will be pre­sent­ed at IH as a poster or short presentation.
More­over, the con­fer­ence will not have a full paper sub­mis­sion track. Paper ses­sions at the con­fer­ence will be most­ly com­posed of papers accept­ed at the ACM HEALTH jour­nal Spe­cial Issue on Human Cen­tered Com­put­ing in Health­care.

First sub­mis­sion deadlines:

Short forms: Feb­ru­ary 12th 2026
Demos and Exhi­bi­tions: Feb­ru­ary 26th 2026
Work­shops: Jan­u­ary 15th 2026
Doc­tor­al Col­lo­qui­um: Feb­ru­ary 5th 2026
Ear­ly Career Work­shop: April 1st 2026

Join us!
The organ­is­ing team is extreme­ly excit­ed to bring IH to life. The HCI com­mu­ni­ty has been dis­cussing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of cre­at­ing a con­fer­ence bridg­ing HCI and Health for many years at the Spe­cial Inter­est Group on Com­put­er-Human Inter­ac­tion (SIGCHI) of the ACM – the largest asso­ci­a­tion of com­put­ing researchers and professionals.
We hope you will sub­mit your work and join us at the inau­gur­al ACM Inter­ac­tive Health Con­fer­ence in Por­to, Por­tu­gal. You will be joined by researchers, design­ers, prac­ti­tion­ers, health­care pro­fes­sion­als, and patients to reflect and dis­cuss emerg­ing chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties across the social-tech­ni­cal ecosys­tems of health and well-being.
For fur­ther details about the sub­mis­sions, review, pub­li­ca­tion process, or gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about the con­fer­ence, please go to: https://ih.acm.org.

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Inter­na­tion­al sym­po­sium Repro­duc­tive Health in Frag­ile Democ­ra­cies: Bod­ies, Tech­nolo­gies and Futures
June 8–9, 2026
Pauls Stradiņš Med­i­cine His­to­ry Muse­um in Riga, Latvia

The sym­po­sium brings togeth­er schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers from the social sci­ences, human­i­ties, and health­care fields to explore repro­duc­tion as a key site for think­ing about democ­ra­cy, inequal­i­ty, and the pol­i­tics of care, par­tic­u­lar­ly in con­texts of frag­ile or shift­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic institutions.

Sub­mis­sion dead­line: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
Sub­mis­sion link: https://forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmXDfnT8

For­mat: title, affil­i­a­tion, and 200-word abstract
Par­tic­i­pa­tion: free of charge

Keynote speak­ers include Agniesz­ka Koś­ci­ańs­ka (Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw) and Ani­ka König (Freie Uni­ver­sität Berlin).

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Anna Molas: „Tam­ing Egg Donors: The Egg Dona­tion Repro­duc­tive Mar­ket in Spain” (Book Launch)

17th of June 2026
18.30h CEST online and in per­son in Barcelona

The pre­sen­ta­tion will be fol­lowed by a con­ver­sa­tion with Lau­ra Per­ler (Uni­ver­si­ty of Bern) and Chan­dra Kala Clemente-Martínez (Chair of the Cata­lan Asso­ci­a­tion of Adoptees). Chris New­field, ISRF Direc­tor of Research, will mod­er­ate the Q&A.

Link to reg­is­ter: Book Launch “Tam­ing Egg Donors”

About the book:
Spain has become one of the most promi­nent fer­til­i­ty mar­kets in the world, large­ly fuelled by the avail­abil­i­ty of human eggs. Behind the promise of cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy and par­ent­hood lies a care­ful­ly tai­lored sys­tem to recruit, man­age, and dis­ci­pline egg donors. In this book, Anna Molas explores how young women are incor­po­rat­ed as egg donors into the glob­al repro­duc­tive indus­try. Through in-depth ethno­graph­ic field­work with both donors and clin­i­cians, the book reveals the frag­ile process­es of selec­tion, mon­i­tor­ing, and con­trol that ensure the sup­ply of human eggs. Intro­duc­ing the con­cept of tam­ing, Molas illu­mi­nates the gen­dered, racial­ized, and classed dimen­sions of repro­duc­tive labor. Engag­ing with the polit­i­cal econ­o­my of repro­duc­tion and the future of repro­duc­tive med­i­cine, this book is an essen­tial resource for schol­ars in med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Stud­ies, and fem­i­nist studies.

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Reviews:
“This metic­u­lous­ly researched and argued account of how egg donors in Spain are induct­ed into the glob­al repro-mar­ket makes a cru­cial inter­ven­tion into the now exten­sive soci­o­log­i­cal work on repro­duc­tive labour, entre­pre­neurism and strat­i­fi­ca­tion. A bril­liant con­tri­bu­tion to polit­i­cal econ­o­my as well as repro­duc­tive stud­ies, it is also a mas­ter­ful­ly con­duct­ed study with far-reach­ing impli­ca­tions for prac­ti­tion­ers as well as the social sciences.”
Sarah Franklin, Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cambridge

“Enter a world of unpre­dictable bod­ies, painful injec­tions and pres­sured extrac­tions. Molas ren­ders the hid­den work and agency of young women egg donors vis­i­ble in this impor­tant ethnog­ra­phy of the posi­tion­al rela­tions between donors and clin­ics in the world’s largest egg dona­tion indus­try in Spain. In this superb book, she the­o­ris­es how par­tic­i­pat­ing in repro­duc­tive pro­vi­sion depends upon, pro­duces and cap­i­tal­izes on vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties and how young women become oppor­tunis­tic entre­pre­neurs of their repro­duc­tive potentials.”
Andrea Whit­tak­er, FASSA, Pro­fes­sor at the School of Social Sci­ences, Monash University

“Anna Molas‘ bril­liant study both con­tributes to our under­stand­ing of a key site in the glob­al sys­tem of egg pro­vi­sion – Spain – and brings a remark­able fresh per­spec­tive to the repro­duc­tive work involved. By focus­ing on the for­ma­tion of col­lab­o­ra­tive and con­test­ed rela­tion­ships between clin­i­cians and egg providers, the book exam­ines the pow­er rela­tion­ships that allow clin­ics to com­bine care with con­trol, and reli­ably dis­en­tan­gle women from their eggs. Draw­ing on the con­cep­tu­al pos­si­bil­i­ties of ‘tam­ing’, Molas gives us new ways to analyse the inti­mate labour at the heart of the fer­til­i­ty industry.”
Cather­ine Wald­by, FASSA, Pro­fes­sor at the Research School of Social Sci­ences, Aus­tralian Nation­al University

“This unique study presents a deeply researched ethnog­ra­phy of Spain’s egg dona­tion econ­o­my. Molas maps out the mar­ket log­ics and dis­ci­pli­nary tech­niques, always gen­dered, racialised, and classed, through which bod­ies are tamed for inclu­sion in bioe­co­nom­ic cir­cuits of val­ori­sa­tion, sur­veil­lance, and extrac­tion. Fore­ground­ing the voic­es of par­tic­i­pants, both donors and clin­i­cians, Molas skil­ful­ly demys­ti­fies the pow­er dynam­ics obscured by reduc­tive dis­cours­es of ‘dona­tion’ or ‘char­i­ty’. This is required read­ing for schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers alike.”
Dr Lars Cor­nelis­sen, Aca­d­e­m­ic Edi­tor, Inde­pen­dent Social Research Foun­da­tion, Lon­don, UK

“Tam­ing Egg Donors offers a com­pre­hen­sive account of how women in Spain come to the deci­sion to donate their eggs. By using the con­cept of tam­ing to ana­lyze the expe­ri­ences of egg donors, Molas shows how the labor involved in mak­ing eggs avail­able for the glob­al bio-mar­ket rein­forces exist­ing inequal­i­ties. This is a rich and thought­ful study that makes an impor­tant inter­ven­tion in the schol­ar­ship on repro­duc­tive labor.”
Daisy Deo­mam­po, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Ford­ham University

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