Encounters and engagements: creating new agendas for medical anthropology.
EASA MEdical Anthropology Network, AAA Society for Medical Anthropology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Joint international conference. June 12th-14th 2013. Tarragona, Spain.

Call for papers

Submitting abstracts

The theme ‘encounters and engagements’ has been chosen not only for the theoretical focus it offers, but to reflect the organisers’ aspirations about what this unique conference will be like. Hence, rather than soliciting pre-formed panels, or panel abstracts relating to particular topics or themes, the organisers are inviting all contributors to use the broad framework provided by the overarching ‘encounters and engagement’ theme as a basis for developing their 250 word (maximum) conference abstracts for a paper or poster. These should be based on original research and/or analysis – be it theoretical or empirical. The abstracts will form the basis for a more detailed program, which will be designed to generate cumulative and inclusive discussions in ten parallel thematic conference streams, each containing a number of panels.

Streams

Abstracts will initially be considered by a Scientific Committee who will allocate them to one of ten emergent streams deriving from the content of the submissions. Each stream will be led by a group of two scholars who will use them to identify and organize a series of five panels in their stream. Stream leaders will write an initial thinkpiece which explains the debates they expect will take place in their stream (based on their review of abstracts), and will work with panelists on how to focus and refine their presentations (with the possibility of resubmitting abstracts, if appropriate). Stream leaders will also draw up plans for how to conduct their panels, aiming for a variety of formats, including (but not limited to) fifteen minute presentations and posters.

Streams Tarragona SMA/EASA Meetings

These streams are being developed in an iterative way – they are intended to provide a home for all abstracts submitted to the conference.

01 Reconfiguration of Medical Practices

02 Therapeutic Itineraries

03 New Collectivities in health

04 Uncertainty, Intuition and Trust

05 Lifecycles and Health

06 Health experimentation and new configurations of the (in)Human

07 Violence and Agency

08 Transnational/Transcultural Flows

09 Power, Gender and Race

10 Body boundaries, practices and (New) phenomenological queries

Uploading papers in advance (optional)

In order to encourage and enhance the level of discussion in the streams, participants are encouraged to prepare their work and upload it on the conference website for others to read in advance. We recognise that some people may not be able to do this, hence it is an optional element, but we strongly encourage participants to follow this approach if they possibly can (and for others contributing to a particular stream to read them!). Papers should be no more than 3,000 words in length; presentations at the conference should be summaries and reflections on these papers, not the papers themselves.