Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Angela Frederick
Vortrag
Online Lecture
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Angela Frederick
20th May 2025
In September 2023, we launched an online ‘Disability & Climate: In conversation with…’ series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of the Sensing Climate project, led by the University of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events
Join us on Tuesday 20th May 2025, 7–8.30pm BST (12–1.30pm Central Time) for a conversation with Angela Frederick, Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at El Paso. Angela is author of the forthcoming book, ‘Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster’. During our session, Angela will discuss and share findings from the book, drawing on interviews she conducted with 57 Texas residents with disabilities and parental caregivers who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis. She will reflect on how disability vulnerability was produced in the storm through a policy process that ‘disabled’ vital infrastructure, including power, water, and emergency services, while also discussing the importance of „disabled power”; the individual and collective resilience that disabled Texans exercised to survive the disaster. Read more about the session online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/angela-frederick Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fiPgXuGmaZ
If the sign-up forms are not accessible to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.
Andreas Heinz: Das kolonialisierte Gehirn – Zum Verständnis psychischer Krankheit im historischen Wandel
Vortrag
Vortrag in Wien, Österreich
Andreas Heinz (Charité Berlin): Das kolonialisierte Gehirn – Zum Verständnis psychischer Krankheit im historischen Wandel
Montag 2. Juni 2025, 18:00 Uhr
Josephinum – Historischer Hörsaal, Währinger Straße 25, 1090 Wien
Gibt es Zusammenhänge zwischen Vorstellungen über das Gehirn und den Kolonialismus? Konzepte psychischer Krankheit und Gesundheit stehen immer im jeweiligen historischen Kontext. Für das Verständnis psychischer Erkrankungen bedeutet dies, dass die um 1900 entwickelten Theorien auch koloniale, geschlechts- und altersbezogene Hierarchien auf das Gehirn und seine Funktionen projizierten. Psychische Erkrankungen wurden dementsprechend als evolutionärer Abbau, Degeneration oder Regression auf eine vermeintlich primitive Stufe verstanden, die angeblich bei den Bewohnern der Kolonien, aber auch bei Kindern und in manchen Theorien auch bei Frauen beobachtbar seien. Gegen diese Abwertung vermeintlich primitiver Verhaltensweisen erhebt sich eine Reihe kritischer Einwände, die von der Romantisierung bis zum strukturellen Vergleich unterschiedlicher Lebensweisen reichen, und die selbst wieder von den sozialen Bewegungen ihrer Zeit beeinflusst sind. Auseinandersetzungen um hierarchische Modelle psychischer Funktionsfähigkeiten und ihrer Verortung im Gehirn prägen bis heute das Verständnis psychischer Erkrankungen.
Andreas Heinz ist Senior Professor an der Universität Tübingen. Er studierte Medizin, Anthropologie und Philosophie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Freien Universität Berlin und der Howard University, Washington, D.C. 2002 bis 2025 war er Direktor der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Charité Campus Mitte. 2018 bis 2022 war er Sprecher des Sonderforschungsbereiches TR 265 sowie 2023 bis 2025 des Deutschen Zentrums für psychische Gesundheit. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Lernmechanismen bei Psychosen und Suchterkrankungen sowie Fragen der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie.
*) Die Neuburger Lectures sind eine Vortragsreihe des Institutes für Ethik, Sammlungen und Geschichte der Medizin der Medizinischen Universität Wien und des Josephinums. Sie sind dem Neurologen, Medizinhistoriker und Gründer des Wiener Institutes für Medizingeschichte, Max Neuburger, gewidmet.
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Raven Cretney
Vortrag
Online Lecture
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Raven Cretney
10th July 2025
In September 2023, we launched an online ‘Disability & Climate: In conversation with…’ series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of the Sensing Climate project, led by the University of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events
We’re delighted to be joined on Thursday 10th July, 8.30–10am BST (7.30–9pm in New Zealand) by Raven Cretney, Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Raven’s research focuses on collective action and policy change relating to post-disaster and environmental issues. Her work spans several topics, including managed retreat and climate adaptation, the role of community scale action and leadership in catalysing environmental change, and the evolution of activism and social movements. In our session, Raven will discuss opportunities for disability-led climate adaptation, the possibilities for learning from past events and the need for careful navigation of crisis politics in building solidarity across and within communities. Read more about the session online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/raven-cretney Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fVr6ESpM4h
If the sign-up forms are not accessible to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.
“Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Panel
Hybrid Lecture
CfP for a panel on “Shifting states and their histories in institutional care”
Anthrostate conference “Shifting States”
22–24 October, 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
✨No registration fee, in-person only. (EASA network on Anthropologies of the State conference)
If the panel abstract below resonates with your research and you would like to join a bunch of friendly people, please send your abstract to Kristine Krause k.krause@uva.nl
The final panel including abstracts need to be submitted 11 April, so we would like have your abstract the latest 9th April.
Junior and PhD researchers particularly welcome.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Shifting states and their histories in institutional care
The anthropology of the state has long argued that states do not exist as coherent units out there but are articulated in practices, spaces and effects. One of the key spaces in which states have effects on their citizens are care institutions. They respond to crucial needs of humans; for instance as places where sicknesses are treated and frail bodies are taken care of. They can also curate major transitions such as birth and death. Care institutions such as hospitals or nursing homes are places defined by particular and persistent forms of interaction. These forms – where and how things are done, when and by whom – have often coagulated over time. They are backed up by legitimations which are not easy to question, because they are part of other non-tangible societal institutions, such as gendered division of labour, kinship and family ideologies which are specific to historically grown care and health regimes. These regimes as part of state governance can bear traces of pasts such as colonial rule, political regimes shifts or specific biopolitical projects of care and control. Institutional care can also be provided by non-state actors on behalf of the state including non-profit, religious or charity organisations but also commercial or even corporatized actors. The reasons why these actors perform or have taken over these tasks, have again their own histories often related to shifts in ways of governance of welfare state regimes.
This panel brings together papers that explore how shifting states and their histories come back resurface, or take unexpected forms within the spaces and practices of institutional care. The papers examine how historical legacies shape and haunt caregiving interactions, institutional routines, and the narratives and positionalities of those involved in these care settings. In asking how these pasts are articulated, linger on or are represented in care institutions this panel understands history not as something waiting to be discovered in the background, but as actively brought up, mobilized and presented in the field or articulated by the ethnographer. The past then becomes “history” through practices of actors in the field or through the analytical work of the ethnographer who identifies history as an absent presence in the studied situation or practice. The paper in this panel interrogate the constitutive moments where history appears, or is brought up in institutional care settings, asking, which positionings, generational memories and narratives become articulated therein.
Organized by the ReloCare Team & friends from the University of Amsterdam
(Mariusz Sapieha, Matouš Jelínek, Veronika Prieler, Shahana Siddiqui , Yuan Yan and Kristine Krause)
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