Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School
Konferenz
Online & in Person Summer School University of Kent, UK (June & July 2025)
Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. This intensive programme will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice, this year’s themes, and the artworks. The Birth Rites Collection Summer School is led by artist and BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan. The course will empower you to articulate your own practice and responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.
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More Info and booking: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school
4. Jahrestreffen der „Marburger Gespräche zur Alten Heilkunde“
Konferenz
Marburg (Lahn), Deutschland
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟒𝟎𝟎)
Konferenz
Conference in Pisa
VivaMente Conference on
𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟒𝟎𝟎)
Polo Benedettine – Pisa
𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Organised by
𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨, 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐢, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢
Keynote Speakers:
𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐨, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞, 𝐆𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐚, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢, 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐨, 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐭, 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐙𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
This VivaMente Conference examines the interplay between medicine and society in the Late Medieval period through an interdisciplinary lens, assessing how medical theories, practices, and language both shaped and were shaped by philosophical, theological, and political thought. It will explore how concepts such as diagnosis, prognosis, and health served as conceptual bridges connecting medicine with philosophy and theology, shaping broader debates on uncertainty, anomalies, and crisis management. The conference speakers will investigate how medical theories, practices, and language both influenced and were influenced by philosophical, theological, and political thought.
It will explore how concepts such as diagnosis, prognosis, and health served as conceptual bridges connecting medicine with philosophy and theology, shaping broader debates on uncertainty, anomalies, and crisis management. The conference speakers will investigate how medical theories, practices, and language both influenced and were influenced by philosophical, theological, and political thought. Specifically, it will address the following key themes:
The interplay between medicine and natural philosophy and the integration of classical Greco-Roman medical knowledge with Arabic and Jewish traditions.
Medical knowledge at the Faculties of Arts and its role as a preparatory discipline for philosophical and theological education
Medical metaphors, language, and practices in medieval political theory.
The contribution of medicine and physiognomy to medieval ideas of ideal rulership and the legitimacy of power
Medical doctrines in ethical and political debates: rational techniques to understand and regulate the interactions between bodily and emotional dynamics.
Rationalization of diseases and epidemics at the crossroad of medicine, philosophy, and social concerns.
Extraordinary biological phenomena, particularly congenital anomalies, monstrous birth, and hereditary conditions.
REGISTRATION DEADLINES
𝟑𝟎 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: In-Presence Participation
𝟏𝟒 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: Online Participation
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivamente-conferences/diagnosis-prognosis-and-health/
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Health – CSMBR
This VivaMente Conference examines the interplay between medicine and society in the Late Middle Ages, assessing how medical theories, practices, and language both shaped and were shaped by philosophical, theological, and political thought.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
Should you have any queries as to the logistics of this event, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers or the centre staff.
Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School
Konferenz
Summer School University of Leicester, UK
„Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School”
23rd-25th July, 2025
Leicester Tigers Rugby Club Events Centre in Leicester, UK.
This course is delivered by expert ethnographic researchers and practitioners from the Social Science, Applied Healthcare & Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) Group at the University of Leicester.
This short course is designed for experienced researchers, methodology educators, and doctoral students to critically engage with the theory and practice of ethnography in healthcare settings. Over 3 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 3 day course, including all education materials and activities, plus lunch and refreshments both days, is £1000. Transport to and from the venue and accommodation at is not included.
Registrations are strictly limited, and are now open at https://shop.le.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-at-leicester/health-sciences/ethnography-for-health-care-improvement-summer-school-2025; bookings will close 20 June 2025. 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.
Best wishes, Dr Jennifer Creese (BA, MIM, PhD, AFHEA)
Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences (SAPPHIRE Group)
College of Life Sciences
University of Leicester
Encuentro transdisciplinar sobre saberes rituales, botánica curativa y espiritualidad mediterránea
Konferenz
Online transdisciplinary Event on Amazonian Medicine, Iberian Botany and the Eleusinian Mysteries (in Spanish)
Transdisciplinary Event on Ancestral Knowledge and Healing (in Spanish)
You are invited to take part in an upcoming online event held in Spanish, focused on ritual knowledge, traditional plant medicine and Mediterranean spiritual legacies. It brings together perspectives from clinical practice, ethnobotany, medical anthropology and the cultural history of health.
Title: Encuentro transdisciplinar sobre saberes rituales, botánica curativa y espiritualidad mediterránea
Date and time will be determined through consultation with participants and attendees. Late July, at least two hours long. The session includes open space for discussion and questions.
Speakers include
– Dr. Jacques Mabit, Takiwasi Center, Peru
– Laura Monteagudo and Fabio, Neuroscientist and folk medicine expert
– Alfredo Panivino, Expert on Eleusinian mysteries and ancient Mediterranean traditions
The event explores the clinical model and ritual practices of the Amazonian Takiwasi Center, Iberian folk medicine and plant knowledge, and the legacy of the Eleusinian Mysteries in the context of Mediterranean history and present-day recovery of lost pedagogies. Fuller details at: https://research.henning.md/p/encuentro-transdisciplinar-sobre
You are invited to propose your availability as new speaker, circulate the invitation, and join the discussion. Please, subscribe to the publication in case you wish not to miss further news.
2. EU BEACON One Health Education and Technology – Now an Awarded COST Action
I am pleased to formally announce that EU BEACON One Health Education and Technology, a network I founded years ago during what accounts to torture, the most severe abuses during fieldwork in the EU, has been officially awarded as a COST Action under the European Cooperation in Science and Technology framework. The action is now operational and open to new members, including researchers, clinicians, educators, technologists and policy actors. EU BEACON focuses on advancing transdisciplinary, rights-based and open science solutions for human, animal and planetary health. It addresses structural violence, epistemological gaps, ecological degradation and institutional inertia through coordinated education, field research and policy engagement. This is a working action, not an aspirational initiative. Its reach is global, as we need to bridge and connect cultures with the now lacking respect, tools and fair, most needed means. It is designed for structured implementation, supported by a growing network of scholars and practitioners across Europe and internationally. If you wish to join EU BEACON and contribute to its working groups, you are invited to express your interest through the portal: https://health.int.eu.org
I encourage and welcome active engagement from those committed to ethical, evidence-based transformation in health, education and technological governance.
All the best,
Henning (né Enric) Garcia Torrents
DDD17: Politics of Death
Konferenz
Bi-annual conference of the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS)
DDD17: „POLITICS OF DEATH”
27–30 August 2025
University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
The Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD) Conference is the bi-annual conference of the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS). The next edition will be hosted at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and online from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 August 2025. For the upcoming DDD17 conference, we invite sessions that explore the broad topic of the Politics of Death.
Despite appearing as a universal biological event, death is and has never been neutral. Instead, it is deeply entwined with issues of (in)equality, access, and power dynamics. In today’s world, death is perhaps more politicized as it ever was before. Wars, environmental crises, global migration patterns, and failing states bring death close to our homes. At the same time, technological, digital, and medical advancements alter our approaches to dealing with, thinking about, researching, and working with death. Such developments are equally inherently political, both in their origins and their applications.
As practitioners and scholars, how do we navigate the political dimensions of death? How does the political shape our engagement with death? And how can we reflect on and potentially change our own positions within this political landscape?
For more information on the conference theme, please refer to our website: https://ddd17.sites.uu.nl/conference-theme/
We invite scholars and practitioners to submit a proposal for papers, organized panels, roundtables, workshops, or other formats by Saturday 30 November 2024. No exceptions to this deadline are possible.
We encourage proposals in four types of session formats:
Organised panels and individual papers
Panels will be structured in the traditional manner of individual paper presentations. This will be four (4) presentations of 15 minutes back-to-back, followed by a 30-minute discussion on the presentations. All organised panels are thus 90 minutes. The panels will be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format, meaning paper presenters can present from home. Discussions will be organized using chat-moderators.
Roundtables
Roundtables of 90 minutes in which no more than five people discuss a particular theme or issue in front of (and subsequently with) an audience. While a roundtable may include short (approx. 5 min) contributions/presentations, the main idea is to create a lively debate, and not to focus on any one or multiple presenter(s). To be able to create such debate, roundtables will not be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format.
Workshops
Workshops of 90 minutes are characterised by experimentation, collaboration, interaction and/or improvisation. The aim of workshops is to organise collective activities that are open-ended and cultivate possibilities for surprise, novelty, and learning. Workshops will be designed as interactive, reflexive sessions that prioritise exploration, rather than the discussion of already established research results. To make true collaboration possible and create safe space, the maximum number of persons per workshop is 16 (including workshop convenors). The workshops will not be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format.
Other
We welcome you to share your ideas of other possible formats with us. If you would like to suggest a different format and/or are willing to run a session or activity with a different format, please let us know by sending an email to DDD17@uu.nl. The DDD17 selection committee will then decide if and how to accommodate your idea(s).
The Politics of Death
Konferenz
Conference organized by The Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS), University of Utrecht
17th biannual DDD conference „The Politics of Death”
The Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS)
University of Utrecht
27–30 August 2025
Details:
Despite appearing as a universal biological event, death is and has never been neutral. Instead, it is deeply entwined with issues of (in)equality, access, and power dynamics. In today’s world, death is perhaps more politicized as it ever was before. Wars, environmental crises, global migration patterns, and failing states bring death close to our homes. At the same time, technological, digital, and medical advancements alter our approaches to dealing with, thinking about, researching, and working with death. Such developments are equally inherently political, both in their origins and their applications.
As practitioners and scholars, how do we navigate the political dimensions of death? How does the political shape our engagement with death? And how can we reflect on and potentially change our own positions within this political landscape?
Politics is everywhere; everything is political. It’s woven into every facet of life, shaping how we live, die, and make sense of the worlds in between and beyond. It is the lens through which we address our biggest challenges and seize new opportunities. It shapes our sense of right and wrong, framing what we see as moral or immoral. It guides decisions, both consciously and unconsciously, in every setting – from the halls of government to the intimate spaces of home. It spans formal authority and hidden social power, threading through the spaces we inhabit, the rules we follow, and the symbols we embrace. It exists between people, environments and species, influencing everything from small exchanges to global regulations. In every interaction and institution, there’s an element of politics. Because of this, politics is everywhere, and everything down to the smallest detail is inherently political.
For more information on the conference theme, please refer to our website: https://ddd17.sites.uu.nl/conference-theme/
We invite scholars and practitioners to submit a proposal for papers, organized panels, roundtables, workshops, or other formats by Saturday 30 November 2024. No exceptions to this deadline are possible.
We encourage proposals in four types of session formats:
Organised panels and individual papers
Panels will be structured in the traditional manner of individual paper presentations. This will be four (4) presentations of 15 minutes back-to-back, followed by a 30-minute discussion on the presentations. All organised panels are thus 90 minutes. The panels will be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format, meaning paper presenters can present from home. Discussions will be organized using chat-moderators.
Roundtables
Roundtables of 90 minutes in which no more than five people discuss a particular theme or issue in front of (and subsequently with) an audience. While a roundtable may include short (approx. 5 min) contributions/presentations, the main idea is to create a lively debate, and not to focus on any one or multiple presenter(s). To be able to create such debate, roundtables will not be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format.
Workshops
Workshops of 90 minutes are characterised by experimentation, collaboration, interaction and/or improvisation. The aim of workshops is to organise collective activities that are open-ended and cultivate possibilities for surprise, novelty, and learning. Workshops will be designed as interactive, reflexive sessions that prioritise exploration, rather than the discussion of already established research results. To make true collaboration possible and create safe space, the maximum number of persons per workshop is 16 (including workshop convenors). The workshops will not be organized in a hybrid (i.e., including online participants) format.
Other
We welcome you to share your ideas of other possible formats with us. If you would like to suggest a different format and/or are willing to run a session or activity with a different format, please let us know by sending an email to DDD17@uu.nl. The DDD17 selection committee will then decide if and how to accommodate your idea(s).
The Politics of Death
Konferenz
Conference at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
This is your last chance to register to attend our upcoming DDD17 Conference: The Politics of Death, taking place 27–30 August 2025 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands!
🔗 Click here to register
Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store:
🧠 Inspiring sessions
A wide range of panel sessions, including paper presentations, roundtables, and workshops.
👉 Get a sneak peek at the current programme
🎤 Thought-provoking plenaries
Keynote by Dr. Kami Fletcher
Experiential keynote by Prof. Enny Das
A plenary roundtable on euthanasia in the Dutch context
👉 Read more about the plenaries here
🎉 Exciting extras!
A Death Book Club 📚
Guided Dark Tourism tours in beautiful Utrecht 🏛️
A unique Death Museum excursion to Amsterdam 🚋
A three-course vegetarian Conference dinner
👉 Read more about the additional events here
We warmly invite you to join us in Utrecht this summer to explore, reflect on, and discuss all things death. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Reproductive Uncertainties and Imagined Futures in the Anthropocene
Konferenz
STS-CH Conference in Zurich, Switzerland
Panel: „Reproductive Uncertainties and Imagined Futures in the Anthropocene”
STS-CH Conference this coming September in Zurich
Panel Description:
Uncertainty permeates every aspect of human reproduction. Humans have tried to control this biological uncertainty through various technoscientific, and sociopolitical measures as illustrated through the vast landscape of assisted reproductive technologies, birth control technologies and related dynamic regulations surrounding their use in the Global South and North. In light of this, following Jasanoff and Kim’s (2015) formulation of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ and Ginsburg and Rapp’s (2020) reframing using the „cultural work of reproduction” as „reproductive imaginaries”, we ask what role reproduction-related technologies such as but not limited to IVF, birth control and sterilization techniques, play in the constitution of particularized contextual ‘reproductive imaginaries’?
Using reproductive uncertainty as our starting point, in this panel, we ask how these reproductive things and people „hold together” to create or resist change. Given that, reproductive goals change considerably, both at individual and state level, how are ‘reproductive imaginaries’ informed and in turn inform individual and collective organizing around lived and future lives- for e.g., in the child free and pro-life movements with respect to the climate crises? How do people involve ‘reproductive imaginaries’ to make sense of their worlds when impacted by the diagnosis of infertility? What salvationary or harmful aspects of these reproductive technologies are highlighted to bring certain ‘reproductive imaginaries’ to fruition while others are downplayed? And what are the effects of such envisioned futures, both at state and individual levels? We invite papers across disciplines that contribute to this discussion on the entanglements of state, individual and reproductive technologies in producing „reproductive imagineries”.
Panel Details:
🔹Abstract Deadline: May 9, 2025
🔹Max Abstract Length: 300 words
🔹Submit here: Submission Portal
🔹Full Panel Abstract: https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=47357#panel-125457
CfP for the conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science 2025
Konferenz
CfP for a STS conference in Seattle
CfP for the panel at the next conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science 2025
Seattle
3–7 September
‘Temporalities of bodies, technologies and their entanglements in the experience of disability and/or chronic illness’.
Chronic illness and disability have become a privileged place for technological intervention. Both are characterized by the deployment of technological devices that aim to mitigate, compensate for, or even prevent and slow down the loss of capacities, as well as alleviate or limit symptoms. In this context, a varied array of technologies that differently act on or intervene in bodies and places are introduced in people’s lives: technological devices that are implanted in the body (e.g. insulin pumps and deep brain stimulation), technological devices that are attached to the body (prostheses and orthoses) and/or technological devices that are connected both to the body and to a particular place (telecare and dialysis equipment; exoskeletons).
Regarding this ‘technological care’ (Lancelot & Guchet, 2023), research in STS and empirical philosophy of technology has mainly focused on technological use and appropriation, including the difficulties thereof. However vital and essential these technologies may be in sustaining people in daily life, attention has scarcely been paid to their fragility and people’s resulting vulnerability when they malfunction, wear and tear, break and/or thus can no longer be used or have to be adjusted and/or used differently (Oudshoorn, 2020).
These material and existential disruptions and constraints call for inquiring about the entanglements of different temporalities of chronic living and disability: of bodies adjusting to chronic illness, disability and/or to technological care; of the technologies themselves (from their development to their everyday use, adaptation, malfunctions and maintenance) and the socio-material infrastructures that support them; and of the relations between them. We invite contributions that address, empirically and/or conceptually, technological care and its temporalities.
Deadline of the call for abstracts:
- January 31, 2025
– Notification of acceptance:
– March 15, 2025
– 4S 2025 in-person conference:
– September 3–7, 2025
Abstracts (250 words max) should be submitted on the 4S website: https://bit.ly/3BtgXPh
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