Call for Papers für die inter­diszi­plinäre, deutsch- und englis­chsprachige Tagung „Wege aus der Care-Krise. Inno­va­tio­nen. Trans­for­ma­tio­nen. Relationen”

Ter­min: 12.–13. Novem­ber 2026

Ort: Sozial­forschungsstelle, Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Dortmund

Die Tagung richtet sich spez­i­fisch an den wis­senschaftlichen Nachwuchs!

Ein­re­ichungs­frist für Abstracts (max. 300 Wörter): 1. Sep­tem­ber 2026

Bei Fra­gen oder für weit­ere Details kön­nen Sie uns jed­erzeit unter julius.wiegand@tu-dortmund.de kontaktieren.

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Podi­ums­diskus­sion: „Geschlechtliche Vielfalt in der Prax­is – Impulse für eine gerechte Gesundheitsversorgung”
08.09.26, 17:30–19:00 Uhr
Raum Kap­stadt, BIAS GmbH, Gebäude LION, Kla­gen­furter Str. 5, 28359 Bremen 

Geschlechtssen­si­ble, gerechte Gesund­heitsver­sorgung für alle – wie kann das gelin­gen? Das DFG-Net­zw­erk „Bioethik und struk­turelle Ungerechtigkeit“ lädt zu ein­er öffentlichen Podi­ums­diskus­sion ein, die sich den Hür­den in der Ver­sorgung von trans- und intergeschlechtlichen Per­so­n­en sowie den nöti­gen Verän­derun­gen wid­met. Auf dem Podi­um sprechen: Dr. Ute Kalen­der (Deutsch­er Ethikrat), Dr. Livia Prüll (Frank­furt am Main), Dr. Alex Müller (Human Rights Watch) und Char­lotte Wunn (Intergeschlechtliche Men­schen e.V.). Die Ver­anstal­tung ist durch die Ärztekam­mer Bre­men als Fort­bil­dungsver­anstal­tung (2 Fort­bil­dungspunk­te) anerkan­nt. Die Teil­nahme ist kosten­frei. Eine Anmel­dung ist nicht erforderlich.
Alle Inter­essierten sind her­zlich willkom­men! Weit­ere Infor­ma­tio­nen: https://netzwerk-bioethik.de.

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CfP for “Car­ing for the Pos­si­ble: In the Mean­time of Healthcare’s Data-Dri­ven Futures”
Pan­el at the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion for the Study of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (EASST) con­fer­ence in Krakow
Sep­tem­ber 2026. 

The dead­line for abstract sub­mis­sions is 28 Feb­ru­ary 2026. Please see below for more infor­ma­tion and sub­mit your abstract here: https://easst.net/conference/easst2026/call-for-abstracts/

P178: Car­ing for the Pos­si­ble: In the Mean­time of Healthcare’s Data-Dri­ven Futures 

Short Abstract

What hap­pens to the promis­so­ry utopias of data-dri­ven health­care “in the mean­time”? This pan­el rein­vig­o­rates STS approach­es to health­care data and tem­po­ral­i­ty through Masque­li­er & Durham’s anthro­pol­o­gy of the pos­si­ble, trac­ing how wait­ing, delay, refram­ing and repair shape care. 

Descrip­tion

In con­tem­po­rary health­care, data are rou­tine­ly invoked as instru­ments for pre­dic­tion, con­trol and rev­o­lu­tion­ary trans­for­ma­tion, promis­ing more per­son­alised, effi­cient, and evi­dence-based care. Yet between the aspi­ra­tional and the actu­al lies what Masque­li­er and Durham (2023) call the mean­time: the inde­ter­mi­nate, affec­tive, and open-end­ed space in which pos­si­ble futures are con­tin­u­al­ly nego­ti­at­ed. Draw­ing on their invi­ta­tion to an anthro­pol­o­gy of the pos­si­ble, this pan­el rein­vig­o­rates the ways STS engages empir­i­cal­ly with data prac­tices that are nei­ther ful­ly realised nor entire­ly speculative. 

Draw­ing on empir­i­cal research in social stud­ies of med­i­cine, health­care and clin­i­cal data infra­struc­tures, we explore the forms of wait­ing, adjust­ment, and impro­vi­sa­tion char­ac­ter­is­ing every­day work with data. These ‘mean­time prac­tices’ include the craft­ing of incom­plete datasets, the main­te­nance of frag­ile and some­times fic­tion­al inter­op­er­abil­i­ty, and the affec­tive labours of care that make such sys­tems func­tion. Rather than treat­ing data as sta­ble inter­me­di­aries or pre­cur­sors to pre­dic­tive futures, we approach them as sites where the pos­si­ble is con­tin­u­al­ly refig­ured — through moments of sus­pen­sion, hes­i­ta­tion, and repair. 

Bring­ing Masque­li­er and Durham’s anthro­pol­o­gy of the pos­si­ble into dia­logue with fem­i­nist STS and social stud­ies of data, we explore the con­cep­tu­al and method­olog­i­cal open­ings for study­ing health­care data as a ter­rain of ongo­ing pos­si­bil­i­ty. Such an approach invites us to notice not only what data are promised to deliv­er, but also what they hold open — in the mean­time — about how futures of health, care, and evi­dence might be made oth­er­wise. We invite papers that con­sid­er data prac­tices and care in ‘the mean­time’, engag­ing ques­tions such as: 

– What nov­el modes of atten­tion become pos­si­ble when ‘the mean­time’ of data prac­tices is our focus?
– What sorts of ‘mean­times’, of dif­fer­ent tem­po­ral­i­ties, exist among data practices?
– How do ‘data mean­times’ shape our under­stand­ings of the past and pos­si­bil­i­ties for the future of care? 

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