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.
Das Geschlecht der Medizin. Individualität in medizinischen Konzepten und Praktiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Konferenz
Tagung im Alfried Krupp Kolleg in Greifswald
„Das Geschlecht der Medizin. Individualität in medizinischen Konzepten und Praktiken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts”
2. bis 4. September 2024
Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald
Einsendeschluss für Abstracts 1. März 2024
Organisation: Dr. Annalisa Martin, Prof. Dr. Annelie Ramsbrock, Naima Tiné, M.A. (Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte der Neuesten Zeit, Universität Greifswald)
Die Geschichte der Medizin erlebt seit den 1980er Jahren eine Neuorientierung: Wurde sie lange Zeit als historistische Erfolgsgeschichte geschrieben, die sich aus einer Aneinanderreihung diverser Entdeckungen durch (meist männliche) Ärzte speiste, findet seit einiger Zeit eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit medizinischen Praktiken statt. Aktuelle Studien belegen, dass Diagnostik, Behandlung und Risikovorhersage bei einer Vielzahl von Erkrankungen bedeutsame Geschlechterdifferenzen zeigen. Dabei meint Geschlecht sowohl das biologische (sex) als auch das soziale (gender) Geschlecht und schließt ein Bewusstsein für vielfältige geschlechtliche Identitäten und ihre lebensweltliche Relevanz mit ein, inklusive queere, trans und nichtbinäre Personen. Zugleich ist die medizinische Forschung noch vielfach auf den männlichen Normkörper zugeschnitten, berücksichtigt also Geschlechteraspekte sowie andere Diversitätsmerkmale nicht oder nur am Rande. Schließlich spielen medizinische Gutachten nach wie vor eine bedeutsame Rolle beim Kampf um Anerkennung von Transidentitäten, was zeigt: Geschlecht und Medizin sind aufs engste miteinander verwoben und stehen in einem reziproken Verhältnis zueinander: Medizin ist in vielfacher Weise vergeschlechtlicht und umgekehrt findet die Vergeschlechtlichung von Patient:innen durch medizinische Praktiken und Konzepte statt.
Die Tagung wählt dieses Verhältnis als Fluchtpunkt. Sie will die gesellschaftliche Dimension von medizinischem Denken und Handeln seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ausloten und dementsprechend das Verhältnis von Medizin und Geschlecht historisieren. Der Körper war stets ein umkämpftes Feld, sein status quo weder selbstverständlich noch notwendig. Besonders für das 19. Jahrhundert gilt deshalb, dass verschiedene medizinische Konzepte und Praktiken parallel zueinander existierten. Einerseits machte die Zeit-Raum-Kompression, d.h. die Verkürzung von Transport- und Kommunikationswegen den globalen Transfer von Wissen über nationale, kulturelle und sprachliche Grenzen hinweg möglich und führte zur Verschmelzung, Aneignung und Neuordnung von Wissen um Körper und Geschlecht. Andererseits entwickelten verschiedene politische Strömungen unterschiedliche Anforderungen an (geschlechtsspezifische) Medizin. In Debatten der sozialistischen Bewegung rund um Ausbeutung, Arbeitsbedingungen und Lohn rückte der Körper und das Ideal der körperlichen Unversehrtheit in den Mittelpunkt. Darüber hinaus wurde die hegemoniale Medizin sowohl in den Kolonien als auch in den europäischen Armenvierteln gewaltsam gegen den unterdrückten Körper durchgesetzt und avancierte zu einem gängigen Herrschaftsinstrument, das biopolitische Maßnahmen naturwissenschaftlich legitimierte. Damit wurden geschlechtsspezifische medizinische Handlungsparamter auch zum Gegenstand bürgerlicher, nationalistischer und imperialistischer Politik. Auch hier führte das dichotome Zwei-Geschlechter-Modell zu unterschiedlichen Anforderungen an den männlichen und weiblichen Körper und trug zur Verfestigung dieses Modells bei.
Mit unserer Tagung wollen wir den theoretisch-methodischen Anspruch einer rekursiven und kritischen Wissensgeschichte von Medizin und Geschlecht diskutieren. Folgende Fragekomplexe wären denkbar:
1. Ein erster Fragekomplex befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Geschlechterkonzepten, die medizinische Strömungen prägten und die sie zugleich selbst hervorbrachten. Welche ontologischen Grundannahmen lagen ihnen jeweils zugrunde und inwieweit spiegelte sich deren Wandelbarkeit in Diagnostik, Therapie und Forschung? Und umgekehrt: In welchem Maße trugen medizinische Handlungslogiken zu einer (De)Stabilisierung der Geschlechterordnung als Fundament der (bürgerlichen) Gesellschaft bei?
2. Ein zweiter Fragekomplex zielt auf den Einfluss von Wirtschaft, Religion und Politik auf geschlechtsspezifische medizinische Praktiken. In welchem Maße verschwamm die Bedeutung von Krankheit und Gesundheit hinter gesellschaftspolitischen Interessen, zu denen auch Imperialismus und Kolonialismus zu zählen sind?
3. Drittens soll es um die Autonomie der Patient:innen über medizinische Eingriffe in ihren Körper gehen. Welche wissenschaftlichen, aber auch sozialen und kulturellen Entwicklungen lancierten identitätsbezogene Verschiebungen im medizinischen Handeln? Wie sah das konkrete Ringen um Deutungshoheit über den eigenen Körper in verschiedenen antagonistischen Konstellationen aus? Wer waren die Akteure solcher Kämpfe und wo fanden sie statt?
Die Konferenzsprache ist vorwiegend Deutsch, es können aber auch Beiträge in Englischer Sprache eingereicht werden.
Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract (maximal 300 Wörter) und eine Kurzbiographie (50–100 Wörter) bis spätestens 1. März 2024 an naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de. Eine Bahnreise 2. Klasse, Flugreise nach Absprache und die Unterbringung können bei Bedarf übernommen werden.
Programm
Keynote 2. September: Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte (Heidelberg)
Panels 3.–4. September
Kontakt: naima.tine@uni-greifswald.de
Reproductive Violence
Konferenz
Conference at University of Edinburgh
„Reproductive Violence” Conference
2nd-3rd September 2024
University of Edinburgh
Keynote: Professor Sarah Ihmoud
In this conference we will explore understandings of reproductive violence, in the light of the reproductive justice framework, as a violation of bodily autonomy and the rights to have children, to not have children, and to raise any children one chooses to have in a safe and healthy environment.
Reproductive violence is often subsumed within broader categories of sexual and gender-based violence. The attention that sexual violence has gained on human rights and transitional justice agendas since the 1990s has not been extended to understanding and addressing violations of people’s reproductive autonomy, freedom, and futures. Despite the development of the reproductive justice framework in 1994, much academic and activist work remains focused largely on contraceptives and abortion, mostly with a choice rhetoric and in narrow geographic and socioeconomic contexts.
In this two-day in-person conference, we join transnational feminist initiatives that agitate for comprehensive understandings of reproductive violence and reproductive justice. We seek to bring together scholars at different career stages to engage in conversations that can contribute to a nuanced understanding of how the reproductive lives of people, particularly racialised and feminised bodies, have been affected, often specifically targeted.
We invite abstracts that speak to the themes and questions of the conference, including: In what ways does reproduction emerge as a site of violence, exploitation, and resistance? How do ideologies of motherhood and practices of mothering configure reproductive violence and resistance? How does the naturalization of reproductive labour shape embodied experiences of reproduction? How do state and non-state actors assume control and exert coercion over reproductive bodies? How is reproduction situated within legislative and policy frameworks concerning contexts of war, genocide, and other humanitarian emergencies? How are notions of gender (re)produced through acts of reproductive violence? Papers may speak to the following themes in relation to reproductive violence:
– Conflict and violence
– Colonialism and occupation
– Environmental/climate crises
– Disability justice
– Incarceration and detention
– Migration and displacement
– Poverty and precarity
– Struggles for reparations, rights, and justice
– Obstetric violence and racism
Conference Organisers
Dr Tatiana Sanchez Parra is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Tatiana’s research is situated at the intersection of feminist studies, socio-legal studies, and Latin American studies. She works on issues related to feminist peacebuilding, reproductive justice, and reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transitions. Her current project, ‚Advancing Gender Justice, Tackling Reproductive Violence: Forced Parenthood in Contexts of War’, focuses on the experiences of cisgender women and transgender men who are parenting children born of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia.
Dr Lucy Lowe is a senior lecturer in medical anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work illuminates how practices and ideologies of gender, motherhood, and reproduction are centred in processes of migration and asylum. She currently leads the Maternity, Migration, and Asylum in Scotland (MAMAS) project, which explores how pregnancy and motherhood affect refugee and asylum-seeking women’s experiences of migration and settlement.
Keynote: Professor Sarah Ihmoud
Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist who works to uplift the lived experiences, histories, and political contributions of Palestinian women and Palestinian feminism. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, an executive board member of Insaniyyat, the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Please send abstracts (250 words max) and bios (100 words max) to lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk and tsanchez@ed.ac.uk by 30th May 2024.
Bursaries
There are a limited number of £100 bursaries available for presenters. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please also include a paragraph in your application (100 words max) clearly stating whether you have access to funding, and how attending the conference could contribute to your work and creative pursuits.
2nd International Conference on Caring for Elderly and Dependent People
Panel
Panel at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona (Spain) on Caring for Elderly and Dependent People
2nd International Conference on Caring for Elderly and Dependent People
5–6 September 2024
Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona (Spain)
We would like to inform you that we have extended the deadline for submitting proposals for papers for the 2nd International Congress on Care for the Elderly and Dependents until 20 May.
You can submit your abstract by using the following link: https://www.congressos.urv.cat/cuidado-mayores-dependientes/important-dates. The 2nd International Conference “Caring for Elderly and Dependent People: Social and Political Commitments for a Care Model in Transition” will be held on 5–6 September 2024 at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain).
More detailed information on the conference can be found here: https://www.congressos.urv.cat/cuidado-mayores-dependientes/home
If you have any questions, please contact caremodel@urv.cat
Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown
Konferenz
Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
„Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown”
5–6th September
Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
Keynote speakers: Stef Craps (Ghent University), Dawn Lyon (University of Kent)
Cfp deadline 10 May
The Centre for Culture and Everyday Life (CCEL) invites contributions to a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring changes in the experience and imagining of everyday urban spaces following the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the conference is to focus critical attention not on the impact of the pandemic and associated government lockdowns, but on the processes of reimagining, remembering and remapping of everyday culture and experience through a post-pandemic lens.
A key focus of enquiry are the real-and-imaginary geographies of everyday experiences under lockdown where the imagination was put to work in ways that often elicited heterotopic glimpses of a post-pandemic world that may, in the years since, have all but slipped into oblivion. During lockdown, the ‘spatial play’ (Marin 1984) of the utopic imagination – the interplay of horizons and frontiers as negotiated through forms of everyday social and spatial practice – was galvanised by a collective experience of space and time that transformed the affective contours of everyday living. As physical movements and interactions were compressed into the individualised landscapes of lockdown, alternative, virtual forms of social and spatial relationships were brought into play. Whether by ensconcing oneself in virtual spaces or by venturing anew into the suddenly depopulated landscapes of local urban neighbourhoods, reconfigured forms of individual spatial agency brought with them a corresponding reconfiguring of the everyday urban imaginary.
For some, dystopian scenarios familiar from literature and film were offset by small utopian moments: the impulse of planners and city councils to take the opportunity to engage citizens in reimagining urban space, moments of community and togetherness amid the enforced separations, an absence of traffic noise and pollution, and newly audible birdsong. Videos shared online that showed wild animals roaming the streets, and even memes ridiculing the notion that “nature is healing”, may have even offered some momentary respite from ongoing climate anxiety. While for many people, confinement could be experienced as chaotic, overcrowded, and made work-time almost endless, for others it opened up time to reflect, and to pause, to imagine how their lives might be otherwise.
If there was a utopian impulse amid the terrors of the pandemic, what did it look like, and what traces remain? Is there an ethical and aesthetic imperative to salvage the residual glimpses, fragments, dreams and imaginaries engendered by the pandemic? In what ways, if any, did the projected imaginings of post-pandemic urban futures contribute to substantive changes that are discernible now, four years on? How are the lived spaces and temporalities of cities qualitatively different today from what they were in 2019? Are they different or was it all just a blip? What traces of pandemic behaviour and experience remain in our daily interactions? Has the pandemic brought about a keener awareness and value of the local? How did art and photography respond to the temporary transformation of public and social space? How have forms of everyday mobility changed? Are there post-pandemic spatial stories that reveal a transformation in how people engage with and imagine everyday urban spaces? And if there are, what do these spatial stories look like? What do they say and how might they be traced or mapped? What does re-engaging the everyday mean in a post-pandemic world?
About the Keynote speakers:
Stef Craps (Ghent University)
Stef is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. He has authored or edited numerous books, special journal issues and articles on trauma, memory, climate change and eco-emotions as mediated through culture.
Dawn Lyon (University of Kent)
Dawn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. She has published widely on the sociology of work, time and everyday life. Her recent research includes analysis of accounts of everyday life collected by Mass Observation during the Covid-19 Pandemic, attending to rhythm and future imagining.
We welcome proposals addressing these issues from scholars at all career stages and a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.
Abstract Submission: Please send abstracts (300 words max.) with your name, title, affiliation (where appropriate) and a short bio (up to 200 words). Please prepare for a 20 minute presentation by 10 May 2024 to the conference organizers: CCELconference2024@liverpool.ac.uk
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 7th June 2024.
Interdisciplinarity: Medical Humanities and Research at the intersections of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Clinical Practice and Biomedicine
Konferenz
Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024 in Vadstena, Sweden
„Interdisciplinarity: Medical Humanities and Research at the intersections of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Clinical Practice and Biomedicine”
Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024
Organized by The Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (Linköping University) and the Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University)
Vadstena, Sweden
9–11 September 2024
Deadline: 12th March
What does interdisciplinarity in medical humanities mean? What are the epistemological underpinnings of different interdisciplinary ways of engaging in medical humanities research? What are the challenges and possibilities in interdisciplinary research at the intersection between the humanities, the social sciences, clinical research, and biomedicine? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this Medical Humanities Summer School aimed at PhD students in medical humanities, social sciences, and medicine, and with an interest in interdisciplinary research.
For information about practical details, bursaries, and how to apply please visit: https://liu.se/en/article/medical-humanities-international-summer-school-2024 .
Handgriffe: Zur Bedeutung von Hand und Werkzeug für die Heilberufe
Konferenz
Tagung in Ingolstadt und Nürnberg
Tagung „Handgriffe: Zur Bedeutung von Hand und Werkzeug für die Heilberufe“
12. und 13.9.2024
Ingolstadt und Nürnberg
Veranstalter sind:
Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Universität Würzburg Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie der Universität Innsbruck Verein für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin in Kooperation mit dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
Bei Interesse melden Sie sich bitte unter der Adresse dmm@ingolstadt.de an
Popular Health & Social Media Conference
Konferenz
Conference at the University of Siegen (Germany)
Popular Health & Social Media Conference
University of Siegen (Germany)
September 12 and 13, 2024
Details:
Three thematic areas: (1) self-tracking, with a special focus on the management of (chronic) diseases, (2) chronic diseases and the use of social media, and (3) the examination of
individual communities that change and shape their everyday lives with the help of social media and online communities (ME/CFS and/or long/post-COVID syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, lipedema, etc.).
These three thematic areas will be covered in three distinct panels and each panel will be opened by a renowned expert in the field: (1) Rachael Kent (King’s College London, UK), (2) Amanda Karlsson (Aarhus Universitet, DK), and (3) Bianca Jansky (University of Augsburg, DE).
The call for abstracts specifically addresses predocs and early postdocs and closes on June 1, 2024. Find it here.
For more information please see here: https://sfb1472.uni-siegen.de/publikationen/cfp-popular-health-social-media
CfP: Public Urban Cultures of Care
Call for Papers
CfP for special issue of „Urban Planning”
CfP: Urban Planning thematic issue on „Public Urban Cultures of Care”
Deadline for Abstracts: 1–15 September 2024
Deadline for Full Papers: 15–31 January 2025
Urban Planning, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science-ESCI (Impact Factor: 1.8) and Scopus (CiteScore: 3.6), welcomes articles for the thematic issue „Public Urban Cultures of Care”, edited by Yvonne Franz (University of Vienna) and Anke Strüver (University of Graz). Authors interested in contributing an article to this thematic issue are asked to read the full call for papers at https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/pages/view/nextissues#CaringCommunities.
Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World
Konferenz
An annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network
„Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World”
An annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network
19–20 Sept
Technical University of Vienna
Deadline: 15 March
The event brings together critical scholarship on ageing and technology from various social sciences and humanities perspectives – including STS, age studies, social and critical gerontology, media studies, critical design studies, and many others.
Please find a detailed call for papers, posters and sessions at https://www.socio-gerontechnology.net/events/annualmeeting2024/.
Viral Atmospheres: Maneuvering the affective geographies of pandemics and health
Konferenz
CfA for a Summer School in Berlin
Summer School „Viral Atmospheres: Maneuvering the affective geographies of pandemics and health”
21.9.–28.9.2025
Berlin
CfA deadline: 30. August 2024
Keynote speakers:
Frédéric Keck (LAS Paris, France)
Tania Rossetto (Università di Padova, Italy)
Arne Vogelgesant (Artist, Berlin, Germany)
Organizers:
Sung Joon Park (BNITM Hamburg, Germany),
Hansjörg Dilger (FU Berlin, Germany),
Julia Hornberger (Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa),
Bo Kyeong Seo (Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea),
Nene Morisho (Pole Institute, Goma, DRC),
Jacqueline Häußler (BNITM Hamburg, Germany)
Viral Atmosphere is a transdisciplinary summer school on the felt spaces of the Covid-19 pandemic. The concept of the atmosphere draws our attention to the ways feelings can be understood to ’surround us,’ to be ‚poured into space,’ ‚occupy spaces’ and are influenced by space, as recent works in neophenomenology have been characterizing this concept.1 That is, an atmosphere is essentially a description of the felt space—a Gefühlsraum.
In our summer school, we suggest that felt spaces help us to enrich our understanding of the impact of the pandemic and the global health response to it. For instance, an isolation room may be a three-dimensional space. Exploring it as a felt space filled with feelings of anxieties, exhaustion, or ease helps us to get a grasp at the embodied experience of immobilization during the pandemic. Public spaces can be similarly conceived as felt spaces of exposure that radiate feelings of mistrust, vulnerability, and fear. Or, exploring the digital world of social media and the internet as a felt space may proffer new questions for understanding how information and also misinformation affects people.
The practical, collaborative, and transdisciplinary engagement of the felt spaces of the
pandemic in our summer school attempts to move beyond the ‚methodological nationalism’ in science and politics of pandemic preparedness and response.2 In spite of repeated calls for holistic One World approaches to health, research and action remain chiefly centered on the nation-state and are perhaps more than ever defined by countries of the global North. By contrast, we will explore how felt spaces allow us to trace the affective geographies of pandemics and global health. What practices of visualizing and comparing atmospheres, including artistic modes of expression, can get the affective geographies to gel? How have people in different places been experiencing and maneuvering these geographies and keep on maneuvering them as they search for a mode of remembering the pandemic? Finally, we want to ask what can be learned from these affective geographies of pandemics for future global public health emergencies.
Viral Atmospheres has the following aims:
• Explore methods and tools to study feelings in epidemics, pandemics, and other public
health emergencies as atmospheres
• Document and reconstruct the felt spaces of pandemics through the integration of
different disciplines and their approaches
• Map the affective geographies of the pandemic through transdisciplinary collaboration
The summer school invites students at advanced MA level and PhD level from a broad range of disciplines, such as social and cultural anthropology, area studies, geography, media studies, visual and performing arts, as well as life sciences to participate in a transdisciplinary and collaborative summer school. In particular, we invite students, who work on:
• Covid-19 pandemic, epidemics and more generally public health crises
• Feelings, atmospheres, and affect
• Spaces, mobility, and geography
And who want to
• Showcase their ongoing work in transdisciplinary working groups
• Make a contribution to transdisciplinary and collaborative output (special issue, online
exhibition, book publication).
The summer school will provide lectures, seminars, and experiments by partners and
researchers of the VW-funded research project „Mobility Regimes of Preparedness and
Response: The Case of Covid-19″ by researchers in Germany, South Korea, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (https://www.moreppar.com). The researchers of this project will showcase works that extend the comparative analysis of country-specific experiences of the pandemic toward a collaborative study of the affective geography of the felt spaces of the pandemic. Furthermore, the summer school will comprise practical exercises in transdisciplinary collaborative research and publication on affective geographies.
Organization and application
The cost of travel and accommodation will be covered by the MoRePPaR project. Please send us your application (in English) comprising:
• Motivation letter
• CV or in case you apply as a student of the arts a CV and portfolio
• Abstract of maximal 500 words summarizing the material you want to present (stories
from the field, data, video material, sound material, visual material, …) and how you
want to present it (presentation of paper or artwork, performance, reading, …)
Send your application to sung.park@bnitm.de by 30. August 2024. For further inquiries, please do not hesitate writing to sung.park@bnitm.de or jacqueline.haeussler@bnitm.de.
Vision Behandlungsgerechtigkeit: die Bedeutung multimodaler Ansätze in der transkulturellen Arbeit (17. Kongress des DTPPP)
Konferenz
Digitaler Kongress des Dachverbands der transkulturellen Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik im deutschsprachigen Raum (DTPPP)
„Transition in Health”
Workshop
Workshop at VANDA (Vienna Anthropology Days) 2024
Workshop „Transition in Health”
VANDA (Vienna Anthropology Days) Conferenceni in Vienna
September 23–26, 2024
Eva-Maria Knoll, Malgorzata Rajtar
Deadline: 01.06.2024
Anthropology has long been preoccupied with transition. Transitions, famously captured by Van Gennep’s “rites of passage” or Turner’s concept of “liminality”, punctuate human life, which is embedded in culture and society. Transition may also serve as a lens to analyze change and adaptation in society (e.g. Hasan 2023) and was extensively used in the context of postsocialism (e.g. Buyandelgeriyn 2008). Building on this long-standing tradition of anthropological engagement with the concept of transition, this workshop invites social science, in particular ethnographic contributions focusing on spatial, structural, and temporal aspects of transitions in the medical field. In medicine, transition is e.g. understood as a “multi-dimensional process, involving patients, caregivers, providers, and the medical system as a whole” (Cheng et al. 2021). Due to the development of medical technologies and treatment modalities, an increasing number of people with chronic and/or rare diseases reach adulthood and experience a transition from pediatric to adult care (Jae 2018). In some instances, this is uncharted territory for both patients and care providers. Transitions, as passages of change, may also be experienced on a mundane level by patients who change their dietary and/or drug regimens or by health personnel who climb the medical career ladder. We encourage ethnographically grounded analyses that address both large-scale transitions and mundane moments of transition in health and healthcare. We are also interested in papers examining failed transitions or transitions that had to be abandoned.
Images as evidence (of what)? The Body at the Intersection of Science and Art
Konferenz
Vienna Anthropology Days, Dept. of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
Images as evidence (of what)? The Body at the Intersection of Science and Art
September 23–26th
University of Vienna
Conveners Sophie Wagner & Barbara Graf
CfP Deadline June 1st
Scientific images of the human body hold a distinct status as being reliable mediums, even though we often don’t know, or partially ignore, what kind of image it is and how it has been made (Canals 2020). This is true for visualizations that serve as referential witness – micro photography, x‑rays, MRI, CT-scans or endoscopic images – and “visual strategies” that put together data on the basis of synthesis, ordering knowledge in “abstract tableaus”, transforming it into calculable figures, graphs or diagrams (Mersch 2006). They serve as evidence in clinical decision making, as tool for governmental practices, and legitimize policies. Bodies are dissected, screened and measured, promising transparency (Strathern 2000), creating a sense of “hyper certainty” (Fox 2000), and fostering the idea of medicine as “exact science”. With this panel we aim to discuss current modes of engaging with the human body visually, examining this framing of bodies, beings – and lives in general – as calculable and predictable. We want to examine the terrain of both – the visualizations of diseases, and articulations of individual illness experiences, which have proven to be particularly useful in supporting the patient-doctor communication. We ask: how can we critically engage with image-making embedded in discourses of certainty and trust? Following the Images of Care collective’s manifesto (Pieta and Favero 2023), we understand visual culture – “how we see, how we are able, allowed, or made to see, and how we see this seeing or the unseen therein” (Foster 1988:ix) – as being shaped by ongoing dialogues between biology, culture and politics. We invite scholars and practitioners to present works, which explore bodily processes, corporeal sensations and illness experiences. We highlight an interdisciplinary perspective, hoping to inspire dialogue across professional boundaries, inviting anthropologists who follow collaborative and experimental approaches (Fortun et al. 2021), visual artists, health-care professionals, and patient advocates.
More info: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
Contact: sophie.wagner@univie.ac.at
Sweden-oriented meeting for Medicine and Health Phd Students
Workshop
Meeting at Umea University, Sweden
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
(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?
Wir suchen nach interdisziplinären Beiträgen unterschiedlichster Art (Vorträge, Erfahrungsberichte, Roundtables, Workshops,…) sowohl aus dem Bereich der Sozial‑, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften als auch aus dem medizinischen und pflegerischen Alltag, um durch einen multiperspektivischen Blick auf die Facetten der Kooperation die aktuellen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen (a)symmetrischer Beziehungen im psychiatrischen Klinikalltag abzustecken.
Programm folgt in Kürze!
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.
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)