„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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CfP for Euro­pean Con­fer­ence on Social Med­i­cine (ECSM) 2025
Uni­ver­si­ty of Oslo, Norway

Dead­line: 31st of Jan­u­ary 2025

Details:

We are very excit­ed to announce the open­ing of our call for papers for the first ever ECSM! We are accept­ing indi­vid­ual paper sub­mis­sions, com­plete pan­els formed from 3 papers, round­table sub­mis­sions and con­tri­bu­tions to our «Mak­ing and Doing» session.
Abstracts are due on Jan­u­ary 31st, 2025 at 11:59pm CET. For the full call for papers or to sub­mit an abstract, please go to the conference
web­site. We wel­come abstracts for indi­vid­ual papers and con­tri­bu­tions to pan­els in some way relat­ed to our over­ar­ch­ing theme: Prac­tice. The­o­ry. Action. 

The ECSM will be an are­na for health pro­fes­sion­als with dual train­ing in the social sci­ences or human­i­ties whose work engages one or all of these three modes: prac­tice, the­o­ry, and action. Social sci­ence or human­i­ties schol­ars who see them­selves in the work of social med­i­cine are also wel­come. We seek to ground our con­fer­ence in the shared pur­pose of build­ing healthy futures and invite con­tri­bu­tions that approach prac­tice, the­o­ry, and action with curios­i­ty. In com­ing togeth­er, we hope to cre­ate a com­mu­ni­ty of schol­ars who strive to address the inter­con­nect­ed chal­lenges that our col­lec­tive health and health sys­tems face as well as sug­gest solu­tions and ini­tia­tives by call­ing upon meth­ods from the health pro­fes­sions, social sci­ences, and the humanities. 

We invite sub­mis­sions on any top­ic at the cross-sec­tion of the health pro­fes­sions and social sci­ence and the human­i­ties, and wel­come a range of dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es, time peri­ods and geo­graph­i­cal con­texts. We par­tic­u­lar­ly encour­age pro­pos­als that address aspects of the con­fer­ence theme – prac­tice, the­o­ry, and action – in the work of con­tem­po­rary social med­i­cine. Abstracts are wel­come from all fields in the health pro­fes­sions, social sci­ences, and human­i­ties, includ­ing inter- and trans-dis­ci­pli­nary projects. 

If you have any ques­tions, please con­tact us at ecsm-contact@helsam.uio.no.
We can­not wait to see you in Oslo in June 2025!

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Doc­tor­al work­shop „Com­pos­ing Coex­is­tence: Chal­lenges in Research on More-than-Human Health”
20–21 Feb 2025
Bern­hard Nocht Insti­tute for Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine in Hamburg
Orga­nized by the research group Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy at the BNITM

Envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ters and the (re-)emergence of infec­tious dis­eases require human health to be con­sid­ered in rela­tion to the health of ani­mals and the envi­ron­ment. A grow­ing num­ber of social sci­en­tists inves­ti­gate mul­ti­species con­tact zones and how these are bound up with anthro­pogenic process­es, such as cli­mate change, land use, resource exploita­tion, pol­lu­tion and tox­i­c­i­ty. Their stud­ies have had an enor­mous impact on the devel­op­ment of bioso­cial approach­es to mul­ti­species relations.

Anthro­po­log­i­cal ambi­tions to com­pose coex­is­tence in a sen­si­tive way are high­er than ever. How­ev­er, mul­ti­species researchers face sev­er­al chal­lenges and bar­ri­ers, for exam­ple with regard to inter- or trans­dis­ci­pli­nary work. While empha­siz­ing the inter­con­nect­ed­ness of humans, ani­mals and the envi­ron­ment, con­cepts like ‘One Health’ or ‘Plan­e­tary Health’ ulti­mate­ly revolve around ques­tions of human health and well-being. As a result, anthro­pocen­tric and human excep­tion­al­ist approach­es are often pro­mot­ed, neglect­ing the per­spec­tives and needs of non-human beings. How can social sci­en­tists debunk such approach­es? How can we ensure that we do not repro­duce these per­spec­tives? How can we address issues of trans­la­tion, advo­ca­cy and agency con­cern­ing non-human beings?

With this work­shop, we seek to address doc­tor­al researchers from the social sci­ences and human­i­ties with a keen inter­est in the study of more-than-human health. Over two days, we will present and dis­cuss our research projects, and engage in cre­ative exer­cis­es con­sid­er­ing cur­rent debates on mul­ti­species method­olo­gies and relat­ed obsta­cles. Fur­ther­more, we are delight­ed that Gior­gio Broc­co (Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na) will give a talk on chem­i­cal­i­ty and tox­i­c­i­ty in the plan­ta­tion world of the French Caribbean.

We warm­ly wel­come appli­ca­tions from doc­tor­al stu­dents who are at an ear­ly stage of their research or in the post-field­work phase. As ear­ly-career researchers, our aim is to cre­ate a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment where we can strength­en our research top­ics and con­nect with researchers who share an inter­est in explor­ing the entan­gle­ments between human, ani­mal and envi­ron­men­tal health.

The work­shop will be held in Eng­lish. If you would like to par­tic­i­pate, please send a descrip­tion of your research project (max. 750 words) and your aca­d­e­m­ic CV to vivien.barth(at)bnitm.de or to erik.zillmann(at)bnitm.de by 30 Sep­tem­ber 2024.

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