Veranstaltungen

Workshop

11. – 26. Feb 2024

Ethics seminars for 2024

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Offered by the St. André Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter for Ethics and Integri­ty (France)

St. André Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter for Ethics and Integri­ty is pleased to announce the fol­low­ing Ethics sem­i­nars for 2024

Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Con­tri­bu­tions from the Arts and Human­i­ties (Feb­ru­ary 11–17, 2024, in Rome, Italy)

Ethics Edu­ca­tors Work­shop (Sep­tem­ber 16–20, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avi­gnon, France) 

Bioethics Col­lo­qui­um (Sep­tem­ber 23–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avi­gnon, France)

Health Care Ethics: Catholic Per­spec­tives (Octo­ber 22–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avi­gnon, France)

More info here

If you are inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing or have ques­tions about the sem­i­nars, please con­tact Dr. Jos Welie MA, MMeds, JD, PhD, FACD direct­ly: info[at]saintandre.org.

Fly­er-StAI­CEI 2024 seminars

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23. – 26. Sep 2024

„Transition in Health”

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Work­shop at VANDA (Vien­na Anthro­pol­o­gy Days) 2024

Work­shop „Tran­si­tion in Health”
VANDA (Vien­na Anthro­pol­o­gy Days) Con­fer­enceni in Vienna
Sep­tem­ber 23–26, 2024
Eva-Maria Knoll, Mal­go­rza­ta Rajtar
Dead­line: 01.06.2024

Anthro­pol­o­gy has long been pre­oc­cu­pied with tran­si­tion. Tran­si­tions, famous­ly cap­tured by Van Gennep’s “rites of pas­sage” or Turner’s con­cept of “lim­i­nal­i­ty”, punc­tu­ate human life, which is embed­ded in cul­ture and soci­ety. Tran­si­tion may also serve as a lens to ana­lyze change and adap­ta­tion in soci­ety (e.g. Hasan 2023) and was exten­sive­ly used in the con­text of post­so­cial­ism (e.g. Buyan­del­geriyn 2008). Build­ing on this long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of anthro­po­log­i­cal engage­ment with the con­cept of tran­si­tion, this work­shop invites social sci­ence, in par­tic­u­lar ethno­graph­ic con­tri­bu­tions focus­ing on spa­tial, struc­tur­al, and tem­po­ral aspects of tran­si­tions in the med­ical field. In med­i­cine, tran­si­tion is e.g. under­stood as a “mul­ti-dimen­sion­al process, involv­ing patients, care­givers, providers, and the med­ical sys­tem as a whole” (Cheng et al. 2021). Due to the devel­op­ment of med­ical tech­nolo­gies and treat­ment modal­i­ties, an increas­ing num­ber of peo­ple with chron­ic and/or rare dis­eases reach adult­hood and expe­ri­ence a tran­si­tion from pedi­atric to adult care (Jae 2018). In some instances, this is unchart­ed ter­ri­to­ry for both patients and care providers. Tran­si­tions, as pas­sages of change, may also be expe­ri­enced on a mun­dane lev­el by patients who change their dietary and/or drug reg­i­mens or by health per­son­nel who climb the med­ical career lad­der. We encour­age ethno­graph­i­cal­ly ground­ed analy­ses that address both large-scale tran­si­tions and mun­dane moments of tran­si­tion in health and health­care. We are also inter­est­ed in papers exam­in­ing failed tran­si­tions or tran­si­tions that had to be abandoned. 

Details: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/

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9. – 10. Okt 2024

Sweden-oriented meeting for Medicine and Health Phd Students

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Meet­ing at Umea Uni­ver­si­ty, Sweden

23. Okt 2024

Solidary pharma? Contemporary proposals for pharma reform in the European Union

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Online webi­nar

Online Webi­nar: Sol­idary phar­ma? Con­tem­po­rary pro­pos­als for phar­ma reform in the Euro­pean Union
23rd of October
3:00 – 4:30 pm CET

Reg­is­tra­tion: Please reg­is­ter to receive a link to the webi­nar. The link will be sent to you by e‑mail a few days before the webinar.

Details: At this webi­nar, we will dis­cuss and com­pare two cur­rent pol­i­cy pro­pos­als that include calls for more sol­idary prac­tices in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor: 1) The ‘Pan­dem­ic Treaty’ that is cur­rent­ly nego­ti­at­ed, tabled by the Pres­i­dent of the Euro­pean Coun­cil in autumn 2021 and car­ried for­ward by the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion, and 2) the Euro­pean Commission’s pro­pos­al for reg­u­la­to­ry reform that address­es the autho­riza­tion and super­vi­sion of med­i­c­i­nal prod­ucts pub­lished in spring 2023.

These reg­u­la­to­ry mea­sures seem to devel­op through sep­a­rate process­es and are rarely dis­cussed togeth­er. How­ev­er, they share sim­i­lar aims of pro­vid­ing for more equi­table access and the shar­ing of crit­i­cal med­ical resources inter­na­tion­al­ly – albeit by dif­fer­ent pol­i­cy mea­sures. We seek to iden­ti­fy the over­laps and dis­crep­an­cies between the two pol­i­cy pro­pos­als and reflect on what aca­d­e­mics and civ­il soci­ety togeth­er might do to help direct them toward glob­al solidarity.

Three dis­tin­guished speak­ers will pro­vide a short intro­duc­tion to the pol­i­cy reforms and set the scene for discussion:

- Prof. Susi Geiger, Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Dublin
– Sara Rafael Almei­da, Pol­i­cy Offi­cer, Euro­pean Commission
– Jaume Vidal, Senior Pol­i­cy Advi­sor, Health Action International

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12. – 13. Dez 2024

“Testing under crisis / Testing the crises”

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In Per­son Work­shop at Nation­al and Kapodis­tri­an Uni­ver­si­ty of Athens

Work­shop on “Test­ing under cri­sis / Test­ing the crises”
Nation­al and Kapodis­tri­an Uni­ver­si­ty of Athens
12–13 Dec 2024

A pub­lic health cri­sis, espe­cial­ly an epi­dem­ic, and the responses
for­mu­lat­ed to address it are inter­wo­ven with a wide range of medical,
social and polit­i­cal inter­ven­tions. The aim of the CrisisTesting
Inter­na­tion­al Work­shop is to bring togeth­er nov­el per­spec­tives with
regards to the study of pub­lic health crises by attend­ing to the role
of the devel­op­ment and use of diag­nos­tic tests, to the emer­gence of a
mul­ti­tude of test­ing prac­tices and to the mate­ri­al­i­ties associated
with test­ing infrastructure.

By bring­ing into dia­logue inter­dis­ci­pli­nary per­spec­tives from the
his­to­ry of sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and med­i­cine, the social sci­ences, the
medical/health human­i­ties, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Stud­ies, Media
Stud­ies and oth­er rel­e­vant fields, we would like to explore the
sig­nif­i­cance and cru­cial role of test­ing for med­ical prac­tice and
pub­lic health pol­i­cy-mak­ing. The work­shop has a dou­ble focus. On the
one hand, it explores the social appro­pri­a­tions of test­ing in diverse
set­tings and pub­lic health crises.[1] On the oth­er hand, it
inves­ti­gates pos­si­ble rad­i­cal changes in the his­to­ry and the sociology
of test­ing prac­tices, be it either about test­ing that “occurs inside
the social envi­ron­ment” or about test­ing that “involves the very
mod­i­fi­ca­tion of social environments”.[2]

We invite con­tri­bu­tions that address, but are not lim­it­ed to, the
fol­low­ing research questions:

● How test­ing is being used by governments/public health
author­i­ties to inform pub­lic health inter­ven­tions and to mea­sure their
performance?

● How can we bet­ter under­stand the sociotech­ni­cal trade­offs of
test­ing dur­ing a crisis?

● How does the design of the test­ing infra­struc­ture favor
cer­tain pub­lic health poli­cies in rela­tion to the allo­ca­tion of
avail­able resources? Does the con­fig­u­ra­tion of test­ing, afford­ed by
tech­no­log­i­cal infra­struc­ture, respond to the dynam­ics of health
crises?

● How do cas­es of con­test­ed test­ing prac­tices affect public
health pol­i­cy and the appro­pri­a­tions of test­ing in society?

● What hap­pens in cas­es of dis­rup­tion to the sup­ply of
con­sum­ables that affect test­ing capac­i­ty? How does the avail­abil­i­ty or
lack of test­ing resources and asso­ci­at­ed infra­struc­ture impact
clin­i­cal prac­tice and pol­i­cy-mak­ing dur­ing a crisis?

● In which ways test­ing (and screen­ing) shapes subjectivities
and col­lec­tive iden­ti­ties? How are the notions of health and illness
being (re)shaped by testing?

● How dif­fer­ent uses of test­ing and dif­fer­ent tests are being
pro­mot­ed, judged or chal­lenged by pub­lic health author­i­ties and the
media in the con­text of sci­ence communication?

● In which ways the social pref­er­ences are reflect­ed in the
bal­anc­ing between the lev­el of test­ing speci­fici­ty and sensitivity?

This is the first of two work­shops to be orga­nized in the con­text of
the research project “Test­ing under cri­sis, a his­to­ry from HIV/AIDS to
Covid-19: between pub­lic debates and health poli­cies – CrisisTesting”
(2024–25). The aim of these work­shops is to pro­vide a space for
dis­cus­sion and mean­ing­ful exchanges on the afore­men­tioned top­ics. Our
plan is to pub­lish an edit­ed vol­ume with con­tri­bu­tions addressing
diverse aspects of med­ical test­ing in the con­text of pub­lic health
crises. The sec­ond Work­shop will take place in autumn 2025.

Those inter­est­ed in pre­sent­ing their work, please send your abstract
(approx. 250 words) and a brief bio­graph­i­cal note (approx. 150 words)
to crisistesting@phs.uoa.gr by the 10th of Sep­tem­ber 2024. The two-day
work­shop will take place in the premis­es of the Nation­al and
Kapodis­tri­an Uni­ver­si­ty of Athens and it is an in-per­son event.
Par­tic­i­pa­tion is cost-free; the refresh­ments and meals are cov­ered by
the orga­niz­ers. In excep­tion­al cas­es, we will try to accommodate
hybrid solu­tions (vir­tu­al participation).

The work­shop is orga­nized by the research team mem­bers of the
Cri­sis­Test­ing project: Kate­ri­na Vlan­toni (Prin­ci­pal Investigator),
assis­tant pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Phi­los­o­phy and His­to­ry of
Sci­ence, NKUA; Athana­sios Bar­la­gian­nis, researcher in the Mod­ern Greek
His­to­ry Research Cen­tre, Acad­e­my of Athens; Eiri­ni Mergoupi-Savaidou,
post­doc­tor­al researcher; Mar­ile­na Pat­er­a­ki, post­doc­tor­al researcher;
and, Kostas Rap­tis, post­doc­tor­al researcher.

[1] Beaudevin, C., Berlivet, L., Boudia, S., Bour­gain, C., Cassier,
M., Gaudil­lière, J‑P., & Löwy, I. (2021). ‘Test, Test, Test!’:
Scarci­ty, Tin­ker­ing, and Test­ing Pol­i­cy Ear­ly in the COVID-19 Epidemic
in France. Med­i­cine Anthro­pol­o­gy The­o­ry, 8(2), 1–31.
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.8.2.5116

[2] Mar­res, N., & Stark, D. (2020). Put to the test: For a new
soci­ol­o­gy of test­ing. The British jour­nal of soci­ol­o­gy, 71(3),
423–443. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468–4446.12746

Details: https://crisistesting.gr/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CfP-CrisisTestingWorkshop.pdf

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13. – 15. Dez 2024

The Biopolitics of Global Health after COVID-19

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PhD stu­dents only cross-dis­ci­pli­nary in-per­son work­shop in New Delhi 

CfP „The Biopol­i­tics of Glob­al Health after COVID-19”
Decem­ber 13, 14, and 15, 2024
Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line: August 31, 2024

PhD stu­dents world­wide from across the social sci­ences and human­i­ties are wel­come to sub­mit abstracts relat­ed to (re-)emergent modes of gov­er­nance and the gov­er­nance of health and ill­ness dur­ing and after the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. Dur­ing the work­shop, we will reflect on recon­fig­u­ra­tions of the notion of „glob­al” health and the reshap­ing of care infrastructures.

Stu­dents may respond to either of the fol­low­ing top­ics, regard­less of their aca­d­e­m­ic train­ing or discipline:

Local real­i­ties of the (post-)pandemic land­scape: This pan­el has an ethno­graph­ic focus, zoom­ing in on sit­u­at­ed con­fig­u­ra­tions of health, ill­ness, and gov­er­nance dur­ing and after COVID-19.

The (post-)pandemic biopol­i­tics of glob­al health: This pan­el has a biopo­lit­i­cal focus, invit­ing con­cep­tu­al reflec­tions on social care, pow­er, ter­ri­to­ri­al­iza­tions, pop­u­la­tions, and cit­i­zen­ship; explor­ing the bioso­cial forms of life emerg­ing dur­ing and after the pandemic.

Please see the attached CfP for fur­ther details.

Sub­mis­sion Details:

Sub­mit your abstracts to: escavanblarikom@gmail.com; tcc9@cornell.edu; yasmeen.arif@snu.edu.in

Work­shop Schedule:

Decem­ber 13: Pub­lic event and keynote in cen­tral Del­hi; din­ner will be provided.
Decem­ber 14–15: Round­ta­bles and stu­dent pre­sen­ta­tions; accom­mo­da­tion and hos­pi­tal­i­ty on cam­pus (Shiv Nadar Uni­ver­si­ty) will be provided.

We are able to offer lim­it­ed trav­el sup­port for stu­dents trav­el­ing from out­side of India and with­in India. Please note that this sup­port may not ful­ly cov­er roundtrip expens­es for inter­na­tion­al students.

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13. – 15. Dez 2024

The Biopolitics of Global Health after COVID-19

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New Del­hi-based workshop

“The Biopol­i­tics of Glob­al Health after COVID-19”
Decem­ber 13,14, and 15th, 2024
New Delhi

Shiv Nadar and Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty are excit­ed to invite doc­tor­al stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate in our upcom­ing work­shop in New Del­hi, India, explor­ing “The Biopol­i­tics of Glob­al Health after COVID-19”.

 

Call for Papers: “The Biopol­i­tics of Glob­al Health after COVID-19”

 Doc­tor­al stu­dents from around the globe are wel­come to sub­mit a 500-word abstract respond­ing to one of two themes, as explained below, before the dead­line of the 31st of August 2024.

 The Work­shop

 The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic threw tak­en-for-grant­ed notions into (tem­po­rary) dis­ar­ray; reter­ri­to­ri­al­iz­ing imag­i­na­tions of “glob­al” health, sharp­en­ing neo­colo­nial rela­tions and divides, trans­form­ing hemi­spher­ic vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties and recon­fig­ur­ing the gov­er­nance of ill­ness and health. At the same time, one year after the WHO stopped con­sid­er­ing COVID-19 a glob­al health emer­gency, the longer-term effects of the event of the pan­dem­ic have not yet ful­ly been account­ed for.

Our New Del­hi-based work­shop, tak­ing place in-per­son on Decem­ber 13,14, and 15th, 2024, will be a cross-cul­tur­al and trans­dis­ci­pli­nary lab­o­ra­to­ry of think­ing about where the pan­dem­ic has left us and what could be future vec­tors of con­cern. A dou­ble foun­da­tion grounds the over­all project – biopo­lit­i­cal approach­es and locat­ed anthro­po­log­i­cal work. Few con­cepts gained as much trac­tion in reflect­ing on the pan­dem­ic as “biopol­i­tics”, as the rela­tions between “life” and “pol­i­tics” were rapid­ly recon­fig­ured in the wake of emer­gency mea­sures the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic insti­gat­ed. At the same time, “biopol­i­tics” soon became a con­tentious con­cept, divid­ing schol­ars in var­i­ous ways across the polit­i­cal spec­trum in the (post-)pandemic glob­al health are­na. The chal­lenges were many, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to under­stand­ing immu­ni­ties anew and rethink­ing gov­er­nance under crises. Anthro­po­log­i­cal efforts across the world revised con­cepts such as care, social infra­struc­tures, and community.

Through a biopo­lit­i­cal frame­work in con­ver­sa­tion with anthro­po­log­i­cal and soci­o­log­i­cal per­spec­tives, this work­shop will enable a much-need­ed con­ver­sa­tion between philo­soph­i­cal inter­ven­tions and empir­i­cal research. Rather than smooth­ing over the fault lines that appeared in biopo­lit­i­cal think­ing and among anthro­po­log­i­cal delib­er­a­tions in par­tic­u­lar geo­gra­phies and ecolo­gies dur­ing and post-COVID-19, we want to take these rup­tures as a fer­tile start­ing point for a renewed, col­lab­o­ra­tive con­ver­sa­tion, inves­ti­gat­ing poten­tial­ly changed per­cep­tions of ill­ness, health, sci­ence, soci­ety and ethics.

The work­shop intends to assem­ble schol­ars from across the human­i­ties and social sci­ences to rethink the notion of biopol­i­tics from the ruins of glob­al health in the post-pan­dem­ic era. Engag­ing researchers from around the globe, we intend to inves­ti­gate how the pan­dem­ic has recast under­stand­ing of the gov­er­nance of health and pop­u­la­tions in the glob­al south and north.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing stu­dents are invit­ed to engage in dis­cus­sions with peers work­ing on post-pan­dem­ic biopol­i­tics and glob­al health, as well as with the work­shops’ round­table pan­el mem­bers, who will pro­vide reflec­tions and ques­tions on their work – offer­ing stu­dents an oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with lead­ing inter­na­tion­al schol­ars on biopol­i­tics and glob­al health.

 The Work­shops Themes

 We invite respons­es focus­ing on two themes, enabling a com­par­a­tive analy­sis of pan­dem­ic real­i­ties to emerge.

Theme 1: “Local real­i­ties of the (post-)pandemic landscape”

On the first day of the work­shop, we will zoom in on sit­u­at­ed con­fig­u­ra­tions of health, ill­ness and gov­er­nance. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in con­tri­bu­tions that engage with the pandemic’s impact on care infra­struc­tures and insti­tu­tions, as well as social respon­sive­ness. Con­tri­bu­tions to this theme may be ethno­graph­ic or focus on con­text-spe­cif­ic nar­ra­tives, events, spaces or expe­ri­ences. The aim here is to pro­vide snap­shots of (post-)pandemic life.

Sub­mis­sions to this theme may engage with one or sev­er­al of the fol­low­ing questions:

  1. How has the pan­dem­ic recon­fig­ured rela­tions of care and gov­er­nance between doc­tors and patients, insti­tu­tions and sub­jects; and among neigh­bors and citizens?
  2. How can we under­stand, crit­i­cize and/or work with nov­el modes of sur­veil­lance, forms of cit­i­zen­ship, and pop­u­la­tion groups emerg­ing through the event of the pandemic?
  3. How can we reflect on the spe­cif­ic tem­po­ral­i­ties brought about by the pan­dem­ic and after, includ­ing the blur­ring of the notions of cri­sis and chronic­i­ty; aging, the end of life, death and dying; and the expe­ri­ence of the everyday?

Theme 2: “The (post-)pandemic biopol­i­tics of glob­al health”

On the sec­ond day of the work­shop, we will reflect on the biopol­i­tics of post-pan­dem­ic glob­al health with a focus on the con­cep­tu­al or the­o­ret­i­cal plane. Here, we are keen to receive con­tri­bu­tions tak­ing a dis­tinct­ly philo­soph­i­cal and ana­lyt­i­cal approach, pro­vid­ing con­cep­tu­al reflec­tions on top­ics such as the social, care, pow­er, ter­ri­to­ri­al­iza­tions, pop­u­la­tions, and cit­i­zen­ship. These reflec­tions will fur­ther a com­par­a­tive dis­cus­sion, explor­ing the bioso­cial forms of life emerg­ing dur­ing and after the pandemic.

Sub­mis­sions for this sec­ond theme may respond to the fol­low­ing ques­tions or relat­ed themes:

  1. „What does ‚glob­al’ mean, specif­i­cal­ly in the con­text of ‚glob­al health,’ when con­sid­er­ing the dif­fer­ent impacts at both ter­ri­to­r­i­al and local lev­els dur­ing and after the pandemic?
  2. How, if at all, has the pan­dem­ic recon­fig­ured the domain of the social and the bound­aries of pop­u­la­tion groups; in oth­er words, trans­formed the object of biopolitics?
  3. What nov­el or renewed dimen­sions of liv­ing and dying, and affil­i­at­ed forms of social and gov­er­nance infra­struc­tures, have emerged dur­ing and after the pandemic?

Sub­mis­sion guidelines:

Inter­est­ed stu­dents are invit­ed to sub­mit an abstract (max. 500 words) before the 31st of August 2024.

Sub­mis­sions must clear­ly indi­cate which theme they are respond­ing to. Stu­dents from dif­fer­ent back­grounds are encour­aged to respond to any of the two themes regard­less of their dis­ci­pli­nary training.

We will let par­tic­i­pants know about our deci­sion by the 20th of Sep­tem­ber 2024. 

Queries about the work­shop or the sub­mis­sion process may be sent to:

escavanblarikom@gmail.com

Sub­mis­sion may be sent to:

escavanblarikom@gmail.com; tcc9@cornell.edu; yasmeen.arif@snu.edu.in

 

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty and audience

Doc­tor­al stu­dents from across the globe work­ing in the social sci­ences and human­i­ties on relat­ed top­ics are wel­come to sub­mit abstracts. The work­shop audi­ence will con­sist of inter­na­tion­al schol­ars and non-aca­d­e­mics who work in fields relat­ed to the biopol­i­tics of glob­al health post-COVID-19.

The first day (13th of Dec) will be a pub­lic event at a cen­tral venue in Del­hi, din­ner is includ­ed in that event. Accom­mo­da­tion and hos­pi­tal­i­ty on cam­pus dur­ing the final two days (14–15th of Dec) of the work­shop will be provided.

We are able to offer lim­it­ed trav­el sup­port for stu­dents trav­el­ing from out­side of India as well as with­in India. Please indi­cate in your sub­mis­sion whether you would like to be con­sid­ered for this support.

The full stu­dent’ papers will be uploaded to the wider project’s dig­i­tal repos­i­to­ry (Cor­nell eCom­mons) after the workshop.

 

 

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20. – 21. Feb 2025

Composing Coexistence: Challenges in Research on More-than-Human Health

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In per­son work­shop at Bern­hard Nocht Insti­tute for Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine in Hamburg

Doc­tor­al work­shop „Com­pos­ing Coex­is­tence: Chal­lenges in Research on More-than-Human Health”
20–21 Feb 2025
Bern­hard Nocht Insti­tute for Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine in Hamburg
Orga­nized by the research group Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy at the BNITM

Envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ters and the (re-)emergence of infec­tious dis­eases require human health to be con­sid­ered in rela­tion to the health of ani­mals and the envi­ron­ment. A grow­ing num­ber of social sci­en­tists inves­ti­gate mul­ti­species con­tact zones and how these are bound up with anthro­pogenic process­es, such as cli­mate change, land use, resource exploita­tion, pol­lu­tion and tox­i­c­i­ty. Their stud­ies have had an enor­mous impact on the devel­op­ment of bioso­cial approach­es to mul­ti­species relations.

Anthro­po­log­i­cal ambi­tions to com­pose coex­is­tence in a sen­si­tive way are high­er than ever. How­ev­er, mul­ti­species researchers face sev­er­al chal­lenges and bar­ri­ers, for exam­ple with regard to inter- or trans­dis­ci­pli­nary work. While empha­siz­ing the inter­con­nect­ed­ness of humans, ani­mals and the envi­ron­ment, con­cepts like ‘One Health’ or ‘Plan­e­tary Health’ ulti­mate­ly revolve around ques­tions of human health and well-being. As a result, anthro­pocen­tric and human excep­tion­al­ist approach­es are often pro­mot­ed, neglect­ing the per­spec­tives and needs of non-human beings. How can social sci­en­tists debunk such approach­es? How can we ensure that we do not repro­duce these per­spec­tives? How can we address issues of trans­la­tion, advo­ca­cy and agency con­cern­ing non-human beings?

With this work­shop, we seek to address doc­tor­al researchers from the social sci­ences and human­i­ties with a keen inter­est in the study of more-than-human health. Over two days, we will present and dis­cuss our research projects, and engage in cre­ative exer­cis­es con­sid­er­ing cur­rent debates on mul­ti­species method­olo­gies and relat­ed obsta­cles. Fur­ther­more, we are delight­ed that Gior­gio Broc­co (Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na) will give a talk on chem­i­cal­i­ty and tox­i­c­i­ty in the plan­ta­tion world of the French Caribbean.

We warm­ly wel­come appli­ca­tions from doc­tor­al stu­dents who are at an ear­ly stage of their research or in the post-field­work phase. As ear­ly-career researchers, our aim is to cre­ate a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment where we can strength­en our research top­ics and con­nect with researchers who share an inter­est in explor­ing the entan­gle­ments between human, ani­mal and envi­ron­men­tal health.

The work­shop will be held in Eng­lish. If you would like to par­tic­i­pate, please send a descrip­tion of your research project (max. 750 words) and your aca­d­e­m­ic CV to vivien.barth(at)bnitm.de or to erik.zillmann(at)bnitm.de by 30 Sep­tem­ber 2024.

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