[Commlist] C4p Health Crisis and Counteraction in the Ibero American world

    *International congress**


    University of Lille Nord Europe

22-24 september 2022


    Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres 
Étrangères(CECILLE)


    *"Health crises and counteractions in the Ibero-American world"*

(health.crisis.counteractions /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(health.crisis.counteractions /at/ gmail.com)>

*Congress to be held in person only

The health crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has irreversibly 
modified, and is still modifying, social, economic and cultural 
relations on a global scale, making this crisis an unprecedented event 
in the recent history of humanity. Covid-19 has clearly exposed social 
inequalities, which in Ibero-America have a particular character due to 
its socio-economic structure: the vast number of irregular jobs, the 
difficulties of accessing healthcare, the densification of urban spaces, 
etc. Although contagious and infectious diseases are undeniably a 
long-standing issue, the coronavirus epidemic has placed the world in an 
unprecedented health crisis, intensified by the characteristics of our 
societies, which are connected both geographically and in terms of 
communication.

Some of the consequences of this crisis are still unforeseeable, and to 
date have affected different social aspects such as tourism, education, 
cultural practices, working patterns, etc. Expert, political, and lay 
actors publicly discuss the causes, developments and consequences of the 
epidemic, generating discourses on what is understood by pandemic, 
crisis, epidemic, etc. From the point of view of various disciplines 
from the human and social sciences, we want to question the social 
effects of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and propose a 
discussion that allows us to put into perspective the antecedents, 
causes, synergies and consequences of this and other health crises.

The emergence and legitimisation of the modern state, and its coercive 
capacities, frame this reflection, which also aims to project itself 
into the more recent past (AIDS, syphilis, Spanish flu, etc.), not 
excluding the first years of the establishment of the nation-state 
(Motín de Esquilache), which, according to Foucault, established the 
biopolitical regime characteristic of contemporaneity.

We will ask ourselves, then, what are the collective responses to the 
readjustments in social control imposed by the pandemic and in what way 
are they ascribed to political contexts (in the case of the Spanish 
ultra-right or the mobilisation for a new constitution in Chile), 
economic (the ebb and flow of so-called "tourism-phobia") or cultural 
(the subversive potential of confined theatre or the expansion of 
Netflix, HBO or Movistar).

In short, we propose a reflection on the socio-economic changes provoked 
or arising from this and other health crises, as well as the scope of 
cultural creation when it comes to answering, integrating, or modifying 
the medical-political discourse of government bodies in Latin America, 
Spain, and Portugal.

*List of thematic lines*

_Covid 19 crisis and control_: How do citizens cope with restrictions on 
freedom during these crises? How does the relationship between the state 
and the individual change? How is the reconfiguration of the techniques 
of control of the body internalised?

_Covid 19 crisis and mobility_: How does the pandemic affect the 
mobility industries: tourism, transport of people and goods, etc.? How 
have Spain, Portugal, and the Latin American states, in which these 
industries have great economic weight, responded to the restrictions on 
movement?

_Covid 19 crisis and democracies_: How are democracies dealing with the 
crisis and what are the consequences for everyday life: restriction of 
individual liberties, permanent surveillance states, medical control, etc.?

_Covid 19 crisis and other health crises_: Is this crisis unprecedented 
in terms of its social and cultural functioning? See, for example, other 
contexts of health crises: avian flu, Spanish flu, etc.

_Covid 19 crisis, media, and digital tools_: As usual in this type of 
crisis, discourses based on a series of metaphors of war are mobilised, 
amplifying panic in the population and pointing to individual 
responsibility for a collective health crisis. In this context, it seems 
necessary to ask how the health crisis has been exposed by the digital 
and traditional media, how disinformation about the pandemic has 
circulated through social networks, and how this has affected the 
understanding of the crisis?

*Agenda*

Abstract submission by 20 December 2021

Title, 500-word abstracts, a brief bibliography and 3 to 5 key words, 
accompanied by a 100-word bio of the presenter(s) and contact details 
should be sent to: (health.crisis.counteractions /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(health.crisis.counteractions /at/ gmail.com)>

Languages accepted: English, French, Portuguese, Castilian and Catalan

Notification of decision: by 21 January 2022

Complete article submission by 29 July 2022 (50.000 characters maximum, 
bibliography included)

Conference to be held at the Maison de la Recherche, Université de Lille 
- Campus Pont de Bois (Villeneuve d’Ascq)

* No payment will be required. Travel costs may be covered by the 
organisation. *


    Organising Committee :

Javier Jurado (Université de Lille - CECILLE)

Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (University of Kent)

Nadia Lie (KU Leuven)

Elizabeth Amann (Université de Gand)

Camila Pérez Lagos ( Université Catholique de l’Ouest - CHUS/CIM)

Marina Ruiz Cano (Le Mans Université)


    Scientific Committee :

**

*AingeruGenaut Arratibel *(Profesor Agregado de la Facultad de Ciencias 
Sociales y de la Comunicación. Departamento de Periodismo, Universidad 
del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea).

**

*Alexander Ortega Marín*(ATER en Espagnol à l’Université de Paris. Crimic).

*Camila Cárdenas Neira*(Docente del Instituto de Comunicación Social, 
Universidad Austral de Chile).

**

*Camila Moreira Cesar*(MCFen SIC, IRMÉCCEN (EA 7546), Université 
Sorbonne Nouvelle).

*Cristian González Arias *(Profesor titular en el Instituto de 
Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje - Pontificia Universidad Católica de 
Valparaíso - Chile).

*Daniel Barredo Ibanez *(Universidad del Rosario, Colombia / Fudan 
University, China).

*Gustavo Gomez Mejia *(MCF en SIC, Université de Tours - PRIM).

*Helena Martins*(Professora Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brasil), 
líder doTelas - Laboratório de pesquisas em Economia, Tecnologia e 
Políticas da Comunicação).

*Jacques Ibanez Bueno (*PR en SIC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc LLSETI 
<http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/525-ibanez-bueno-jacques.php>- 
LLSH).

*Luis Cárcamo Ulloa (*Profesor Instituto de Comunicación Social - 
Universidad Austral de Chile).

*Miguel Ezequiel Badillo Mendoza*(Docente asociado ECSAH - Colombia).

*Nataly Botero *(MCF en SIC, Université de Bourgogne, laboratoire CIMEOS.

*Próspero Morán *(Profesor Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de 
Oviedo, Spain)

*Roberto Alejandro Lopez Novelo*(Profesor Facultad de Comunicación, 
Universidad Anáhuac México).

*Rocío González Naranjo*(MCF en Español, Université Catholique de 
l’Ouest Bretagne-Sud,laboratoire Héritages et Constructions du texte à 
l’image de l’Université Bretagne Sud).

*Sara Loiti Rodríguez *(Profesora en Periodismo, Universidad del País Vasco)

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