Konferenz

Am 2. und 3. Dezem­ber 2024 ver­anstal­tet die U Bre­men Research Alliance in Koop­er­a­tion mit JUST ADD AI, dem Trans­ferzen­trum für kün­stliche Intel­li­genz BREMEN.AI und dem Inte­gri­erten Gesund­heitscam­pus Bre­men (IGB) das zum drit­ten Mal stat­tfind­ende „Bre­mer Sym­po­sium AI in Health“. Hier wer­den die neuesten Entwick­lun­gen und inno­v­a­tiv­en Ansätze im Bere­ich der Kün­stlichen Intel­li­genz für die Gesund­heitsver­sorgung vorgestellt und über die Zukun­ft der Gesund­heitsver­sorgung und den trans­for­ma­tiv­en Beitrag von dig­i­tal­en Tech­nolo­gien, ins­beson­dere von KI, disku­tiert. Diese Ver­anstal­tung bringt Experten aus Wis­senschaft, Poli­tik, Wirtschaft und Prax­is für einen gemein­samen Dia­log zusam­men sowie für den Wis­senstrans­fer in die Gesellschaft.

Die Teil­nahme ist kosten­los. Bitte reg­istri­eren Sie sich bis zum 21. Novem­ber 2024 für eine Teil­nahme am Sym­po­sium: https://www.uni-bremen.de/research-alliance/event-registration/registrierung-ai-in-health-02-und-03-dezember-2024

Das i2b meet-up „AI 4 Health im Nord­west­en” am Mon­tag, 2. Dezem­ber 2024, ist Teil des Sym­po­siums AI in Health, bedarf allerd­ings ein­er sep­a­rat­en Anmel­dung: https://i2b.guestoo.de/public/event/48af50e8-e5e5-46c4-94fc-5f4be14a9bc5?lang=de

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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.

SEAIP 2024 Fly­er (1)

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.

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Call for Papers: New The­o­ries and Meth­ods for Work­ing with ‘Devel­op­men­tal’ Neu­romed­ical Dif­fer­ence and Health
Online via Zoom
16 Decem­ber 2024
Abstract Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: 4 Novem­ber 2024

This sym­po­sium address­es the need for inno­v­a­tive research meth­ods and the­o­ries that crit­i­cal­ly engage with research based on lived expe­ri­ence, and con­front the implic­it ableism and Euro­cen­trism embed­ded in bio­med­ical con­cep­tions of neu­romed­ical conditions.

Sym­po­sium Focus
We aim to explore the inter­sec­tion of epis­te­mol­o­gy, ontol­ogy, and ethics in rela­tion to neu­romed­ical con­di­tions or dif­fer­ences that are con­sid­ered devel­op­men­tal in ori­gin. These con­di­tions may be approached as expe­ri­ences, research objects, or polit­i­cal identities.
A key exam­ple of this debate involves autism and the diver­gent approach­es in autism research. While one approach seeks treat­ments or cures for what are seen as indi­vid­ual deficits at the lev­el of sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, the oth­er sup­ports par­tic­i­pa­to­ry and eman­ci­pa­to­ry research led by or with autis­tic indi­vid­u­als. In the sec­ond approach, autis­tic per­son­hood and sub­jec­tiv­i­ty are not ques­tioned and the focus is instead on iden­ti­fy­ing socio­cul­tur­al bar­ri­ers to thriv­ing. This sym­po­sium will con­sid­er whether resolv­ing these dis­agree­ments can be ame­lio­rat­ed by fur­ther empir­i­cal work or if they are fun­da­men­tal­ly nor­ma­tive (eth­i­cal and/or polit­i­cal or even cosmopolitical).
Themes and Questions
We invite dis­cus­sions on whether neu­romed­ical diag­noses inher­ent­ly involve claims to uni­ver­sal epis­temic per­spec­tives or defin­i­tive eth­i­cal judg­ments, and who holds the author­i­ty to speak about neu­romed­ical expe­ri­ences and neu­ro­di­ver­gent sub­jec­tiv­i­ty. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in mov­ing beyond Euro­cen­tric frame­works to include social­ly diverse under­stand­ings of health, per­son­hood, and agency.
The sym­po­sium seeks to chal­lenge the pre­vail­ing bio­med­ical nar­ra­tives, ques­tion­ing whether we can move past dis­agree­ments root­ed in Euro­cen­tric con­texts and under­stand­ings of health and marginalization.
Call for Contributions
The sym­po­sium con­venors, Dr. Anna Sten­ning and Dr. Cinzia Gre­co, seek con­trib­u­tors who can offer insights into devel­op­ing the­o­ries and meth­ods that enhance the reflex­iv­i­ty of empir­i­cal research on glob­al­ly occur­ring neu­romed­ical con­di­tions or dif­fer­ences across diverse regions and positionalities.

We encour­age papers on the fol­low­ing indica­tive themes:
Empirical:

Con­tri­bu­tions that:

• Analyse the exist­ing knowl­edge and claims to knowl­edge with­in the debates and con­tro­ver­sies around neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal con­di­tions, and analyse how these are mobilised with­in the debates.
• Explore the appar­ent Catch 22 between pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy­ing as autis­tic but strug­gling with health.

Theoretical/philosophical:

Con­tri­bu­tions that:

• Explore how dif­fer­ent empir­i­cal prac­tices (prag­ma­tism, pos­i­tivism, hermeneu­tics) pro­duce dif­fer­ent kinds of knowl­edge claims and con­se­quences for action.
• Iden­ti­fy the polit­i­cal and eth­i­cal posi­tions with­in the debates and advance the under­stand­ing of the polit­i­cal context.
  Explore whether efforts to cat­e­go­rize or diag­nose con­di­tions such as autism involve claims to a uni­ver­sal or objec­tive per­spec­tive on human experience.
• Explore how dif­fer­ent approach­es to research and inter­ven­tion reflect under­ly­ing eth­i­cal and polit­i­cal val­ues. For exam­ple, is there an implied eth­i­cal or polit­i­cal claim to pri­or­i­tize lived expe­ri­ence and auton­o­my over med­ical or deficit-based per­spec­tives, and on what basis is this claim made?

Sub­mis­sion Guidelines

Please sub­mit an abstract includ­ing a title and a 350-word sum­ma­ry of your pro­posed talk, which should be approx­i­mate­ly 20 min­utes in duration.

Par­tic­i­pa­tion

The sym­po­sium will be held online, with syn­chro­nous and asyn­chro­nous (pre-record­ed) par­tic­i­pa­tion avail­able to accom­mo­date dif­fer­ent time zones and acces­si­bil­i­ty needs.
Par­tic­i­pants will be invit­ed to con­tribute to an edit­ed inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lec­tion of essays on this theme with work com­menc­ing in 2025.
We look for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tions to this impor­tant and time­ly discussion.

Please send your abstracts to Dr. Anna Sten­ning anna.c.stenning@durham.ac.uk and con­tact Dr. Cinzia Gre­co cinzia.greco@manchester.ac.uk

For fur­ther inquiries, please con­tact anna.c.stenning@durham.ac.uk.

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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 31^st 2024.

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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)

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Das 42. Stuttgarter Fort­bil­dungssem­i­nar des Insti­tuts für Geschichte der Medi­zin des Bosch Health Cam­pus befasst sich mit Gefühlen und Sin­nen in der Geschichte der Medi­zin. Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen haben die Möglichkeit, Poten­tiale in diesen Forschungs­feldern in ver­schiede­nen Epochen und Regio­nen auszu­loten und ihre eige­nen Pro­jek­te zu präsentieren.
42. Stuttgarter Fortbildungsseminar

Gefüh­le und Sinne sind keine ahis­torischen Kon­stan­ten, son­dern kul­turell und his­torisch wan­del­bar. Forschungsar­beit­en aus der Sinnes- und der Emo­tion­s­geschichte haben es ein­drück­lich gezeigt: Gefüh­le und Sinne haben und machen Geschichte.

Angst, Liebe, Ekel oder Trauer sind an den jew­eili­gen his­torischen Kon­text rück­ge­bun­den, brin­gen ihn zugle­ich aber auch her­vor. Gefüh­le existieren in einem Span­nungs­feld zwis­chen indi­vidu­eller kör­per­lich­er Erfahrung und gesellschaftlich­er Kon­struk­tion. So gren­zten sich alter­na­tivmedi­zinis­che Akteurs­grup­pen auf dem medi­zinis­chen Markt durch emo­tionale Zuschrei­bun­gen wie ärztliche „Oper­a­tionswut“ und „wis­senschaftliche Kälte“ von der „schul­medi­zinis­chen“ Prax­is ab. Aus patien­tengeschichtlich­er Per­spek­tive sind Gefüh­le und Emo­tio­nen über­aus wichtig, nicht zulet­zt, wenn sie von den gesellschaftlichen Nor­mvorstel­lun­gen abwichen und pathol­o­gisiert wur­den. Auch der Wan­del medi­zinis­ch­er Behand­lungsmeth­o­d­en hat­te Auswirkun­gen auf die Emo­tio­nen von Patient:innen. So ver­schob bspw. die Ein­führung und Ver­bre­itung von Narkoti­ka die Äng­ste der Behan­del­ten von den Schmerzen zu einem Kontrollverlust.

Ger­ade in der Vor­mod­erne spielte die sen­sorische Wahrnehmung bei der Beurteilung von Gesund­heit und Krankheit eine entschei­dende Rolle. Der Gesund­heit­szu­s­tand von Patient:innen kon­nte durch bloßes Anse­hen des Urins während der Harn­schau beurteilt wer­den. Ansteck­ende Krankheit­en sowie das tod­brin­gende Mias­ma kon­nten hinge­gen gerochen wer­den. Doch auch in der Mod­erne blieben Sinne in der Medi­zin zen­tral, beispiel­sweise das Ertas­ten von schmerzen­den Kör­per­re­gio­nen für die Selb­st­di­ag­nose oder das Hören mit Hil­fe eines Stethoskops für die Diag­nose durch medi­zinis­ches Fachpersonal.

Über diese inhaltlichen The­matiken hin­aus lässt sich aber auch grund­sät­zlich über die Chan­cen und Her­aus­forderun­gen eines emo­tions- oder sin­neshis­torischen Ansatzes für die medi­zingeschichtliche Forschung nach­denken. Wie lassen sich die bei­den eigen­ständi­gen und in den let­zten Jahren höchst dynamis­chen Forschungs­felder in einen Dia­log brin­gen? Auf welche begrif­flichen Konzepte und welche Quellen lässt sich zurück­greifen, um die Rolle von Sin­nen und Gefühlen in der Medi­zingeschichte zu untersuchen?

Für das 42. Stuttgarter Fort­bil­dungssem­i­nar 2025 sollen diese Prob­lematiken mit unter­schiedlichen Ansätzen und Meth­o­d­en für ver­schiedene Epochen und Regio­nen beleuchtet werden.

Als Vorschlag und Anre­gung sind fol­gende The­menge­bi­ete denkbar:

Patient:innengefühle: Welche Gefüh­le bracht­en Patient:innen im Laufe der Geschichte mit der medi­zinis­chen Behand­lung in Verbindung? Welchen Ein­fluss hat­te dies auf das Ver­hält­nis von Ärzt:innen, anderen Gesund­heits­berufen und Patient:innen? Lässt sich etwa von ver­schiede­nen „emo­tion­al com­mu­ni­ties“ (Rosen­wein) sprechen?

Geschlecht, Sinn und Gefühl: Inwiefern lassen sich geschlechtsspez­i­fis­che Nor­men, Zuschrei­bun­gen und Deu­tun­gen in Bezug auf Sinne und Gefüh­le in der Medi­zingeschichte feststellen?

Sen­sorik in der Medi­zin: Welche Sinneswahrnehmungen spiel­ten und spie­len bei der Beurteilung von Krankheit und Gesund­heit eine Rolle? Lassen sich epochenüber­greifende Kon­stan­ten und zen­trale Zäsuren aus­machen? Welche Per­spek­tiv­en eröffnet die Sin­nes­geschichte nicht zulet­zt für eine Geschichte der Medi­zin, die über den Men­schen hinausdenkt?

Gefüh­le und Sinne in der Wis­senspro­duk­tion: Welche Rolle spiel­ten men­schliche (und tier­liche) Gefüh­le und Sinne für die Pro­duk­tion von medi­zinis­chem Wis­sen? Inwiefern bee­in­flussen Emo­tio­nen auch die Arbeit von Medi­z­in­his­torik­er: innen?

Pathol­o­gisierung von Gefühlen und Sin­nen: Gefühlsre­gun­gen, die im jew­eili­gen Zeitkon­text von der „Nor­mal­ität“ abwichen, wur­den oft­mals als Krankheit­en gedeutet. Dabei war der Über­gang von „gesund“ zu „krank“ fließend und hing von ganz unter­schiedlichen Fak­toren ab. Welche waren das? Lassen sich für bes­timmte Epochen spez­i­fis­che „Gefühlsregime“ (Red­dy) ausmachen?

Andere, dem The­ma im weitesten Sinne ver­wandte Fragestel­lun­gen und Pro­jek­te sind eben­falls willkommen.

Das Stuttgarter Fort­bil­dungssem­i­nar des Insti­tuts für Geschichte der Medi­zin des Bosch Health Cam­pus unter­schei­det sich von klas­sis­chen Fach­ta­gun­gen. Es ist ein inter­diszi­plinäres Forum für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen, dessen zen­trale Anliegen der Aus­tausch und die inhaltliche Auseinan­der­set­zung mit dem The­ma der Tagung vornehm­lich in his­torisch­er Per­spek­tive sind. Der Fokus liegt daher auf inno­v­a­tiv­en method­is­chen Herange­hensweisen, neuen Fragestel­lun­gen und Ideen und weniger auf per­fekt aus­gear­beit­eten Präsen­ta­tio­nen. So dient die Tagung auch der Ver­net­zung von Forschen­den in einem frühen Sta­di­um ihrer Karriere.

Vor Beginn der Tagung wer­den die Abstracts zu den einzel­nen Vorträ­gen an alle Teil­nehmenden ver­sandt, um eine bessere Vor­bere­itung zu ermöglichen. Erwün­scht ist die Anwe­sen­heit während der gesamten Tagung, um inhaltliche Bezüge zwis­chen den Beiträ­gen zu ermöglichen.

Das Sem­i­nar find­et vom 07.04. bis 09.04.2025 in Stuttgart statt.

Ablauf
Die Auswahl der Beiträge, die Gestal­tung des endgülti­gen Pro­gramms und die Mod­er­a­tion der Sek­tio­nen liegen in den Hän­den ein­er Vor­bere­itungs­gruppe (Sara Müller, Tere­sa Schenk, Dirk Mod­ler, Pierre Pfütsch). Die Auswahl der Teil­nehmenden wird durch die Vor­bere­itungs­gruppe anhand anonymisiert­er Vorschläge vorgenommen.

Für jeden Beitrag sind 45 Minuten einge­plant, wobei max. 20 Minuten für den Vor­trag zur Ver­fü­gung ste­hen und 25 Minuten für die Diskus­sion. Bei Arbeits­grup­pen (vorzugsweise zwei Per­so­n­en) erhöht sich das Zeit­bud­get für den Vor­trag und die anschließende Diskus­sion auf eine Stunde. Die Tagungssprache ist Deutsch, einzelne Vorträge kön­nen allerd­ings auch auf Englisch gehal­ten wer­den. Die Teil­nahme wird vom Insti­tut für Geschichte der Medi­zin des Bosch Health Cam­pus finanziert. Dies schließt die Über­nach­tun­gen, gemein­same Mahlzeit­en und Bah­n­reisen 2. Klasse (in Aus­nah­me­fällen gün­stige Flüge) ein. Kosten für eine Anreise per PKW wer­den nicht erstattet.

Anmeldung
Ein Exposé von max. ein­er Seite, aus dem Titel, Fragestel­lung, Meth­o­d­en, ver­wen­dete Quellen und mögliche Thesen/Ergebnisse her­vorge­hen, sowie eine Kurzvi­ta, senden Sie bitte bis zum 12. Jan­u­ar 2025 per E‑Mail (gerne als Word-Datei) an Dr. Pierre Pfütsch pierre.pfuetsch@igm-bosch.de.

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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

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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

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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).

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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).

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