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WORKSHOP – Arts of Caring, Arts of Knowing. A workshop on Dementia and Knowledge Practices

Datum
19. Sep­tem­ber – 20. Sep­tem­ber 2019 

Keynotes:

  • Prof. Janelle Tay­lor, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Washington
  • Prof. Annette Leib­ing, Fac­ul­ty of Nurs­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Montreal

Demen­tia is often por­trayed as the emblem­at­ic fig­ure of mor­bid liv­ing in one’s lat­er years, entail­ing sub­stan­tial human costs to coun­tries, soci­eties, fam­i­lies and indi­vid­u­als” (WHO, 2017). Despite many ongo­ing efforts to pre­vent, man­age, and cure demen­tia through bio­med­ical means, demen­tia remains as a con­di­tion that is to be endured and lived with/through. At the same time, we are observ­ing the flour­ish­ing of dif­fer­ent forms of knowl­edges about liv­ing with demen­tia and cre­ative engage­ments with demen­tia that aim to improve what might be called “qual­i­ties of life” of peo­ple that are affect­ed by demen­tia. The notion of qual­i­ty of life is also con­stant­ly chal­lenged, nego­ti­at­ed, and rethought in these knowl­edge prac­tices. As such, demen­tia offers us gen­er­a­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties to renew our atten­tion to the ways we know, care, and live, there­by revi­tal­iz­ing crit­i­cal, imag­i­na­tive and cre­ative engage­ments with peo­ple with dementia.

Where­as the dom­i­nant dis­course con­sid­ers demen­tia as an irre­versible loss of per­son­hood, peo­ple with demen­tia and their car­ers strive to seek new pos­si­bil­i­ties of liv­ing dif­fer­ent­ly with demen­tia. Putting togeth­er rich empir­i­cal research­es in demen­tia care, the work­shop Arts of Car­ing, Arts of Know­ing: Demen­tia and Knowl­edge Prac­tices aims to explore the gen­er­a­tive poten­tials of demen­tia that urge and inspire us to rethink, imag­ine, tweak, impro­vise our ways of know­ing, car­ing, and liv­ing as well as our ana­lyt­ic con­cepts and meth­ods in human­i­ties and social sciences.

The two-day work­shop chal­lenges the preva­lent imag­i­nar­ies about demen­tia in par­tic­u­lar and old­er age in gen­er­al that are shaped in spe­cif­ic politi­co-eco­nom­ic and socio-cul­tur­al con­texts, not least since these make it dif­fi­cult for us to cre­ative­ly imag­ine and engage with the life with/in demen­tia. We invite par­tic­i­pants from diverse dis­ci­plines who are doc­u­ment­ing and pro­duc­ing alter­na­tive dis­cours­es, prac­tices, and imag­i­nar­ies about demen­tia, and ask­ing ques­tions about what it means, is and takes to live a “good” life as humans. We hope the work­shop to be a venue for con­cep­tu­al, prac­ti­cal, and method­olog­i­cal inno­va­tions in demen­tia and demen­tia care research through­out the world.

We seek papers that engage with the fol­low­ing ques­tions, but not lim­it­ed to:

  • Every­day exper­i­ments in demen­tia care both in infor­mal and for­mal care settings
  • Pro­duc­tion and cir­cu­la­tion of care­giv­er knowl­edge on demen­tia care
  • Rela­tion­ships between bio­med­ical knowl­edge and care­giv­er knowl­edge on dementia
  • Mat­ter­ing of “qual­i­ty of life” of peo­ple with demen­tia and their car­ers in dif­fer­ent contexts
  • His­tor­i­cal changes in demen­tia-relat­ed poli­cies and their eth­i­cal and polit­i­cal implications
  • Inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative engage­ments with dementia

If you are inter­est­ed, please sub­mit an abstract (250 words max.) includ­ing 3–5 key­words and a paper title to Jie­un Lee (jle@anthro.ku.dk) and Lau­ra Louise Hein­sen (llh@anthro.ku.dk) by May 1, 2019. Due to space lim­i­ta­tions, select­ed par­tic­i­pants will be noti­fied by mid-May, 2019. Par­tic­i­pants will be asked to sub­mit a short paper by the end of August, which will then be cir­cu­lat­ed among par­tic­i­pants and dis­cussed dur­ing the work­shop. The work­shop will take place in Sep­tem­ber 19–20, 2019 in Copenhagen.

The work­shop is a part of the ERC fund­ed project “The Vital­i­ty of Dis­ease – Qual­i­ty of Life in the Mak­ing” (https://vital.ku.dk/).

 


Keynotes:

  • Prof. Janelle Tay­lor, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Washington
  • Prof. Annette Leib­ing, Fac­ul­ty of Nurs­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Montreal

Demen­tia is often por­trayed as the emblem­at­ic fig­ure of mor­bid liv­ing in one’s lat­er years, entail­ing sub­stan­tial human costs to coun­tries, soci­eties, fam­i­lies and indi­vid­u­als” (WHO, 2017). Despite many ongo­ing efforts to pre­vent, man­age, and cure demen­tia through bio­med­ical means, demen­tia remains as a con­di­tion that is to be endured and lived with/through. At the same time, we are observ­ing the flour­ish­ing of dif­fer­ent forms of knowl­edges about liv­ing with demen­tia and cre­ative engage­ments with demen­tia that aim to improve what might be called “qual­i­ties of life” of peo­ple that are affect­ed by demen­tia. The notion of qual­i­ty of life is also con­stant­ly chal­lenged, nego­ti­at­ed, and rethought in these knowl­edge prac­tices. As such, demen­tia offers us gen­er­a­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties to renew our atten­tion to the ways we know, care, and live, there­by revi­tal­iz­ing crit­i­cal, imag­i­na­tive and cre­ative engage­ments with peo­ple with dementia.

Where­as the dom­i­nant dis­course con­sid­ers demen­tia as an irre­versible loss of per­son­hood, peo­ple with demen­tia and their car­ers strive to seek new pos­si­bil­i­ties of liv­ing dif­fer­ent­ly with demen­tia. Putting togeth­er rich empir­i­cal research­es in demen­tia care, the work­shop Arts of Car­ing, Arts of Know­ing: Demen­tia and Knowl­edge Prac­tices aims to explore the gen­er­a­tive poten­tials of demen­tia that urge and inspire us to rethink, imag­ine, tweak, impro­vise our ways of know­ing, car­ing, and liv­ing as well as our ana­lyt­ic con­cepts and meth­ods in human­i­ties and social sciences.

The two-day work­shop chal­lenges the preva­lent imag­i­nar­ies about demen­tia in par­tic­u­lar and old­er age in gen­er­al that are shaped in spe­cif­ic politi­co-eco­nom­ic and socio-cul­tur­al con­texts, not least since these make it dif­fi­cult for us to cre­ative­ly imag­ine and engage with the life with/in demen­tia. We invite par­tic­i­pants from diverse dis­ci­plines who are doc­u­ment­ing and pro­duc­ing alter­na­tive dis­cours­es, prac­tices, and imag­i­nar­ies about demen­tia, and ask­ing ques­tions about what it means, is and takes to live a “good” life as humans. We hope the work­shop to be a venue for con­cep­tu­al, prac­ti­cal, and method­olog­i­cal inno­va­tions in demen­tia and demen­tia care research through­out the world.

We seek papers that engage with the fol­low­ing ques­tions, but not lim­it­ed to:

  • Every­day exper­i­ments in demen­tia care both in infor­mal and for­mal care settings
  • Pro­duc­tion and cir­cu­la­tion of care­giv­er knowl­edge on demen­tia care
  • Rela­tion­ships between bio­med­ical knowl­edge and care­giv­er knowl­edge on dementia
  • Mat­ter­ing of “qual­i­ty of life” of peo­ple with demen­tia and their car­ers in dif­fer­ent contexts
  • His­tor­i­cal changes in demen­tia-relat­ed poli­cies and their eth­i­cal and polit­i­cal implications
  • Inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative engage­ments with dementia

If you are inter­est­ed, please sub­mit an abstract (250 words max.) includ­ing 3–5 key­words and a paper title to Jie­un Lee (jle@anthro.ku.dk) and Lau­ra Louise Hein­sen (llh@anthro.ku.dk) by May 1, 2019. Due to space lim­i­ta­tions, select­ed par­tic­i­pants will be noti­fied by mid-May, 2019. Par­tic­i­pants will be asked to sub­mit a short paper by the end of August, which will then be cir­cu­lat­ed among par­tic­i­pants and dis­cussed dur­ing the work­shop. The work­shop will take place in Sep­tem­ber 19–20, 2019 in Copenhagen.

The work­shop is a part of the ERC fund­ed project “The Vital­i­ty of Dis­ease – Qual­i­ty of Life in the Mak­ing” (https://vital.ku.dk/).