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Sometimes academics directly suggest giving a talk at a future congress, a possibility of which (according to our personal experience) many women seem to be unaware of. This is an interesting approach because more often than not, the development of the scientific program of a conference is a relatively informal process that favors “old boys clubs”. In the last years, hundreds of scientists/speakers have decided to boycott “all-men panels” in different fields and offered their help in finding female speakers (e. g. Is it true? Of course not, certainly not in an international context. This is a simple but devastating statement. According to one of the organizers, simply not enough high-profile women could be found.
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According to data presented there, the percentage of women among speakers and moderators was only 20.9%, although the total female input including delegates and poster presenters was almost twice as high: 39.3%. For example, the annual European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) congress was recently held in Vienna. The underrepresentation of women in academic medicine is particularly evident in some subspecialties such as critical care and emergency medicine. This is a problem for women in science, because such meetings can be extremely productive, many successful projects have once started in restricted access, such as faculty lounges or at faculty dinners during such events. Deadline for abstract submission is February 12th 2016.From Austria to Australia, women continue to be a rare species as faculty of medical conferences although in many countries, medical students and young doctors are more often women than men. This year’s conference will explore the nature of performativity and how comics engage with themes of clinical roles, medical spaces, and the body-as-stage. Deadline for abstract submissions is February 7th 2016.ħth International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages Meeting themes include intergenerations and temporality. MAYS, a network under the European Association for Social Anthropologists, is holding its annual meeting at the University of Lisbon. Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) 2016 Meeting The organizers state that this event will be “an interdisciplinary conference that seeks to promote inclusion of the humanities in medical education and, conversely, encourage arts students and scholars to find salience and inspiration in medicine.” Deadline for abstract and other presentation submissions is January 15th 2016. Deadline for proposal submission is January 31st 2016.Ī Palpable Thrill: An Introduction to Medical Humanities 2016 Though this annual conference welcomes work in all aspects of cultural anthropology, this year’s meeting focuses on disorder and normativity: particularly salient themes in medical anthropology and social medicine. Though the deadline for abstract submissions has passed, attendees can view the preliminary program for the conference here.Īmerican Ethnological Society 2016 Meeting
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The Society for Medical Anthropology is a co-sponsor of this year’s SfAA Meeting in Vancouver. Society for Applied Anthropology 2016 Meeting: SMA Co-sponsored SfAA 2016 Meeting Logo, via SfAA website. Deadline for abstract submission is January 20th 2016. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a collected volume. This conference welcomes papers from all areas of medical humanities as well as medical anthropology, sociology, and medical education. If you would like to add a conference or meeting to this list, please submit details via email to our social media editor, Julia Knopes, at We welcome postings for both domestic (USA) and international conferences.Ģ016 International Conference on Medical Humanities Many of these conferences have abstract submission deadlines that are swiftly approaching: these dates are listed below in the description of each conference posting. All conferences are listed chronologically. In this installment, we present a master list of conferences in 2016 that span these disciplines or that encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the social study of medicine.
European medical conferences 2016 series#
One of the running features here at the blog is a recurring series on upcoming conferences in fields of interest to our readers, namely medical anthropology, medical humanities, and other cultural studies of health and illness.