PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Thursday 17.10.
9:15 Opening
9:30 Keynote: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman (City University of New York & University of Eastern Finland): Resisting Industrialization: Putting the People Back In
11:00 Paper session 1. Chair Karoliina Snell
- Aliia Nizamova (European University, St Petersburg, Russia): Reconfiguring Agency: Ageing with Dementia in Nursing Home
- Johanna Ahola-Launonen (Aalto University, Finland): “We must discuss the ethics of designer babies before they are here” – hope and hype as players in healthcare policy
11:45 Coffee/Tea Break
12:15 Paper session 2. Chair Venla Oikkonen
- Margaret MacDonald (York University, Canada): The image world of infographics: the case of global maternal health
- Elina Helosvuori (University of Helsinki, Finland): (In)tangible technologies of reproduction
- Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland): Growth hormone. (In)tangible technology in the experience of Turner syndrome
- Andrea Ford (University of Chicago, USA): More than just a calendar: period tracking apps and the datafication of fertility, self-care, and hormonal health
13:45 Lunch Break
14.45 Paper session 3. Chair Malgorzata Rajtar
- Heidi Härkönen (University of Helsinki, Finland): Food, Pharmaceuticals and Everyday Understandings of Health in Contemporary Havana, Cuba
- Katarzyna Ewa Król (Institute of Philosophy & Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Medicalised foodscapes. Case study of rare metabolic diseases in Poland
- Terhi Kangas & Ricardo Ayala (Ghent University): Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Patients’ Empowerment and Self-care Agency
- Zofia Boni (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland): (Dis)Assembling Weight: Children’s ‘Overweight & Obesity’ in Poland
16.15 Coffee/Tea Break
16.45 Keynote: Professor Vincanne Adams (University of California in San Francisco, USA): (In)tangibility and The Swirl of Data: More-Than-Human Speculation About Chemical Harms from Food
18.15 Reception (Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Friday 18.10.
10.15 Keynote: Dr Christine Aicardi (Kings College London, UK): Imaginaries (and likely realities) of health care futures with AI, big data and algorithms
11.45 Coffee/Tea Break
12.15 Paper session 4. Chair Aaro Tupasela
- Maiju Tanninen (Tampere University, Finland): Enacting well-being in the practices of smart insurance products
- Charlotte A Tschider & Krista Kennedy (DePaul University & Syracuse University, USA): The International Regulatory Impasse of AI-Enabled Devices
- Mikko Jauho (University of Helsinki, Finland): Measuring the Intangible: Green Care and the Calculation of Nature’s Contribution to Health and Well-Being
13.30 Lunch Break
14.30 Paper session 5. Chair Heidi Härkönen
- Heta Tarkkala (University of Helsinki, Finland): Individualizing cancer care – human, disease and technology entanglements in data
- Ekaterina Borozdina (European University, St Petersburg, Russia): Navigating uncertainty: evidence-based medicine and institutional constrains in Russian healthcare
15.30 Final discussion and closure of the symposium