University of Helsinki
Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
#intangible2019
The workshop is arranged in connection to the symposium with the same name
on October 17th-18th 2019 https://blogs.helsinki.fi/intangibletechnologydata/
Scope: Research on health and illness conducted within medical humanities and social sciences inherently engages both people (such as healthy volunteers, patients, their families, health professionals, geneticists, lab specialists, data managers and policy makers) and their non-human counterparts, in particular, data and technology. Humans, data and technology travel, intermingle and converge. Yet technological applications and analysis of big health data are increasingly defining health and illness, as well as influencing the direction of healthcare policies and services in ways that downplay their fundamental entanglement with mundane, embodied and institutional human activities. Contextualizing and exploring in detail the relations between humans, data and technology allows for a better understanding of healthcare practices.
The workshop offers possibilities for PhD students from a range of fields (anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, philosophy, law, psychology, gender studies among others) to take part in interdisciplinary discussions on what happens when the human-technology-data assemblage becomes part of daily life. In the workshop, the students will receive feedback on their papers (article manuscripts, work-in-progress) from the keynote speakers and symposium organisers. The students are also invited to the symposium following the PhD workshop.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Vincanne Adams, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California SF
Dr Christine Aicardi, Senior Research Fellow, Human Brain Project Foresight Laboratory, Kings College London
Prof. Barbara Katz Rothman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, City University of New York
For applying to the workshop, please send an abstract of your paper (max 300 words) by June 15th to: intangible.technology.data@gmail.com . Decisions on acceptance will be made by July 2nd. Please add a bio note of max. 100 words including your name, e-mail and affiliation. Participants of the workshop are required to send a paper (max 2500 words) by September 30th. In addition, participants are encouraged to prepare 1-2 questions for the commentators to address. The papers will be circulated among the workshop participants, so all can comment and discuss.
Information about the workshop and the symposium will be updated on our blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/intangibletechnologydata/
For further information, please contact the organisers of the symposium:
Karoliina Snell karoliina.snell@helsinki.fi
Małgorzata Rajtar mrajtar@ifispan.waw.pl or malgorzata.rajtar@helsinki.fi