Läuft. Die Ausstellung zur Menstruation
Ausstellung
Ausstellung im Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin)
„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.
Ethics seminars for 2024
Workshop
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.
Critical Choices: Triaging Humanitarian Priorities
Konferenz
Hybrid 26th Humanitarian Congress Berlin
26th Humanitarian Congress Berlin: „Critical Choices: Triaging Humanitarian Priorities”
16–17 October, 2024
Urania Berlin
In-person and online
We are excited to announce that the Humanitarian Congress Berlin will be back with two days of in-person and hybrid sessions, workshops, and our exhibition and exchange area – the Humanitarian Forum. Whether you are a current, former or future humanitarian expert, politician, thought leader, media professional or researcher interested in driving positive change through critical debate, this event is for you.
This year’s programme will revolve around navigating humanitarian needs against the backdrop of diverse crises. The rise of authoritarian regimes, a global shift towards right-wing politics, the climate crisis, the systematic erosion of humanitarian principles and attacks on humanitarians accompanied by drastic budget cuts amongst others are putting unprecedented pressure on humanitarian actors, further politicising them and endangering their safety.
The congress will explore how, besides growing priorities in a multipolar world, a coherent vision for humanitarian intervention as well as forward-thinking approaches such as the use of AI in humanitarian action, anticipatory action, and the long-term consequences of crises can be applied to seek solutions for equitable, resilient, and sustainable futures.
For further updates and details, visit our website and follow us on X @humconberlin (#HCBerlin). An official invitation including the online registration will follow in due course.
We would be delighted to welcome you to the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2024.
This event is hosted by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders, Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World, and the German Red Cross, in partnership with Oxfam Germany.
Solidary pharma? Contemporary proposals for pharma reform in the European Union
Workshop
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
Charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948
Konferenz
Conference in London
Two day conference on „Charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948”
Thu-Fri 24–25 October 2024
Cfp Deadline: May 10th
London
In 1946, the Minister of Health for England and Wales, Aneurin Bevan, condemned the extent to which a significant part of the UK’s hospital system was dependent on the ‘caprice of private charity’. However, charity – and voluntarism more generally – have continued to play a significant role in the development of healthcare within the UK’s National Health Service. During the pandemic, the remarkable impact of NHS Charities Together’s Urgent COVID-19 Appeal demonstrated the continuing relevance of charitable money in the NHS today.
We invite abstract submissions for papers from academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners which actively engage with questions about the role of charity in healthcare systems. Although our own project has focused on developments within the UK, we also welcome papers which address these issues from a more international perspective. Papers might address questions including (but not limited to):
– What ethical issues are generated by charitable finance in health-care, and how might organisations respond to the dilemmas these pose?
– Who defines the aspects of healthcare provision that are ‘essential’, or are ‘nice-to-have’?
– To what extent has charity played a particular role either in pioneering the development of new services or directing attention to the needs of so-called ‘Cinderella’ services?
– How have attitudes to fundraising, and fundraising practices in healthcare, changed over the years?
– What role has charity played in ‘embedding’ hospitals and other healthcare facilities within their communities, and what role does it continue to play?
– What roles have businesses and corporations played in relation to charitable income in the NHS?
– What impact has charitable funding had within broader patterns of healthcare expenditure?
– What can debates about the role of charity within healthcare reveal about the attitudes of different political parties towards the role of voluntarism more broadly?
More details and full call for papers available on the project website.
Inequalities in (Mental) Healthcare: Critical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
Panel
Hybrid event in the frameworks of the World Anthropological Union Congress 2024
Inequalities in (Mental) Healthcare: Critical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
Panel at World Antrhopological Union Congress 2024
Convenors: Sharon Gabie (Nelson Mandela University, Johannesburgburg, South Africa), Helmar Kurz (University of Muenster, Germany)
When: 11th – 15th November 2024
Cfp deadline: 13 May 2024
Panel Abstract:
(Mental) healthcare systems worldwide meet various challenges, particularly the insufficiency of resources for patients of lower economic classes and rural areas. What is more, in many places therapeutic settings remain “zones of abandonment” (Biehl 2005), particularly when affiliated with official healthcare sectors. However, some philanthropic, religious-spiritual, and private agencies provide “good examples” of (mental) healthcare (Basu et al. 2017).
Changing governments and contesting policies have impacted local, translocal, and global (mental) healthcare supplies, maintaining inconsistencies in (mental) healthcare. Further, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has clearly illustrated that structural violence (Farmer 2005) and chronicity of crisis (Vigh 2008) still shape inequalities in access to health resources in both the Global North and Global South. New challenges may be requests regarding the mental healthcare provision for Indigenous and migratory communities.
In South Africa, a recent case of negligence and maladministration of people with psychiatric disorders is that of Life Esidimeni. The tragedy witnessed 144 people die because of inappropriate care and the lack of equipped infrastructure and staff to cater to the needs of people in mental health care facilities and many more suffering trauma (Durojaye & Agaba 2018, Ferlito & Dhai 2018). South Africa is no exception for the fact, that countries across the globe neglect mental health care as an overall aspect of health and wellbeing. The results of a four-country study, which included South Africa, found that there is a lack of data to convince policymakers to prioritize mental health, a lack of implementation, and how to mobilize people to seek intervention to the problem at an early stage (Pillay 2019). In disadvantaged communities, black communities in particular, the stigma against mental health issues is compounded by cultural and social challenges that prevent many people from seeking early intervention (Gumede 2021).
Philanthropic organizations have always been essential health resources, and not only for marginalized social groups (for the example of Brazilian Spiritism, see Kurz 2024). However, they have been widely ignored in public and academic discourse, and how political institutions contest, regulate, or integrate related approaches remains a research desideratum that this panel wants to address around the following leading questions, focusing on mental health practices but integrating all health-related aspects of human well-being:
1) Strategies between actors. What are the contemporary challenges/opportunities of diverse actors within the field of (mental) health in their particular localities? In which spaces do they intervene? Where are they excluded? What trends can be identified, e.g., in the emergence of new agencies in the field or power distributions among existing actors?
2) Content of action and intervention in the field. What is currently at stake? What are perspectives and practices? How do divergent actors respond to (mental) health challenges?
3) Political regulation. How do state and official healthcare institutions relate to contesting and complementing approaches? Do forms of cooperation exist? Do obstacles exist? What are political strategies at the intersection of political, economic, and social interests?
To submit a paper/abstract, please follow these guidelines: https://waucongress.org/call-for-papers/
The convenors are available for any doubt or question in advance and throughout the CfP process:
Sharon Gabie (Nelson Mandela University, Johannesburgburg, South Africa) sharon_gabie@yahoo.ie
Helmar Kurz (University of Muenster, Germany) helmar.kurz@uni-muenster.de
AGEM-Jahrestagung 36 | (A)symmetrische Beziehungen. Facetten der Kooperation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag
AGEM-Veranstaltung
36. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM) in Kooperation mit dem Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss und der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction der Universität Bremen im Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus in Neuss
Der Alltag in einer Psychiatrie wird von unterschiedlichsten Akteur*innen bestimmt. Neben den Patient*innen gibt es unter anderem den ärztlichen und den pflegerischen Dienst, Psycholog*innen, Mitarbeitende der therapeutischen Dienste wie Sport‑, Ergo- und Musiktherapie, klinische Sozialarbeiter*innen und Genesungsbegleiter*innen wie Seelsorger*innen oder Klininkclowns sowie Mitarbeiter*innen in der Verwaltung, Raumpflege und Küche, die miteinander auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen kooperieren. Eingebettet sind diese Beziehungen in ökonomische, infrastrukturelle und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen. Zudem beeinflussen die sozialen und kulturellen Hintergründe von Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden die jeweiligen Beziehungen genauso wie die Wahl der Behandlungsform, insbesondere die der Medikation. Dabei zeichnen sich die Beziehungen der beteiligten Akteur*innen durch unterschiedlichen Asymmetrien in den Bereichen des Wissens, des Handelns, der Macht und des Nutzens aus.
Eine lange Tradition besteht in dem Versuch, die Kooperationen und besonders die zwischen Patient*innen und Mitarbeitenden einer psychiatrischen Institution zu symmetrisieren. Dennoch stehen symmetrische und asymmetrische Beziehungen in einem Spannungsverhältnis, kommt doch der Alltag in der Psychiatrie zumeist nicht ohne asymmetrische Beziehungen und paternalistische Entscheidungen aus. Trotz verschiedenster Bemühungen, standardisierte Verfahren der Kooperation zu entwickeln, bleibt der Klinikalltag unberechenbar und voller Widersprüche und stellt alle Akteur*innen täglich vor neue Herausforderungen, das Zusammenspiel aller menschlichen wie nicht-menschlichen Akteur*innen (Architektur, SGB V, Medikamente usw.) auszuhandeln.
Auf dieser Tagung möchten wir verschiedene Ebenen der Kooperationen dieser unterschiedlichen Akteur*innen und ihre Auswirkungen auf den psychiatrischen Alltag in den Blick nehmen. Dazu gehören:
1) Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaften und Krankenhauspraxis: Wie werden Forschungsergebnisse in der Medizin und der Pflegepraxis umgesetzt und wie wird die Krankenhauspraxis in der Forschung berücksichtigt?
2) Kooperationen zwischen den Disziplinen: Wie kooperieren unterschiedliche Disziplinen mit ihren unterschiedlichen Ansätzen miteinander und welche Synergien und Widersprüche entstehen dadurch?
3) Kooperationen zwischen Patient*innen und ärztlichem, pflegerischem und weiterem Personal: Wie wird das Verhältnis zwischen Regulierung und Empowerment der Patient*innen im Alltag ausgehandelt und welche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ergeben sich bei dem Versuch einer Symmetrisierung des Verhältnisses von Patient*innen und ärztlichem und pflegerischem Personal?
PROGRAMM
Freitag 15. November 2024
13:30 – 13:40 Uhr
Martin Köhne (ärztlicher Direktor und Geschäftsführer Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Eröffnung
13:40 – 13:45 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Ehler Voss: Organisatorisches
13:45 – 14:15 Uhr
Ehler Voss (Universität Bremen, Worlds of Contradiction – WOC): Die (Un)möglichkeiten (a)symmetrischer Beziehungen. Eine Einführung in das Tagungsthema
14:15 – 14.45 Uhr
Dr. Ralf-Gero C. Dirksen (Wissenschaftsjournalist, MBA Healthcare Management, Promotion in Organisationsentwicklung): Partizipative Beziehungsgestaltung in der deutschen Psychiatrie. Herausforderungen und organisationale Lösungsansätze
14:45 – 15:15 Uhr
Anita Ham (Medizinethnologin, Haagse Hogeschool Den Haag / Niederlande): Der Einfluss von Kultur auf (a)symmetrische Beziehungen – dargestellt am Beispiel von multikulturellen pflegerischen Teams
15:30 – 15:45 Uhr
Pause
15:45 – 16:30 Uhr
Heidrun Lundie (Pflegedienstleitung Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Experienced Involvement. Dem Genesungsbegleiter auf der Spur für mehr Symmetrie in der Beziehung?
16:30 – 17:15 Uhr
Ulrike Höhmann (Pflegewissenschaftlerin, Universität Witten Herdecke): Strukturierte Diskussion um das nicht-Vorhandensein können symmetrischer Beziehungen in der Psychiatrie
17:15 – 17:30 Uhr
Pause
17:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Paul Weißen (Leitender Oberarzt Akutstation; Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss) Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen. Hard facts in der (a)symmetrischen Beziehung im psychiatrischen Setting
18:00 – 18:45 Uhr
Thomas Plötz & Andreas Hethke (Pflegefachpersonen Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Freiheitsentziehenden Maßnahmen und Deeskalation. Beispiele aus der Praxis mit dem Blick auf die Symmetrie
Samstag 16. November 2024
9:00 – 9:30 Uhr
Björn Vüst (Psychologischer Psychotherapeut, Promotionsstudent): Umgang mit suizidalen Krisen im psychiatrischen Alltag
9:30 – 10:00 Uhr
Tina Walter (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin Fachbereich Politik und Sozialwissenschaften Berlin, Promotionsstudentin): Solange Du an diesem Tisch sitzt. (A)symmetrische Beziehungen in Essgruppen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Behandlungsziele und den ‑erfolg von Patient:innen mit diagnostizierten Essstörungen bzw. auffälligen Essverhalten
10:00 – 10:45 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Team Station Jakobus (Pflegefachpersonen, ärztlicher Dienst, Bereichsleitung, Stationsleitung Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Ethische Fallbesprechung zum Thema „geschützter“ oder „offener“ Bereich. Schaffen wir eine symmetrische Beziehung mit den Patient:innen durch eine Teilöffnung?
10:45 – 11:15 Uhr
Pause
11:15 – 12:00 Uhr
Martijn in het Veld (Architekt, EGM Architekten Nijmegen / Niederlande): Architektonische Gestaltung in der Psychiatrie. Eine multidisziplinäre kooperative Annäherung
12:00 – 12:45 Uhr
Adriane Di TaviCanavarro (Pflegefachperson, B.Sc., Alexius-/ Josef Krankenhaus Neuss): Soteria auf einer psychiatrischen Akutstation Eine wohngemeinschaftsähnliche Einrichtung unterstützt den Beziehungsaufbau und Kooperation mit den Patient:innen
12:45 – 13:00 Uhr
Andrea Kuckert & Ehler Voss: Summing-up
13:30 – 14:00 Uhr
Mittag (Lunchpakete)
14:00 – 14:30 Uhr
Führung durch das psychiatrische Krankenhaus
14:30 – 15:30 Uhr
Hybride Mitgliederversammlung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (AGEM)
Anmeldungen bitte bis zum 8. November 2024 an: facettenderkooperation@agem.de
Wenn Sie Freitagsmittag vor der Konferenz in der Cafeteria auf eigene Kosten essen möchten, geben Sie dies bitte bei der Anmeldung an.
Externen Gästen empfehlen wir als Unterkunft das nahegelegenen Dorint-Hotel: https://hotel-duesseldorf-neuss.dorint.com
Am Freitagabend besteht die Möglichkeit eines gemeinsamen Abendessens bei den Veranstalter:innen der Konferenz. Im Nachgang können in privater Atmosphäre Themen vom Nachmittag weiter vertieft und Diskussionen fortgesetzt werden. Bitte geben Sie bei Ihrer Anmeldung an, ob Sie daran teilnehmen möchten (ein Sparschwein freut sich über eine Spende für Essen und Getränke).
Konzept und Organisation:
Andrea Kuckert (AGEM, Alexius/Josef-Krankenhaus Neuss)
Ehler Voss (AGEM, Worlds of Contradiction Universität Bremen)
4th Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology Conference
Konferenz
Hybrid Conference on Indigenous Psychologies
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.
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.
“Testing under crisis / Testing the crises”
Workshop
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
The Biopolitics of Global Health after COVID-19
Workshop
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.
The Biopolitics of Global Health after COVID-19
Workshop
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:
- How has the pandemic reconfigured relations of care and governance between doctors and patients, institutions and subjects; and among neighbors and citizens?
- 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?
- 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:
- „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?
- 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?
- 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:
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.
Food System Temporalities
Konferenz
Two-Day-Conference at University of Cambridge
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 31st 2024.
Composing Coexistence: Challenges in Research on More-than-Human Health
Workshop
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.
10th Integrated History and Philosophy of Science conference
Konferenz
Conference at California Institute of Technology
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)
Health, Environment, and Anthropology
Konferenz
In Person Conference at Durham University University, UK
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
Health, Environment, and AnThropology (HEAT)
Konferenz
A conference exploring the intersections of health and environmental anthropology
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
Where Are We Now? Visual and Multimodal Anthropology
Panel
Call for Panels: RAI FILM Online Conference 2025
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