Critical Choices: Triaging Humanitarian Priorities
Konferenz
Hybrid 26th Humanitarian Congress Berlin
26th Humanitarian Congress Berlin: „Critical Choices: Triaging Humanitarian Priorities”
16–17 October, 2024
Urania Berlin
In-person and online
We are excited to announce that the Humanitarian Congress Berlin will be back with two days of in-person and hybrid sessions, workshops, and our exhibition and exchange area – the Humanitarian Forum. Whether you are a current, former or future humanitarian expert, politician, thought leader, media professional or researcher interested in driving positive change through critical debate, this event is for you.
This year’s programme will revolve around navigating humanitarian needs against the backdrop of diverse crises. The rise of authoritarian regimes, a global shift towards right-wing politics, the climate crisis, the systematic erosion of humanitarian principles and attacks on humanitarians accompanied by drastic budget cuts amongst others are putting unprecedented pressure on humanitarian actors, further politicising them and endangering their safety.
The congress will explore how, besides growing priorities in a multipolar world, a coherent vision for humanitarian intervention as well as forward-thinking approaches such as the use of AI in humanitarian action, anticipatory action, and the long-term consequences of crises can be applied to seek solutions for equitable, resilient, and sustainable futures.
For further updates and details, visit our website and follow us on X @humconberlin (#HCBerlin). An official invitation including the online registration will follow in due course.
We would be delighted to welcome you to the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2024.
This event is hosted by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders, Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World, and the German Red Cross, in partnership with Oxfam Germany.
Charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948
Konferenz
Conference in London
Two day conference on „Charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948”
Thu-Fri 24–25 October 2024
Cfp Deadline: May 10th
London
In 1946, the Minister of Health for England and Wales, Aneurin Bevan, condemned the extent to which a significant part of the UK’s hospital system was dependent on the ‘caprice of private charity’. However, charity – and voluntarism more generally – have continued to play a significant role in the development of healthcare within the UK’s National Health Service. During the pandemic, the remarkable impact of NHS Charities Together’s Urgent COVID-19 Appeal demonstrated the continuing relevance of charitable money in the NHS today.
We invite abstract submissions for papers from academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners which actively engage with questions about the role of charity in healthcare systems. Although our own project has focused on developments within the UK, we also welcome papers which address these issues from a more international perspective. Papers might address questions including (but not limited to):
– What ethical issues are generated by charitable finance in health-care, and how might organisations respond to the dilemmas these pose?
– Who defines the aspects of healthcare provision that are ‘essential’, or are ‘nice-to-have’?
– To what extent has charity played a particular role either in pioneering the development of new services or directing attention to the needs of so-called ‘Cinderella’ services?
– How have attitudes to fundraising, and fundraising practices in healthcare, changed over the years?
– What role has charity played in ‘embedding’ hospitals and other healthcare facilities within their communities, and what role does it continue to play?
– What roles have businesses and corporations played in relation to charitable income in the NHS?
– What impact has charitable funding had within broader patterns of healthcare expenditure?
– What can debates about the role of charity within healthcare reveal about the attitudes of different political parties towards the role of voluntarism more broadly?
More details and full call for papers available on the project website.
AGEM-Jahrestagung 36 | (A)symmetrische Beziehungen. Facetten der Kooperation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag
AGEM-Veranstaltung
36. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM) in Kooperation mit dem Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss und der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction der Universität Bremen im Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss
Der Alltag in einer Psychiatrie wird von unterschiedlichsten Akteur*innen bestimmt. Neben den Patient*innen gibt es unter anderem den ärztlichen und den pflegerischen Dienst, Psycholog*innen, Mitarbeitende der therapeutischen Dienste wie Sport‑, Ergo- und Musiktherapie, klinische Sozialarbeiter*innen und Genesungsbegleiter*innen wie Seelsorger*innen oder Klininkclowns sowie Mitarbeiter*innen in der Verwaltung, Raumpflege und Küche, die miteinander auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen kooperieren. Eingebettet sind diese Beziehungen in ökonomische, infrastrukturelle und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen. Zudem beeinflussen die sozialen und kulturellen Hintergründe von Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden die jeweiligen Beziehungen genauso wie die Wahl der Behandlungsform, insbesondere die der Medikation. Dabei zeichnen sich die Beziehungen der beteiligten Akteur*innen durch unterschiedlichen Asymmetrien in den Bereichen des Wissens, des Handelns, der Macht und des Nutzens aus.
Eine lange Tradition besteht in dem Versuch, die Kooperationen und besonders die zwischen Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden einer psychiatrischen Institution zu symmetrisieren. Dennoch stehen symmetrische und asymmetrische Beziehungen in einem Spannungsverhältnis, kommt doch der Alltag in der Psychiatrie zumeist nicht ohne asymmetrische Beziehungen und paternalistische Entscheidungen aus. Trotz verschiedenster Bemühungen, standardisierte Verfahren der Kooperation zu entwickeln, bleibt der Klinikalltag unberechenbar und voller Widersprüche und stellt alle Akteur*innen täglich vor neue Herausforderungen, das Zusammenspiel aller menschlichen wie nicht-menschlichen Akteur*innen (Architektur, SGB V, Medikamente usw.) auszuhandeln.
Auf dieser Tagung möchten wir verschiedene Ebenen der Kooperationen dieser unterschiedlichen Akteur*innen und ihre Auswirkungen auf den psychiatrischen Alltag in den Blick nehmen. Dazu gehören:
1) Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaften und Krankenhauspraxis: Wie werden Forschungsergebnisse in der Medizin und der Pflegepraxis umgesetzt und wie wird die Krankenhauspraxis in der Forschung berücksichtigt?
2) Kooperationen zwischen den Disziplinen: Wie kooperieren unterschiedliche Disziplinen mit ihren unterschiedlichen Ansätzen miteinander und welche Synergien und Widersprüche entstehen dadurch?
3) Kooperationen zwischen Patient*innen und ärztlichem, pflegerischem und weiterem Personal: Wie wird das Verhältnis zwischen Regulierung und Empowerment der Patient*innen im Alltag ausgehandelt und welche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ergeben sich bei dem Versuch einer Symmetrisierung des Verhältnisses von Patient*innen und ärztlichem und pflegerischem Personal?
PROGRAMM
Freitag 15. November 2024
13:30 – 13:40 Uhr
Martin Köhne (ärztlicher Direktor und Geschäftsführer Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Eröffnung
13:40 – 13:45 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Ehler Voss: Organisatorisches
13:45 – 14:15 Uhr
Ehler Voss (Universität Bremen, Worlds of Contradiction – WOC): Die (Un)möglichkeiten (a)symmetrischer Beziehungen. Eine Einführung in das Tagungsthema
14:15 – 14.45 Uhr
Dr. Ralf-Gero C. Dirksen (Wissenschaftsjournalist, MBA Healthcare Management, Promotion in Organisationsentwicklung): Partizipative Beziehungsgestaltung in der deutschen Psychiatrie. Herausforderungen und organisationale Lösungsansätze
14:45 – 15:15 Uhr
Anita Ham (Medizinethnologin, Haagse Hogeschool Den Haag / Niederlande): Der Einfluss von Kultur auf (a)symmetrische Beziehungen – dargestellt am Beispiel von multikulturellen pflegerischen Teams
15:30 – 15:45 Uhr
Pause
15:45 – 16:30 Uhr
Heidrun Lundie (Pflegedienstleitung Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Experienced Involvement. Dem Genesungsbegleiter auf der Spur für mehr Symmetrie in der Beziehung?
16:30 – 17:15 Uhr
Ulrike Höhmann (Pflegewissenschaftlerin, Universität Witten Herdecke): Strukturierte Diskussion um das nicht-Vorhandensein können symmetrischer Beziehungen in der Psychiatrie
17:15 – 17:30 Uhr
Pause
17:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Paul Weißen (Leitender Oberarzt Akutstation; Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss) Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen. Hard facts in der (a)symmetrischen Beziehung im psychiatrischen Setting
18:00 – 18:45 Uhr
Thomas Plötz & Andreas Hethke (Pflegefachpersonen Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Freiheitsentziehenden Maßnahmen und Deeskalation. Beispiele aus der Praxis mit dem Blick auf die Symmetrie
Samstag 16. November 2024
9:00 – 9:30 Uhr
Björn Vüst (Psychologischer Psychotherapeut, Promotionsstudent): Umgang mit suizidalen Krisen im psychiatrischen Alltag
9:30 – 10:00 Uhr
Tina Walter (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin Fachbereich Politik und Sozialwissenschaften Berlin, Promotionsstudentin): Solange Du an diesem Tisch sitzt. (A)symmetrische Beziehungen in Essgruppen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Behandlungsziele und den ‑erfolg von Patient:innen mit diagnostizierten Essstörungen bzw. auffälligen Essverhalten
10:00 – 10:45 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Team Station Jakobus (Pflegefachpersonen, ärztlicher Dienst, Bereichsleitung, Stationsleitung Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Ethische Fallbesprechung zum Thema „geschützter“ oder „offener“ Bereich. Schaffen wir eine symmetrische Beziehung mit den Patient:innen durch eine Teilöffnung?
10:45 – 11:15 Uhr
Pause
11:15 – 12:00 Uhr
Martijn in het Veld (Architekt, EGM Architekten Nijmegen / Niederlande): Architektonische Gestaltung in der Psychiatrie. Eine multidisziplinäre kooperative Annäherung
12:00 – 12:45 Uhr
Adriane Di TaviCanavarro (Pflegefachperson, B.Sc., Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Soteria auf einer psychiatrischen Akutstation Eine wohngemeinschaftsähnliche Einrichtung unterstützt den Beziehungsaufbau und Kooperation mit den Patient:innen
12:45 – 13:00 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Ehler Voss: Summing-up
13:30 – 14:00 Uhr
Mittag (Lunchpakete)
14:00 – 14:30 Uhr
Führung durch das psychiatrische Krankenhaus
14:30 – 15:30 Uhr
Hybride Mitgliederversammlung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM)
Anmeldungen bitte bis zum 8. November 2024 an: facettenderkooperation@agem.de
Wenn Sie Freitagsmittag vor der Konferenz in der Cafeteria auf eigene Kosten essen möchten, geben Sie dies bitte bei der Anmeldung an.
Externen Gästen empfehlen wir als Unterkunft das nahegelegenen Dorint-Hotel: https://hotel-duesseldorf-neuss.dorint.com
Am Freitagabend besteht die Möglichkeit eines gemeinsamen Abendessens bei den Veranstalter:innen der Konferenz. Im Nachgang können in privater Atmosphäre Themen vom Nachmittag weiter vertieft und Diskussionen fortgesetzt werden. Bitte geben Sie bei Ihrer Anmeldung an, ob Sie daran teilnehmen möchten (ein Sparschwein freut sich über eine Spende für Essen und Getränke).
Konzept und Organisation:
Andrea Kuckert (AGEM, Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus Neuss)
Ehler Voss (AGEM, Worlds of Contradiction Universität Bremen)
4th Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology Conference
Konferenz
Hybrid Conference on Indigenous Psychologies
4th Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology Conference (SEAIP-2024)
December 6th & 7th, 2024
8am-5pm (UTC +8)
Format: Virtually via Zoom (details to be updated) & in-person at the University of the Philippines Baguio.
The SEAIP-2024 conference is being co-hosted by the University of the Philippines Baguio, Pambansang Samahan ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino (PSSP), the Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology (SEAIP) network, and Monash Malaysia Culture and Health Lab. We are also grateful for the funding granted by Asian Association of Social Psychology for this initiative.
This event is a continuation of our efforts to empower young scholars in the Southeast Asian region who are interested in the development of indigenous psychologies by building a community in which collaborative efforts and multidisciplinary research on culturally relevant issues may be fostered and supported. As such, this scientific meeting includes plenty of opportunities for dialogue, networking and collaboration, including:
(1) an open-session with keynote speaker, Professor Grace H. Aguiling Dalisay, and two plenary speakers, Professor Jose Antonio R. Clemente and Professor Carl Martin Allwood;
(2) half-day closed cluster meetings for a maximum of 50 registrants, where participants from these cluster sessions will have the opportunity to apply for a SEAIP research seed grant (there are two research seed grants available with 2500 USD per grant); and
(3) two research paper presentation sessions from successful registrants for the abstract submission in which the 10 best student presenters would be awarded two-year AASP memberships.
Please refer to the SEAIP-2024 website and flyers attached for more details.
Registration is FREE and only open till 30th September 2024 for Abstracts Submission. However, you may still register as an attendee on Keynote and Plenary Session and/or Cluster Discussion/Networking until 1st November 2024. Please register through this registration link and select your type of participation.
Food System Temporalities
Konferenz
Two-Day-Conference at University of Cambridge
Workshop „Food System Temporalities”
January 9th and 10th, 2025
University of Cambridge
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Organisers: Elizabeth Fox (University of Cambridge) & Thomas White (King’s College London)
Keynote Speaker: Prof Heather Paxson (MIT)
This two-day conference seeks to examine the temporality of food production, circulation, and consumption. By highlighting how time and its reckoning shape and are shaped by the pursuit of the edible, our aim is to move beyond simplistic dichotomies between capitalist acceleration and slow food sustainability to elucidate food’s disjunctive rhythms and the work that goes into managing them.
Studies of food and food systems have tended to prioritise space, or place, over time. However, the production, circulation, and consumption of food are also inherently time-bound processes that involve numerous temporal regimes, the management of which require distinct forms of work. Producing edible things requires navigating seasons, growth cycles, market fluctuations, and food’s inherent perishability. We ask, for example, how does a temporal lens on growing, picking, slaughtering, storing, or fermenting lead us to reconceptualise the labour of making or metabolising the edible? How might questions of food sovereignty and food justice be approached differently with reference to time, rather than location? How are changes to seasonal rhythms caused by climate change affecting the ways food producers anticipate the future? Are new ‘time-less’ food labelling regimes changing attitudes to perishability and waste? What about the bodies of animals, pushed to mature at ever faster rates in the interests of profit or sustainability? We welcome empirical and theoretical interrogations of these and related questions.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words to Elizabeth Fox (ef434@cam.ac.uk) by August 31st 2024.
10th Integrated History and Philosophy of Science conference
Konferenz
Conference at California Institute of Technology
10th Integrated History and Philosophy of Science conference
27–29 March 2025
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
The Committee for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science invites the submission of abstracts for individual papers and “lightning talks” for &HPS10, the 10th conference in the series Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. We seek contributions that genuinely integrate historical and philosophical analyses of science (i.e., the physical sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences) or that discuss methodological issues surrounding the prospects and challenges of integrating history and philosophy of science. For information about the Committee for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science and previous conferences, see http://integratedhps.org/.
Keynote speakers: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech), Marius Stan (Boston College)
Please note that &HPS10 does not run parallel sessions and, given the number of slots available, does not accept symposium submissions. In addition to contributed papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes of questions), &HPS10 will also feature a combination of 10-minute lightning talks followed by a communal session with ‘discussion stations’ for the lightning talk presenters. For this forum, we welcome submissions that are more exploratory, works in progress, try out new ideas, and so on. Each presenter may appear on the final program only once.
All proposals (whether for a contributed paper or lightning talk) should contain a title and an abstract of up to 700 words (including references).
Please submit your abstracts to https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/75646/submitter
We have an ongoing commitment to fostering diversity and equality in our programs. Submissions from members of underrepresented groups are particularly welcome!
Deadline for abstract submissions: 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC ‑12) 18 August. Notification date: 31 October, 2024.
Please direct any inquiries to Uljana Feest (feest@philos.uni-hannover.de) or Dana Tulodziecki (dtulodzi@purdue.edu)
Health, Environment, and Anthropology
Konferenz
In Person Conference at Durham University University, UK
Health, Environment, and Anthropology
23–24 April 2025
Durham University
As the world is getting fuller, faster, hotter, and sicker, HEAT asks how can anthropologists contribute to unfolding debates around health and environment on a changing and unequal planet? In what ways can medical and environmental anthropology work together and with other disciplines, communities, and stakeholders to help support the development of knowledge and resources for responding to environmental destruction and global heating?
As environmental and climate transform societies and ecologies around the world, it is imperative that anthropologists continue to seek new ways of thinking and speaking among themselves and with others about the relationships among humans, other-than-humans, the environment, and the planet. By examining the intricate web of interdependencies between societies, ecosystems, and environmental processes, anthropologists have an important role to play in understanding and addressing the complex challenges faced by our planet.
Panel proposals are invited in the following and related areas:
- Changing patterns and profiles of health, illness, and disease in response to environmental and climate change
- Changing human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to environmental and climate change
- Social movements and new forms of sociality arising from concerns about planetary health
- Environmental justice, inequality, and marginalized communities
- Demographic anxieties and the effects of migration, displacement, and armed conflict in the context of changing environments
- Impacts of climate change on reproductive health and rights
- Diverse ecological knowledges and indigenous perspectives on planetary health
- Sustainable food systems, agriculture, and nutrition
- Urbanization, globalization, and the transformation of human-environment relationships
- Health impacts of extractive industries and resource exploitation
- Ethical and/or methodological considerations in planetary health research and interventions
- Policy interventions and governance for planetary health
- Technological and design innovations for improving planetary health and dealing with the health impacts of environmental destruction and global heating
- Mental health and wellbeing in the context of climate change
- Interdisciplinary connections, including engagement with the Overlaps and contention between the frameworks of Planetary Health, Global Health, and One Health.
Panel proposals should include a title and 250 word abstract. The deadline is September 2024. A Call for Papers will then follow.
To submit a panel abstract, please follow this link: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/health-environment-and-anthropology-heat-2024
Email the conference organisers at anthro.heat.conference@gmail.com
Health, Environment, and AnThropology (HEAT)
Konferenz
A conference exploring the intersections of health and environmental anthropology
Call for Panels „Health, Environment, and Anthropology”
23–24 April 2025
Durham University in UK
Organized by the The Royal Anthropological Institute, University of Durham & University of Edinburgh present
As the world is getting fuller, faster, hotter, and sicker, HEAT asks how can anthropologists contribute to unfolding debates around health and environment on a changing and unequal planet? In what ways can medical and environmental anthropology work together and with other disciplines, communities, and stakeholders to help support the development of knowledge and resources for responding to environmental destruction and global heating?
As environmental and climate transform societies and ecologies around the world, it is imperative that anthropologists continue to seek new ways of thinking and speaking among themselves and with others about the relationships among humans, other-than-humans, the environment, and the planet. By examining the intricate web of interdependencies between societies, ecosystems, and environmental processes, anthropologists have an important role to play in understanding and addressing the complex challenges faced by our planet.
Panel proposals are invited in the following and related areas:
Changing patterns and profiles of health, illness, and disease in response to environmental and climate change
- Changing human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to environmental and climate change
- Social movements and new forms of sociality arising from concerns about planetary health
- Environmental justice, inequality, and marginalized communities
Demographic anxieties and the effects of migration, displacement, and armed conflict in the context of changing environments - Impacts of climate change on reproductive health and rights
Diverse ecological knowledges and indigenous perspectives on planetary health
Sustainable food systems, agriculture, and nutrition - Urbanization, globalization, and the transformation of human-environment relationships
- Health impacts of extractive industries and resource exploitation
Ethical and/or methodological considerations in planetary health research and interventions - Policy interventions and governance for planetary health
Technological and design innovations for improving planetary health and dealing with the health impacts of environmental destruction and global heating
Mental health and wellbeing in the context of climate change - Interdisciplinary connections, including engagement with the Overlaps and contention between the frameworks of Planetary Health, Global Health, and One Health.
Panel proposals should include a title and 250 word abstract. The deadline is 30th September 2024. A Call for Papers will then follow.
To submit a panel abstract, please follow this link: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/health-environment-and-anthropology-heat-2024
Email the conference organisers at anthro.heat.conference@gmail.com