Calls for Papers and Proposals: 2009, 2010
2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Social Science & Medicine, Special Issue
Sociology of Diagnosis: Negotiation, mediation and contingency
Guest Editors Annemarie Jutel and Sarah Nettleton
Social Science and Medicine is calling for papers for a special issue on the sociology of diagnosis to be guest edited by Annemarie Jutel and Sarah Nettleton. Papers may focus on diagnosis as classification or as process; on professional or lay-diagnosis; on the micro and macro levels of diagnosis; or on any other aspect of the social framing or consequences of diagnosis.
Submission at http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm
contact either Annemarie Jutel on ajutel@vodafone.co.nz or Sarah Nettleton on sjn2@york.ac.uk.
The deadline for submission is 30th June 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Nicholas C. Mullins Award Student Essay Competition
The Nicholas C. Mullins Award is awarded each year by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies. The prize consists of a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque.
For more information on the Society for Social Studies of Science and upcoming meetings, see www.4sonline.org/
Send the submission to the chair of the Nicholas C. Mullins jury, Professor Natasha Myers, nmyers@yorku.ca
Deadline for submission: May 15, 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Ethical Implications of Deep Brain Stimulation
Special Issue of Springer’s Journal Neuroethics. Guest Editor: Jens Clausen. Submit your research online to this forthcoming special issue of Neuroethics! · Length of the manuscript: approximately 6000 words
Deadline for submission: 1 May 2010
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Volkswagen Foundation invites applications from European early career researchers of all related disciplines, who wish to attend the workshop and are dedicated to contribute to the development of the platform. “Europeam Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities.” Recent developments in the cognitive neurosciences, particularly the combination of imaging technologies like fMRI or MEG with methods of experimental psychology, have broadened the thematic scope of experimental and theoretical neuroscience research tremendously. As it seems, the neurosciences take over research questions which have been traditionally in the focus of disciplines like philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences – leading to potentially new fields of research like “neurophilosophy”, “neuroeconomics”, or “social neuroscience”. This development has not only been met with great interest and fascination, but has also provoked profound skepticism, not only for science, but also for society and the concept of humankind at large. Funding: Travel expenses and accommodation will be fully reimbursed to the invited participants by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Workshop - May 31- June 2, 2010, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany
Deadline: March 1, 2010 in both paper and electronic form (see website for further details regarding submission criteria)
Contact: Thomas Brunotte brunotte@volkswagenstiftung.de
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CALL FOR PAPERS
TEN YEARS AFTER - Mapping the societal landscape of genomics
The Centre for Society & Genomics (the Netherlands), in collaboration with the ESRC Genomics Network (United Kingdom) and Valgen (Canada) will hold its biannual Conference on Society and Genomics on 27-28 May 2010 in Amsterdam. We invite submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations addressing the upcoming conference’s theme. The conference is focussed on mapping and assessing the emerging societal landscape of genomics. Four zones will be distinguished to guide us through the emerging landscape: the urban, the industrial, the rural and the environmental zone. Within these zones, a range of topics (dealing with innovation, governance, infrastructures and emerging issues) will be addressed in the form of parallel sessions. You can submit an abstract 300 words or less on topics within these zones.
Deadline: January 8, 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Neurofeminism
With the recent advances in imaging and genetic technologies, the last decade has witnessed an explosion of work on human cognitive and affective functioning. Among some of the more publicized work is that on sex differences. Basing research on neuroscience lends studies particular credibility in the public mind, with the result that traditional gender characteristics and roles seem to take on a new credibility. There are, however, serious questions about how to interpret the evidence from neuroscience, an area that, in some respects, appears to be just as sensitive to preconceived notions of sex-differences as other fields. It is, therefore, time to apply a feminist perspective to this burgeoning field of study. We call for papers for an edited volume on neuroscience and feminism in areas including, but not limited to the following topics: (1) exploration of past stereotypes, (2) scientifically informed understanding of sex differences/similarities, (3) the exposure of androcentric biases that inform scientific research, (4) new scientifically informed perspectives on old feminist issues, (5) neuroscientific understanding of embodied experience, (6) understanding sex differences using animal models, (7) the neuroscience of ethical thinking, (8) pathologies, mental disorder, and sex differences. We encourage researchers from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science generally to submit.
Deadline: January 1, 2010. For submission of manuscripts (maximum length 12,000 words) We also encourage those interested to contact us in advance.
Contacts: Robyn Bluhm, rbluhm@odu.edu; Anne Jacobson, anne.jacobson@mail.uh.edu; Heidi Maibom, heidi_maibom@carleton.ca
2009
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action
The Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School of Professional Psychology is organizing the event. The keynote speaker is David Satcher, the 16th Surgeon General of the United States and former director of the CDC. The plenary speaker is Sandro Galea, the director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan. The Adler Institue on Social Exclusion has issued a call for papers. Check the call for papers for more details, but broadly they want submissions that: Build new knowledge and/or practice innovations by doing at least one of the following: applies the social determinants frame to mental health; bridges disciplinary, professional, and sectoral perspectives on the social determinants of mental health; illustrates the mechanisms and the pathways by which social context impacts mental health and well-being; illustrates the relationships between “macro” (e.g., national and international economic, climatic, political, demographic, and social forces), “meso” (e.g., family, neighborhood, and community characteristics) and “micro” (e.g., individual attributes) variables and mental health; and/or proposes new or describes existing policy and programmatic mental health interventions that are based the on social determinants frame.
Abstracts: 300 words due December 31st
Contact: ise@adler.edu
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Call for Chapter Submissions
Neuroscience and Political Theory
The editor of a collection on neuroscience and political theory seeks chapter submissions.
Given the proliferation and increased visibility of research in the field of neuroscience there are an enormous number of interesting questions being put before political theorists, and opportunities for interdisciplinary research abound. A number of major research initiatives have recently taken up the relationships between neuroscience and society, law, ethics, and economics; the relationship between politics and neuroscience has been underexplored and undertheorized. The goal of this collection is to engage deeply with the issues in order to begin a set of enduring conversations that will unfold over time and be meaningful to academics, researchers, graduate students, and the informed general reader. Political theorists, political philosophers, legal scholars, and neuroscientists are all invited to bring their particular expertise to bear on the meaning of neuroscience for political theory, and the meaning of political theory for neuroscience.
Deadline: December 15, 2009 300-500 word abstract, along with a brief CV
Contact: Frank Vander Valk, at Frank.Vandervalk@esc.edu.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University (Sweden) organizes a three-day event consisting of a public day and a workshop entitled
"NeuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain" on March 25-27, 2010. This event is organized within the frame of the Excellence research programme GenNa: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters. Some questions we want to address are: Which kinds of critical studies of neuroscience and which neursoscience are needed to counteract neuro-sexism, -heterosexisms and -racisms? How are identities re-conceptualized in neuroscientific experiments? Are sex and gender differences separate variables in neuroscientific experimentation and if yes why? Can and should there be a queer theory of the brain? When does "neurolization" become a social or political problem? If you are interested in participating in neuroGenderings, please send an abstract or letter of intent (max 500 words) together with a short CV (max one page plus publications) to Isabelle Dussauge and Anelis Kaiser (contact address see below)
Deadline: December 10, 2009
Contacts: Anelis Kaiser (anelis.kaiser@unibas.ch) and Isabelle Dussauge (isabelle.dussauge@liu.se)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The British Psychological Society’s History & Philosophy of Psychology Section invites submissions for its 2010 annual conference to be held in the Psychology Building in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We invite proposals for individual papers or symposia in any area dealing with conceptual and historical issues in psychology, broadly defined. This year, we would particularly welcome submissions on the history of concepts and categories of mental health and illness, and psychology in Scotland. The conference is open to independent and professional scholars in all relevant fields, not just Section or British Psychological Society members. A limited number of bursaries will be available to students who have had their paper accepted for presentation.
The keynote speaker will be Professor Richard Bentall who will also be discussing his recent book Doctoring the Mind (2009).
Deadline: Tuesday 1st December 2009 (200 word abstracts)
Contact: Dr Geoff Bunn at: g.bunn@mmu.ac.uk.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
History of Psychology
History of Psychology invites manuscripts for a special issue on the international historiography of psychology. The goal of the special issue is to showcase high-quality research on the history of psychology that is being conducted in countries around the world. In particular, we are seeking studies from countries in Central and South America, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, and Europe, especially Spain, Italy, as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. We anticipate that manuscripts accepted for publication will include comprehensive information about the development of the field of history of psychology, overviews of recent research (last ten years) published both in the native and in foreign languages, important thematic developments, major theoretical movements, archives, training in the specialty, journals, books, and special publications, as well as websites, blogs, and other electronic forms of communication. Psychology is used here to indicate the discipline and profession of psychology, as well as the use of psychological insights and expertise by the public. The main text of each manuscript, exclusive of figures, tables, references, or appendixes, should not exceed 35 double-spaced pages (approximately 7,500 words). Papers should be submitted through the regular submission portal for History of Psychology (http://www.apa.org/journals/hop/submission.html) with a cover letter indicating that the paper is to be considered for the special section.
Submission deadline: 1 December 2009
Contact: Wade Pickren (for initial inquiries), wpickren@psych.ryerson.ca
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Conference will be from the 30th till 31st January 2010 in Bochum, Germany.
The conference “Gender, Epistemology, Life Sciences, and Biopolitics” aims to deal with the complexity and inter-relationship of life science and its role and function within society. The call goes out to all junior (young) scientists from fields such as life science, natural science, cultural sciences, social sciences and philosophy. A closer look at the blind spot in the public perception reveals much about society's preconceptions. Life sciences and material sciences are mostly considered to be purely objective fields of science – while the initial motivation of research as a prefigured act during the production of knowledge stays out of focus. But under what social or cultural conditions does knowledge develop and how is it communicated? Scientific myths and myths about science need to be discussed as well as the relations between them. A critical view of a scientific creation of truth and the ambivalent relation between bioethics and biopolitics is important as well as analyzing the danger of re-naturalization of gender by creating objectivity in science. The aim of the conference is to contribute to the discussion of the challenge of objectivity and validity of natural sciences. As contributions to the conference, lectures are requested which focus on the question of the relationship between gender, natural sciences, life science and biopolitics, such as:
• How is the gender related to the natural sciences, how is gender-related knowledge generated and what role do metaphors and models play in this context?
• What are the potential consequences resulting out of scientific research concerning politics, culture, ethics and society?
• What are the conditions for transformation and popularization of scientific knowledge?
Deadline for abstract: 22 November 2009
Contact: gelb2010@rub.de
NB: The costs of travel within Germany can be reimbursed for speakers.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Society for the Social History of Medicine
The theme of the 2010 meeting of the Society for the Social History of Medicine in Durham and Newcastle, 8-11 July 2010, will be 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives'. The organisers particularly encourage proposals for 20 min papers addressing questions such as: What processes have generated knowledge about the body, illness and health that has become authoritative in different societies? How have claims of medical expertise been justified vis à vis claims from other domains of social and cultural authority such as religion and law? What did it mean for medical practitioners in different cultural and social contexts to claim to be ethical as well as knowledgeable? How did they present themselves to the public? What kind of material, visual and textual representations of body, mind, health and disease have gained 'defining power' exerting influence on medical practice and research until today?
Otherwise no restriction re. period or geographical region. Panel session proposals also wanted (with 3 papers). Send 250 word abstracts. For more info, see website.
Abstracts due: 1 November 2009
Contact: conference@nchm.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Neuroscientific Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences
From economics to English, religious studies to recreation, neurology has become the latest theoretical tool for analyzing society and culture. While there has been some backlash against this trend, research continues to emerge in areas of neurotheology, neuromarketing, neuroethics, neuroaesthetics, the neurohumanities, and neurohistory to name but a few. We are seeking essays for an edited collection that analyze and interrogate this recent neuroscientific turn in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested to hear from researchers who apply the neuro- to their own disciplinary work. Essays might engage with the following questions: why has there been a shift to using neuroscience as an epistemological framework and/or theoretical tool in the humanities and social sciences? What kind of arguments does it allow / foreclose / refute? How is this trend related to the “decade of the brain”? How do visualization technologies like fMRI shape or limit the neuroscientific turn? Is the neuroscientific turn interdiscplinary, cross-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary? What are the rights and responsibilities of such inter/cross/multiple-disciplinary research? Should this neuro- research fall under the purview of neuroethics? What roles do print and digital media play in the development and distribution of this trend? Why and how do the humanities and the social sciences need the neurosciences? What can the neurosciences learn from this trend in the humanities and the social sciences? How might these fields combine into a discipline of their own? Please submit a 300 word abstract and a brief (1-3 pg) CV to both editors. Final versions of the essays will be tentatively due by June 1, 2010
Submission deadline: Oct 30, 2009
Editors: Melissa Littlefield, University of Illinois (mml@illinois.edu) Jenell Johnson, Louisiana State University (jjohn@lsu.edu)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2010 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
29 April - 2 May 2010
The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 83rd annual meeting, to be held in Rochester, MN, 29 April through 2 May 2010. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits. Presentations are limited to twenty minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin. The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at <http://histmed.org/> . When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2009. E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
Abstracts due: 15 September 2009
Contact: If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair, Keith Wailoo, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, 30 College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; (732) 932-8419;kwailoo@ifh.rutgers.edu.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference: Knowledge and Pain
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
24-26 May 2010
Pain, physical or emotional, as a field of knowledge about suffering, is a subject of scholarly attention in the humanities and social sciences, in parallel with the scientific study of pain mechanisms and controls. The conference Knowledge and Pain will be devoted to the voices of the sufferers (rather than to those of inflictors, healers, or managers of pain). Bypassing, as much as possible, the messages of professional mediators, it will focus on the light that sufferers themselves shed upon their condition through verbal or visual expression. The organizers of the conference welcome proposals that deal with the following questions: How does discourse function as an intermediary between sufferer and listeners? Is pain destructive of language or does it merely challenge it? How and in what contexts does body language communicate suffering in different cultures and inter-culturally? What social capital (if any) do sufferers gain from communicating their pain? Is pain exclusively destructive of the subject's world or can it yield cognitive or spiritual gain? Is it ethically problematic to ascribe meaning to pain beyond its function as a symptom? What are the relationships between physical and emotional pain? How are the media used to represent pain, and with what side effects? Do artistic representations of suffering improve our understanding of the pain of another? How does the voice of pain implicate the hearer?
Abstracts due: 8 September 2009
Contact: msecohen@mscc.huji.ac.il
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Neuroethics (Springer) - Special Issue on 'Addiction Neuroethics'
The purpose of this Addiction Neuroethics theme issue is to bring together the work and opinions of leading philosophers, neuroscientists, social scientists and other scholars. Our aim is to take stock of the current science and thinking in this area. We hope to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of addiction neuroscience for treatment, social policy, questions of legal responsibility, self-understanding, and our understanding of free agency and self-control. We are seeking contributions from people from a range of disciplines and settings including but not limited to: neuroscience; psychology; philosophy; mental health; law; social science; public health; addiction; community/consumer; government. We are especially interested in contributions co-authored by people from different disciplines and with different professional perspectives. Examples of the topics this special issue of Neuroethics might include are: Neurocognitive dysfunction and drug dependence; public perceptions and ‘patient’ self understanding of addiction neuroscience; self control, addiction and implications for policy and treatment; theories of the 'good life' in addiction neuroscience research and clinical practice; cognitive styles and decision making in addiction; models of habits and personality in understanding addiction; ethics of addiction neuroscience and neuroscience of ethics; policy and treatment implications of addiction neuroscience; interdisciplinary understandings of addiction neuroscience. Contributions may focus on alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs. We take a broad view of ‘addiction’ (i.e. taking it to include gambling, eating and other putative ‘consumptive’ disorders), providing that there is a link to the potential contribution of neuroscience to understanding and responding to the problem of addiction. Proposals should be a maximum of 300 words.
Please see this website for more information.
Abstracts due: 31 July 2009
Contact: Prof Wayne Hall, University of Queensland, Australia w.hall@sph.uq.edu.au; Dr Craig Fry, University of Melbourne, Australia craig.fry@mcri.edu.au
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Conference: Transcultural Memory
University of London
5-6 February 2010
In an age of globalization, is it still possible to speak of local and national memory, or do the local and national always exist in implicit and explicit dialogue with the transnational? Holocaust- and memory studies have begun to address these questions in tracing the globalization of Holocaust memory as a trope by which other modern atrocities are shaped and remembered, and, of course, the Holocaust has been incorporated into national memories in order to forget indigenous genocides and shore up ideals of nation (Huyssen and Patraka). Conversely, theories of vicarious witnessing have posited an ethical dimension to the remembrance of events across cultural boundaries.Conference papers might address but are not limited to how concepts of transcultural memory might relate to: new directions/new paradigms in trauma studies; testimony studies; new media; new technologies of historical documentation and archivization; memory as performed and embodied; memory and the senses; conceptions of race; citizenship; ‘bare life’; postwar, post-event, post-epochal ‘structures of feeling’ (e.g., post-1918, -1945, -1968, -1989 and -9/11); the recent interest in the perspective of perpetrators; memory and gender; memory and religion; colonial, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies; the study of museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as the practical implications for heritage industries, memorialization and urban planning issues of law, justice and reparations; legal definitions of genocide; slavery; the relationship between genocides and other modern atrocities; memory and terrorism; the social implications of natural catastrophes and disasters.
Abstracts due: 21 July 2009
Contact: transculturalmemory@gmail.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine & Allied Sciences
For a themed issue on ''Medicine in a neurocentric world''
Explanatory models generated by the neurosciences are now gaining more and more importance not only in the reshaping of clinical applications
but also with regard to the biomedical and cultural understanding of the human mind. Consequently, tools from the neurosciences, such as imaging
techniques, appear to provide a novel knowledge base for the reconceptualisation of both somatic and mental pathological entities.Historically, it is interesting to observe how the extension of neuroscientific models into a broad field of applications has been shaped.
Epistemologically, it is a vexing question to ask how technologically constructed knowledge can be extended into diverse realms of explanation
in a genuinely transdisciplinary manner. Ethically, it is a valid concern whether this extension of neuroscientific explanations is justified in the light of often empirically underdetermined theorems. Culturally and anthropologically, the emergence of new conceptions of the self alongside the broad societal impact of the neurosciences - from debates on self-determination to discussions of criminal law - brings about the need for a thorough examination of key concepts of human self-understanding. Altogether, these challenges have given rise to new debates in medical ethics in general and in neuroethics in particular. However, to reach an in-depth understanding of the ongoing transformations triggered by the neurosciences, we need insights into the historical and cultural contexts and processes, together with an epistemological analysis of the theoretical foundations of medicine in a neurocentric world.
Please see the website for more submission information.
Applications due: 1 June 2009
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
German Anthropological Association Conference: Cultural Appropriation: Assimilation - Adaptation - Camouflage
Frankfurt, Germany
30 September - 3 October 2009
Call for abstracts for a panel on: Appropriation of Medical Technologies: Local Moral Worlds and Socio-technical Change within Biomedicine
Global influences have long touched off profound cultural changes in the societies that constitute the object of anthropological analysis. Due to the more rapid diffusion of goods, values and norms, the customary anthropological conception of culture has been called into question: culture and society no longer constitute a single entity. Just as politics, the economy and law are oriented toward the demands of the world market, so global cultural phenomena determine local actions. An anthropology committed to the study of contemporary societies must take this into account. Its particular focus is the continuance of cultural diversity that by no means succumbs to the onslaught of globalization, but rather simply undergoes transformation and is expressed in the articulation of new cultural identities. While former anthropological paradigms were primarily interested in the forms of resistance to external cultural influences, more recent approaches have focussed on the strategies with which social actors actively engage the challenges of globalisation. These are also to be the focus of the up-coming GAA-Conference dedicated to “Cultural Appropriation”. The term assimilation refers to the selective adoption of cultural imports, in which the adopted ideas or things are adapted to customary life ways and accorded with alternating meanings. In contrast to such forms of cultural nostrification, adaptation to dominant orders results in a break with a group’s own traditions, which – insofar as this break fails – often sparks attempts at retraditionalisation. Finally, the term camouflage highlights a strategy in which external demands are only apparently complied with, so that actors can secure sufficient latitude to pursue traditional goals.
Abstracts due: 31 May 2009
Contact: Bernhard Hadolt, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Bernhard.Hadolt@univie.ac.at; Viola Hörbst, Center for African Studies / Instituto Superior de Trabalho e Empresa Lissabon, hoerbst@lrz.uni-muenchen.de; Babette Müller-Rockstroh, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, binghana@yahoo.de (panel convenors)
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
8th International Conference on Urban Health
Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi
18-23 October 2009
The annual ICUH meetings provide an international forum for knowledge exchange among urban health stakeholders. They address issues pertaining to urban health, with emphasis on interventions that help to alleviate barriers to urban health care and to promote strategies and policies that enhance the health of urban populations. The ultimate goal of the ICUH is to mobilize and energize like-minded professionals addressing the effects of urbanization and urban environments on the health of urban populations. The Theme of the 2009 ICUH is “Meeting Urban Health Needs through Innovative Research, Policies and Interventions”. During a planning meeting convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Vancouver on October 28th, 2008, a lively and engaging discussion ensued around the vast opportunities that ISUH and the ICUH have in shaping progress on urban health issues worldwide in the years to come.
For more information, see conference website.
Abstracts due: 30 May 2009
Contact: icuh@aphrc.org
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SYMPOSIUM, UNITED KINGDOM
Exploding Objects: A New Scholars Symposium
Goldsmith's University, London
10 September 2009
The aim of this year's symposium is to explore the status of 'objects' within current sociological debates. Deconstructing and reconstituting our understanding of 'objects', the symposium seeks to utilize innovative forums to explore what a postgraduate community's work contributes to the study of 'things'. From tracing various objects through their journeys across social worlds to reflections on the role of the senses in constituting the perception of objects and considerations of people as 'objects' vs. 'subjects', the conference intends to 'explode' sociological understanding of 'objects' and to develop further connections across the postgraduate community. Papers will be organised into small streams, which will enable participants to present their work in a format that will encourage dialogue and constructive engagement. Each participant will be assigned one paper prior to the symposium to which s/he will be encouraged to prepare a response. The symposium will also attempt to engage with objects in more innovative ways through a 'show and tell' workshop. With Beverley Skeggs 'Turning it on is a class act: immediated object relations with television' and Caroline Knowles 'The life-worlds and journeys of a flip-flop sandal'.
Applicants should be current PhD students, or should have completed their PhDs within the last five years.
Application deadline: 15 May 2009; applications should be submitted here.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
7th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
9-10 October 2009
The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across North America working in fields related to the history of medicine. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds. For more information, including previous years' programs, please visit www.jointatlantic.org. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to the history of health and healing; of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and of illness, disease, and public health, from all eras and regions of the world. Abstracts should be no more than 350 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Please note that abstracts more than 350 words in length will not be reviewed. Speakers must be enrolled as graduate students at the time of the conference. Successful proposals will engage with relevant historiographic issues and the potential contribution to scholarship on the history of medicine and health. A panel of graduate students and faculty members from several different institutions will review the abstracts. All abstracts should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail).
Abstracts due: 15 May 2009
Contact: Marissa Mika, Program Chair, jasmedconf@gmail.com
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Brocher Foundation
Lake Geneva at Hernance (Geneva), Switzerland
The Brocher Foundation is inviting junior and senior researchers to submit a one day and a half pluridisciplinary symposia project on the ethical, legal and social implications for humankind of recent medical research and new technologies. It offers to host the event in the fully equipped Brocher Centre Conference room that can host up to 60 participants in Hermance, 15 kilometers far from Geneva, Switzerland. The Brocher Foundation offers also to cover the costs of all the meals and transfers in Geneva and to cover partially or fully the accommodation and travel costs of the speakers depending on their number. Both catering and accommodation will be organized directly in Geneva by the Brocher Foundation in accordance with its high standards. The Brocher Foundation will also consider the possibility of supporting a publication issued from the symposium. Topics for the 2010 Symposia will include ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Issues) of genetics, including political and economic aspects, ELSI of biotechnologies, ELSI of biotechnologies, ELSI of nanomedicine, ELSI of biosecurity, ELSI of biosecurity, Health care economics and public policies, Media and genetics, Media and bioethics, Philosophical aspects of biotechnologies or health care, and Bioart.
Applications due: 8 May 2009
Contact: scientificprog@brocher.ch
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
In order to promote outstanding and original scholarship in the history of the neurosciences, the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) <http://www.ishn.org> will award a biennial prize to the author or authors of an article published in its Journal of the History of the Neurosciences <http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/jhn.html> (JHN). This prize will be awarded at ISHN annual meetings held in odd-numbered years. It was first presented in 2001. General Rules: Articles must have been published in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences in the three years preceding the year of the award. For the 2009 award, the article must have appeared in 2006 (volume 15), 2007 (volume 16), or 2008 (volume 17). Articles may be by a single author or by multiple authors, and the author(s) may be from any academic discipline. Articles may be nominated by JHN readers or self-nominated by Authors.
Nominations due: 20 April 2009
Contact: Prof. Marjorie Lorch, m.lorch@bbk.ac.uk; fax: +44 204-383-3729
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Society for Medical Anthropology
Panel proposal: "What is life worth? Exploring biomedical interventions, survival and the politics of life".
Recent debates about technologies of 'life' raise questions about what it means to be human, and the nature of our relationship with biomedicine. Foucault's work on the 'care of the self', and Nikolas Rose's proposals about 'contemporary biopolitics', have influenced many recent studies in medical anthropology, but these do not fully resonate with all the sites in which we work. Underlying these concepts are practices which have mainly been available to elite groups in society - the 'art of living' in ancient Greece, was practiced by wealthy men, not women or slaves; and the required techniques for an optimization and molecularisation of life that Rose argues are at the centre of a 'contemporary biopolitics' in Europe and North America are not easily available to many people. These concepts also take for granted an individualised ethos of care, and so we must consider how this plays out in locations where a public morality shapes interactions with biopolitical regimes of care. Thus we ask where the 'edges' of biopolitics lie and what happens in such spaces? This panel seeks to analyse critically the current fascination with biopolitics through empirical studies of regimes of care and the relations shaping them in sites where biomedical technology or techniques of self-care are either not easily accessible, available or realistic for local populations. We aim to examine the 'inbetween' space, where contemporary biopolitics meets other medical interventions, and is played out within - and indeed shaping - particular moral economies.
Please see conference website for more information.
Applications due: 10 April 2009
Contact: Dr. Rebecca Marsland, r.marsland@ed.ac.uk; Dr. Ruth Prince, rjp61@cam.ac.uk
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Society for Medical Anthropology
Panel proposal: Between health and aesthetics: medical enhancement and self-governance beyond "the West".
Anthropologists have long critiqued a narrow definition of health as the "absence of disease." But conceptions of health underlying many new medical technologies encompass physical, mental, sexual, and even aesthetic well-being, aiming at enhancement rather than normality. Cosmetic surgery, sex hormone use, psychotropic pharmaceuticals, and alternative medicine are some of the more visible and controversial practices that have been used as a means to self-enhancement. Discussion of these though has tended to focus on the West, ignoring their rapid rise in other parts of the world. This panel will explicitly examine how medical technologies and practices get used within projects of self-optimization in contexts of recent or rapid modernisation. Moving discussion beyond the Euro-American region, we aim to address a number of theoretical questions in medical anthropology, and gain a new understanding of the implications of medical enhancement and aestheticized health.
Please see conference website for more information.
Applications due: 8 April 2009
Contact: Alexander Edmonds, A.B.Edmonds@uva.nl; Emilia Sanabria, emilia.sanabria@ehess.fr
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
European Science Foundation
The ECRP scheme is designed to advance international research collaboration in the social sciences by facilitating academic cooperation and pooling of expertise in Europe and beyond. The scheme offers the opportunity to carry out investigator-driven multilateral projects on any topic in the social sciences which demonstrates suitability for international research collaboration. ECRP applications must involve research teams in a minimum of three participating countries. Projects need not be exclusively European in their focus, and the combination of countries in any project should be scientifically motivated by the nature of the proposed research.
Please see website for more information and for details on applying.
Applications due: 12 March 2009
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
The ISHN encourages contributions about all of the history of all of the neurosciences, including basic and clinical specialties, ancient and non-Western topics, technical advances, and broad social and cultural aspects. The structure of the ISHN meeting will be platform and poster papers as well as
thematic symposia, all to be refereed by the program committee. Platform papers are normally about 15-20 minutes in duration followed by 5-10 minutes
for discussion. Thematic symposia consist of 3 or 4 platform papers submitted together on a specific theme. Poster papers will be displayed on a poster board whose size is yet to be determined. The program will include several invited papers. For more information, see pdf.
Abstracts due: 28 February 2009
Contact: Sherry Ginn, sginn@carolina.rr.com
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