Ethics seminars for 2024
Workshop
Offered by the St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity (France)
St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity is pleased to announce the following Ethics seminars for 2024
Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Contributions from the Arts and Humanities (February 11–17, 2024, in Rome, Italy)
Ethics Educators Workshop (September 16–20, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Bioethics Colloquium (September 23–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Health Care Ethics: Catholic Perspectives (October 22–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
More info here
If you are interested in participating or have questions about the seminars, please contact Dr. Jos Welie MA, MMeds, JD, PhD, FACD directly: info[at]saintandre.org.
Health in Gaza: Bearing Witness and Building Solidarity with Palestinians
Vortrag
University of Manchester, Faculty for Palestine with UCU / Online
„Health in Gaza: Bearing Witness and Building Solidarity with Palestinians. A conversation on the political economy of health, right to health in Gaza, and resistance”
Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh, Birzeit University (online)
Hala Marshood, UoM, Department of Sociology (in person)
Dr. Lara Sheehi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (online)
Dr. Hanan Abukmail, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (in person)
University of Manchester
Online option available at registration
ABOUT
With starvation being used as weapon of war in occupied Palestine, the denial of health care and forced displacement continues to be a reality for entire population in Gaza. We aim to open a conversation on the political economy of health care, what does it mean to be a health care practitioner or patient seeking right to health. How does one go beyond bearing witness and building active solidarity.
LOCATION
Room 1.34 , Simon Building, University of Manchester
Online option available at registration
Refreshements served after the event
Summer School in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking
Film
Filmmaking 4 fieldwork
Summer School in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking
June 3 – July 1 2024
Deadline for applications April 30.
The online Summer School in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking is now open for bookings. This year participants will receive a free E‑copy of our Filmmaking for Fieldwork: a practical handbook published by Manchester University Press.
Please contact us via our website if you wish to join the course. For full details and information about how to enrol see webpage.
Crops and their humans: Vegetal perspectives on agricultural mobilities
AGEM-Veranstaltung
Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient
„Crops and their humans: Vegetal perspectives on agricultural mobilities”
16–17 May 2024, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient
Deadline: 28 January 2024
Agricultural production currently relies on large numbers of people migrating to and from centresof production, particularly for work with plant crops. Meanwhile, displacement and mobility due to wars,development projects and land appropriations bring people in or out of agricultural work. Both flowsinstantiate new relationships with plants, however how plants make a difference to these movements, andhow displaced people’s relationships to plants evolve across their mobilities has been little considered inthe literature. The growing field of critical plant studies works alongside scholarship focused on migrationaround agriculture, but rarely connecting with it. With this workshop we explore whether greater attentionto vegetal lives provides opportunities to reconsider mobility related to agriculture, and vice versa.Thinking through the lenses of plant studies and the food-migration nexus, this exploratory workshop is interested in new understandings which may arise through dialogue across these perspectives. Questions to consider might include:
· To what extent can migrant labour be understood as entangled with plant labour in producing value?
· How can we understand power dynamics of these mobilities and plants’ position within them?
· How do human-plant relations transform in people’s places of origin, including the plant care work and maintenance of fields and gardens?
· How does knowledge of plants circulate with and between people on the move?
· How do vegetal life and its timescales shape and interact with human mobilities connected to agriculture?
· What are the tensions between care for people and care for plants in production settings?
· How is agricultural work gendered and racialized in connection to plant characteristics and needs?
· What outcomes do the affective and embodied encounters between plants and displaced people have in the context of agriculture and horticulture?
In the light of these questions this workshop invites scholars from the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, ethnobotany, agri-food studies and all related fields to consider how people relate to plants in the contexts of displacement, seasonal work, and other agricultural mobilities. Particularly welcome are scholars from or working on Global South contexts. Discussions during the workshop will explore whether and how vegetal perspectives enhance understanding of these mobilities, seeking future lines of inquiry and collaboration.
· The workshop will take place at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
· Limited funds are available to cover associated travel and accommodation costs.
· Participants will be expected to submit full working papers before the workshop.
· Attendees will also participate in two larger discussion sessions on the themes that emerge from the papers, and contribute to a joint publication.
· Further information will be provided when a decision on selected abstracts is made after 18 February.
Please send your abstracts of 250 words and a short bio of 150 words to hilal.alkan.zeybek@zmo.de and pitth2@cardiff.ac.uk by 28 January 2024.
Cofion cynnes, Hannah Dr Hannah Pitt
Lecturer in Environmental Geography ¦ Darlithydd Daearyddiaeth Amgylcheddol
My pronouns are She/Her ¦ Fy rhagenwau i yw Hi/Ei
School of Geography and Planning ¦ Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio
Cardiff University ¦ Prifysgol Caerdydd
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/475490-pitt-hannah
029 208 79632
pitth2@cardiff.ac.uk @routesandroots
Disability & Climate: In conversation with… Áine Kelly-Costello
Vortrag
Fifths event of the online lecture series „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…”
„Disability & Climate: In conversation with…”: Áine Kelly-Costello
16th May 2024
9–10.30am GMT
In September 2023, the European Centre for Environment and Human Health/University of Exeter launched a new online „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…” series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of a new project on disability-inclusive climate action led by the University of Exeter. The project website, „Sensing Climate”, is coming soon but in the meantime, you can read a little more about it online.
For the fifths conversation they invited Áine Kelly-Costello.
More details, dates and speakers to follow!
For Questions please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell[at]exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests.
Ethnopharmacologie appliquée, plantes médicinales et médecines du 21ème siècle
Konferenz
27 au 31 mai 2024 au Cloître des Récollets à Metz.
„Ethnopharmacologie appliquée, plantes médicinales et médecines du 21ème siècle”
27 au 31 mai 2024 au Cloître des Récollets à Metz.
Une journée colloque comprise dans les frais d’inscription consacrée aux champignons médicinaux clôturera la semaine de formation le samedi 1er juin 2024.
Les inscriptions sont désormais ouvertes ! Pour obtenir plus d’informations sur le contenu détaillé et les modalités d’inscription, vous pouvez consulter notre site internet.
Writing Workshop Healthy Life, Happy Life: Immigration and Health in Post-Pandemic Times
Workshop
Cfp for a writing Workshop at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
CALL FOR PAPERS
Anthropology Summer Writing Workshop
June 4–6, 2024
„Healthy Life, Happy Life: Immigration and Health in Post-Pandemic Times”
Nearly four years have passed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Immigrant communities have been some of the most affected populations with regards to exposure to the virus, infection, disease, death, economic dislocation, stress, racism, as well as long-term trauma. These impacts echo what medical anthropologists have spotlighted about the social production of sickness, social suffering, and other health consequences of structural violence. Yet, a significant corpus of work has also highlighted immigrants’ resilient subjectivity and resistance to structural inequalities in their everyday production and management of health through self-care, alternative healthcare provisions, and transnational social networks, among other strategies. These immigrant subjects envision, practice, and negotiate for „good” health and for a „good” life while navigating social, structural, and material constraints in the intricacies of their lived experiences amid complex and sometimes ambiguous power dynamics.
Our three-day writing workshop focuses on ongoing anthropological work at the intersection of migration, health, and happiness. We endeavor to investigate how immigrants with their own sets of identities perceive their bodies and manage their health in pursuit of a good, happy life in post-pandemic times. Towards this end, we invite submissions from anthropologists whose ethnographic studies explore post-pandemic transformations among immigrants in understanding health and happiness across local and transnational contexts. Papers exploring the following questions are especially welcome: (1) Has the pandemic impacted immigrants’ perceptions of health’s role in the pursuit of happiness and a good life? (2) How do immigrants re-envision and renegotiate both health and happiness while navigating post-pandemic uncertainty, precarity, and inequalities? (3) How do immigrants’ health practices and healthcare encounters since the pandemic affect these biopolitical subjects’ belonging and identity making? (4) What role has the pandemic and recovery played in immigrants’ sense of health and happiness in their new nation of settlement?
Workshop Overview:
This Anthropology Summer Writing Workshop is supported by the European Commission Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. It will be hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Italy on June 4–6, 2024.
Each participant will pre-circulate their working paper and have their work discussed by fellow participants in a supportive environment. These papers will be eventually considered for a journal special issue organized around the workshop topic.
To better facilitate this writing workshop in the format of small-group discussion, we encourage applications from participants who are able to fully attend this three-day workshop in person.
Convenors:
Grazia Deng, European Commission Marie Curie Fellow, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Andrea Flores, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Timelines:
Deadline for abstracts submission: January 19, 2024
Announcement of acceptance: February 2, 2024
Deadline for paper submission: May 3, 2024
Workshop dates: June 4–6, 2024.
Application:
To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a short bio of no more than 100 words by January 19, 2024. Abstracts can be submitted online at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SlbJz2eEpmIWguLi59swwjcdy6xaOsxlmWK-Wk-HRMc/prefill
Please note that participants have to arrange their own travels and accommodation. No travel grants are available. Lunches and coffee will be provided.
For questions, please email Grazia Deng (graziadeng@gmail.com) or Andrea Flores (andrea_flores@brown.edu).
Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School
Konferenz
Organized by the SAPPHIRE (Social Science APPlied Health & Improvement Research) research group at the University of Leicester
„Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School”
Organized by the SAPPHIRE (Social Science APPlied Health & Improvement Research) research group at the University of Leicester
11th-12th July, 2024
College Court Leicester, UK.
Deadline for application 30th May 2024
This short course is designed for researchers and doctoral students to critically engage with the theory and practice of ethnography in healthcare settings. Over 2 days, you will learn more about the use of ethnography for healthcare improvement, from designing research to managing improvement and evaluation tensions, navigating different contexts, reaching audiences and influencing policy and practice. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop a network of fellow practitioners and researchers with shared methodological interests, work with experienced ethnographers as mentors, and join an international community of practice around ethnography for healthcare improvement.
The cost of the 2 day course, including all education materials and activities, plus lunch and refreshments both days, is £650. Transport to and from the venue and accommodation at College Court is not included and should you wish to stay you will have to arrange this yourself. Further information about accommodation at College Court will be made available to delegates in advance of the start of the course.
Registrations are strictly limited, and are now open at our site; bookings will close 30th May 2024. A waiting list will be maintained in the event of the course being over-subscribed.
Please forward any questions to Jennifer Creese, course lead: jennifer.creese@leicester.ac.uk.
Summer School Social Study of Microbes
Konferenz
Summer School at Centre for the Social Study of Microbes Helsinki, Finnland
„Annual Summer School on Microbes”
Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (CSSM), Helsinki
12–14 June 2024
Deadline: 31.03.2024
The CSSM is a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations. Microbes are not only biological entities but also shape, and are shaped by, our social worlds. The Centre aims to explore how relationships with microbes raise profound challenges for social theory, which demand new social scientific language and methodologies for describing and explaining the complex and entwined relationships between human and nonhuman animals, microbes, and the environment. Not only is this work theoretically motivated, it is key to developing sustainable methods of planetary co-existence in the Anthropocene.
At present, research on microbes – whether in social sciences or in life sciences and biomedicine – is undergoing dramatic changes. A boom of microbiome research since the early 2000s has shown that microbes are vastly more abundant in the environment and inside our bodies than previously thought. In contrast to a Pasteurian notion of bacteria as merely pathogenic, microbes are seen to have important supporting roles for health and well-being. Deficit of microbes is now associated with everything from mental health to autoimmune diseases. There is also increasing awareness of microbes’ vital role in different ecosystems and ecological relations to the extent that imbalanced microbial ecologies are associated with global warming, soil depletion, and biodiversity loss.
Recent contributions from social sciences and philosophy of biology have challenged the one-sided definition of microbes as pathogenic, proposing the advent of a ‘post-Pasteurian age’ that takes into account their multivalent and context-specific nature. This shift in understanding human-microbe relations is pushing the emergence of new social forms such as fermentation, often anchored in century-old practices. These developments highlight that microbes are not biological objects only, and that we lack methods and concepts that can account for the complex, multi-scalar sets of practices that characterise human-microbe relations.
The PhD school will last for three days 12–14 June 2024. The first two days will consist of group work, including the presentation and discussion of pre-submitted manuscripts, an international keynote lecture, and general discussions about the social study of microbes. On the third day, the participants will take part in the CSSM Day when the expanded CSSM team comes together for interactive sessions and conversations regarding microbes.
We welcome applications from PhD students interested in the social study of microbes. Applicants from the Global South and members of minorities are especially welcome to apply.
Applications should contain:
- Cover letter with a statement of interest (max 1 page)
– Abstract of PhD project, including a reflection on how the research project engages with theoretical and/or methodological developments for
the social study of microbes (max 2 pages)
– CV (max 2 pages)
Accepted participants will be asked to submit a paper or chapter draft (max 8.000 words) by May 29, 2024.
The application should be sent as PDF to cssm@helsinki.fi by March 31, 2024.
Successful applicants will be notified latest by April 15, 2024.
Accommodation during the PhD school, lunches and the conference dinner, and travel to Helsinki are fully covered by CSSM. Please indicate in the cover letter if you do not need such economic support.
For more information, please contact: cssm@helsinki.fi.
Critical Anthropology and Global Health: Challenges and Possibilities
Konferenz
Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Conference (MAYS-MAE Network of EASA) in Bologna
„Critical Anthropology and Global Health: Challenges and Possibilities”
Organized by MAYS-MAE Network of EASA
Bologna, IT
18–20 June
Submit an abstract of no more than 350–500 words at the link below by April 8th and a paper of 3,000–5,000 words by June 1st. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of April. To cover basic expenses, we ask for a 30 EUR participation fee for in-person participants.
In the CfP you’ll find the link to the GoogleForm to submit your abstract, the link is also provided here.
Please feel free to contact for any questions: mays.easa@gmail.com.
Intersectionality & Inclusion in Health
Konferenz
20th Biennial ESHMS conference 2024
Interdisciplinary conference on „Intersectionality & Inclusion in Health”
University of Antwerp
2–5 July 2024
Deadline: 31.01.2024
We invite submissions for the upcoming ESHMS 2024 conference focusing on health & medical sociology, particularly emphasizing the theme „Intersectionality & Inclusion in Health.” Research in related domains is also welcomed.
Submission deadline:
January 31, 2024, via our online portal.
Anthropological Contributions to SRHR Future(s): From Theory to Practice and Back
Konferenz
Transdisciplinary conference on sexual reproduction and health rights (SRHR).
3–5 July, 2024
University of Amsterdam (anthropology department)
Poster-AnthSRHRFuturesConf2024
We are at a critical juncture in time. Whilst sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are increasingly threatened by conservative right-wing politics, multiple crises (humanitarian, economic, environmental), and persistent race, gender and class-based inequities, rapid technological advances are creating new opportunities for achieving sexual and reproductive health and justice. Now more than ever, anthropology can play a critical role in strengthening sexual and reproductive well-being in the Global South and North by interrogating these threats, crises, injustices, and technological developments. Anthropologists can help formulate more meaningful SRHR policies, programmes, and interventions by paying attention to social rather than individual bodies, examining the moralities at stake and imposed, and exploring the social lives of technologies. We contend, however, that anthropology’s potential is not fully realized, because anthropological findings get lost in translation when transitioning into policies and practices, and because of certain blind spots amongst anthropologists, public health experts, SRHR practitioners, NGO representatives, policymakers and funders alike. How can anthropologists collaborate more effectively with other stakeholders in SRHR? This conference seeks to offer a platform to engage in productive transdisciplinary conversations to enhance anthropological contributions to SRHR future(s).
Registration opens via the conference website on January 15th
Presentation and panel proposals are due by February 15th by e‑mail to our googlegroup.
Notifications will be sent mid-March.
We welcome traditional paper and panel proposals as well as workshops or experimental formats. Save the date and please circulate across your networks (see flyer)!
Conference Call- AnthSRHRFuturesConf2024
Additional details can be found online at
On behalf of the organizing committee:
Andie Thompson
Bregje de Kok
Erica van der Sijpt
Hanna Horváth
Jeroen Lorist
Shahana Siddiqui
Trudie Gerrits
Anthropological Contributions to SRHR Future(s): From Theory to Practice and Back
Konferenz
A Transdisciplinary Conference, 3–5 July 2024, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
CBM Global: Disability & Climate. In conversation with…
Vortrag
Sixth event in the framework of „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…”
CBM Global: „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…”
4th July 2024 with
timings tbc
In September 2023, the European Centre for Environment and Human Health/University of Exeter launched a new online „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…” series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of a new project on disability-inclusive climate action led by the University of Exeter. The project website, „Sensing Climate”, is coming soon but in the meantime, you can read a little more about it online.
For the sixth conversation they invited CBM Global.
More details, dates and speakers to follow!
For Info please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell[at]exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests.
Research-creation: critique, care and collaboration through creative practice
Workshop
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Summer School
„Research-creation: critique, care and collaboration through creative practice”
VU Amsterdam Summer School
8–19 July
The course is aimed at supporting advanced Bachelor students and first year Master students. It will be taught in person/on campus and carries a study load of 3 ECTS.
For those unfamiliar with the term, research-creation is an approach to research that engages artistic expression, scholarly investigation, curiosity, and experimentation. In practice, this means that research topics are selected and explored through a creation process, such as the production of a film or video, performance or installation, sound-work, zine, or multimedia arts/texts.
This summer, the course will have a special focus on relationships, mental health, conflict in collaborations, and the messiness of co-creative work. We will draw on specific examples from queer, anti-colonial, migrant justice, and Palestinian liberation movements. The course will incorporate reading-based discussions, hands-on creative workshops, and examples of research-creation in practice, in an effort to engage broader discussions concerning methodology, ethics, responsibility, and (institutional) solidarities/activism within and beyond the university. To this end, this course will include presentations by scholars and practitioners from inside and outside of academia.
You can read more and register here.
Thinking through impact: ethnographic approaches
Panel
Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association.
„Thinking through impact: ethnographic approaches”
Conference Towards an anthropology for troubled times?
Lucerne
June 6–8, 2024.
Submissions will be open until February, 15.
We invite you to submit an abstract to our open panel „Thinking through impact: ethnographic approaches”. We welcome both traditional and multimodal presentations from all disciplines and practices. For more details on how to submit, please visit our webpage:
If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact any one of us!
Fiona Gedeon Achi: fiona.gedeon-achi@u‑bordeaux.fr
Sandra Bärnreuther: sandra.baernreuther@unilu.ch
Ben Eyre: ben.eyre@uea.ac.uk
Beyond Polarisation: Approaches to vaccination
Panel
Panel at conference EASST-4S 2024 „Making and Doing Transformations”.
„Beyond Polarisation: Approaches to vaccination”
16–19 July 2024
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Convenors: Lesley Branagan (Hamburg University), Anna Dowrick (University of Oxford), Rebecca Cassidy (University of Kent), Simon Bailey (University of Kent)
Please submit your proposal here
CfP deadline: February 12 2024
Short Abstract:
Covid’s threat to modern reasoning and subsequent divisions are located in policies, discourses and experiences of vaccines, polarised into ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ sentiment. We consider the interplay between the promises of vaccines, unexpected vaccine experiences, and Covid’s threat to rational order.
Long Abstract:
The Covid pandemic brought significant transformations in the technologies, roles, governance, discourses and meanings of vaccines.
The technological and political promise of Covid vaccines has left limited space for exploration of their unintended consequences. Dramatic polarisations of ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ sentiments result in disbelief, silencing, and exploitation of unexpected experiences connected to vaccination, particularly in the context of vaccine injury. Similarly, desire to re-purpose vaccines for other uses, such as treatments for Long Covid, has met resistance.
In these responses we find a paradoxical refusal to consider the spaces and ‘residual categories’ (Bowker & Star, 2000) between pro- and anti-vaccination, and limited engagement in the multiplicity of what vaccines ‘do’. However, histories of changing uses of vaccines as technologies, vaccine injuries and medical-legal reform also show that there are potential sites for contesting these polarised categories (Kirkland, 2016).
We encourage explorations of the broader relations between the threat of Covid and the subsequent failures of reflexivity related to ‘unexpected reactions’ to, with, and about vaccines.
Paper proposals could consider:
The effects of complexity and uncertainty upon polarisation, and the paradoxical ‘hardening’ of both lay and professional perspectives on unexpected vaccine reactions;
The temporalities and futurism at play in promises concerning the unknowable (Beckert, 2016), and the consequent misdirection of vaccine expectations and resources;
The interplay of polarising categories of risk and threat, trust and mis-trust, and the possibilities for nuanced understandings of agency and vaccine hesitancy;
The ‘distribution of belief and unbelief’ (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982) represented by polarised vaccine discourses, and the positioning of different interests (scientific, professional, governmental);
Contestations of categorisations, through advocacy, or ‘citizenship work’ (Petryna, 2004) and the role of narrative in mediating between the ‘counter-factual and factual’ (Maier, 2004) in the context of unexpected events.
CfP MedAnthro panels at EASST/4S (16 – 19 July 2024, Amsterdam)
Panel
MedAnthro panels at EASST/4S (16 – 19 July 2024, Amsterdam)/CfP
CfP MedAnthro panels at EASST/4S Conference (16–19 July 2024, Amsterdam)
STS congress on „Making and doing transformations”
Deadline for CfP: 12 Feb 2024
Details here
MedAnthro Panels:
– MAYS Panel: The Dynamic Landscape of Medical Anthropology: Scientific Expertise and Public Engagement in the Transformation of Disciplinary Boundaries
Healthcare Transformations:
– Haptic Revolutions: Sensory Futures and Phenomenologies of Expertise in Medical Worlds
– Doing Diversity: Difference, Equity and Inclusion in Biomedical Research
– Making and Doing Just Infrastructures in Healthcare
– Theorizing through the mundane: storying transformations in healthcare
Healtcare and Technology-induced change:
– Health Knowledge in Society: Biomedical Expertise, Technologies, Inclusion and Inequality
– The technopolitics of (health)care: Transforming care in more-than-human worlds
– Social exclusion in the digital age – Exploring inequities in the utilisation and accessibility of eHealth technologies
– Entanglements of STS and Bioethics: New Approaches to the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Health
– Making and (un)doing digital health and welfare transformations: Normative tensions and action repertoires of embedded STS researchers
– Sociotechnical transformations of health care: Practices of objectivations, knowledge translation and new forms of agency
Health and Data
– Anti-Racist Approaches to Health Information Technology
– Data on the move: the politics of cross-border health data infrastructures
– Corporeal Quantification: Numerical Negotiations of Health and the Body
Biomedical in a Critical Study:
– Governing biomedical tests: Towards Social Studies of Bio-Medical Testing?
– Probing Openness in Biomedical Platforms: Global Health meets Open Science
– Critical and/or creative approaches to bodily data and the management of health risks
– Public Participation and Health Equality in Future Biobanking
CAM:
– STS approaches to study contestations of medical evidence-based knowledge and recommendations
Methodology and Research Practice:
– How to research medical AI?
– Issues of Scale: The global and the local in health research projects with a worldwide context
Chemical Affects: Engaging Substances in Life-Death Worlds (EASST-4S Conference, Amsterdam)
Panel
CfP „Chemical Affects: Engaging Substances in Life-Death Worlds” (P041), for the upcoming EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam (16–19 July 2023).
CfP „Chemical Affects: Engaging Substances in Life-Death Worlds” (P041)
EASST-4S Conference, Amsterdam
16–19 July 2023
CfP deadline: February 12 2024 (submit your paper here)
Abstract:
Chemicals are ambivalent matters, engaged in the distribution of life and death across geographies, organisms, and bodies. As industrial products they carry the history of capitalist and environmental exploitation. As effective substances they foster growth and pleasure, produce kinship and belonging, or induce harm and suffering. As enduring particles they shape our geological era, while unequally exposing people to toxicants along the geopolitical lines of class and race (Agard-Jones 2013).
Industrial chemicals and their by-products have become indispensable to human and more-than-human life, acting on and transforming territories and bodies in ways that are destructive and beneficial to planetary and human health. In this current condition of alterlife (Murphy 2017), the histories of chemicals, their (side) effects as well as their afterlives and speculative futures permeate life-death affectively and materially. As such, STS scholars follow chemicals ethnographically (Shapiro and Kirksey 2017) and take into account their agency, by allowing substances to surprise and enthrall (Dumit 2022, Gomart 2004).
This panel gathers scholars working on and with substances in different disciplines and localities to explore the politics, ethics and affects of living and dying in relation to chemicals. It expands existing discussions with a focus on how specific chemicals – pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other compounds – in their respective form, property and use are engaged in the production and governance of life and death, but also how they blur the lines between those worlds.
The Anthropology Matters network invites papers that:
- trace chemicals in their lively and deadly potentials and methodologically attune to their material-affective capacities.
- critically investigate practices of inhabiting toxic worlds (Nading 2020) as well as the post/colonial inequalities inscribed in them.
- explore avenues of collaboratively intervening in “chemical violence” (Murphy 2017) to strive for decolonial futures.
- question ethical imperatives of living and dying in chemically altered times.
Contact:
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (Freie Universität Berlin)
Max Schnepf (Freie Universität Berlin)
Giorgio Brocco (University of Vienna)
Transforming the study of cancer
Panel
Combined Format Open Panel P133 at conference EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: „Making and Doing Transformations”.
Transforming the study of cancer
16–19 July 2024
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Convernors: Violeta Argudo-Portal (Universitat de Barcelona), Masha Denisova
CfP deadline: February 12 2024
Please submit your proposal here
The study of cancer has gathered an extensive community of scholars in the social sciences and humanities, providing a more dense, heterogeneous, and diverse approach to this disease multiple. Science and technology scholars have taken an important role in this task by examining how knowledge about cancer is produced and with what consequences for researchers, practitioners, and patients. In this panel, we seek to make explicit the contributions of STS tools and sensibilities to the cancer study. STS toolkit becomes particularly helpful in discerning what logics, interests, and imaginaries are at play in the cancer research and care arena. The ever-increasing influence of pharmaceutical companies and investments in heavily technocratic forms of cancer care transform not only the forms of cancer diagnostics and treatment but also the experiences of those living with the disease. The growing attention to cell biology research and individualization of risk makes cancer research shift further from identifying other aetiologies of cancer, such as environmental and ecological links. These transformations collectively shape how cancer is known and lived with. For this panel, we invite empirical and theoretical submissions that revolve around the study of cancer, ranging from attention to high-tech technological and pharmaceutical endeavors to different forms of crafting care, knowledge, treatments, infrastructures, and knowledge. Works exploring carcinogenic leaks, cancer politics, and epistemic absences are particularly welcome.
The panel is convened by the Political Stakes of Cancer Network, an international group of social sciences and humanities scholars studying science, society, and power relationships in cancer across the globe. The panel will follow a combined format, including sessions with conventional paper presentations and an experimental session for which we encourage submissions based on multimodal materials (illustrations, short films, visual essays, experimental data visualizations, and more).
(Un)Knowing Harm: Localised Epistemic Responses to Global Environmental Degradation
Panel
CfP/Panel “(Un)Knowing Harm: Localised Epistemic Responses to Global Environmental Degradation” at EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology (Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024)
“(Un)Knowing Harm: Localised Epistemic Responses to Global Environmental Degradation”
EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology (Barcelona)
Date: 23–26 July 2024
The deadline for paper submissions is 22 January 2024. Please note that the panel will take place face-to-face.
Short Abstract:
The panel examines the techniques and technologies by which environmental damage and harm on the individual and the social body become known and unknown, voiced and silenced, manifested and repressed, thus shedding light onto the nexus of epistemic uncertainty and environmental injustice.
Long Abstract:
Capitalist extractivism, industrialism, militarism, and ongoing forms of colonialism leave the planet damaged. Be it the loss of habitats for human communities and other forms of life or the amounts of toxic contaminants that suffuse the environment, the very reality of environmental damage is often contested as it gets tangled in processes of knowing, unknowing, denial, disavowal, and ignorance. Powerful actors—state authorities, corporations, the military—all play a central role in such politics of (un)knowing by exercising monopolies on scientific and expert knowledge, thereby prescribing what ought to be known and unknown in order to protect their political, economic, and strategic interests. Civil society organisations, activist groups, and individuals often protest such epistemic and environmental injustices, fighting for greater transparency and access to knowledge. But what counts as knowledge is frequently disputed—even when it comes in the form of hard scientific evidence—not only by the vested interests of power, but also by those who bear the burden of environmental harm. For it is not uncommon for people and groups to harness practices of (un)knowing to deal with environmental degradation in ways that might allow them to escape stigmatisation, resist or refuse empowered constraints, or simply live lives that are more meaningful.
We invite ethnographically-rich papers that examine the techniques and technologies by which environmental damage and harm on the individual and the social body become known and unknown, voiced and silenced, manifested and repressed, thus shedding light onto the nexus of epistemic uncertainty and environmental injustice in late industrialism.
More info
Panel convenors:
Nikolaos Olma (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient – ZMO)
Rishabh Raghavan (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Biosocial Approaches to Health and Environment (EASA conference Barcelona 23–26 July 2024)
Panel
Invitation to contributions to the panel „Biosocial Approaches to Health and Environment” at the upcoming EASA conference in Barcelona (23–26 July 2024)
Panel „Biosocial Approaches to Health and Environment”
EASA conference in Barcelona
Date: 23–26 July 2024
CfP deadline: 22 January 2024.
Short Abstract:
This panel discusses how anthropologists can contribute to collaborative efforts in studying environmental impacts on (ill)health by complexifying ‘the social’ and asking how such collaborations might lead to more tractable targets for biosocially informed ecological health and policy interventions.
Long Abstract:
Increasingly, social determinants and material elements are being considered relevant forms of exposure that have direct impacts on environmental (ill)health (e.g. in exposome or urban mental health research). This reflects shifts in fields such as epidemiology in recognising how environmental conditions are not simply ‘residual’ or ‘confounding’ risk factors but in fact ‘over-arching determinants’ of (ill)health (Vineis 2022).
Yet measurements and definitions of ‘the social’ in such research are often conceptually simplistic, empirically thin and lack an understanding of the dynamic and situated interplay of socio-ecological variables (Manning 2019; Söderström n.d.). While epidemiological studies have identified high-level social variables (SES, ethnicity, population density) associated with (ill)health, ethnographic studies have shown how complex environmental conditions emerge and are dealt with in situated everyday life (Bister et al. 2016; Rose/Fitzgerald 2022).
There is an urgent need for more effective transdisciplinary engagement that can attend to complexity in examining the socio-environmental (Lappé/Hein 2020) where urban/rural/developing environments, climates and health are interacting but also considers how exactly collaboration can be part of ‘making better numbers’ (Roberts 2021)
In this panel, we will reflect on efforts by anthropologists to develop collaborative biosocial research relevant to examine the complex dynamics of health and environment. We will consider the conceptual and methodological contribution of anthropology in newly evolving biosocial epidemiologic/biomedical research on health and environments, what form of inter- and transdisciplinary approaches are required, and in what ways these might lead to more tractable targets for biosocially informed ecological health and policy interventions.
Convened by by Patrick Bieler Technical University of Munich (Technical University Miunich), Sahra Gibbon and Rosie Mathers (University College London)
More info here
Care models in transition: public policy challenges in response to the pandemic crisis
Panel
CfP Panel for EASA’s Online Panel „Care models in transition: public policy challenges in response to the pandemic crisis”
Online Panel „Care models in transition: public policy challenges in response to the pandemic crisis”
EASA conference
Barcelona, July 23–26, 2024.
Please submit your proposal here
Deadline: 22 January 2024.
Convenors:
Carlos Chirinos (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain)
Silvia Bofill-Poch (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Antónia Pedroso de Lima (ISCTE-IUL CRIA, Portugal)
Short abstract:
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the structural weaknesses of our care models. This panel encourages contributions to a critical debate on changes in public care policies in response to the pandemic crisis from an anthropological perspective.
Long Abstract:
The global COVID-19 pandemic brought into focus the effects of a long-lasting care crisis in Europe and beyond (Daly 2020). The COVID-19 crisis stretched our health and social protection systems to the limit, exacerbated already existing social inequalities and showed the structural weaknesses of our care models. Families, and paid care workers, had to cope with sudden difficulties, some of which were extremely complex to manage. Some citizens’ movements reacted and raised their voices for a fairer and more sustainable care model. Institutions also reacted. The urgency of a change of model became evident. In 2022, the European Commission approved the European Care Strategy, which is already guiding different governments’ programmes to change the care model. The Strategy states that this change is essential and must be accompanied by significant reforms and public investment. Accordingly, we are interested in contributions addressing: a) policy responses to the care crisis (or overlapping crises: financial, health, climate, etc.); b) the tensions –risks and potentials– that some of the suggested measures entail, such as deinstitutionalisation, person-centred care or the public-community care model; and c) the challenges involved in moving towards more comprehensive models of care, in terms of articulation between different agents of care, and in terms of policy articulation (care, health and housing policies, among others). All of this will be based on empirical research, which will enable the debate to be grounded and compared. This panel will contribute toward opening a critical debate on changes in public policies on care in the coming years from an anthropological perspective.
Challenging Global Health through a socio-anthropological lens
Panel
Cfp for Panel at 18th EASA Barcelona
Cfp for Panel
„Challenging Global Health through a socio-anthropological lens”
18th EASA Biennial Conference, 23–26 July 2024 (Barcelona)
Deadline: 22 January 2024
Short Abstract:
The pandemic revealed the inequities that structure the global health apparatus. This panel proposes a space for reflecting on the contributions of anthropology to the field of global health, as a discipline sensitive to nuanced understandings of health and key to critically assess health inequities
Long Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought age-old global health issues to the forefront of public debates, revealing the stark inequities that structure the global health apparatus. From an anthropological perspective, the field of global health is an area of research that links health to assemblages of complex and contingent global processes, contributing to analyses of health inequities and the social determinants of health. Hence, the pandemic has constituted an unprecedented opportunity for anthropological insights to (re)shape debates and practices around emerging topics and these classic (but unresolved) issues.
Building on concepts critical to understanding health and well-being (i.e. stigma, ethnicity, medicalisation) and driven by concerns over ‘glocal’ processes, sociocultural anthropology is uniquely positioned to advance progress in global health equity. Moreover, through key and well-known disciplinary approaches for methodological self-examination (i.e. positionality, reflexivity), anthropological practice is compelled to critically rethink global health scholarly inquiry. In the aftermath of a global pandemic, anthropological work in and of global health has never been more urgent.
We invite papers on the following broad themes:
(Mis)alignments between health priorities of local populations and those of the global health agenda
How global inequities in access to, and distribution of, medicines/treatments/vaccines unfold in local contexts
Critical analysis of emerging key concepts in global health discourse (eg. global health security, vaccine hesitancy)
Case studies exploring the role of local communities in addressing public health problems, Interdisciplinarity, methodological and ethical aspects of socio-anthropological research in, and of, global health
Convernors:
Cristina Enguita-Fernandez (Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal))
Yara Alonso (University of Agder)
Olga Cambaco (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)
Neusa Torres (University of Wits)
Please, consider joining us! The panel will take place on-site. You can submit your papers here.
Deadline: 22 January 2024
We look forward to receiving interesting and stimulating proposals!
Best wishes
Yara, Olga, Neusa & Cristina
Collaboration as method in Medical Anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives
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CfP for EASA’s Panel “Collaboration as method in Medical Anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives”.
„Collaboration as method in Medical Anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives”
EASA, Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024)
CfP Deadline:22 January 2024
More Info here
Short Abstract:
What is collaborative research in Medical Anthropology? How to have trusting and symmetrical relationships when addressing health-related inequalities and power relations? From a feminist and decolonial approach, we discuss the (im)possibilities of collaboration in Medical Anthropology research.
Long Abstract:
Over the past decades, Medical Anthropology has been reflecting on its methodological approaches, especially in contexts of marked inequality and power imbalance; as well as in contexts where our interlocutors’ survival and existence are at stake, and where they face suffering and devastation. How to do ethnographic research on conditions of suffering and inequality when addressing health-related issues without reproducing these conditions?
From a feminist and decolonial approach to research and knowledge practices, collaborative research figures as one possible way to counteract extractivist modes of fieldwork that feed into and perpetuate the long-lasting matrix of power. However, if we are to engage in ‘true’ collaboration, questions arise about the varied forms it may (and should) take. For instance, when does collaboration begin, and when and how does it end? How do different forms of knowledge enter into dialogue during fieldwork and become an integral part of the research findings? What can collaboration look like in the context of academic hierarchies, especially when it involves early-career researchers (including students)? How can ECRs with often low paid and short-term jobs engage in time- and resource-consuming collaboration without increasing their precarious status?
In this round-table, we plan to critically engage with collaborative methodologies which are ideally based on concrete ethnographic case studies. We aim to discuss and learn from the challenges of such methodologies that have the potential of decentering academic knowledge practices by giving equal room to diverse forms of knowledge production in matters of health, care, hope, body, life, and death.
Convenors:
Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin)
Lucia Mair (University of Vienna)
Chair:
Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra (University of Vienna)
Feel free to email if you have any questions!
Warm wishes on behalf of all convenors,
lucia.mair[at]univie.ac.at
MedAnthro Panels & Roundtables EASA conference (Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024)
Panel
Invitation to MedAnthro Panels & Roundtables EASA conference (Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024)
Conference theme: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology
EASA conference, Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024
Deadline: 22.01
MAE Panel: Towards Healthcare 3.0? Undoing the past and doing the future of curing and healing
Other MedAnthro panels:
Un/doing foetal „viability”: Negotiating and governing the boundaries of life and death
Ambivalent substances: Chemosocialities in life-death worlds
Feminist perspectives on mobile essential workers: the pandemic as turning point?
Challenging global health through a socio-anthropological lens
The intersectionality of anthropology, ageing, and disability studies.
Doing and undoing reproduction
MedAnthro roundtables:
(Un)doing the anthropology of health care crisis: structural competency and health care professionals
Collaboration as a method in medical anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives
Other topical panels:
Oh my gut: anthropological pathways to the cultural, affective, medical and multispecies entanglements of the gut
Care Models in Transition: Public Policy Challenges in Response to the Pandemic Crisis
Un/Doing reproduction: transnational reproductive justice in times of (post-)pandemics and anti-gender campaigns
Pathologies of Imitation
Panel
CfP for in person Panel “Pathologies of Imitation” at EASA’s Biennial Conference (23–26 July, Barcelona)
Panel “Pathologies of Imitation”
EASA Biennial Conference
23–26 July, Barcelona
CfP deadline: 23:59 CET on January 22nd 2024
Panel Concept:
Imitation is fundamental to human social life, underpinning everything from entrainment in cultural practices to interactional rapport and the emulation of ethical exemplars. Yet at times, the urge to imitate is considered medically and/or morally pathological: when echopraxia (‘compulsive imitation’) is flagged as a medical symptom; in anxieties around ‘copycat’ crimes and suicides, and in moral panics around plagiarism, online impersonation, and ‘Westoxification’ – to name but a few. Taking such ‘pathologies of imitation’ as a starting point, this panel seeks to develop existing anthropological literatures on mimesis and related phenomena by highlighting the affective and moral complexities of being an imitative subject.
We invite papers that examine how, why, and to what effect certain forms of imitation are construed and experienced as pathological in diverse contemporary settings. Whose interests are best served by imitation’s pathologisation – and is this kind of political analysis sufficient for understanding the distressing or conflicted ways that people sometimes experience their own imitative urges and practices? How and why do ethical traditions accord imitations different degrees of moral valence? Is that changing as new technologies transform the labour involved in imitation? What causal logics are used to account for, resolve, and prevent ‘inappropriate imitation’, to what social worlds do they give rise, and how seriously should anthropologists take them? Indeed, what can anthropology ‘do’ to support those suffering in their relationships to imitation – and which aspects of the anthropological canon might a study of imitation’s pathologies suggest need to be ‘undone’?
Submission details:
Paper proposals should be submitted online via the conference portal (here)
Any queries/Questions?
Please feel free to get in touch with us on N.J.Long[at]lse.ac.uk (Nick) and jacob.copeman[at]usc.es (Jacob)
Unpacking temporal, spatial and relational dimensions of care trajectories in life-limiting illness
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Invitation to contributions to the panel „Unpacking temporal, spatial and relational dimensions of care trajectories in life-limiting illness” at the upcoming EASA conference in Barcelona (23–26 July 2024)
Panel „Unpacking temporal, spatial and relational dimensions of care trajectories in life-limiting illness”
EASA conference
Barcelona July 23–26, 2024
Abstract:
short abstract max 300 characters + long abstract of max 250 words
Deadline: January 22, 2024.
Natashe Lemos Dekker (Leiden University)
Annemarie Samuels (Leiden University)
Rikke Sand Andersen (Aarhus University and University of Southern Denmark)
Short Abstract:
This panel brings together anthropologists studying temporal, spatial and relational dimensions of care trajectories. It invites empirical and conceptual explorations that are based on ethnographic research on care for people experiencing life-limiting illness.
Long Abstract:
This panel aims to bring together anthropologists studying temporal, spatial and relational dimensions of care trajectories of people experiencing life-limiting illness. The burgeoning anthropological literature on care conceptualizes caregiving across institutional and non-institutional boundaries and as both a form of labour and an affective force (e.g. Buch 2018, Strong 2020, McKearney and Amrith 2021) and highlights the embodiment of care (Aulino 2016; Jackson 2021) as well as a resistance against totalizing conceptualizations (Cubellis 2020; Stevenson 2020). Inviting empirical and conceptual explorations of care trajectories, we seek to highlight temporal, spatial and relational movements of care practices (cf. Solomon 2022), particularly for and by people affected by life-limiting illness.
In a context of changing welfare states and increasing global implementations of forms of Universal Health Coverage, we ask: How do care relations and care needs change during illness trajectories? How do caregivers and patients move across borders and institutions to provide and access care? What expectations do they have of care trajectories and what alternative trajectories do they envision? And how may ethnographic research on care trajectories lay bare the intersectional inequalities that shape people’s possibilities to give and access care over time? We invite panel contributors to unpack the concept of care trajectories based on ethnographic research, and to contribute to ongoing discussions on the conceptualization of care.
Das Geschlecht der Medizin. Individualität in medizinischen Konzepten und Praktiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Konferenz
Tagung im Alfried Krupp Kolleg in Greifswald
„Das Geschlecht der Medizin. Individualität in medizinischen Konzepten und Praktiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts”
2. bis 4. September 2024
Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald
Einsendeschluss für Abstracts 1. März 2024
Organisation: Dr. Annalisa Martin, Prof. Dr. Annelie Ramsbrock, Naima Tiné, M.A. (Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte der Neuesten Zeit, Universität Greifswald)
Die Geschichte der Medizin erlebt seit den 1980er Jahren eine Neuorientierung: Wurde sie lange Zeit als historistische Erfolgsgeschichte geschrieben, die sich aus einer Aneinanderreihung diverser Entdeckungen durch (meist männliche) Ärzte speiste, findet seit einiger Zeit eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit medizinischen Praktiken statt. Aktuelle Studien belegen, dass Diagnostik, Behandlung und Risikovorhersage bei einer Vielzahl von Erkrankungen bedeutsame Geschlechterdifferenzen zeigen. Dabei meint Geschlecht sowohl das biologische (sex) als auch das soziale (gender) Geschlecht und schließt ein Bewusstsein für vielfältige geschlechtliche Identitäten und ihre lebensweltliche Relevanz mit ein, inklusive queere, trans und nichtbinäre Personen. Zugleich ist die medizinische Forschung noch vielfach auf den männlichen Normkörper zugeschnitten, berücksichtigt also Geschlechteraspekte sowie andere Diversitätsmerkmale nicht oder nur am Rande. Schließlich spielen medizinische Gutachten nach wie vor eine bedeutsame Rolle beim Kampf um Anerkennung von Transidentitäten, was zeigt: Geschlecht und Medizin sind aufs engste miteinander verwoben und stehen in einem reziproken Verhältnis zueinander: Medizin ist in vielfacher Weise vergeschlechtlicht und umgekehrt findet die Vergeschlechtlichung von Patient:innen durch medizinische Praktiken und Konzepte statt.
Die Tagung wählt dieses Verhältnis als Fluchtpunkt. Sie will die gesellschaftliche Dimension von medizinischem Denken und Handeln seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ausloten und dementsprechend das Verhältnis von Medizin und Geschlecht historisieren. Der Körper war stets ein umkämpftes Feld, sein status quo weder selbstverständlich noch notwendig. Besonders für das 19. Jahrhundert gilt deshalb, dass verschiedene medizinische Konzepte und Praktiken parallel zueinander existierten. Einerseits machte die Zeit-Raum-Kompression, d.h. die Verkürzung von Transport- und Kommunikationswegen den globalen Transfer von Wissen über nationale, kulturelle und sprachliche Grenzen hinweg möglich und führte zur Verschmelzung, Aneignung und Neuordnung von Wissen um Körper und Geschlecht. Andererseits entwickelten verschiedene politische Strömungen unterschiedliche Anforderungen an (geschlechtsspezifische) Medizin. In Debatten der sozialistischen Bewegung rund um Ausbeutung, Arbeitsbedingungen und Lohn rückte der Körper und das Ideal der körperlichen Unversehrtheit in den Mittelpunkt. Darüber hinaus wurde die hegemoniale Medizin sowohl in den Kolonien als auch in den europäischen Armenvierteln gewaltsam gegen den unterdrückten Körper durchgesetzt und avancierte zu einem gängigen Herrschaftsinstrument, das biopolitische Maßnahmen naturwissenschaftlich legitimierte. Damit wurden geschlechtsspezifische medizinische Handlungsparamter auch zum Gegenstand bürgerlicher, nationalistischer und imperialistischer Politik. Auch hier führte das dichotome Zwei-Geschlechter-Modell zu unterschiedlichen Anforderungen an den männlichen und weiblichen Körper und trug zur Verfestigung dieses Modells bei.
Mit unserer Tagung wollen wir den theoretisch-methodischen Anspruch einer rekursiven und kritischen Wissensgeschichte von Medizin und Geschlecht diskutieren. Folgende Fragekomplexe wären denkbar:
1. Ein erster Fragekomplex befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Geschlechterkonzepten, die medizinische Strömungen prägten und die sie zugleich selbst hervorbrachten. Welche ontologischen Grundannahmen lagen ihnen jeweils zugrunde und inwieweit spiegelte sich deren Wandelbarkeit in Diagnostik, Therapie und Forschung? Und umgekehrt: In welchem Maße trugen medizinische Handlungslogiken zu einer (De)Stabilisierung der Geschlechterordnung als Fundament der (bürgerlichen) Gesellschaft bei?
2. Ein zweiter Fragekomplex zielt auf den Einfluss von Wirtschaft, Religion und Politik auf geschlechtsspezifische medizinische Praktiken. In welchem Maße verschwamm die Bedeutung von Krankheit und Gesundheit hinter gesellschaftspolitischen Interessen, zu denen auch Imperialismus und Kolonialismus zu zählen sind?
3. Drittens soll es um die Autonomie der Patient:innen über medizinische Eingriffe in ihren Körper gehen. Welche wissenschaftlichen, aber auch sozialen und kulturellen Entwicklungen lancierten identitätsbezogene Verschiebungen im medizinischen Handeln? Wie sah das konkrete Ringen um Deutungshoheit über den eigenen Körper in verschiedenen antagonistischen Konstellationen aus? Wer waren die Akteure solcher Kämpfe und wo fanden sie statt?
Die Konferenzsprache ist vorwiegend Deutsch, es können aber auch Beiträge in Englischer Sprache eingereicht werden.
Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract (maximal 300 Wörter) und eine Kurzbiographie (50–100 Wörter) bis spätestens 1. März 2024 an naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de. Eine Bahnreise 2. Klasse, Flugreise nach Absprache und die Unterbringung können bei Bedarf übernommen werden.
Programm
Keynote 2. September: Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte (Heidelberg)
Panels 3.–4. September
Kontakt: naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de
Post-Pandemic Imaginaries: Space, Culture and Memory After Lockdown
Konferenz
CFP for a forthcoming conference organised by the Centre of Culture and Everyday Life at the University of Liverpool
Conference: „Post-Pandemic Imaginaries: Space, Culture and Memory After Lockdown”
5th and 6th September 2024
University of Liverpool, UK
Keynote speakers to be announced.
The Centre for Culture and Everyday Life (CCEL) invites contributions to a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring changes in the experience and imagining of everyday urban spaces following the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the conference is to focus critical attention not on the impact of the pandemic and associated government lockdowns, but on the processes of reimagining, remembering and remapping of everyday culture and experience through a post-pandemic lens.
A key focus of enquiry are the real-and-imaginary geographies of everyday experiences under lockdown where the imagination was put to work in ways that often elicited heterotopic glimpses of a post-pandemic world that may, in the years since, have all but slipped into oblivion. During lockdown, the ‘spatial play’ (Marin 1984) of the utopic imagination – the interplay of horizons and frontiers as negotiated through forms of everyday social and spatial practice – was galvanised by a collective experience of space and time that transformed the affective contours of everyday living. As physical movements and interactions were compressed into the individualised landscapes of lockdown, alternative, virtual forms of social and spatial relationships were brought into play. Whether by ensconcing oneself in virtual spaces or by venturing anew into the suddenly depopulated landscapes of local urban neighbourhoods, reconfigured forms of individual spatial agency brought with them a corresponding reconfiguring of the everyday urban imaginary.
For some, dystopian scenarios familiar from literature and film were offset by small utopian moments: the impulse of planners and city councils to take the opportunity to engage citizens in reimagining urban space, moments of community and togetherness amid the enforced separations, an absence of traffic noise and pollution, and newly audible birdsong. Videos shared online that showed wild animals roaming the streets, and even memes ridiculing the notion that “nature is healing”, may have even offered some momentary respite from ongoing climate anxiety. While for many people, confinement could be experienced as chaotic, overcrowded, and made work-time almost endless, for others it opened up time to reflect, and to pause, to imagine how their lives might be otherwise.
If there was a utopian impulse amid the terrors of the pandemic, what did it look like, and what traces remain? Is there an ethical and aesthetic imperative to salvage the residual glimpses, fragments, dreams and imaginaries engendered by the pandemic? In what ways, if any, did the projected imaginings of post-pandemic urban futures contribute to substantive changes that are discernible now, four years on? How are the lived spaces and temporalities of cities qualitatively different today from what they were in 2019? Are they different or was it all just a blip? What traces of pandemic behaviour and experience remain in our daily interactions? Has the pandemic brought about a keener awareness and value of the local? How did art and photography respond to the temporary transformation of public and social space? How have forms of everyday mobility changed? Are there post-pandemic spatial stories that reveal a transformation in how people engage with and imagine everyday urban spaces? And if there are, what do these spatial stories look like? What do they say and how might they be traced or mapped? What does re-engaging the everyday mean in a post-pandemic world?
We welcome proposals addressing these issues from scholars at all career stages and a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.
Abstract Submission: Please send abstracts (300 words max.) with your name, title, affiliation (where appropriate) and a short bio (up to 200 words).
Please prepare for a 20 minute presentation.
by 10 May 2024 to the conference organizers: CCELconference2024@liverpool.ac.uk.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 7th June 2024.
Interdisciplinarity: Medical Humanities and Research at the intersections of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Clinical Practice and Biomedicine
Konferenz
Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024 in Vadstena, Sweden
„Interdisciplinarity: Medical Humanities and Research at the intersections of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Clinical Practice and Biomedicine”
Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024
Organized by The Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (Linköping University) and the Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University)
Vadstena, Sweden
9–11 September 2024
Deadline: 12th March
What does interdisciplinarity in medical humanities mean? What are the epistemological underpinnings of different interdisciplinary ways of engaging in medical humanities research? What are the challenges and possibilities in interdisciplinary research at the intersection between the humanities, the social sciences, clinical research, and biomedicine? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this Medical Humanities Summer School aimed at PhD students in medical humanities, social sciences, and medicine, and with an interest in interdisciplinary research.
For information about practical details, bursaries, and how to apply please visit: https://liu.se/en/article/medical-humanities-international-summer-school-2024 .
Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World
Konferenz
An annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network
„Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World”
An annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network
19–20 Sept
Technical University of Vienna
Deadline: 15 March
The event brings together critical scholarship on ageing and technology from various social sciences and humanities perspectives – including STS, age studies, social and critical gerontology, media studies, critical design studies, and many others.
Please find a detailed call for papers, posters and sessions at https://www.socio-gerontechnology.net/events/annualmeeting2024/.
(A)symmetrische Beziehungen. Facetten der Kooperation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag
AGEM-Veranstaltung
36. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM) in Kooperation mit dem Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss und der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction der Universität Bremen im Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss
Call for Papers bis 31. Mai 2024
Der Alltag in einer Psychiatrie wird von unterschiedlichsten Akteur*innen bestimmt. Neben den Patient*innen gibt es unter anderem den ärztlichen und den pflegerischen Dienst, Psycholog*innen, Mitarbeitende der therapeutischen Dienste wie Sport‑, Ergo- und Musiktherapie, klinische Sozialarbeiter*innen und Genesungsbegleiter*innen wie Seelsorger*innen oder Klininkclowns sowie Mitarbeiter*innen in der Verwaltung, Raumpflege und Küche, die miteinander auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen kooperieren. Eingebettet sind diese Beziehungen in ökonomische, infrastrukturelle und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen. Zudem beeinflussen die sozialen und kulturellen Hintergründe von Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden die jeweiligen Beziehungen genauso wie die Wahl der Behandlungsform, insbesondere die der Medikation. Dabei zeichnen sich die Beziehungen der beteiligten Akteur*innen durch unterschiedlichen Asymmetrien in den Bereichen des Wissens, des Handelns, der Macht und des Nutzens aus.
Eine lange Tradition besteht in dem Versuch, die Kooperationen und besonders die zwischen Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden einer psychiatrischen Institution zu symmetrisieren. Dennoch stehen symmetrische und asymmetrische Beziehungen in einem Spannungsverhältnis, kommt doch der Alltag in der Psychiatrie zumeist nicht ohne asymmetrische Beziehungen und paternalistische Entscheidungen aus. Trotz verschiedenster Bemühungen, standardisierte Verfahren der Kooperation zu entwickeln, bleibt der Klinikalltag unberechenbar und voller Widersprüche und stellt alle Akteur*innen täglich vor neue Herausforderungen, das Zusammenspiel aller menschlichen wie nicht-menschlichen Akteur*innen (Architektur, SGB V, Medikamente usw.) auszuhandeln.
Auf dieser Tagung möchten wir verschiedene Ebenen der Kooperationen dieser unterschiedlichen Akteur*innen und ihre Auswirkungen auf den psychiatrischen Alltag in den Blick nehmen. Dazu gehören:
1) Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaften und Krankenhauspraxis: Wie werden Forschungsergebnisse in der Medizin und der Pflegepraxis umgesetzt und wie wird die Krankenhauspraxis in der Forschung berücksichtigt?
2) Kooperationen zwischen den Disziplinen: Wie kooperieren unterschiedliche Disziplinen mit ihren unterschiedlichen Ansätzen miteinander und welche Synergien und Widersprüche entstehen dadurch?
3) Kooperationen zwischen Patient*innen und ärztlichem, pflegerischem und weiterem Personal: Wie wird das Verhältnis zwischen Regulierung und Empowerment der Patient*innen im Alltag ausgehandelt und welche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ergeben sich bei dem Versuch einer Symmetrisierung des Verhältnisses von Patient*innen und ärztlichem und pflegerischem Personal?
Wir suchen nach interdisziplinären Beiträgen unterschiedlichster Art (Vorträge, Erfahrungsberichte, Roundtables, Workshops,…) sowohl aus dem Bereich der Sozial‑, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften als auch aus dem medizinischen und pflegerischen Alltag, um durch einen multiperspektivischen Blick auf die Facetten der Kooperation die aktuellen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen (a)symmetrischer Beziehungen im psychiatrischen Klinikalltag abzustecken.
Zugesagt sind bereits Beiträge zum Konzept der Soteria auf einer psychiatrischen Akutstation (Adriane Canavaros), zu freiheitsentziehenden Maßnahmen und Deeskalation (Dr. Paul Weißen/Thomas Plötz und Andreas Hethke), zur Umsetzung eines europäischen Forschungsprojektes zum Experienced Involvement (Heidrun Lundie) und ein Bericht über die Teilöffnung einer gerontopsychiatrischen Station (Dr. Andrea Kuckert und Kolleg:innen).
Tagungsort ist das Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss, Tagungssprache ist Deutsch, englischsprachige Beiträge sind möglich. Bitte senden Sie ein Abstract von ca. 300 Wörtern für einen Vortragsvorschlag oder einen anderen Beitrag inkl. einer Kurzbiographie bis zum 31. Mai 2024 an facettenderkooperation@agem.de
Konzept und Organisation:
Andrea Kuckert (AGEM, Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus Neuss)
Ehler Voss (AGEM, Worlds of Contradiction Universität Bremen)