CFP "Knowing practices" : 2nd international conference Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV
For the 2nd International Conference for the Social
Sciences and Humanities in HIV we invite papers that address the theme of
/'*KNOWING PRACTICES'*. /This dual concept poses questions about the multiple
practices that comprise the dynamics of the epidemic and how the practice of
knowing itself, is engaged and operationalised. /'*KNOWING PRACTICES' */refers
to:
1. The practices
that produce, reproduce and transform the social
worlds in which
people live. This includes what knowledge we have of
the forces
shaping the epidemic - whether social, structural,
geographic,
historical, political or economic - and their connection
to practice;
and
2. The different
ways of 'doing science' or knowing (and unknowing),
that is, on the
ways in which we as scientists claim to have evidence.
We hope this theme will be sufficiently broad and, at the
same time, nuanced in reference to the work of the social sciences and
humanities to elicit papers on a variety of topics. Within the theme of
*/'KNOWING PRACTICES'/*, we ask what sorts of knowing and un-knowing practices
are assembled and enacted as 'authentic', 'valid', 'verifiable'? What role is
there for the social sciences and humanities in the increasingly biomedical
vision of the future by science and its funders? Indeed, in what ways does the
promise articulated at AIDS 2012 -- that biomedicine will eradicate HIV and end
the epidemic -- put in place strategies that simultaneously evade the
complexity of the everyday nature of living and working with HIV? How can the
social sciences and humanities produce knowledge that has an impact on the many
forces that shape the epidemic?
While papers that address the conference's theme
/'*KNOWING PRACTICES'* /are especially relevant, papers contributing to the
advance of rigorous social scientific and humanities approaches to HIV and take
other perspectives on the social sciences and humanities are also encouraged.
*/Conference Papers/ Full Sessions/ Round Table
Discussions / * We encourage papers/discussions at all levels of analysis and
from paradigms and perspectives that address the following:
* The biomedical
claims of 'turning the tide' to end the epidemic
* Novel knowing
practices within science, social science and/or
communities
* Relationships
among biomedical knowledge, social-scientific
knowledge,
local knowledge and community know-how
* How social and
humanities knowledge, perhaps together with
biomedical
knowledge, can be used to develop more effective
responses to
the epidemic
* The
performative work of knowing practices (for example in the use
of racial,
ethnic and gender categories) as they also involve
not-knowing
(for instance, not knowing socio-economic difference
through gender
classification etc.)
* Issues of
collaborating with different knowing practices
* The knowledge
we have of the different forces shaping the epidemic
and how we
conceive their connection to practice
* What we know of
global disparities in socioeconomic and/or other
resources, and
how well this knowledge is actioned in responses to
the epidemic
* The ways in
which notions of 'the local' and 'the global' inform
each other and
the implications of this for funding, policy and
programming
* If knowledge is
not neutral and but generative in ways that enact
and affect
different interests, how knowing practices give shape to
the local and
global dynamics
* The ways in
which particular agencies or groups bring about changes
in social,
economic and political forces that shape the epidemic
and/or
responses to it
* What we know
about risk and care practices in different contexts and
how we can
ensure our methods of knowing are appropriate to local needs
For more information, see attached PDF File or the
conference website http://www.asshhconference.org/
--
Janina Kehr, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Medizinhistorisches Institut und Museum
Hirschengraben 82
Tel. +41 (0)44 63 42018