Προσκλήσεις συμμετοχής σε επιστημονικές συναντήσεις

1) Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, 07-08/06/2018, University of Exeter

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 300 words (for 20-minute previously unpublished papers), plus a short biographical note, to pgmedhums@exeter.ac.uk by Friday 9th March 2018 with “PGMH 2018 Conference Abstract” written in the subject line of the email. We also welcome panel proposals; these should include 300-word abstracts for up to four speakers.



We welcome abstracts on any subject relating to health, illness, sex and medicine from postgraduates working in all humanities disciplines. Although all proposals must address the conference’s central theme, we also welcome scholarly submissions from those operating outside of traditional humanities research settings, such as medical students and community activists, where their interests intersect with humanities scholarship. The following subject areas are of particular interest: - History of medicine
- Disability studies
- Gender and sexuality
- Transformations of the body
- Philosophy of biology and biomedicine
- Occupational health and industrial psychology
- Trauma studies
- Affect studies
- Medicine and the law
- Medicine and the body in popular culture
- Literature and medicine
- Medical practice and issues of intersectionality
- Globalization and biomedical practice

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες: https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/research/centres/medicalhistory/newsandevents/conferences/postgraduatemedicalhumanitiesconference2018/

2) Cultural crossings of care – an appeal to the medical humanities, University of Oslo, 26-27/10/2018

We invite participants to submit before May 15, 2018, abstracts of no more than 300 words related to the topics outlined below.

- A transcultural approach to medicine.  Such an approach should involve a radical concern with cultural dimensions of health as more than a subjective dimension outside the realm of medical science. We will explore the notions that all clinical encounters should be considered as cultural encounters in the sense that they  involve translation between health as a biomedical phenomenon and healing as lived experience. Cura’s crossings are not an exception but the norm. 
- A deconstruction of the difference between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ science. The humanities have creative and healing agency; they are not only instruments of care but of cure. This materially performative aspect of the humanities part of the medical humanities  constellation needs closer attention and further theorisation. 
- The medical cultures behind the production and construal of evidence.  As Kristeva has pointed out, the dominant evidence-based approach in modern medicine runs the risk of exalting biology into an ‘essential Being’ and a normative stasis  that turns the sick into persons who ‘lack [… ] certain biological aptitudes’. Based on this understanding of disease as a lack of full being (steresis), sickness and  difference are reduced to ‘categories of difference’: social and biological ‘deviants’ are seen as different in the same way. The biomedical discourse ‘blends all disabled people together without taking into consideration the specificity of  their sufferings and exclusions’. As an alternative to the epistemology of universal categories reducing difference to the same, the medical humanities should contribute to a ‘singularised’ approach to medicine. A singularized approach, however, is also different from merely considering the individual as a  bearer of social/cultural meanings by including ‘patients’ preferences’ in clinical  decisions.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες: http://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2018/cultural-crossings-of-care.html