Workshop

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.

Fly­er-StAI­CEI 2024 seminars

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Online sem­i­nar „Activist Affor­dances: Dis­abil­i­ty, Shrink­age, and Improvisation”
Arseli Doku­maci (Cana­da Research Chair in Crit­i­cal Dis­abil­i­ty Stud­ies and Media Tech­nolo­gies and head of the AIM Lab)
Online May 15 at 4:30 PM CET.
Zoom link: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/91341554290.

You can also reg­is­ter for the event via Eventbrite at the fol­low­ing link: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/91341554290
MAE Sem­i­nars: Activist Affor­dances with Dr. Arseli Dokumanci

*Activist Affor­dances: Dis­abil­i­ty, Shrink­age and Improvisation*

For peo­ple liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ty, every­day tasks like lift­ing a glass or tak­ing off clothes can be daunt­ing. As such, their under­tak­ings may require inge­nu­ity, effort, care­ful­ness, and art­ful­ness. In this talk, I draw on visu­al ethno­gra­phies with dis­abled peo­ple liv­ing in Turkey and Que­bec and trace the immense labour and cre­ativ­i­ty that it takes for them just to nav­i­gate the every­day. Bring­ing togeth­er the­o­ries of affor­dance, per­for­mance, and dis­abil­i­ty, I pro­pose „activist affor­dances” as a way to name and rec­og­nize these extreme­ly tiny and art­ful chore­o­gra­phies that dis­abled peo­ple have to do each day for a more live­able world. Activist affor­dances, in the way I define them, are micro, often ephemer­al acts of world-build­ing, with which dis­abled peo­ple lit­er­al­ly make up, and at the same time make up for, what­ev­er affor­dances fail to mate­ri­al­ize in their envi­ron­ments. A ctivist affor­dances are not like any oth­er affor­dance in that their
cre­ation emerges from con­straints, loss­es and pre­car­i­ty that I broad­ly con­cep­tu­al­ize as „shrink­age”. Shrink­age refers to the lit­er­al „shrink­age” of the envi­ron­ment and the con­strain­ing, dimin­ish­ing, and at times, com­plete depri­va­tion of its avail­able affor­dances. I argue that it is with­in a shrink­ing world of pos­si­bil­i­ties, that it becomes nec­es­sary to cre­ate affor­dances in their phys­i­cal absence, which is why I call them „activist”. When the envi­ron­ment nar­rows down and shrinks to a set of con­straints rather than oppor­tu­ni­ties, it is the impro­visato­ry space of per­for­mance that opens and allows dis­abled and chron­i­cal­ly ill peo­ple to imag­ine that same envi­ron­ment oth­er­wise through activist affor­dances. Impor­tant­ly, activist affor­dances that emerge from shrunk­en envi­ron­ments are not just a form of world-mak­ing but an acces­si­ble and a non-exploita­tive form of world-mak­ing. Their cre­ation asks only for our bod­ies and what­ev­er hap­pens to be around us, or even just our bod­ies, which, at times, espe­cial­ly at times of extreme depri­va­tion, may be all
that we have.

Arseli Doku­maci (she/hers) is a Cana­da Research Chair in Crit­i­cal Dis­abil­i­ty Stud­ies and Media Tech­nolo­gies, and an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in
the Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Stud­ies at Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­si­ty. Her schol­ar­ly and cre­ative work lies at the crossovers of dis­abil­i­ty stud­ies, per­for­mance stud­ies and med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy. Arseli is the direc­tor of Access in the mak­ing (AIM) Lab, and the author of Activist Affor­dances: How Dis­abled Peo­ple Impro­vise More Liv­able Worlds (Duke UP, 2023) which won the Ali­son Piep­meier Book Prize from the Nation­al Women?s Study Association.

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„Crops and their humans: Veg­e­tal per­spec­tives on agri­cul­tur­al mobilities”
16–17 May 2024, Leib­niz Zen­trum Mod­ern­er Orient
Dead­line: 28 Jan­u­ary 2024

Agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion cur­rent­ly relies on large num­bers of peo­ple migrat­ing to and from cen­tre­sof pro­duc­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly for work with plant crops. Mean­while, dis­place­ment and mobil­i­ty due to wars,development projects and land appro­pri­a­tions bring peo­ple in or out of agri­cul­tur­al work. Both flowsin­stan­ti­ate new rela­tion­ships with plants, how­ev­er how plants make a dif­fer­ence to these move­ments, and­how dis­placed people’s rela­tion­ships to plants evolve across their mobil­i­ties has been lit­tle con­sid­ered inthe lit­er­a­ture. The grow­ing field of crit­i­cal plant stud­ies works along­side schol­ar­ship focused on migra­tion­around agri­cul­ture, but rarely con­nect­ing with it. With this work­shop we explore whether greater atten­tion­to veg­e­tal lives pro­vides oppor­tu­ni­ties to recon­sid­er mobil­i­ty relat­ed to agri­cul­ture, and vice versa.Thinking through the lens­es of plant stud­ies and the food-migra­tion nexus, this explorato­ry work­shop is inter­est­ed in new under­stand­ings which may arise through dia­logue across these per­spec­tives. Ques­tions to con­sid­er might include:

· To what extent can migrant labour be under­stood as entan­gled with plant labour in pro­duc­ing value?
· How can we under­stand pow­er dynam­ics of these mobil­i­ties and plants’ posi­tion with­in them?
· How do human-plant rela­tions trans­form in people’s places of ori­gin, includ­ing the plant care work and main­te­nance of fields and gardens?
· How does knowl­edge of plants cir­cu­late with and between peo­ple on the move?
· How do veg­e­tal life and its timescales shape and inter­act with human mobil­i­ties con­nect­ed to agriculture?
· What are the ten­sions between care for peo­ple and care for plants in pro­duc­tion settings?
· How is agri­cul­tur­al work gen­dered and racial­ized in con­nec­tion to plant char­ac­ter­is­tics and needs?
· What out­comes do the affec­tive and embod­ied encoun­ters between plants and dis­placed peo­ple have in the con­text of agri­cul­ture and horticulture?

In the light of these ques­tions this work­shop invites schol­ars from the dis­ci­plines of anthro­pol­o­gy, geog­ra­phy, his­to­ry, eth­nob­otany, agri-food stud­ies and all relat­ed fields to con­sid­er how peo­ple relate to plants in the con­texts of dis­place­ment, sea­son­al work, and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al mobil­i­ties. Par­tic­u­lar­ly wel­come are schol­ars from or work­ing on Glob­al South con­texts. Dis­cus­sions dur­ing the work­shop will explore whether and how veg­e­tal per­spec­tives enhance under­stand­ing of these mobil­i­ties, seek­ing future lines of inquiry and collaboration.

· The work­shop will take place at Leib­niz-Zen­trum Mod­ern­er Ori­ent, Berlin.
· Lim­it­ed funds are avail­able to cov­er asso­ci­at­ed trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion costs.
· Par­tic­i­pants will be expect­ed to sub­mit full work­ing papers before the workshop.
· Atten­dees will also par­tic­i­pate in two larg­er dis­cus­sion ses­sions on the themes that emerge from the papers, and con­tribute to a joint publication.
· Fur­ther infor­ma­tion will be pro­vid­ed when a deci­sion on select­ed abstracts is made after 18 February.

Please send your abstracts of 250 words and a short bio of 150 words to hilal.alkan.zeybek@zmo.de and pitth2@cardiff.ac.uk by 28 Jan­u­ary 2024.

Cofion cynnes, Hannah​ Dr Han­nah Pitt
Lec­tur­er in Envi­ron­men­tal Geog­ra­phy ¦ Dar­lithy­dd Daeary­d­di­aeth Amgylcheddol
My pro­nouns are She/Her ¦ Fy rha­gen­wau i yw Hi/Ei
School of Geog­ra­phy and Plan­ning ¦ Ysgol Daeary­d­di­aeth a Chynllunio
Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty ¦​ Pri­fys­gol Caerdydd
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/475490-pitt-hannah
029 208 79632
pitth2@cardiff.ac.uk @routesandroots

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Anthro­pol­o­gy Sum­mer Writ­ing Workshop
June 4–6, 2024
„Healthy Life, Hap­py Life: Immi­gra­tion and Health in Post-Pan­dem­ic Times”

Near­ly four years have passed since the out­break of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. Immi­grant com­mu­ni­ties have been some of the most affect­ed pop­u­la­tions with regards to expo­sure to the virus, infec­tion, dis­ease, death, eco­nom­ic dis­lo­ca­tion, stress, racism, as well as long-term trau­ma. These impacts echo what med­ical anthro­pol­o­gists have spot­light­ed about the social pro­duc­tion of sick­ness, social suf­fer­ing, and oth­er health con­se­quences of struc­tur­al vio­lence. Yet, a sig­nif­i­cant cor­pus of work has also high­light­ed immi­grants’ resilient sub­jec­tiv­i­ty and resis­tance to struc­tur­al inequal­i­ties in their every­day pro­duc­tion and man­age­ment of health through self-care, alter­na­tive health­care pro­vi­sions, and transna­tion­al social net­works, among oth­er strate­gies. These immi­grant sub­jects envi­sion, prac­tice, and nego­ti­ate for „good” health and for a „good” life while nav­i­gat­ing social, struc­tur­al, and mate­r­i­al con­straints in the intri­ca­cies of their lived expe­ri­ences amid com­plex and some­times ambigu­ous pow­er dynamics.
Our three-day writ­ing work­shop focus­es on ongo­ing anthro­po­log­i­cal work at the inter­sec­tion of migra­tion, health, and hap­pi­ness. We endeav­or to inves­ti­gate how immi­grants with their own sets of iden­ti­ties per­ceive their bod­ies and man­age their health in pur­suit of a good, hap­py life in post-pan­dem­ic times. Towards this end, we invite sub­mis­sions from anthro­pol­o­gists whose ethno­graph­ic stud­ies explore post-pan­dem­ic trans­for­ma­tions among immi­grants in under­stand­ing health and hap­pi­ness across local and transna­tion­al con­texts. Papers explor­ing the fol­low­ing ques­tions are espe­cial­ly wel­come: (1) Has the pan­dem­ic impact­ed immi­grants’ per­cep­tions of health’s role in the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness and a good life? (2) How do immi­grants re-envi­sion and rene­go­ti­ate both health and hap­pi­ness while nav­i­gat­ing post-pan­dem­ic uncer­tain­ty, pre­car­i­ty, and inequal­i­ties? (3) How do immi­grants’ health prac­tices and health­care encoun­ters since the pan­dem­ic affect these biopo­lit­i­cal sub­jects’ belong­ing and iden­ti­ty mak­ing? (4) What role has the pan­dem­ic and recov­ery played in immi­grants’ sense of health and hap­pi­ness in their new nation of settlement? 

Work­shop Overview:

This Anthro­pol­o­gy Sum­mer Writ­ing Work­shop is sup­port­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion Marie Curie Indi­vid­ual Fel­low­ship. It will be host­ed by Ca’ Fos­cari Uni­ver­si­ty of Venice in Italy on June 4–6, 2024.
Each par­tic­i­pant will pre-cir­cu­late their work­ing paper and have their work dis­cussed by fel­low par­tic­i­pants in a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment. These papers will be even­tu­al­ly con­sid­ered for a jour­nal spe­cial issue orga­nized around the work­shop topic.
To bet­ter facil­i­tate this writ­ing work­shop in the for­mat of small-group dis­cus­sion, we encour­age appli­ca­tions from par­tic­i­pants who are able to ful­ly attend this three-day work­shop in person. 

Con­venors:

Grazia Deng, Euro­pean Com­mis­sion Marie Curie Fel­low, Ca’ Fos­cari Uni­ver­si­ty of Venice
Andrea Flo­res, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Brown University 

Time­lines:

Dead­line for abstracts sub­mis­sion: Jan­u­ary 19, 2024
Announce­ment of accep­tance: Feb­ru­ary 2, 2024
Dead­line for paper sub­mis­sion: May 3, 2024
Work­shop dates: June 4–6, 2024. 

Appli­ca­tion:

To apply, please sub­mit an abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a short bio of no more than 100 words by Jan­u­ary 19, 2024. Abstracts can be sub­mit­ted online at 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SlbJz2eEpmIWguLi59swwjcdy6xaOsxlmWK-Wk-HRMc/prefill

Please note that par­tic­i­pants have to arrange their own trav­els and accom­mo­da­tion. No trav­el grants are avail­able. Lunch­es and cof­fee will be provided. 

For ques­tions, please email Grazia Deng (graziadeng@gmail.com) or Andrea Flo­res (andrea_flores@brown.edu).

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Call for pan­el par­tic­i­pants heal­ing ecolo­gies revised

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3. Jahre­str­e­f­fen der „Mar­burg­er Gespräche zur Alten Heilkunde“ (MGAH)
05. und 06. Juli 2024
Land­grafen­saal des Hes­sis­chen Staat­sarchivs Mar­burg (Friedrich­splatz 15, 35037 Marburg)

Pro­gramm:

DEUTSCH
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ENGLISCH
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Bitte teilen Sie Adam Howe (ag-mgah@staff.uni-marburg.de) mit Hil­fe des Anmelde­for­mu­la­rs bis spätestens *07. Juni 2024* mit, ob wir mit Ihrer Teil­nahme rech­nen dürfen.

Alle For­mu­la­re und Infor­ma­tio­nen find­en Sie auch auf unser­er Web­site: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb16/igphmr/mgah/jahrestreffen

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„Research-cre­ation: cri­tique, care and col­lab­o­ra­tion through cre­ative practice”
VU Ams­ter­dam Sum­mer School
8–19 July

The course is aimed at sup­port­ing advanced Bach­e­lor stu­dents and first year Mas­ter stu­dents. It will be taught in person/on cam­pus and car­ries a study load of 3 ECTS.
For those unfa­mil­iar with the term, research-cre­ation is an approach to research that engages artis­tic expres­sion, schol­ar­ly inves­ti­ga­tion, curios­i­ty, and exper­i­men­ta­tion. In prac­tice, this means that research top­ics are select­ed and explored through a cre­ation process, such as the pro­duc­tion of a film or video, per­for­mance or instal­la­tion, sound-work, zine, or mul­ti­me­dia arts/texts.
This sum­mer, the course will have a spe­cial focus on rela­tion­ships, men­tal health, con­flict in col­lab­o­ra­tions, and the messi­ness of co-cre­ative work. We will draw on spe­cif­ic exam­ples from queer, anti-colo­nial, migrant jus­tice, and Pales­tin­ian lib­er­a­tion move­ments. The course will incor­po­rate read­ing-based dis­cus­sions, hands-on cre­ative work­shops, and exam­ples of research-cre­ation in prac­tice, in an effort to engage broad­er dis­cus­sions con­cern­ing method­ol­o­gy, ethics, respon­si­bil­i­ty, and (insti­tu­tion­al) solidarities/activism with­in and beyond the uni­ver­si­ty. To this end, this course will include pre­sen­ta­tions by schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers from inside and out­side of academia.
You can read more and reg­is­ter here.

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„Think­ing with Drugs: Inter­ven­tions in the Social”
When: 22–23 July
Where: Gold­smiths, Uni­ver­si­ty of London.
CFP dead­line: 10 May

The work­shop explores inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research on drugs can gen­er­ate new insights in a time of glob­al change. It is organ­ised by a group of Aus­tralian and UK-based schol­ars work­ing across soci­ol­o­gy, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy stud­ies (STS), gen­der stud­ies and crit­i­cal drug stud­ies. The con­venors are espe­cial­ly keen to receive abstracts from ECRs and HDRs, and there may be some trav­el fund­ing to sup­port par­tic­i­pa­tion. CFP clos­es 10 May. More details and how to apply here.

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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

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