Veranstaltungskalender

„Läuft. Die Ausstel­lung zur Menstruation“

06.10.2023 bis 06.10.2024
Muse­um Europäis­ch­er Kul­turen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Etwa 2 Mil­liar­den Men­schen auf der Welt men­stru­ieren. Über 1,5 Mil­liar­den weit­ere Men­schen hat­ten ihre Peri­ode oder wer­den sie bekom­men. Seit rund 10 Jahren nun wird die Men­stru­a­tion in Europa öffentlich disku­tiert. Das MEK präsen­tiert die Ausstel­lung dazu.

„Läuft“ zeigt eine Geschichte des Prag­ma­tismus und der Utopi­en, des Erfind­ungsre­ich­tums und Aktivis­mus. Dafür ver­sam­melt die Ausstel­lung rund 100 his­torische und brand­neue Men­stru­a­tion­sar­tikel sowie Wer­beanzeigen. Schaubilder, Inter­views und Hands-On-Sta­tio­nen ver­mit­teln den aktuellen Wis­sens­stand. Mit knapp 200 All­t­ags­ge­gen­stän­den, Fotos, Grafiken, Zeitungsar­tikeln und Social-Media-Posts fächert die Ausstel­lung die Diskurse auf, die Men­stru­ierende seit Jahrzehn­ten begleit­en: Es geht um The­men wie Leis­tung, Peri­o­den­ar­mut, Müll, „Nor­mal­ität“, Naturver­bun­den­heit, Stim­mung und einige mehr – und natür­lich um Aktivis­mus! Denn im Zen­trum ste­hen die Stim­men und Erfahrun­gen von Men­stru­ieren­den selb­st. Wir laden dazu ein, ihnen in Inter­views zu lauschen und sich selb­st auszu­tauschen. Fil­mauss­chnitte, Musik und Kunst­werke run­den die Ausstel­lung ab.

Mehr Infos unter http://www.smb.museum/flow.

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Francesca Vaghi: “Any­thing that we can do to help, it’s got to be good”: the every­day prag­ma­tism of NHS charities
Well­come Cen­tre for Cul­tures and Envi­ron­ments of Health ad hoc seminar
Tues­day 29th Octo­ber 2025, 3–4:30pm (online and in-per­son in the Centre’s board­room in Queen’s Build­ing, Streatham Cam­pus, Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter).

Cri­sis no longer seems to rep­re­sent a momen­tary state of emer­gency, but rather an ongo­ing sit­u­a­tion that is con­tin­u­al­ly defin­ing our present. After over a decade of aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures in the UK, which have led to cuts in the pub­lic sec­tor and ris­ing pover­ty rates, NHS and oth­er char­i­ties have expand­ed. Exam­in­ing the work of these organ­i­sa­tions offers an inter­est­ing exam­ple of how the ‘mixed econ­o­my of wel­fare’ works in prac­tice, and how a his­tor­i­cal­ly blur­ry line with­in the NHS – between what should be state-fund­ed, or sim­ply an ‘add-on’ that can be pro­vid­ed via char­i­ta­ble or vol­un­tary means – is thought of and nav­i­gat­ed by dif­fer­ent peo­ple, at a time of extend­ed cri­sis. Draw­ing from an ethno­graph­ic case-study in an Eng­lish city and with an NHS char­i­ty, this talk explores the role of the char­i­ty in sup­ple­ment­ing health­care while also ful­fill­ing the role of a wel­fare ser­vice. I intro­duce the idea of every­day prag­ma­tism to explain people’s moti­va­tions to work, vol­un­teer, and fundraise for the NHS, informed by Cooper’s work on ‘every­day utopias’ (2014), and ‘pre­fig­u­ra­tion’ (2016; 2020), and Berlant’s Cru­el Opti­mism (2011). In doing so, I aim to call atten­tion to peo­ple active­ly doing what they can to improve the present moment through day-to-day prac­tices, while imag­in­ing, demand­ing, and wait­ing for a bet­ter future. As opposed to view­ing par­tic­i­pants as pas­sive­ly accept­ing, or defeat­ed by, the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, every­day prag­ma­tism rather seeks to illu­mi­nate how peo­ple nego­ti­ate ambiva­lence in an active and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry manner.

BIO:

Francesca Vaghi is Research Asso­ciate at the School of Social & Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Uni­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow. Work­ing with Pro­fes­sor Ellen Stew­art, she con­ducts research on the work of con­tem­po­rary NHS char­i­ties as part of the Bor­der Cross­ings project: https://more.bham.ac.uk/border-crossings/border-crossings/projects/ . Francesca com­plet­ed her PhD in Anthro­pol­o­gy at SOAS, Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don, in 2019. This inves­ti­gat­ed how chil­dren cre­ate self and peer iden­ti­ties through food and eat­ing prac­tices, how children’s food pol­i­cy fits into fam­i­ly inter­ven­tion poli­cies in the con­text of Britain’s mixed econ­o­my of wel­fare, and how notions of ‘good food’ and ‘good par­ent­ing’ (par­tic­u­lar­ly moth­er­ing) are inter­linked. Her the­sis is the basis for her recent (2023) mono­graph, Food Pol­i­cy and Prac­tice in Ear­ly Child­hood Edu­ca­tion and Care: Chil­dren, Prac­ti­tion­ers, and Par­ents in an Eng­lish Nurs­ery.

Link to book into the event here: “Any­thing that we can do to help, it’s got to be good”
Tick­ets, Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite

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Aca­d­e­m­ic paper work­shop and spe­cial issue on „The­o­riz­ing through the mun­dane: sto­ry­ing trans­for­ma­tions in healthcare”
Depart­ment of Soci­ol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich, Switzerland.
04–06.06.2025
Dead­line: 01.12 2024

Details:
As a ‘big sto­ry’ con­cern, trans­for­ma­tions in health­care abound: dig­i­tal­iza­tion and the intro­duc­tion of AI, major demo­graph­ic trans­for­ma­tions, antimi­cro­bial resis­tances, soar­ing health­care staff short­ages, the emer­gence of trans­gen­der care, the ‘cri­sis’ of mater­ni­ty and neona­tal care, and ever increas­ing health inequal­i­ties are just a few of them. This work­shop and spe­cial issue respond to such ‘big sto­ry’ con­cerns in health­care by the­o­riz­ing through ‘the mundane’.

STS has a long tra­di­tion – with dif­fer­ent begin­nings – of attend­ing to and the­o­riz­ing through ‘the mun­dane’. Think about for exam­ple the mun­dane­ness of infra­struc­tur­al work (Bowk­er and Star 1999), the fleet­ing­ly sub­tle ‘here-and-now’ (Ver­ran 1999), the every­day­ness of mar­gin­al­iz­ing ‘invis­i­ble work’ (Star/Strauss 1989) and Latour’s doorstop­per (Johnson/Latour 1988). More recent­ly, it has been cen­tral to ‘care stud­ies’ and ‘main­te­nance and repair stud­ies’ marked through an atten­tion to ‘dai­ly life matters’
and ‘tin­ker­ing’ (Mol et al. 2010), ‘exno­va­tion’ (Mes­man 2008), ‘every­day ethics’ (Pols 2023), the eas­i­ly deval­ued as ethico-polit­i­cal com­mit­ment (Puig de la Bel­la­casa 2011), and over­looked sit­u­a­tions that take place in inter­stices of rou­tine and break­down (Denis et al. 2015).

In this work­shop and spe­cial issue, we are draw­ing upon and extend­ing these rich STS accounts on ‘the mun­dane’ to empir­i­cal­ly inves­ti­gate, think about and exper­i­ment with how STS schol­ars can relate to and inter­vene in ‘trans­for­ma­tions’ in health­care. After, or in addi­tion to, the ana­lyt­i­cal sen­si­tiv­i­ties and con­cerns that have been devel­oped in the care debate (Lindén and Lydahl 2021; Mol, Moser, Pols 2021; Mar­tin, Myers, Viseu 2015; Puig de la Bel­la­casa 2011) and the field of val­u­a­tion stud­ies (Dus­sauge, Helges­son, Lee 2015), which have dom­i­nat­ed research on health­care in STS over the past decade, the spe­cial issue seeks to – empir­i­cal­ly, ana­lyt­i­cal­ly, and polit­i­cal­ly – take the next step. ‘The­o­ris­ing through the mun­dane’ offers a ver­sion of STS that stays respon­sive to the ways we are liv­ing, dying and car­ing for bod­ies and dis­eases, and their trans­for­ma­tions, in the first half of the 21st cen­tu­ry; it offers an STS that trans­forms with and through these ways now, here, and in the future.

The work­shop and spe­cial issue wel­comes papers with an empir­i­cal focus on health­care in the large sense. The con­tri­bu­tions will explore ques­tions such as:

– What counts as ‘mun­dane’ in par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tions, sites, prac­tices of healthcare?
– How does an atten­tion to ‘the mun­dane’ allow us to trans­form ‘big sto­ries’ about cur­rent trans­for­ma­tions in healthcare?
– How does ‘the mun­dane’ allow us to attend to modes of liv­ing and dying well?
– How to stay atten­tive to asym­met­ri­cal con­fig­u­ra­tions and the non-inno­cence of ‘the mundane’?
– How does the lens of the mun­dane trans­form and extend STS theorizing?

The work­shop will take place from the 4th to the 6th June 2025 at the Depart­ment of Soci­ol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich. Par­tic­i­pants need to sub­mit a paper draft before­hand, which will be dis­cussed dur­ing the work­shop. On the third day, we will engage in
alter­na­tive for­mats (walk­ing, writ­ing, etc.) to think through the mundane.

The spe­cial issue will be based on the work­shop and sub­mit­ted to a major STS jour­nal (cur­rent­ly envis­aged S&TS).

If this speaks to you and you are inter­est­ed in sub­mit­ting a con­tri­bu­tion to the work­shop and spe­cial issue or only to the spe­cial issue, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words before the 1st Decem­ber 2024 to: theorising_through_the_mundane@etik.com
If you have fur­ther ques­tions, do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. We are look­ing for­ward to receiv­ing your contribution.

Time­line:
2024 Decem­ber 1: Open call for con­tri­bu­tions closes
2024 Decem­ber 31: Deci­sions of edi­tors on who will par­tic­i­pate in work­shop and/or SI & com­mu­ni­ca­tion of deci­sion to applicants
2025 Begin­ning May: Sub­mis­sion of paper draft for workshop
2025 June 4–6: Work­shop in Zurich (day 1 & 2 for dis­cus­sion of paper drafts, day 3 with alter­na­tive for­mats for think­ing through the mundane)
2025 Sep­tem­ber 30: Sub­mis­sion paper to a major STS jour­nal (cur­rent­ly envis­aged: S&TS)

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Lio­ba Hirsch: „Antiblack­ness and Glob­al Health: A response to Ebo­la in the colo­nial wake”
3rd Decem­ber, 4–5.15 gmt

Dr Lio­ba Hirsch, Lec­tur­er in social anthro­pol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh

In this talk on her new book, Dr Lio­ba Hirsch will focus on the (post)colonial and antiblack pol­i­tics of glob­al health inter­ven­tions in West Africa, specif­i­cal­ly the 2014–2016 inter­na­tion­al response to the Sier­ra Leonean Ebo­la epi­dem­ic and how car­ing method­olo­gies can be used to work towards health justice.

This webi­nar is in per­son at LSHTM in G05 Kep­pel Street or online, fol­low­ing this link:

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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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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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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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“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 31^st 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 31^st 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 20^th 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 (13^th 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 (14–15^th 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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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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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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Call For Papers
Health Activism: Insti­gat­ing Change in Sys­tems of Care
Host­ed by Dr. Natashe Lemos Dekker and Dr. Maria Hagan
Cen­tre for Social Sci­ence in Glob­al Health, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam (UvA)
Thurs­day 20th & Fri­day 21st of Feb­ru­ary 2025 

Cracks and gaps in our health care sys­tems have been increas­ing­ly exposed in recent years, both in terms of these sys­tems’ capac­i­ty and in terms of restric­tions regard­ing whom they cater to and how. These frail­ties have been empha­sised in moments of cri­sis such as the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, but also emerge out of shift­ing polit­i­cal land­scapes which seek to restrict the rights of women, asy­lum seek­ers and peo­ple with a dis­abil­i­ty, among many oth­ers. Against this socio-polit­i­cal back­drop, revived and new­ly emerg­ing forms of health activism can be dis­tin­guished. In many coun­tries around the world, health care pro­fes­sion­als, infor­mal care­givers, and those in need of care are active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ing in move­ments and col­lec­tive actions, to address injus­tices and exclu­sion, and to fill the gaps in exist­ing health care systems.
This work­shop seeks to spark con­ver­sa­tion around acts of care and social protest, pay­ing close atten­tion to how pro­fes­sion­al and infor­mal care­givers (rang­ing from doc­tors and nurs­es to patients, fam­i­lies and sol­i­dar­i­ty actors) engage in forms of activism and gal­vanise move­ments to address health con­cerns and stim­u­late change in (pub­lic) health sys­tems. We are inter­est­ed in how health activism move­ments come into being in dif­fer­ent glob­al con­texts, and how they impact (strength­en or inter­fere with) ver­nac­u­lar modes of cop­ing with ill­ness, dis­abil­i­ty, injury and loss. Togeth­er, we will inter­ro­gate how health activism impacts nation­al health poli­cies and sys­tems, and how such ini­tia­tives trav­el beyond geo­graph­i­cal boundaries. 

As part of the event, med­ical and envi­ron­men­tal anthro­pol­o­gist Dr. Alex Nad­ing will join us as a keynote speak­er. He will give a pub­lic lec­ture on Thurs­day the 20th of Feb­ru­ary between 15:00 and 17.00. Dr. Nad­ing is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of Mos­qui­to Trails: Ecol­o­gy, Health, and the Pol­i­tics of Entan­gle­ment (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Press 2014) and of The Kid­ney and the Cane: Plan­e­tary Health and Plan­ta­tion Labor in Nicaragua, which will be pub­lished with Duke Uni­ver­si­ty Press in 2025. keynote speak­er. He will give a pub­lic lec­ture on Thurs­day the 20th of Feb­ru­ary between 15:00 and 17.00. Dr. Nad­ing is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of Mos­qui­to Trails: Ecol­o­gy, Health, and the Pol­i­tics of Entan­gle­ment (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Press 2014) and of The Kid­ney and the Cane: Plan­e­tary Health and Plan­ta­tion Labor in Nicaragua, which will be pub­lished with Duke Uni­ver­si­ty Press in 2025.

By bring­ing exam­ples of health activism ini­tia­tives from dif­fer­ent con­texts into con­ver­sa­tion, we aim to shed light on the dif­fer­ent ways in which these move­ments are sparked, how they oper­ate and insti­gate change. The mul­ti-sit­ed think­ing devel­oped through­out the work­shop will form the basis for a con­crete dis­cus­sion on how col­lab­o­ra­tive knowl­edge-build­ing might stim­u­late practice. 

Papers may include, but are not lim­it­ed to, the fol­low­ing top­ics (all region­al focus­es are welcome): 

– Grass­roots ini­tia­tives pro­vid­ing (health)care to under-resourced areas and under­served communities
– Con­tem­po­rary or his­tor­i­cal stud­ies of social move­ments around issues of health inequal­i­ty and disability
– Inter­sec­tions of health, (in)justice, and the emer­gence of social movements
– Prac­tices of “patient”-led advo­ca­cy and activism
– Prac­tices of care and advo­ca­cy by pro­fes­sion­al care providers with­in spaces of care (hos­pi­tals, clin­ics, health cen­tres, homes, safehouses…) 

We will ask par­tic­i­pants to cir­cu­late short papers before the work­shop, so we can famil­iarise our­selves with each other’s work ahead of time. The work­shop will be organ­ised in the­mat­ic ses­sions deter­mined accord­ing to the papers we receive, and each par­tic­i­pant will short­ly present their work (15–20 min­utes) fol­lowed by com­ments and dis­cus­sion. In sum, the work­shop will map diverse forms of health activism by bring­ing togeth­er a selec­tion of local­ized accounts. Hon­ing in on the polit­i­cal lay­ered­ness of glob­al health poli­cies and prac­tices, it will shed light on the poten­tial val­ue for glob­al health pro­grammes to engage with local-lev­el ini­tia­tives. These con­ver­sa­tions will also form the basis for an online publication. 

If you are inter­est­ed in tak­ing part in the work­shop, please send an abstract (max. 200 words) of the paper you would like to con­tribute to the work­shop. Please send this to Maria Hagan (m.h.hagan@uva.nl) and Natashe Lemos Dekker (n.lemosdekker@uva.nl) by Mon­day the 25th of Novem­ber 2024. Appli­cants will be noti­fied of accep­tance by Mon­day the 2nd of Decem­ber 2024.
Lunch will be pro­vid­ed on both days of the work­shop. Trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion costs, how­ev­er, unfor­tu­nate­ly can­not be covered.
This event is sup­port­ed by a 2024 Social Sci­ence in Glob­al Health (SSGH) small grant. 

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Call for papers in the „Med­ical Cri­tique in Hash­tags? Chron­ic Health Con­di­tions on Social Media” at the STS-Hub
Berlin
11–14.03.2025
Dead­line: 31.10.2024

The aim of the pan­el to dis­cuss the role of social media as a plat­form for gen­er­at­ing aware­ness and form­ing inter­est groups around med­ical cri­tique. In par­tic­u­lar, the pan­el wants to explore chron­ic health con­di­tions that receive inad­e­quate atten­tion with­in the estab­lished (bio)medical sys­tem, such as ADHD and autism in women, endometrio­sis, ME/CFS, and/or Long COVID. 

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Revi­tal­iz­ing Applied Anthropology
85th Annu­al Meeting
March 25–29, 2025
Hilton Port­land Down­town Port­land, OR

The SfAA Annu­al Meet­ing pro­vides an invalu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for schol­ars, prac­tic­ing social sci­en­tists, and stu­dents from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines and orga­ni­za­tions to dis­cuss their work and brain­storm for the future. It is more than just a con­fer­ence: it’s a rich place to trade ideas, meth­ods, and prac­ti­cal solu­tions, as well as enter the life­world of oth­er pro­fes­sion­als. SfAA mem­bers come from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines — anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, eco­nom­ics, busi­ness, plan­ning, med­i­cine, nurs­ing, law, and oth­er relat­ed social/behavioral sci­ences. Make 2025 the year you’ll spend a few days pre­sent­ing, learn­ing, and net­work­ing in Port­land, OR, with the SfAA.

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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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Call for papers for the ASA 2025 con­fer­ence „Crit­i­cal Junc­tions: Anthro­pol­o­gy on the Move”
8th-11th of April 2025 in Birm­ing­ham, England.
Pan­el titled „Between Dis­par­i­ties and Neglect: Anthro­po­log­i­cal Approach­es to minor­i­ty health and Wellbeing”
Dead­line for Pan­el propo­si­tions is 23:59 GMT on 18th Novem­ber 2024.

Pan­el description

This pan­el aims to explore the com­plex inter­sec­tions of health, well­be­ing, and mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion, focus­ing on how anthro­pol­o­gy, includ­ing crit­i­cal med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy the­o­ries and method­olo­gies, can exam­ine the lived expe­ri­ences of minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties fac­ing health dis­par­i­ties world­wide. Con­tri­bu­tions will crit­i­cal­ly exam­ine both the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties inher­ent in con­duct­ing research with mar­gin­alised groups, par­tic­u­lar­ly in con­texts where sys­temic neglect, dis­crim­i­na­tion and socio­cul­tur­al fac­tors con­tribute to sig­nif­i­cant inequities in health out­comes. Through ethno­graph­ic stud­ies, com­mu­ni­ty-engaged research, and crit­i­cal analy­sis, the dis­cus­sion will address diverse top­ics, includ­ing access to health­care, men­tal well­be­ing, the impact of his­tor­i­cal trau­ma, and the role of alter­na­tive care prac­tices in pro­mot­ing resilience, among oth­ers. The pan­el is also inter­est­ed in address­ing the eth­i­cal impli­ca­tions of aca­d­e­m­ic research with vul­ner­a­ble pop­u­la­tions, engag­ing in a crit­i­cal dia­logue on how to ensure that research prac­tices do not per­pet­u­ate harm and inequal­i­ties but instead con­tribute to social jus­tice and empow­er­ment. By cen­tring the debate on minor­i­ty voic­es and per­spec­tives, this pan­el aims to pro­vide a nuanced under­stand­ing of how anthro­pol­o­gy can help address and mit­i­gate health dis­par­i­ties, high­light­ing both the poten­tial for pos­i­tive change and the respon­si­bil­i­ties that come with such work.

More infor­ma­tion on the Pan­el (Code: P07) and the full pro­gramme for the event can be found here

Call for Papers here

If you have any ques­tions, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us via the web­page plat­form or email. 

Muriel Lamar­que: M.Lamarque@shu.ac.uk

Sadiq Bhanbhro : S.Bhanbhro@shu.ac.uk

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Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments
Pan­el for the ASA UK con­fer­ence in Birmingham
8–11^th April 2025

We’re aim­ing to bring togeth­er ethno­graph­ic insights from the field of anthro­pol­o­gy of ethics with applied anthro­pol­o­gy in the con­text of health.

Short Abstract

This pan­el explores ethno­graph­i­cal­ly how ethics shapes health-seek­ing behav­iours and how health ser­vices may design care path­ways that accom­mo­date diverse moral world­views. Eth­i­cal frame­works and lived expe­ri­ence ‑espe­cial­ly in sit­u­a­tions of pre­car­i­ty- shape how peo­ple nav­i­gate health services.

Long Abstract

Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments.

To pro­vide ade­quate ser­vices, health providers and civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions need for their care path­ways to be adapt­ed to the real­i­ty of health-seek­ing prac­tices.  In turn, in super­di­verse envi­ron­ments, advice and health-seek­ing dif­fers between social groups (accord­ing to gen­der, income, race and eth­nic­i­ty, migra­tion sta­tus and so on). In cir­cum­stances of extreme pre­car­i­ty – cost of liv­ing cri­sis, in-pover­ty employ­ment, racism and dis­crim­i­na­tion, etc.- uncer­tain­ty and lived expe­ri­ence play a major role (Mac­Gre­gor et al 2020).

Peo­ple do not behave in a pre­dict­ed lin­ear fash­ion sole­ly accord­ing to their socio-demo­graph­ic char­ac­ter­is­tics, but rather expe­ri­ence pre­car­i­ous life and deal with emer­gent and unex­pect­ed chal­lenges and pri­or­i­ties of an uncer­tain envi­ron­ment (Al-Moham­mad and Pelu­so 2012). In turn peo­ple prac­tice moral nav­i­ga­tion, adapt­ing and reassess­ing their val­ues, pri­or­i­ties and health deci­sions as their ther­a­peu­tic itin­er­ary unfolds, rather than fol­low­ing fixed path­ways (White and Jha 2021).

People’s eth­i­cal frame­works – how they behave as eth­i­cal agents, moral­ly bound to oth­ers (their peers, their fam­i­lies, etc.)- shape how peo­ple seek health advice and their deci­sions when engag­ing with health providers and pub­lic ser­vices (Ripoll et al 2022).

This pan­el is seek­ing ethno­graph­ic papers that con­tribute to the fol­low­ing questions:

• How do people’s moral and eth­i­cal demands shape their health-seek­ing practices?
• Do peo­ple face moral conun­drums when decid­ing to make par­tic­u­lar deci­sions in health care or in and how do they
• What role does uncer­tain­ty and emer­gence play in this moral nav­i­ga­tion of health services?
• How do health ser­vice providers take into account people’s moral lives when assess­ing people’s nav­i­ga­tion of health services?
• Can care path­ways be adapt­ed to the dif­fer­ent moral world­views of the peo­ple they wish to sup­port through the health system?

This pan­el will aim to bring togeth­er ethno­graph­ic insights from the field of anthro­pol­o­gy of ethics with applied anthro­pol­o­gy in the con­text of health.

To pro­pose a paper, please do so through the ASA web­site. https://theasa.org/conferences/asa2025/programme#15931

Ref­er­ences

Al-Moham­mad, H., & Pelu­so, D. (2012). Ethics and the “rough ground” of the every­day: the over­lap­pings of life in postin­va­sion Iraq. HAU: Jour­nal of Ethno­graph­ic The­o­ry, 2(2), 42–58.

Mac­Gre­gor, H., Ripoll, S., & Leach, M. (2020). Dis­ease out­breaks: nav­i­gat­ing uncer­tain­ties in pre­pared­ness and response. Tay­lor and Francis.

Ripoll, S., Ouvri­er, A., Hryn­ick, T., & Schmidt-Sane, M. (2022). Vac­cine Equi­ty in Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Urban Set­tings. A com­par­a­tive analy­sis of local gov­ern­ment and com­mu­ni­ty action, con­tex­tu­alised polit­i­cal economies, and moral frame­works in Mar­seille and London

White, S. C., & Jha, S. (2021). Moral nav­i­ga­tion and child fos­ter­ing in Chi­awa, Zam­bia. Africa, 91(2), 249–269.

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„Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments”
8–11.04.2025
Birm­ing­ham, UK
More Info: https://theasa.org/conferences/asa2025/programme#15931

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„Social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion: Entan­gled con­cepts on the move in med­ical research, prac­tice, and policy”
Pan­el at the upcom­ing ASA 2025 con­fer­ence tak­ing place in
8–11 April
Birmingham

Social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion: Entan­gled con­cepts on the move in med­ical research, prac­tice, and pol­i­cy will be a pan­el exam­in­ing the entan­gling of social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion in med­ical research, prac­tice, and pol­i­cy, broad­ly con­ceived (pun intend­ed). We invite anthro­po­log­i­cal works which con­sid­er these rela­tions today, espe­cial­ly via the social repro­duc­tion of kin­ship, par­ent­hood, or tech­nolo­gies of relat­ed­ness. The long abstract with more infor­ma­tion is pro­vid­ed below.

The dead­line for abstracts is Novem­ber 18th. Abstracts may be sub­mit­ted by fol­low­ing this link.

Con­venors:

Tay­lor Riley (Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege London)
Olga Dolet­skaya (Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege London)

Long abstract:

Bio­log­i­cal and social repro­duc­tion are deeply entan­gled (Rapp and Gins­burg 1991) and repro­duc­tion is always a con­cept on the move. ‘Social repro­duc­tion’ has been tak­en up wide­ly in fem­i­nist research as both the under­val­ued labour that sus­tains human life and the labour that repro­duces social sys­tems and rela­tions. What repro­duc­tion and kin­ship are bio­log­i­cal­ly is co-repro­duced with their legal, eco­nom­ic, and cul­tur­al mean­ings. As assist­ed repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies (ARTs) become, though uneven­ly, more ordi­nary (Franklin 2013), entwined con­cepts of social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion con­tin­ue to travel.

In their close atten­tion to human expe­ri­ences and rela­tions, anthro­po­log­i­cal approach­es, such as bioethnog­ra­phy (Roberts and Sanz 2017), are well-suit­ed to trace these trav­els today. Pop­u­la­tion stud­ies such as birth cohorts are invest­ed in the busi­ness of bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion along­side the social repro­duc­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion that keeps stud­ies alive. The pro­lif­er­a­tion of ARTs like in vit­ro game­to­ge­n­e­sis will neces­si­tate social­ly repro­duced changes to con­cepts of relat­ed­ness. Repro­duc­tive jus­tice is impli­cat­ed in the above and oth­er examples—how do these social repro­duc­tions deny or grant access to per­son­hood or care, espe­cial­ly for those who are mar­gin­al­ized? Can kin­ship be post-genom­ic in these con­texts, or only elsewhere?

We invite works using ethno­graph­ic meth­ods to dis­cuss bio­log­i­cal and social repro­duc­tion with ref­er­ence to bio­med­ical dis­cours­es and/or insti­tu­tions, health poli­cies, pop­u­la­tion research, and/or the worlds of sci­ence and med­i­cine, broad­ly defined. Papers could e.g. focus on:

• Stud­ies of conception/birth, maternal/infant health, fam­i­lies, and/or parenting
• Genet­ic or epi­ge­net­ic research and/or policies
• Repro­duc­tive health research and/or policies
• ARTs
• Med­ical­ized fer­til­i­ty and/or infertility

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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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Call for Pan­els: RAI FILM Online Con­fer­ence 2025: „Where Are We Now? Visu­al and Mul­ti­modal Anthropology”
28 April – 2 May 2025 (Online only)

RAI FILM and the Film Com­mit­tee of the Roy­al Anthro­po­log­i­cal Insti­tute invites pan­el, round­table, and work­shop pro­pos­als on any facet of visu­al, mul­ti­sen­so­ry and mul­ti­modal Anthro­pol­o­gy. We want to redou­ble our efforts to achieve a bet­ter and more sus­tain­able future for all by learn­ing more about how anthro­pol­o­gists are using these meth­ods to respond to glob­al chal­lenges of our times. We encour­age pre­sen­ta­tions that explore emer­gent method­olo­gies and inter­ac­tive approach­es. We offer an inclu­sive forum to explore cre­ative and inno­v­a­tive approach­es, dis­cuss col­lab­o­ra­tive and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry meth­ods and tack­le prac­ti­cal problems.
Pos­si­ble areas of con­tem­po­rary inter­est might be dia­logues between emer­gent and exist­ing forms of film mak­ing; AI and chang­ing tech­nolo­gies (extend­ed real­i­ty (XR); sto­ry­telling and nar­ra­tive, indige­nous film­mak­ing; ani­ma­tion, and aesthetics.
In addi­tion to this open call, we are also look­ing to high­light the glob­al chal­lenges for visu­al and mul­ti­modal anthro­pol­o­gy. We ask how visu­al and mul­ti­modal meth­ods can help to address the glob­al chal­lenges of our times. We want to learn how anthro­pol­o­gists are using visu­al and mul­ti­modal tools to respond to issues such as inequal­i­ty, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, pover­ty, cli­mate change, war, and jus­tice. We wel­come engage­ment with top­ics such as food and hunger, water, migra­tion, forced dis­place­ment, extrem­ism and intol­er­ance, social inequal­i­ties, men­tal health, dis­abil­i­ty, dis­crim­i­na­tion and geno­cide, peace and jus­tice, cli­mate change and sus­tain­abil­i­ty, renew­ables and just economies.
This vir­tu­al con­fer­ence sits along­side the RAI FILM Fes­ti­val which is a bien­ni­al inter­na­tion­al event cel­e­brat­ing the best in doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ing from around the globe and estab­lished in 1985 by the Roy­al Anthro­po­log­i­cal Insti­tute (UK). The fes­ti­val show­cas­es new work from aca­d­e­m­ic anthro­pol­o­gists and relat­ed dis­ci­plines, and from film­mak­ers at all lev­els of expe­ri­ence from stu­dents to pro­fes­sion­als. It looks for fear­less films that ask dif­fi­cult ques­tions, build bridges, seek redress and pro­mote social jus­tice and dialogue.

To see our two most recent edi­tions see: https://festival.raifilm.org.uk/

RAI FILM Fes­ti­val 2025 will cel­e­brate our 40th anniver­sary both in per­son and online:  https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-film-festival-2025/

In per­son film fes­ti­val – 27–30 March 2025 at Water­shed & Arnolfi­ni, Bris­tol UK
Screen­ings, gala events, work­shops and talks
Fes­ti­val films avail­able online through­out April 2025
Stream­ing 80 films avail­able 24/7 worldwide
RAI FILM Con­fer­ence – 28 April‑2 May 2025
Keynotes, pan­els, round­table, work­shops and paper presentations

Join us to explore the crit­i­cal role of visu­al and mul­ti­modal anthro­pol­o­gy in address­ing con­tem­po­rary glob­al issues. Sub­mit your pro­pos­als and con­tribute to a dynam­ic and inclu­sive forum for inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative schol­ar­ly exchange.

Pan­el Sub­mis­sion Guidelines:

1. Pan­el, Round­table, and Work­shop Proposals:

• Title: Con­cise and descriptive.
• Short Abstract: a (very) short abstract of less than 300 characters,
• Long Abstract: a long abstract of 250 words

2. Impor­tant Dates:

• Call for Pan­els Clos­es: 1 Octo­ber 2024
• Call for Papers Opens: 1 Novem­ber 2024
• Call for Papers Clos­es: 17 Jan­u­ary 2025
• Reg­is­tra­tion Opens: 24 Feb­ru­ary 2025

To Sub­mit: All pro­pos­als must be made via an online form https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/raiff2025/panel-form

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Call for Papers for the work­shop “Queer Phar­ma: Exper­i­men­ta­tions in Bod­ies, Sub­stances, Affects”
June 4–6, 2025
Schwules Muse­um Berlin & Freie Uni­ver­sität Berlin
Co-orga­nized by Han­sjörg Dil­ger and Max Schnepf 

Queer Phar­ma: Exper­i­men­ta­tions in Bod­ies, Sub­stances, Affects

Aca­d­e­m­ic work­shop with a pub­lic keynote by Kane Race (Pro­fes­sor of Gen­der and Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney) & an artis­tic ses­sion led by Tomás Espinosa

Abstract sub­mis­sion: Novem­ber 24, 2024
Noti­fi­ca­tions of accep­tance: Decem­ber 6, 2024
Pre-cir­cu­la­tion of paper drafts (3.000 words): May 4, 2025

Exper­i­men­ta­tions with phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sub­stances cra­dle queer poten­tial – bod­ies and organ­isms trans­form, rela­tions shift, emo­tions swell or fade into qui­etude. With capac­i­ties to inter­vene in life’s process­es, drugs and med­i­cines are not mere­ly prod­ucts of ‘Big Phar­ma,’ but agents of uncan­ny pos­si­bil­i­ty. How might we imag­ine minor ‘phar­mas’ in ten­sion with or on the mar­gins of the dom­i­nance, epit­o­mized by the cap­i­tal­ized ‘Big’? Tak­ing Queer Phar­ma as a coun­ter­point, this work­shop invites sub­mis­sions that ethno­graph­i­cal­ly engage with uncer­tain­ties and impro­vi­sa­tions in exper­i­ment­ing with bod­ies, sub­stances, and affects – whether through drug use or oth­er phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal prac­tices (Race 2009, 2018). What new mate­r­i­al and affec­tive con­stel­la­tions might emerge if we were to focus on exper­i­men­ta­tion as a queer prac­tice? […]

You can find the full CFP attached and also HERE.

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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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Call for papers for a spe­cial issue on: Con­tem­po­rary Changes in Med­ical­ly Assist­ed Repro­duc­tion: The Role of Social Inequal­i­ty and Social Norms
Social Inclu­sion Journal

Dead­line for Abstracts: 15.10.2025
Dead­line for Papers: 30.03.2025

Social Inclu­sion, peer-reviewed jour­nal indexed in the Social Sci­ences Cita­tion Index (Web of Sci­ence; Impact Fac­tor: 1.4) and Sco­pus (CiteScore: 3.5), wel­comes new and excit­ing research papers for its upcom­ing issue „Con­tem­po­rary Changes in Med­ical­ly Assist­ed Repro­duc­tion: The Role of Social Inequal­i­ty and Social Norms,” edit­ed by Anne-Kristin Kuh­nt, Jörg Rös­sel, and Heike Trappe.

Since, in 1978, the first baby con­ceived by in vit­ro fer­til­iza­tion was born, fur­ther tech­no­log­i­cal advances, like egg freez­ing, pre-implan­ta­tion diag­nos­tics, and gene edit­ing (CRISPR) have rev­o­lu­tion­ized the con­di­tions for human fer­til­i­ty. This the­mat­ic issue focus­es on how the social con­text, in par­tic­u­lar social inequal­i­ties and social norms, shapes atti­tudes towards these tech­nolo­gies, their use, and their impact. We are inter­est­ed in arti­cles that explore how atti­tudes and pub­lic dis­course on these tech­nolo­gies are shaped by pre­vail­ing gen­der norms and moral ori­en­ta­tions in societies.

Authors inter­est­ed in sub­mit­ting a paper to this issue are encour­aged to read the full call for papers here

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