„The Lancet’s Cas­es in Glob­al Social Med­i­cine: a new ini­tia­tive explor­ing how social forces shape health, ill­ness, and care across diverse glob­al contexts”

Each case inte­grates med­ical insight with anthro­pol­o­gy and social sci­ence the­o­ry to pro­vide crit­i­cal, action­able tools for clin­i­cians, pub­lic health prac­ti­tion­ers, and policymakers.

This series will be launched across three lead­ing institutions:

UC Berke­ley (Berke­ley Cen­ter for Social Med­i­cine) – 13 April 2026
April 13 in Berke­ley: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Sir Michael Marmot

Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go (Neubauer Col­legium for Cul­ture and Soci­ety) – 16 April 2026
April 15 in Chica­go: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Sir Michael Marmot

Uni­ver­si­ty of Barcelona (Hub for Glob­al Social Med­i­cine) – 5 May 2026
May 5 in Barcelona: The Lancet Glob­al Social Med­i­cine Series Kick-Off with Fer­nan­do Simón

All events will be acces­si­ble in per­son and via livestream or record­ings, enabling glob­al par­tic­i­pa­tion. The series con­venes an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary group of clin­i­cians, schol­ars, and practitioners.

The Cas­es in Glob­al Social Med­i­cine series presents real clin­i­cal cas­es from around the world, each illus­trat­ing how social deter­mi­nants, such as inequal­i­ty, migra­tion, struc­tur­al vio­lence, and access to care, direct­ly shape clin­i­cal outcomes.

Keynotes

The events will fea­ture keynote address­es by Sir Michael Mar­mot (Berke­ley and Chica­go) and Fer­nan­do Simón (Barcelona), both of whom are glob­al lead­ing fig­ures in the study of social deter­mi­nants of health, high­light­ing how social con­di­tions fun­da­men­tal­ly shape health out­comes and why address­ing them is essen­tial to clin­i­cal care and pol­i­cy. These events are designed for schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers in med­i­cine, pub­lic health, and the social sci­ences, as well as any­one inter­est­ed in advanc­ing health equi­ty through inter­dis­ci­pli­nary collaboration.

Dis­cus­sions will include some of the five already pub­lished cases: 

Case 1

Title: Med­ical com­part­men­tal­i­sa­tion: a patient with chro­mo­some 22q11.2 dele­tion syn­drome in Japan(link is external)
Authors: Kiy­oto Kasai; Yousuke Kumaku­ra; Junko Kitana­ka; Shin-ichi­ro Kuma­gaya; Scott D. Stonington

Case 2

Title: Struc­tur­al inter­com­pe­ten­cy: an asy­lum seek­er with abdom­i­nal pain in Tijua­na, Mexico(link is external)
Authors: Car­los Mar­tinez; Shamsh­er Sam­ra; Todd Schneberk; Han­nah Janeway

Case 3

Title: Lin­guis­tic prag­ma­tism: a woman with pro­gres­sive abdom­i­nal pain in Thailand(link is external)

Authors: Scott Ston­ing­ton; Preeyanoot Surinkaew; Thi­dathit Prachanukool

Case 4

Title: Impro­vi­sa­tion in con­texts of infra­struc­tur­al vio­lence: a physi­cian prac­tis­ing med­i­cine in Sahrawi refugee camps(link is external)

Authors: Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd; Larous­si Mohamed Salem; Theodore L Michaels; Dahaman Bachir Hama­di; Raabub Mohamed-Lamin Meh­di; María Car­rión; Seth M Holmes

Case 5

Title: Medico-legal entan­gle­ment: a woman with abdom­i­nal pain in Peru(link is external)

Authors: Michele Heisler; Mar­vel Celeste Sabi­no Pre­tel; Zoe Boudart; Lutz Oette

We warm­ly encour­age you to join us, either in per­son or online, for this impor­tant glob­al conversation

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Col­lo­qui­um “Reject­ing the future: Affect and men­tal health”
6–8 May, 2026
Insti­tute for Advanced Study Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Del­men­horst, Germany

Orga­niz­ers: Annette Leib­ing & Mark Schweda

Wednes­day, 06 May 2026

1:00 Recep­tion and light lunch at the HWK

1:50 Short wel­come by Stef­fen Band­low-Raf­fal­s­ki, Mark Schwe­da, and Annette Leibing

2:00 – 3:00 Ste­fan Ecks (U Edin­burgh): Pre­dict­ing Unpredictability

3:00 – 4:30 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Ulla Kriebernegg (U Graz)

Luiz Fer­nan­do Dias Duarte (UF Rio de Janeiro): Freez­ing time: Trans­gen­er­a­tionalopac­i­ty and men­tal disturbance

Mar­cos Freire de Andrade Neves (Freie U Berlin): The emp­ty cell next door: Sus­pend­ed futures and affec­tive life on death row

Mark Schwe­da (U Old­en­burg): ‘Tedi­um vitae‘ in the con­text of assist­ed dying

4:30 – 4:50 Cof­fee break („Kaf­fee und Kuchen“)

4:50 – 5:50 Leila Dawney (U Exeter): Chron­ic affects: on com­ing to terms with future­less­ness in a decom­mis­sion­ing nuclear town

Thurs­day, 07 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Anne Lovell (INSERM Paris): TBD

10:00 – 10:15 Cof­fee break

10:15 – 12:00 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Isaac Yuen (Berlin)

Matthew Wolf-Mey­er (Rens­se­laer Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute): On anx­i­ety, com­pla­cen­cy, and bore­dom in the Anthropocene

Nolen Gertz (Twente U): War and Exile: On PTSD and mil­i­tary suicide

Clau­dia Boz­zaro (U Mün­ster): “Til death do us part”: the emerg­ing phe­nom­e­non of assist­ed dou­ble suicide.

12:15 –1:45 Lunch + walk

1:45 – 2:45 Ayo Wahlberg (U Copen­hagen): Fer­til­i­ty exhaus­tion in pro-natal­ist China

Fri­day, 08 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Stephen Katz (Trent U): The cri­sis of lone­li­ness and the future of aging

10:00 – 10:20 Cof­fee break

10:20 – 11:20 John Marlovits (San José State U): Can the asy­lum speak? Punk chal­lenges to psy­chi­atric con­tain­ment cul­ture in 1970s San Francisco

11:20 – 12:20 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Mark Schweda

Matthew Wor­ley (U Read­ing): ‘Iden­ti­ty, it’s a cri­sis, can’t you see’: British punk and men­tal ill­ness, c.1970s-80s

Annette Leib­ing (U Mon­tre­al): Mud­dled affect: On uncom­mon futures 

12:20 – Final words (MS, AL)

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Sym­po­sium “Assist­ed Repro­duc­tive Tech­nol­o­gy and Social Sci­ences: Think­ing about what’s miss­ing. Invent­ing possibilities”
May 29, 2026
Cam­pus Con­dorcet (Aubervil­liers, France)

We wel­come con­tri­bu­tions from all fields of the social sci­ences address­ing the gaps, lim­its, and unmet needs in ART, as well as method­olog­i­cal and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es to explore them.

Please note that pre­sen­ta­tions will take place on-site only.

Dead­line for pro­pos­als: Decem­ber 1, 2025
Email: parcours2026@gmail.com
Abstract length: approx. 300 words (noti­fi­ca­tion by end of December)

The full call for papers can be found below

CfP Symposium_PARCOURS

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