„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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Dr Ayaz Qureshi, Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh: „Health and cit­i­zen­ship in the polit­i­cal mobil­i­sa­tion of junior doc­tors and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in Pakistan”
LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Seminar
4th Feb­ru­ary 2025, 16.00–17.15gmt
on zoom only: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/97522728066

„Health and cit­i­zen­ship in the polit­i­cal mobil­i­sa­tion of junior doc­tors and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in Pakistan”

Doc­tor activism in Pak­istan was trig­gered by legal amend­ments over pub­lic sec­tor hos­pi­tal auton­o­my. Doc­tors have seen these reforms as a form of stealth pri­vati­sa­tion which is like­ly to make pub­lic hos­pi­tals less acces­si­ble to the poor. Unlike in the extant research on med­ical mobil­i­sa­tion, Pak­istan has seen doc­tor activists shut­ting down hos­pi­tals, boy­cotting out­pa­tient depart­ments, organ­is­ing sit-ins out­side gov­ern­ment build­ings, and com­ing out on the streets. Such activism shows doc­tors tran­scend­ing their clin­i­cal roles or when they are expect­ed to draw upon their clin­i­cal objec­tiv­i­ty to con­struct them­selves as moral observers diag­nos­ing the ail­ing body of the nation (Bay­ou­mi and Hamdy 2023). For doc­tor-activists, I sug­gest, the clin­i­cal and civic roles may inter­twine in ways that com­pli­cate the con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tion of (bio­med­ical) cit­i­zen­ship. This pre­sen­ta­tion is based on pre­lim­i­nary find­ings from my ongo­ing ethno­graph­ic work in Pakistan.

Dr Ayaz Qureshi is a Senior Lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh, Unit­ed King­dom. He is the author of ‘AIDS in Pak­istan: Bureau­cra­cy, Pub­lic Goods and NGOs’, which is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in rela­tion to gov­ern­ment and NGOs. He has writ­ten exten­sive­ly of on health and devel­op­ment in Pak­istan. A full list can be found at his uni­ver­si­ty pro­file page: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/ayaz-qureshi#publications. He is cur­rent­ly lead­ing a Well­come Trust fund­ed project on the role of med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in health pol­i­cy in Pakistan. 

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