[Commlist] CfP - Panel "Critical and/or creative approaches to bodily data and the management of health risks"

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We would like to invite abstract submissions for our panel “Critical 
and/or creative approaches to bodily data and the management of health 
risks” at the upcoming EASST-4S 2024 conference in Amsterdam (16-19 July 
2024).

Submit your abstract (max 250 words): 
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14126
Information on submitting an abstract: 
https://www.easst4s2024.net/callforabstracts/
Deadline: February 12, 2024.
All other conference information: https://www.easst4s2024.net

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Panel Title:
“Critical and/or creative approaches to bodily data and the management 
of health risks”

Convenors:
Myriam Durocher (University of Amsterdam)
Samuel Thulin (Concordia University)

Short Abstract:
We are interested in contributions that explore the links between bodily 
data and health, from critical and/or creative perspectives. We approach 
data largely in terms of meaning produced in the context of bodily 
testing or material sampling (e.g., blood tests, tissue sampling, urine 
analysis, etc).

Long Abstract:
As concern grows all over the world around widespread health issues, 
many of which are framed as noncommunicable diseases, data are 
positioned as key in the management of health risks. While many of these 
“noncommunicable” diseases are addressed by health authorities via a 
lifestyle approach centred on data monitoring, some of these conditions 
are either undocumented/little monitored, or left under-researched in 
terms of disease causation pathways, revealing how not all bodies and 
health issues are taken care of equally (e.g., cases of environmental 
racism, gender-, sex-, or race-based bias in science, etc.).

We are interested in contributions that explore the links between bodily 
data and health, from critical and/or creative perspectives. We approach 
data largely in terms of meaning produced in the context of bodily 
testing or material sampling (e.g., blood tests, tissue sampling, urine 
analysis, etc.).

Questions we are interested in exploring include (but are not limited to):

- What kind of health is framed or excluded by these data?

- Whose body/what kind of body is of concern/is absent?

- What is “data” in contexts of health and bodily testing?

- How can we use insights from feminist and Indigenous STS researchers 
and artists to rethink/disrupt/reclaim data production, mobilization, 
and meaning-making?

- How are data made to speak of bodies’ materialities, of boundaries 
and/or links with environments?

- How can creative approaches to data production, mobilization and 
(re)mediation help disrupt the taken-for-grantedness of data and ideas 
of objectivity?

- How can creative approaches to data offer a critical take on power as 
it relates to data?

- Ethical questions surrounding testing/sampling/analyzing bodily 
matters in the context of health risk prevention or control are also 
welcome.

We welcome ideas of workshops on the general theme of working 
with/re-rerouting data and their meanings with regards to bodies and/or 
health.

Contact:
Myriam Durocher: (myriamdur /at/ hotmail.com)
Samuel Thulin: (samuel.thulin /at/ concordia.ca)



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