Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24, Ground Floor, seminar room 136
Wednesday 8 November
10:45–11:00 Welcome & practicalities
11:00–12:00 Session 1: Rethinking the Self
Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki), Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies
Harley Bergroth (University of Turku), Dis/assembling self-knowledge: On paradoxes of knowledge production in proactive self-tracking
Chair: Venla Oikkonen
12:00–13:00 Lunch (HCAS Common Room, 3rd floor) All registered participants are welcome!
13:00–14:30 Session 2: Systems and spaces
Eloisa Stella & Cristian Leorin (Associazione Novilunio Onlus), On the anthropology of eHealth: The troubling case of the aging population
Chris Till (Leeds Beckett University), Self-monitoring, agnotology and reflexive work
Venla Oikkonen (HCAS, University of Helsinki), Ambiguities of race in genetic ancestry tests
Chair: Ingrid Young
14:30–15:00 Coffee
15:00–16:00 Session 3: Governing and negotiating difference
Hannele Harjunen (University of Jyväskylä), Neoliberal bodies and the body weight monitoring
Alvaro Martinez Lacabe (Unversity of Roehampton), Producing the self in the biomolecular HIV prevention era
Chair: Margrit Shildrick
16:00-16:30 Coffee (ground floor lobby)
16:30-18:00 Keynote Celia Roberts (Lancaster University), Handbags, spit and hair: Where is biosensing taking us? (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, P674, 6th floor), Chair: Venla Oikkonen
18:00-19:30 Informal get-together & drinks (HCAS Common Room, 3rd floor) All conference participants are welcome!
Thursday 9 November
9:45-10:45 Session 4: Failings and deficiencies
Ayo Wahlberg (University of Copenhagen), Tracking Failing Biologies
Ingrid Young (University of Edinburgh), Disease identities, HIV treatment and public health citizenship
Chair: Lisa Käll
10:45-11:15 Coffee (ground floor lobby)
11:15-12:45 Session 5: Fertility and reproductive choice
Laetitia Della Bianca (University of Lausanne), The cyclic self: an analysis of self-fashioning practices via menstrual tracking apps
Josie Hamper (Queen Mary University of London), “Getting the timing right”: Women’s uses of fertility tracking smartphone apps
Celeste Orr (University of Ottawa), Contemporary eugenics: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, anti-intersex selection, and reproductive “choice”
Chair: Donna McCormack
12:45–14:00 Lunch (HCAS Common Room) All registered participants are welcome!
14:00–15:30 Session 6: Communities and exclusions
Margit Anne Petersen & Dorthe Brogård Kristensen (University of Southern Denmark), Potential selves: Ethnographies of technologies of optimization and values for the future
Samantha Gottlieb (Independent), The sensored female body
Amelia Fiske, Alena Buyx & Barbara Prainsack (Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, UKSH), Examining representation, access, and difference in biomedical citizen science
Chair: Ingrid Young
15:30–16:00 Coffee (ground floor lobby)
16:00–17:30 Keynote Heidi Tikka, Body – Sensor Co-performances: Working with Interactive Technologies for New Media Art (HCAS Common Room, 3rd floor), Chair: Donna McCormack
19:00 Dinner (for speakers and chairs), Restaurant Hima&Sali, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1 C (If you need help finding the place, meet with us by the Collegium front door at 18:30 and we’ll go together.)
Friday 10 November
9:30–11:00 Keynote Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra), The Vital Capacities of Digitised Female Embodiment (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, P674, 6th floor), Chair: Ingrid Young
11:00–11:30 Coffee (ground floor lobby)
11:30-13:00 Roundtable & discussion. Panelists: Harley Bergroth (University of Turku), Susanna Lindberg (HCAS, University of Helsinki), Chris Till (Leeds Beckett University), Ayo Wahlberg (University of Copenhagen)
Chair: Lisa Käll