CfP: Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society
It’s our great pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society,” an international conference organized by the Injuries Studies Research Network of scholars and practitioners. The conference will be hosted at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on March 7-9, 2024. The event will bring together scholars, researchers, and policymakers from the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries and to highlight the applicability of cultural and historical insights to practice.
Authors are encouraged to submit their latest research, case studies, and evaluations of current policies and programs. We are particularly interested in contributions that address interdisciplinary audiences and the following themes:
- Perception: How do experts and laypeople perceive the risks and consequences of injuries across different times, places, and contexts? What factors affect how individuals and groups perceive risky situations and their aftermaths?
- Control: How have various individual, commercial, and government actors tried to control injuries and their effects? When have these parties chosen to intervene to prevent injuries or refused to do so?
- Representation: How do different stakeholders represent the causes, outcomes, and meanings of injuries? What styles, tools, and media have been used to communicate their messages to specific audiences? What artistic productions, literary tropes, and genres do injuries engender?
- Experience: How do people experience and attribute meaning to physical and mental trauma, recovery, and disability? How is the experience of injuries shaped by art, cinema, and literature? How do injuries change peoples’ everyday lives? How do the social determinants of health shape experiences of injury?
Limited funds are available for presenters to defray the costs of attendance. Preference will be given to doctoral students and early career researchers.
Please use our online abstract management system: https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/#abs
Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, October 15, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Deadline for Final Presentations: Wednesday, February 28, 2024
For any inquiries about the conference, please contact: <rethinkinginjuries@gmail.com>