Konferenz

„Das Geschlecht der Medi­zin. Indi­vid­u­al­ität in medi­zinis­chen Konzepten und Prak­tiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts”
2. bis 4. Sep­tem­ber 2024
Alfried Krupp Kol­leg Greifswald
Ein­sende­schluss für Abstracts 1. März 2024

Organ­i­sa­tion: Dr. Annal­isa Mar­tin, Prof. Dr. Annelie Rams­brock, Naima Tiné, M.A. (Lehrstuhl für All­ge­meine Geschichte der Neuesten Zeit, Uni­ver­sität Greifswald)

Die Geschichte der Medi­zin erlebt seit den 1980er Jahren eine Neuori­en­tierung: Wurde sie lange Zeit als his­toris­tis­che Erfol­gs­geschichte geschrieben, die sich aus ein­er Aneinan­der­rei­hung divers­er Ent­deck­un­gen durch (meist männliche) Ärzte speiste, find­et seit einiger Zeit eine kri­tis­che Auseinan­der­set­zung mit medi­zinis­chen Prak­tiken statt. Aktuelle Stu­di­en bele­gen, dass Diag­nos­tik, Behand­lung und Risikovorher­sage bei ein­er Vielzahl von Erkrankun­gen bedeut­same Geschlech­ter­dif­feren­zen zeigen. Dabei meint Geschlecht sowohl das biol­o­gis­che (sex) als auch das soziale (gen­der) Geschlecht und schließt ein Bewusst­sein für vielfältige geschlechtliche Iden­titäten und ihre lebensweltliche Rel­e­vanz mit ein, inklu­sive queere, trans und nicht­binäre Per­so­n­en. Zugle­ich ist die medi­zinis­che Forschung noch vielfach auf den männlichen Normkör­p­er zugeschnit­ten, berück­sichtigt also Geschlechteraspek­te sowie andere Diver­sitätsmerk­male nicht oder nur am Rande. Schließlich spie­len medi­zinis­che Gutacht­en nach wie vor eine bedeut­same Rolle beim Kampf um Anerken­nung von Tran­si­d­en­titäten, was zeigt: Geschlecht und Medi­zin sind aufs eng­ste miteinan­der ver­woben und ste­hen in einem rezipro­ken Ver­hält­nis zueinan­der: Medi­zin ist in vielfach­er Weise vergeschlechtlicht und umgekehrt find­et die Vergeschlechtlichung von Patient:innen durch medi­zinis­che Prak­tiken und Konzepte statt.

Die Tagung wählt dieses Ver­hält­nis als Flucht­punkt. Sie will die gesellschaftliche Dimen­sion von medi­zinis­chem Denken und Han­deln seit dem 19. Jahrhun­dert aus­loten und dementsprechend das Ver­hält­nis von Medi­zin und Geschlecht his­torisieren. Der Kör­p­er war stets ein umkämpftes Feld, sein sta­tus quo wed­er selb­stver­ständlich noch notwendig. Beson­ders für das 19. Jahrhun­dert gilt deshalb, dass ver­schiedene medi­zinis­che Konzepte und Prak­tiken par­al­lel zueinan­der existierten. Ein­er­seits machte die Zeit-Raum-Kom­pres­sion, d.h. die Verkürzung von Trans­port- und Kom­mu­nika­tion­swe­gen den glob­alen Trans­fer von Wis­sen über nationale, kul­turelle und sprach­liche Gren­zen hin­weg möglich und führte zur Ver­schmelzung, Aneig­nung und Neuord­nung von Wis­sen um Kör­p­er und Geschlecht. Ander­er­seits entwick­el­ten ver­schiedene poli­tis­che Strö­mungen unter­schiedliche Anforderun­gen an (geschlechtsspez­i­fis­che) Medi­zin. In Debat­ten der sozial­is­tis­chen Bewe­gung rund um Aus­beu­tung, Arbeits­be­din­gun­gen und Lohn rück­te der Kör­p­er und das Ide­al der kör­per­lichen Unversehrtheit in den Mit­telpunkt. Darüber hin­aus wurde die hege­mo­ni­ale Medi­zin sowohl in den Kolonien als auch in den europäis­chen Armen­vierteln gewalt­sam gegen den unter­drück­ten Kör­p­er durchge­set­zt und avancierte zu einem gängi­gen Herrschaftsin­stru­ment, das biopoli­tis­che Maß­nah­men natur­wis­senschaftlich legit­imierte. Damit wur­den geschlechtsspez­i­fis­che medi­zinis­che Hand­lungsparamter auch zum Gegen­stand bürg­er­lich­er, nation­al­is­tis­ch­er und impe­ri­al­is­tis­ch­er Poli­tik. Auch hier führte das dichotome Zwei-Geschlechter-Mod­ell zu unter­schiedlichen Anforderun­gen an den männlichen und weib­lichen Kör­p­er und trug zur Ver­fes­ti­gung dieses Mod­ells bei.
Mit unser­er Tagung wollen wir den the­o­retisch-method­is­chen Anspruch ein­er rekur­siv­en und kri­tis­chen Wis­sens­geschichte von Medi­zin und Geschlecht disku­tieren. Fol­gende Fragekom­plexe wären denkbar:

1. Ein erster Fragekom­plex befasst sich mit unter­schiedlichen Geschlechterkonzepten, die medi­zinis­che Strö­mungen prägten und die sie zugle­ich selb­st her­vor­bracht­en. Welche ontol­o­gis­chen Grun­dan­nah­men lagen ihnen jew­eils zugrunde und inwieweit spiegelte sich deren Wan­del­barkeit in Diag­nos­tik, Ther­a­pie und Forschung? Und umgekehrt: In welchem Maße tru­gen medi­zinis­che Hand­lungslogiken zu ein­er (De)Stabilisierung der Geschlechterord­nung als Fun­da­ment der (bürg­er­lichen) Gesellschaft bei?

2. Ein zweit­er Fragekom­plex zielt auf den Ein­fluss von Wirtschaft, Reli­gion und Poli­tik auf geschlechtsspez­i­fis­che medi­zinis­che Prak­tiken. In welchem Maße ver­schwamm die Bedeu­tung von Krankheit und Gesund­heit hin­ter gesellschaft­spoli­tis­chen Inter­essen, zu denen auch Impe­ri­al­is­mus und Kolo­nial­is­mus zu zählen sind?

3. Drit­tens soll es um die Autonomie der Patient:innen über medi­zinis­che Ein­griffe in ihren Kör­p­er gehen. Welche wis­senschaftlichen, aber auch sozialen und kul­turellen Entwick­lun­gen lancierten iden­titäts­be­zo­gene Ver­schiebun­gen im medi­zinis­chen Han­deln? Wie sah das konkrete Rin­gen um Deu­tung­shoheit über den eige­nen Kör­p­er in ver­schiede­nen antag­o­nis­tis­chen Kon­stel­la­tio­nen aus? Wer waren die Akteure solch­er Kämpfe und wo fan­den sie statt?

Die Kon­feren­zsprache ist vor­wiegend Deutsch, es kön­nen aber auch Beiträge in Englis­ch­er Sprache ein­gere­icht werden.

Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract (max­i­mal 300 Wörter) und eine Kurzbi­ogra­phie (50–100 Wörter) bis spätestens 1. März 2024 an naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de. Eine Bah­n­reise 2. Klasse, Flu­greise nach Absprache und die Unter­bringung kön­nen bei Bedarf über­nom­men werden.
Programm

Keynote 2. Sep­tem­ber: Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte (Hei­del­berg)

Pan­els 3.–4. September

Kon­takt: naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de

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„Repro­duc­tive Vio­lence” Conference
2nd-3rd Sep­tem­ber 2024
Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh

Keynote: Pro­fes­sor Sarah Ihmoud

In this con­fer­ence we will explore under­stand­ings of repro­duc­tive vio­lence, in the light of the repro­duc­tive jus­tice frame­work, as a vio­la­tion of bod­i­ly auton­o­my and the rights to have chil­dren, to not have chil­dren, and to raise any chil­dren one choos­es to have in a safe and healthy environment.

Repro­duc­tive vio­lence is often sub­sumed with­in broad­er cat­e­gories of sex­u­al and gen­der-based vio­lence. The atten­tion that sex­u­al vio­lence has gained on human rights and tran­si­tion­al jus­tice agen­das since the 1990s has not been extend­ed to under­stand­ing and address­ing vio­la­tions of people’s repro­duc­tive auton­o­my, free­dom, and futures. Despite the devel­op­ment of the repro­duc­tive jus­tice frame­work in 1994, much aca­d­e­m­ic and activist work remains focused large­ly on con­tra­cep­tives and abor­tion, most­ly with a choice rhetoric and in nar­row geo­graph­ic and socioe­co­nom­ic contexts.

In this two-day in-per­son con­fer­ence, we join transna­tion­al fem­i­nist ini­tia­tives that agi­tate for com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ings of repro­duc­tive vio­lence and repro­duc­tive jus­tice. We seek to bring togeth­er schol­ars at dif­fer­ent career stages to engage in con­ver­sa­tions that can con­tribute to a nuanced under­stand­ing of how the repro­duc­tive lives of peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly racialised and fem­i­nised bod­ies, have been affect­ed, often specif­i­cal­ly targeted.

We invite abstracts that speak to the themes and ques­tions of the con­fer­ence, includ­ing: In what ways does repro­duc­tion emerge as a site of vio­lence, exploita­tion, and resis­tance? How do ide­olo­gies of moth­er­hood and prac­tices of moth­er­ing con­fig­ure repro­duc­tive vio­lence and resis­tance? How does the nat­u­ral­iza­tion of repro­duc­tive labour shape embod­ied expe­ri­ences of repro­duc­tion? How do state and non-state actors assume con­trol and exert coer­cion over repro­duc­tive bod­ies? How is repro­duc­tion sit­u­at­ed with­in leg­isla­tive and pol­i­cy frame­works con­cern­ing con­texts of war, geno­cide, and oth­er human­i­tar­i­an emer­gen­cies? How are notions of gen­der (re)produced through acts of repro­duc­tive vio­lence? Papers may speak to the fol­low­ing themes in rela­tion to repro­duc­tive violence:

– Con­flict and violence
– Colo­nial­ism and occupation
– Environmental/climate crises
– Dis­abil­i­ty justice
– Incar­cer­a­tion and detention
– Migra­tion and displacement
– Pover­ty and precarity
– Strug­gles for repa­ra­tions, rights, and justice
– Obstet­ric vio­lence and racism

Con­fer­ence Organisers

Dr Tatiana Sanchez Par­ra is a Marie Skłodows­ka-Curie Actions Fel­low in the School of Social and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh. Tatiana’s research is sit­u­at­ed at the inter­sec­tion of fem­i­nist stud­ies, socio-legal stud­ies, and Latin Amer­i­can stud­ies. She works on issues relat­ed to fem­i­nist peace­build­ing, repro­duc­tive jus­tice, and repro­duc­tive vio­lence in con­texts of war and polit­i­cal tran­si­tions. Her cur­rent project, ‚Advanc­ing Gen­der Jus­tice, Tack­ling Repro­duc­tive Vio­lence: Forced Par­ent­hood in Con­texts of War’, focus­es on the expe­ri­ences of cis­gen­der women and trans­gen­der men who are par­ent­ing chil­dren born of con­flict-relat­ed sex­u­al vio­lence in Colombia.

Dr Lucy Lowe is a senior lec­tur­er in med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh. Her work illu­mi­nates how prac­tices and ide­olo­gies of gen­der, moth­er­hood, and repro­duc­tion are cen­tred in process­es of migra­tion and asy­lum. She cur­rent­ly leads the Mater­ni­ty, Migra­tion, and Asy­lum in Scot­land (MAMAS) project, which explores how preg­nan­cy and moth­er­hood affect refugee and asy­lum-seek­ing women’s expe­ri­ences of migra­tion and settlement.

Keynote: Pro­fes­sor Sarah Ihmoud

Sarah Ihmoud is a Chi­cana-Pales­tin­ian anthro­pol­o­gist who works to uplift the lived expe­ri­ences, his­to­ries, and polit­i­cal con­tri­bu­tions of Pales­tin­ian women and Pales­tin­ian fem­i­nism. She is a found­ing mem­ber of the Pales­tin­ian Fem­i­nist Col­lec­tive, an exec­u­tive board mem­ber of Insaniyy­at, the Soci­ety of Pales­tin­ian Anthro­pol­o­gists, and is assis­tant pro­fes­sor of anthro­pol­o­gy at the Col­lege of the Holy Cross in Worces­ter, MA.

Please send abstracts (250 words max) and bios (100 words max) to lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk and tsanchez@ed.ac.uk by 30th May 2024.

Bur­saries

There are a lim­it­ed num­ber of £100 bur­saries avail­able for pre­sen­ters. If you would like to apply for a bur­sary, please also include a para­graph in your appli­ca­tion (100 words max) clear­ly stat­ing whether you have access to fund­ing, and how attend­ing the con­fer­ence could con­tribute to your work and cre­ative pursuits.

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„Post-Pan­dem­ic Imag­i­nar­ies Space, Cul­ture and Mem­o­ry after Lockdown”
5–6th September
Cen­tre for Cul­ture and Every­day Life at the School of the Arts, Uni­ver­si­ty of Liv­er­pool, UK
Keynote speak­ers: Stef Craps (Ghent Uni­ver­si­ty), Dawn Lyon (Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent)
Cfp dead­line 10 May

The Cen­tre for Cul­ture and Every­day Life (CCEL) invites con­tri­bu­tions to a two-day inter­dis­ci­pli­nary con­fer­ence explor­ing changes in the expe­ri­ence and imag­in­ing of every­day urban spaces fol­low­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. The aim of the con­fer­ence is to focus crit­i­cal atten­tion not on the impact of the pan­dem­ic and asso­ci­at­ed gov­ern­ment lock­downs, but on the process­es of reimag­in­ing, remem­ber­ing and remap­ping of every­day cul­ture and expe­ri­ence through a post-pan­dem­ic lens.
A key focus of enquiry are the real-and-imag­i­nary geo­gra­phies of every­day expe­ri­ences under lock­down where the imag­i­na­tion was put to work in ways that often elicit­ed het­ero­topic glimpses of a post-pan­dem­ic world that may, in the years since, have all but slipped into obliv­ion. Dur­ing lock­down, the ‘spa­tial play’ (Marin 1984) of the utopic imag­i­na­tion – the inter­play of hori­zons and fron­tiers as nego­ti­at­ed through forms of every­day social and spa­tial prac­tice – was gal­vanised by a col­lec­tive expe­ri­ence of space and time that trans­formed the affec­tive con­tours of every­day liv­ing. As phys­i­cal move­ments and inter­ac­tions were com­pressed into the indi­vid­u­alised land­scapes of lock­down, alter­na­tive, vir­tu­al forms of social and spa­tial rela­tion­ships were brought into play. Whether by ensconc­ing one­self in vir­tu­al spaces or by ven­tur­ing anew into the sud­den­ly depop­u­lat­ed land­scapes of local urban neigh­bour­hoods, recon­fig­ured forms of indi­vid­ual spa­tial agency brought with them a cor­re­spond­ing recon­fig­ur­ing of the every­day urban imaginary.
For some, dystopi­an sce­nar­ios famil­iar from lit­er­a­ture and film were off­set by small utopi­an moments: the impulse of plan­ners and city coun­cils to take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage cit­i­zens in reimag­in­ing urban space, moments of com­mu­ni­ty and togeth­er­ness amid the enforced sep­a­ra­tions, an absence of traf­fic noise and pol­lu­tion, and new­ly audi­ble bird­song. Videos shared online that showed wild ani­mals roam­ing the streets, and even memes ridi­cul­ing the notion that “nature is heal­ing”, may have even offered some momen­tary respite from ongo­ing cli­mate anx­i­ety. While for many peo­ple, con­fine­ment could be expe­ri­enced as chaot­ic, over­crowd­ed, and made work-time almost end­less, for oth­ers it opened up time to reflect, and to pause, to imag­ine how their lives might be otherwise.
If there was a utopi­an impulse amid the ter­rors of the pan­dem­ic, what did it look like, and what traces remain? Is there an eth­i­cal and aes­thet­ic imper­a­tive to sal­vage the resid­ual glimpses, frag­ments, dreams and imag­i­nar­ies engen­dered by the pan­dem­ic? In what ways, if any, did the pro­ject­ed imag­in­ings of post-pan­dem­ic urban futures con­tribute to sub­stan­tive changes that are dis­cernible now, four years on? How are the lived spaces and tem­po­ral­i­ties of cities qual­i­ta­tive­ly dif­fer­ent today from what they were in 2019? Are they dif­fer­ent or was it all just a blip? What traces of pan­dem­ic behav­iour and expe­ri­ence remain in our dai­ly inter­ac­tions? Has the pan­dem­ic brought about a keen­er aware­ness and val­ue of the local? How did art and pho­tog­ra­phy respond to the tem­po­rary trans­for­ma­tion of pub­lic and social space? How have forms of every­day mobil­i­ty changed? Are there post-pan­dem­ic spa­tial sto­ries that reveal a trans­for­ma­tion in how peo­ple engage with and imag­ine every­day urban spaces? And if there are, what do these spa­tial sto­ries look like? What do they say and how might they be traced or mapped? What does re-engag­ing the every­day mean in a post-pan­dem­ic world?

About the Keynote speakers:
Stef Craps (Ghent University)
Stef is Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Ghent Uni­ver­si­ty, where he directs the Cul­tur­al Mem­o­ry Stud­ies Ini­tia­tive. He has authored or edit­ed numer­ous books, spe­cial jour­nal issues and arti­cles on trau­ma, mem­o­ry, cli­mate change and eco-emo­tions as medi­at­ed through culture.

Dawn Lyon (Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent)
Dawn is Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent. She has pub­lished wide­ly on the soci­ol­o­gy of work, time and every­day life. Her recent research includes analy­sis of accounts of every­day life col­lect­ed by Mass Obser­va­tion dur­ing the Covid-19 Pan­dem­ic, attend­ing to rhythm and future imagining.

We wel­come pro­pos­als address­ing these issues from schol­ars at all career stages and a wide range of dis­ci­plines and backgrounds.

Abstract Sub­mis­sion: Please send abstracts (300 words max.) with your name, title, affil­i­a­tion (where appro­pri­ate) and a short bio (up to 200 words). Please pre­pare for a 20 minute pre­sen­ta­tion by 10 May 2024 to the con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers: CCELconference2024@liverpool.ac.uk

Noti­fi­ca­tions of accep­tance will be sent out by 7th June 2024.

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„Inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty: Med­ical Human­i­ties and Research at the inter­sec­tions of the Human­i­ties, the Social Sci­ences, Clin­i­cal Prac­tice and Biomedicine”
Med­ical Human­i­ties Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer School 2024
Orga­nized by The Cen­tre for Med­ical Human­i­ties and Bioethics (Linköping Uni­ver­si­ty) and the Insti­tute for Med­ical Human­i­ties (Durham University)
Vad­ste­na, Sweden
9–11 Sep­tem­ber 2024
Dead­line: 12th March

What does inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty in med­ical human­i­ties mean? What are the epis­te­mo­log­i­cal under­pin­nings of dif­fer­ent inter­dis­ci­pli­nary ways of engag­ing in med­ical human­i­ties research? What are the chal­lenges and pos­si­bil­i­ties in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research at the inter­sec­tion between the human­i­ties, the social sci­ences, clin­i­cal research, and bio­med­i­cine? These are some of the ques­tions that will be explored in this Med­ical Human­i­ties Sum­mer School aimed at PhD stu­dents in med­ical human­i­ties, social sci­ences, and med­i­cine, and with an inter­est in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research. 

For infor­ma­tion about prac­ti­cal details, bur­saries, and how to apply please vis­it: https://liu.se/en/article/medical-humanities-international-summer-school-2024 .

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Tagung „Hand­griffe: Zur Bedeu­tung von Hand und Werkzeug für die Heilberufe“
12. und 13.9.2024
Ingol­stadt und Nürnberg

Ver­anstal­ter sind:
Deutsches Medi­z­in­his­torisches Muse­um Ingol­stadt Insti­tut für Geschichte der Medi­zin der Universität Würzburg Insti­tut für Geschichtswis­senschaften und Europäische Eth­nolo­gie der Universität Inns­bruck Vere­in für Sozialgeschichte der Medi­zin in Koop­er­a­tion mit dem Ger­man­is­chen National­mu­se­um Nürnberg

Bei Inter­esse melden Sie sich bitte unter der Adresse dmm@ingolstadt.de an

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Pop­u­lar Health & Social Media Conference
Uni­ver­si­ty of Siegen (Ger­many)
Sep­tem­ber 12 and 13, 2024

Details:
Three the­mat­ic areas: (1) self-track­ing, with a spe­cial focus on the man­age­ment of (chron­ic) dis­eases, (2) chron­ic dis­eases and the use of social media, and (3) the exam­i­na­tion of
indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ties that change and shape their every­day lives with the help of social media and online com­mu­ni­ties (ME/CFS and/or long/­post-COVID syn­drome, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases, lipede­ma, etc.).

These three the­mat­ic areas will be cov­ered in three dis­tinct pan­els and each pan­el will be opened by a renowned expert in the field: (1) Rachael Kent (King’s Col­lege Lon­don, UK), (2) Aman­da Karls­son (Aarhus Uni­ver­sitet, DK), and (3) Bian­ca Jan­sky (Uni­ver­si­ty of Augs­burg, DE). 

The call for abstracts specif­i­cal­ly address­es pre­docs and ear­ly post­docs and clos­es on June 1, 2024. Find it here.

For more infor­ma­tion please see here: https://sfb1472.uni-siegen.de/publikationen/cfp-popular-health-social-media

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„Shift­ing Rela­tions: Age­ing in a Datafied World”
An annu­al meet­ing of the Socio-geron­tech­nol­o­gy Network
19–20 Sept
Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna
Dead­line: 15 March

The event brings togeth­er crit­i­cal schol­ar­ship on age­ing and tech­nol­o­gy from var­i­ous social sci­ences and human­i­ties per­spec­tives – includ­ing STS, age stud­ies, social and crit­i­cal geron­tol­ogy, media stud­ies, crit­i­cal design stud­ies, and many others.
Please find a detailed call for papers, posters and ses­sions at https://www.socio-gerontechnology.net/events/annualmeeting2024/.

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Sum­mer School „Viral Atmos­pheres: Maneu­ver­ing the affec­tive geo­gra­phies of pan­demics and health”
21.9.–28.9.2025
Berlin

CfA dead­line: 30. August 2024

Keynote speak­ers:

Frédéric Keck (LAS Paris, France)
Tania Ros­set­to (Uni­ver­sità di Pado­va, Italy)
Arne Vogelge­sant (Artist, Berlin, Germany)

Orga­niz­ers:

Sung Joon Park (BNITM Ham­burg, Germany),
Han­sjörg Dil­ger (FU Berlin, Germany),
Julia Horn­berg­er (Wits Uni­ver­si­ty, Johan­nes­burg, South Africa),
Bo Kyeong Seo (Yon­sei Uni­ver­si­ty, Seoul, Korea),
Nene Mor­isho (Pole Insti­tute, Goma, DRC),
Jacque­line Häußler (BNITM Ham­burg, Germany)

Viral Atmos­phere is a trans­dis­ci­pli­nary sum­mer school on the felt spaces of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. The con­cept of the atmos­phere draws our atten­tion to the ways feel­ings can be under­stood to ’sur­round us,’ to be ‚poured into space,’ ‚occu­py spaces’ and are influ­enced by space, as recent works in neophe­nom­e­nol­o­gy have been char­ac­ter­iz­ing this concept.1 That is, an atmos­phere is essen­tial­ly a descrip­tion of the felt space—a Gefühlsraum.

In our sum­mer school, we sug­gest that felt spaces help us to enrich our under­stand­ing of the impact of the pan­dem­ic and the glob­al health response to it. For instance, an iso­la­tion room may be a three-dimen­sion­al space. Explor­ing it as a felt space filled with feel­ings of anx­i­eties, exhaus­tion, or ease helps us to get a grasp at the embod­ied expe­ri­ence of immo­bi­liza­tion dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Pub­lic spaces can be sim­i­lar­ly con­ceived as felt spaces of expo­sure that radi­ate feel­ings of mis­trust, vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, and fear. Or, explor­ing the dig­i­tal world of social media and the inter­net as a felt space may prof­fer new ques­tions for under­stand­ing how infor­ma­tion and also mis­in­for­ma­tion affects people.

The prac­ti­cal, col­lab­o­ra­tive, and trans­dis­ci­pli­nary engage­ment of the felt spaces of the
pan­dem­ic in our sum­mer school attempts to move beyond the ‚method­olog­i­cal nation­al­ism’ in sci­ence and pol­i­tics of pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness and response.2 In spite of repeat­ed calls for holis­tic One World approach­es to health, research and action remain chiefly cen­tered on the nation-state and are per­haps more than ever defined by coun­tries of the glob­al North. By con­trast, we will explore how felt spaces allow us to trace the affec­tive geo­gra­phies of pan­demics and glob­al health. What prac­tices of visu­al­iz­ing and com­par­ing atmos­pheres, includ­ing artis­tic modes of expres­sion, can get the affec­tive geo­gra­phies to gel? How have peo­ple in dif­fer­ent places been expe­ri­enc­ing and maneu­ver­ing these geo­gra­phies and keep on maneu­ver­ing them as they search for a mode of remem­ber­ing the pan­dem­ic? Final­ly, we want to ask what can be learned from these affec­tive geo­gra­phies of pan­demics for future glob­al pub­lic health emergencies.

Viral Atmos­pheres has the fol­low­ing aims:

• Explore meth­ods and tools to study feel­ings in epi­demics, pan­demics, and oth­er public
health emer­gen­cies as atmospheres
• Doc­u­ment and recon­struct the felt spaces of pan­demics through the inte­gra­tion of
dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines and their approaches
• Map the affec­tive geo­gra­phies of the pan­dem­ic through trans­dis­ci­pli­nary collaboration

The sum­mer school invites stu­dents at advanced MA lev­el and PhD lev­el from a broad range of dis­ci­plines, such as social and cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy, area stud­ies, geog­ra­phy, media stud­ies, visu­al and per­form­ing arts, as well as life sci­ences to par­tic­i­pate in a trans­dis­ci­pli­nary and col­lab­o­ra­tive sum­mer school. In par­tic­u­lar, we invite stu­dents, who work on:

• Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, epi­demics and more gen­er­al­ly pub­lic health crises
• Feel­ings, atmos­pheres, and affect
• Spaces, mobil­i­ty, and geography
And who want to
• Show­case their ongo­ing work in trans­dis­ci­pli­nary work­ing groups
• Make a con­tri­bu­tion to trans­dis­ci­pli­nary and col­lab­o­ra­tive out­put (spe­cial issue, online
exhi­bi­tion, book publication).

The sum­mer school will pro­vide lec­tures, sem­i­nars, and exper­i­ments by part­ners and
researchers of the VW-fund­ed research project „Mobil­i­ty Regimes of Pre­pared­ness and
Response: The Case of Covid-19″ by researchers in Ger­many, South Korea, South Africa, and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go (https://www.moreppar.com). The researchers of this project will show­case works that extend the com­par­a­tive analy­sis of coun­try-spe­cif­ic expe­ri­ences of the pan­dem­ic toward a col­lab­o­ra­tive study of the affec­tive geog­ra­phy of the felt spaces of the pan­dem­ic. Fur­ther­more, the sum­mer school will com­prise prac­ti­cal exer­cis­es in trans­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tive research and pub­li­ca­tion on affec­tive geographies.

Orga­ni­za­tion and application

The cost of trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion will be cov­ered by the MoReP­PaR project. Please send us your appli­ca­tion (in Eng­lish) comprising:

• Moti­va­tion letter
• CV or in case you apply as a stu­dent of the arts a CV and portfolio
• Abstract of max­i­mal 500 words sum­ma­riz­ing the mate­r­i­al you want to present (sto­ries
from the field, data, video mate­r­i­al, sound mate­r­i­al, visu­al mate­r­i­al, …) and how you
want to present it (pre­sen­ta­tion of paper or art­work, per­for­mance, reading, …)

Send your appli­ca­tion to sung.park@bnitm.de by 30. August 2024. For fur­ther inquiries, please do not hes­i­tate writ­ing to sung.park@bnitm.de or jacqueline.haeussler@bnitm.de.

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DTPPP Fly­er 17. Kongress

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Images as evi­dence (of what)? The Body at the Inter­sec­tion of Sci­ence and Art
Sep­tem­ber 23–26th
Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna
Con­ven­ers Sophie Wag­n­er & Bar­bara Graf
CfP Dead­line June 1st

Sci­en­tif­ic images of the human body hold a dis­tinct sta­tus as being reli­able medi­ums, even though we often don’t know, or par­tial­ly ignore, what kind of image it is and how it has been made (Canals 2020). This is true for visu­al­iza­tions that serve as ref­er­en­tial wit­ness – micro pho­tog­ra­phy, x‑rays, MRI, CT-scans or endo­scop­ic images – and “visu­al strate­gies” that put togeth­er data on the basis of syn­the­sis, order­ing knowl­edge in “abstract tableaus”, trans­form­ing it into cal­cu­la­ble fig­ures, graphs or dia­grams (Mer­sch 2006). They serve as evi­dence in clin­i­cal deci­sion mak­ing, as tool for gov­ern­men­tal prac­tices, and legit­imize poli­cies. Bod­ies are dis­sect­ed, screened and mea­sured, promis­ing trans­paren­cy (Strath­ern 2000), cre­at­ing a sense of “hyper cer­tain­ty” (Fox 2000), and fos­ter­ing the idea of med­i­cine as “exact sci­ence”. With this pan­el we aim to dis­cuss cur­rent modes of engag­ing with the human body visu­al­ly, exam­in­ing this fram­ing of bod­ies, beings – and lives in gen­er­al – as cal­cu­la­ble and pre­dictable. We want to exam­ine the ter­rain of both – the visu­al­iza­tions of dis­eases, and artic­u­la­tions of indi­vid­ual ill­ness expe­ri­ences, which have proven to be par­tic­u­lar­ly use­ful in sup­port­ing the patient-doc­tor com­mu­ni­ca­tion. We ask: how can we crit­i­cal­ly engage with image-mak­ing embed­ded in dis­cours­es of cer­tain­ty and trust? Fol­low­ing the Images of Care collective’s man­i­festo (Pieta and Favero 2023), we under­stand visu­al cul­ture – “how we see, how we are able, allowed, or made to see, and how we see this see­ing or the unseen there­in” (Fos­ter 1988:ix) – as being shaped by ongo­ing dia­logues between biol­o­gy, cul­ture and pol­i­tics. We invite schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers to present works, which explore bod­i­ly process­es, cor­po­re­al sen­sa­tions and ill­ness expe­ri­ences. We high­light an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary per­spec­tive, hop­ing to inspire dia­logue across pro­fes­sion­al bound­aries, invit­ing anthro­pol­o­gists who fol­low col­lab­o­ra­tive and exper­i­men­tal approach­es (For­tun et al. 2021), visu­al artists, health-care pro­fes­sion­als, and patient advocates.

More info: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
Con­tact: sophie.wagner@univie.ac.at

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