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• 36. Exploring health in the context of territorial inequalities

  Abstract

  Conveners: Daniele Karasz, Sladana Adamovic, Adrienne Homberger

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-2

  Jónleyg Djurhuus: (Im)mobilities: Managing moral, structural and geographical boundaries to health care and social services in a small-scale island society in the Nordics

  Emma Fàbrega Domènech: Struggling to Make Health Matter: Community-Driven Responses and Social Innovation in Montcada i Reixac, a peripheral Barcelona Municipality 

  Stephaine Meysner: Territorialising Cancer Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights From Within England’s North-South Divide

  Keshav Sawarn: Territorial Inequalities and Community Resistance: Ethnographic Insights into Structural Health Disparities in Rural Jharkhand
• 42. History in Care: Tracing Historical Entanglements

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Kristine Krause, Monika Palmberger

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 4-0-4

  Devin Flaherty: Hospice as History in the American (Post)Colony

  Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves: Remnants of Care: Afterlives of a Lethal Drug

  Inga Haaland: Growing Up in the Clinic: Intergenerational Care and the Role of Clinics for GenZ Born with HIV

  Marie Leine: Uneasy Care: Tracing Silences and Recognition in Danish Shelters

  Veronika Prieler: “Places of new community and cultural centers”: Care homes for Transylvanian Saxons in Germany

  Julia Rehsmann: Digital divides and hidden labour during Covid-19

  Milena Wuerth: 'Transforming' UK mental healthcare? A case study of continuities in psychiatric care from the archives of one London hospital

  Yuan Yan: Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors People with Dementia in an Urban Care Home in China
• 45. Making sense of mortality in the era of polycrisis

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Maija Butters

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2

  Tenzin Namdul: Death and Happiness: Exploring the Temporalities of the Meditated Death and Everyday Life in Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Tukdam

  Sandrine Ndahiro: Politics of death in Necropolitical and Deathscape sites

  Sam Power Nelson: Dissolving the Self: Death, Consciousness, and Ontological Imagination in a Time of Crisis

  Yvon van der Pijl: Remember Us: Ecological Grief & Response-Ability through Ritualization and Performative Arts
• 49. (Post)socialist health and medicine: examining alternative political economies, biopolitics and circulations

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Alila Brossard Antonielli, Nils Graber

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 | Room 6-0-1

  Barbora Buzássyová: An alternative approach to eradicating child malnutrition: Czechoslovak nutritionists, Psophocarpus and the East – South scientific cooperation during the Cold War

  Amelie Katczynski: Training nurses as vanguards of public health? Ethnographic insights from a nursing school in the Lao People's Democratic Republic 

  Jasmina Polovic: Transition in Session: Adequacy of Mental Health Services on the Ground

  Anita Prsa: A road to ‘custodial’ post-Yugoslav welfare state: Development of volunteerism and civil society in the case of Croatian palliative care

  Zoé Richard: “The working Unified Health System” in a post(anti)-socialist context: emergence and persistence of a new public infectious diseases hospital in Rio de Janeiro. 

  Olga Temina: Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us

  Shu Wan: Medicine or Miracle?: The Cure of Hearing Loss and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China

  Phoebe Zhou: Socialist Cure for a Distressed Post-socialist Society: Re-Imagining Psychiatry Amidst China’s Mental Health Crisis

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• R11. Crisis of Digital Addictions: Anthropological Perspectives on a Growing Concern

  Abstract

  Conveners: Suzana Jovicic

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2

  Henni Alava: Painful screentime: morality, addiction and care at pediatric pain clinics

  Isabelle Fioroni: Comforted or Controlled? The Ambivalence of Human-AI Relationships

  Pietro Vereni: Data Reliability and Cultural Intimacy: Understanding Social Media’s Impact Among Italian Adolescents

  Xin Zhan: Can’t Stop Coding: The Addictive Nature of Work in Techno-Capitalism

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• 4. Intersecting Frontiers: Towards understanding intersections among climate change, culture, gender, and health in the Anthropocene

  Abstract

  Conveners: Sadiq Bhanbhro, Inayat Ali

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 & 3 | Room 2-0-1

  Ana Cerezuela: Making future in a changing climate: Maternal experiences of environmental risk and strategies for sustaining life in Barcelona

  Farzana Habib: Syndemics of Food Insecurity, Mental illness, Tobacco use and Gender: Exploring the vulnerability of slum women in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

  Eswarappa KASI: Health Emergency of Gond and Panika Women during the Pandemic: An Empirical Study from Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh, Central India

  Isabelle Lange: Heat, risk, and gendered agency: Technocratic responses to climate change and the politics of maternal health

  Young Su Park: Gendered Vulnerabilities of Female-Headed Households and Health Impact of Climate Crisis in Kiribati

  Isabella M. Radhuber: Health Under Climate Pressure: An Emerging Research Agenda

  Megan Schmidt-Sane: Climate change, informality, and sexual and reproductive health: An emergent “syndemic” in Kampala, Uganda
• 24. Decoupling Health and Well-Being in Contexts of Conflict and Environmental Distress

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Ahmad Moradi, Letizia Bonanno 

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-3

  Yasmynn Chowdhury: Remaking life otherwise: Relational well-being across the Rohingya diaspora [working title]

  Roos Metselaar: In the absence of a solution. An ethnographic study on living a good life with PFAS. 

  Gauri Pathak: "We have been raised on dust, we come from dust”: Toxic exposures and permeable bodies in a South Asian cement factory

  Gloria Perez-Rivera: Being Alive or Having a Life: Colombian Displaced Older Adults' Understandings of Rural Lives, Well-Being and Health
• 26. Unstable Environments: Health and Healing in Remote Places

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Meoïn Hagège, Laura Burke 

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1

  Charles Beach: "Working Remote" in health development research: digital methods and state neglect in periurban migrant communities of the Colombo-Venezuelen borderlands.

  Shagufta Bhangu: Morality and Healthcare in India's Frontiers

  Jihui Kuang: Invisible Sacrifices: Pneumoconiosis as Marginalized Health

  Wren Wilson: Remote but Resilient: HIV, Stigma, and State Absence on a Scottish Island
• 32. Rethinking Species Extinction and Disease Eradication

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Rebecca Marsland, James Staples

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-3

  Michele Friedner: Eradicating Deafness but Abandoning Deaf Children? 

  Maki Kitagawa: Erasure or Hunt? Practical and Ethical Contradictions of CSF Control in Japan

  Rebecca Marsland: Eradicating Extinction: Contradictions in Beekeeping

  James Staples: Leprosy elimination and the social lives of bacteria 
• 33. Places of well-being: exploring space and relationality in redefining the concept of well-being

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Danai Toursoglou-Papalexandrou, Dimitris Ballas, Elli Papastergiou

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-3

  Emma Lengle: Urban planning as care and of care: approaches to ecosocial inequities in health and well-being in Norwegian city government 

  Nese Oztimur: Healing Through Place: Spatial Practices and Wellbeing Among Syrian Women in Istanbul

  Elli Papastergiou: Is simply green enough for well-being? Unpacking the complex relationship of urban green space and subjective well-being. 

  Marie Voerman: “Community empowerment and resilience: local perspectives and collaborative public health interventions for systemic change in ecosyndemic neighbourhoods in the Netherlands” – a Protocol Paper

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• R02. Bodies and Environments as Infrastructure: Injury, Extraction, and Resistance in Transnational Food Systems

  Abstract

  Conveners: Gerardo Rodriguez Solis, Seth M. Holmes

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-3
  

  Gerardo Rodriguez Solis: Navigating Precarious Lives: Migrant Workers in the Norwegian Salmon Industry

  Gerardo Rodriguez Solis: ‘What could happen to me? A brick won't fall on my head.’ Reflections from field research on the safety and health of Ukrainian seasonal workers in agriculture in Poland

  Paul Sperneac-wolfer: Knowing heat. Conflicts around greenhouse heat stress management in Austrian agro-industrial food production.

   

  Mael Vizcarra: Where’s the Proof? : The Production of Evidence in Food System Worker Labor Struggles

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• 3. Confronting the Inevitable

  Abstract

  Conveners: Matthew Wolf-Meyer

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2 | Room 4-0-6

  Elspeth Davies: Challenging the Inevitability of Cancer Deaths in the UK’s National Health Service

  Sinem Gunes: “They Don’t Know Either”: Side Effects, Hormonal Therapy, and the Limits of Medical Knowledge in Breast Cancer Care

  Annette Leibing: Inevitable aging: Punks’ and Jehova’s Witnesses’ ‘apocalyptic futures’

  Jaya Mathur: Skimming the Edge of the Painful Body: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Contested Disease Category of Fibromyalgia in India

  Anthony Rizk: At the end of privatized healthcare: Economic collapse and the alter-politics of health in Lebanon

  Arnav Sethi: ‘Still Sub-Therapeutic’: Ethnographic Reflections on Evidence-Based Lithium Prescribing in the UK

  Livia Wright: Confronting the Inevitable: Dementia Between Medical and Social Worlds
• 9. Sustaining life in debilitated environments: expanding ideas of contagion, chronicity and care in the “age of disability”

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Júlia Fernandez, Rosamund Greiner

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3  | Room 4-0-6

  Samiksha Bhan: Dis/abling Cure: Medical humanitarianism, therapeutic markets and the failure of proximate care for thalassemia-affected in India

  Emma Bunkley: Interembodiment, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Health

  Maria Elisa Dainelli: The contagion of suicide - Good and bad death in ethnoclinical context

  Marcela González-Agüero: Appealing for the right to live: Care, precarity and the risk of a slow death for Chilean children and young people with SMA

  Daniela Jacob Pinto: Feeling each other's pain: injury and healing amongst citizens mutilated in protests in present day France

  Narod Seroujian: Debilitated Bodies, Relational Wounds: (Un)stitching Care in Lebanon

  Ramsha Usman: Always Injured, Never Disabled: Workers Health in Sustainable Ecologies of Production

  Lindsay Vogt: Others in the Self: (Inter)corporeality and Affective Entanglement between Mother, Daughter, and Home in End-of-Life Care

   

   
• 17. Care and Transition in Chronic and Rare Conditions

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Malgorzata Rajtar, Eva-Maria Knoll

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2 & 3  | Room 4-0-6

  Nicoletta Diasio: Parents in between: medical transition and intergenerational relationships in France
  
  Clara Fabian Therond: The changing nature of hope: following its journey across pathways of personalised medicine care in late stage cancer treatment settings
  
  Yiting (Eliza) Ge: Imagining the Future Elsewhere: Hope, Transnational Care, and Rare Disease Patients in China
  
  Valentine Gourinat: Transitions to Adulthood for Youth with Rare Genetic Eye Diseases: A Sociological Analysis of Care, Support, and Quality of Life
  
  Meng Kou: Endless pain, hope that is not understood, eternal mental strength - Ethnography of migrant family with young adult patient of sickle cell disease in France

  
  Zuzanna Kuffel: "Complicated" Veins in "Complicated" Women: Pelvic Venous Insufficiency as Condition Multiple
  
  Ilaria Lesmo: Generatively Unsettling Care: On Distrust and Failure in Transition to Imagine New Forms of Care
  
  Claire Mavis: Diagnosed and Dumped: hEDS Care and the Diagnostic Moment
  
  Malgorzata Rajtar: In limbo. Entanglements of care, ethics, and law in transition processes of people with rare diseases
  
  Syeda Shajeela Shawkat: The Social Body in Focus: Constructing Personhood through Intimacy
  
  Valentina Turén: Living against time: Care, chronicity and legal struggles of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Chile
  
  Sabina Vassileva: The Loop in Transition: Attending to Hormonal Intra-actions in Automated Diabetes Care
• 19. Entangled temporalities of the experience of “chronic living” with technological devices

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Agathe Camus, Lucie Dalibert, Valentine Gourinat

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2  | Room 4-0-5

  Lydie Bichet: Living with Chronic Illness and Technological Devices : DT1 as “Another Pace of Life”
  
  Enka Blanchard: At the mercy of a potentiometer : device repairability and disabled temporalities
  
  Agathe Camus: Technological assemblages and bodily intimacies: An exploration of the chronic experiences of diabetics with multimorbidity
  
  Sally Cross: Forecasting the fog: navigating crip time with health-tracking apps
  
  Gabrielle Hanley-Mott: Function, Fantasy, and Fragility: Imaginaries and Realities of High-Tech Hand Prostheses
  
  Mathilde Lancelot: Living with or accompanying chronic illness and technological care: different logics of temporal entanglements
  
  Chenchen Ma: Folding Care Practices: Temporality and Prosthetic Rehabilitation
  
  Anna Christina Maukner: "I realised relatively quickly that it really stressed me out": Temporalities in self-tracking with long COVID
• 21. Exhaustion as a temporal and social predicament

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Mette Bech Risør, Ayo Wahlberg, Emily Mendenhall, Karin Friederic

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4  | Room 4-0-5

  Karin Friederic: From Burnout to ME/CFS: Legibility, Chronicity, and the Changing Diagnostic Politics of Exhaustion in Sweden
  
  Fred LAI: The Night’s Wound: Dementia, Care, and Ordinary Exhaustion in Extraordinary Times
  
  Camilla Braendstrup Laursen: Embodied Well-being: Energy, Exhaustion, and Bodily Difference among Danish School Children
  
  Antti Lindfors: Exhaustion and Its Discontents: Functional Disorders and Therapeutic Polarization
  
  Nana Francisca Schottländer: The Resting Lab: The practice of resting against the odds

  
  Robert Smith: Chakkar: the embodiment of systemic exhaustion
  
  Tanisha Spratt: Resisting Racialised Exhaustion: The Power and Politics of Black Joy
  
  Ida Vandsøe Madsen: Imaginal Worldbuilding: How family caregivers of people with dementia in Denmark endure exhaustion

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• R03. Tracing Neurodiversity in the Global South: Reimagining Identity, Community, & Care

  Abstract

  Conveners: Paras Arora, Shubha Ranganathan

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3

  Izem Aral: Reimagining Local Worlds of Neurodiversity: Self-cultivation and Terbiye at a Disability Awareness Event in Istanbul 

  Patrick Mckearney: Diverging from Diversity: Intellectual Disability in Kerala

  Tanushree Sarkar: All in good time: Temporality, coloniality, and the construction of dis/ability in the global South

  Chetan Sastry Vijayakumar: Finding ‘neurodiversity’ in Indian mental health spaces

  Shubhangi Vaidya: EXPLORING NEURODIVERSITY IN INDIA FROM A LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE
• R15. The Role of the Disabled Artist in the Polycrisis — Lived Experience, Chronicity, and Interdependence

  Abstract

  Conveners: Justus Harris, Liza Bernstein

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-6

  Phyllisa Deroze: Between Highs and Lows: Artmaking in the Rhythms of Diabetes

  Justin Dougan-LeBlanc: Lived Experience as a Disabled Deaf Artist: The Impact of Core Memories on Artistic Expression and Innovations

  Justus Harris: How Disabled Creators Deal with Pervasive Cultural Ableism (Dawn Gibson)

  Donney Rose: Disrupting the 24-Hour Myth

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• 14. Forever Chemicals and Reproductive Health: Anthropological Perspectives on Inequities, Alternatives, and Policy Dialogs

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Pratyusha Kiran

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1  | Room 4-0-6

  Edmée Ballif: Toxic reproduction: Preventing endocrine disruption in an unequal world

  Eleonora Bechis: Negotiating Environmental Harm: A Comparative Ethnography of PFAS-Affected Communities in Piemont, Veneto and the Lyon region

  Marie De Lutz: Materialities of menstrual health: menstrual technologies, toxicants, and sex hormones in the Women of the Sea surf club
• 18. Navigating Reproductive Ambivalence: Strategies and Subjectivities across the Global North and South

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Poonam Kamath, Luminita Mandache 

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1, 2  | Room 6-0-1

  Orit Chorowicz Bar-am: The Elephant in the Womb: Biological Reality and its Exclusion from Surrogacy Narratives
  
  Turið Hermannsdóttir: Emerging reproductive narratives/subjectivities in a turbulent time and small-island context, the Faroe Islands
  
  Poonam Kamath: #KinderwunschVerbindet: Navigating (Re)productive Precariousness, Digital Biosociality and Biosolidarity in the German Instagram space
  
  Carola Lorea: To be childless is to be whole: Tantric renunciate couples and post-secular approaches to voluntary childlessness
  
  Luminita Mandache: Unreproducible Past and Uncertain Futures: the social meaning of female voluntary sterilization in Northeast Brazil
  
  Hamida Massaquoi: Reproductive Misfortune: The Social Navigation of Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood in Adonkia, Sierra Leone
  
  Maureen O'Dougherty: Family Lessons: Young Brazilian Women Carve Out a Future With or Without Children
  
  Shalini Singh: Uncertainty in Parenthood across the Reproductive Life Course
• 22. Neo-Eugenic Practices and Reproductive Governance across the Globe

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Lucia Gentile, Clémence Jullien 

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-5

  Clémence Audran: What are the limits of an ethical human genetic selection? Results of an exploratory survey in France (2023-2025)

  JIAQI LIU: Reproductive Governance and Transnational PGT Practices among Chinese Couples

  Amélie Neuve-Eglise: Shaping the unborn child in contemporary Iran. Between intimacy and politics, representations and practices of pregnant Shia Muslim women

  Sachiyo Yagi: Justification for Egg Freezing: Reproductive Optimisation and Moral Tensions in Contemporary Japan
• 35. Redefining Reproductive Temporalities: Bodies, Gender, Care, and Contestations in Health and Well-Being

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Falia Varelaki, Alessandra  Brigo, Manon M.S. Vialle

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2, 3, 4 | Room 4-0-5

  Beatriz Aragón Martín: “Too young to be pregnant”: temporal regimes as a racializing technique in healthcare in Spain 

  Roberta Dieguez: The use of gestational age limits as a political strategy to achieve total criminalization of abortion in Brazil

  Selen Gobelez: Temporalities in Tension: Embodied Experiences of Birth in a Neoliberal Healthcare System in Turkey

  Anika König: Reproductive Temporalities at the Margins: Uncertainty, Anticipation, and the Extended Time of Assisted Conception

  Marie Lafon--Bach: (Re)defining postpartum temporalities in the digital arenas

  Hélène Malmanche: Temporalities of Miscarriage in Medical Care Experiences and Across the Reproductive Life Course

  Diana Marre: Advanced Maternal Age: reproductive temporalities in Spain and UK

  Rishita Nandagiri: Abortion Time(s): Examining time and temporalities in abortion trajectori

  Raphaël Perrin: Dating pregesnancies for abortion: medical act or political choice?

  Tamara Roma: A Critique of Gestational Time Limits. A Comparison of Discourses from Historical Abortion Regulations.

  Veronika Siegl: Temporal attunements as modes of doing good care in prenatal counselling and decision-making 

  Manon Vialle: Dating Gestation: Temporal Politics of Reproductive Care across Europe
• 37. Genital Expectations: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Gendered Meanings, Norms, and Practices Surrounding Genitalia (V3 Part I)

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Hannelore Van Bavel, Vivien Lou

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1

  Federica Manfredi: Neglected Vulvas. An anthropological research-actions about vulvar health, taboo and social invisibility 

  Myriam Raboldt: »...gesellschaftlich gesehen ist man nach so einer OP halt niemand mehr.« -- Eine qualitative Studie zu cis Männern mit Genitalverletzungen

  Divya Rai: Absent Flesh, Present Claims: Genitalia, Recognition, and State Intervention in Hijra Lives in Uttar Pradesh, India

  Shilpa Surendran: Circumcision practices among minors in Singapore: A scoping review of an overlooked issue
• 39. Obstetric Violence, Care, and Technologies

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Elif Gül, Rodante van der Waal

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1

  Daiva Bartušienė: “Women like you don't give birth”: autistic women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in Lithuania"

  Maksuda Khanam: ‘The risk is yours if something happens to your baby’-an exploration of obstetric violence during childbirth among middle class women in Bangladesh

  Ivana Nikolić: "Pregnancy Hurts—Get Over It”: The Normalisation of Obstetric Violence in Serbia and its Human Rights Implications

  Syahirah Rasheed: Bidan, Bismillah, Biomedicine: Muslim doulas build epistemological bridges against obstetric violence in Singapore   
• 40. Environments of Care and Harm: Pushing the Boundaries of SRHR Research

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Andie Thompson

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1

  Vanessa-eduardo Arteaga Bernal-erazo Acosta: The power of ancestral philosophy Alli kawsay (Buen Vivir) in indigenous movements of Colombia - Ecuador vs. exclusion by big mining, contribution Rights of Mother Nature from the global south 

  Rishita Nandagiri: Constellations, crises and care: the role of Women Help Women in COVID19-shaped abortion trajectories

  Shahana Siddiqui: The Road to Bangladesh Climate Reality is Paved with Good Intentions and Reproductive Regimes

  Andie Thompson: Maternal susceptibility: ontologies of toxic exposure
• 41. Care Unsettled: Queer in Medical Anthropology

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Christopher Zraunig, Max Schnepf

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 4-0-6

  Rhea Bose: Reimagining Care: Looking at Diverse Understandings and Practices of Transmasculine Gender Affirmation in Mumbai, India

  Anahí Farji Neer: Trans Healthcare and Professional Reflexivity in Argentina: Queering Medical Authority?

  Kenan Gu: From “Fangzhi” to “Fangzhi”: The Logic of Prevention and Care in AIDS Policies and Everyday Lives of Gay and MSM Communities in China

  Moxi Ochsenbauer: The Unmaking of ESI: Reflections on Political Backlash, Queer Grief, and Care in Buenos Aires

  Celeste Pang: Stranger Than Family: The Queer Socialities of Dementia Care 

  Max Schnepf: What Sticks: PrEP, Responsibility, and the Pleasure of Not Caring

  Christopher Zraunig: Tinkering with Touch: Queering Care through Sexual Assistance in Geriatric Institutions.
• 47. The Uterus: Knowledges, Practices, Imaginaries

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Leah Eades, Marie de Lutz

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 6-0-1

  Clarissa Cavalcanti: "Yo me sentía un bicho raro: Experiences and trajectories of women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome

  Leah Eades: Two Wombs of One’s Own: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Congenital Uterine Anomalies

  Raisa Ferrer Pizarro: The Tacit Organ: Presence and Omission of the Uterus in Obstetric Communication in Peru

  Ema Hresanova: ‘Everything is the way it should be’: The ethical work of the uterus and moral assemblages in Czech women’s birth narratives

  Ji-young Lee: Transgender Inclusive Uterus Transplantation

  Patricia Li Leiter: Endometriosis: The Politics of Underdiagnosing Disease

  Paula Martone: Just like a real uterus? Insights from health professionals and parents on the promises of the Artificial Placenta

  Andrea Whittaker: Imaginaries and Practices of the Uterus in Uterus transplantation

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• R13. “Reproductive Justice”: Are We Doing Justice to the Term?

  Abstract

  Conveners: Kim Sigmund

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-6

  Md Asaduzzaman: Wombs Under Watch: Reproductive Struggles in the Shadow of Care of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

  Sreeparna Chattopadhyay: Just for whom? Problematising Reproductive Justice in India

  Andrea Del Pilar Trujillo Rodríguez: Reproductive Justice for All? Challenges Faced by Trans Men and Transmasculine People in Brazil

  Simon Fern: Reflections on care from work with immigrant mothers in Spain

  Christlord Foreste: From Slavery to Biocapitalism: Race, Gender, and Power in Contemporary Reproductive Technologies

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• 1. The rise of the Digital Imaginaries: Redefining global health and well-being

  Abstract

  Conveners: Edwin Ambani Ameso, Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1

  Sanaullah Khan: Public Health echo chambers: Contested "science" and vaccine denialism on digital platforms

  José Pinto da Costa: Reimagining Portuguese Digital Healthcare: Future-makers’ insights and concerns

  Shweta Rani: Seeing without data: A Case of Dengue Control in Delhi

  Egnonnam Sandra Dellya Zannou: Care trajectories and experiences of breast cancer patients: a socio-anthropological analysis based on cases observed at the CNHU-HKM in Cotonou
• 8. Bridging the Divide: Connecting Humans and Technology in Algorithmic Cultures

  Abstract

  Conveners: Zongtian Guo, Michal Frumer, Mette Høybye

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4  | Room 4-0-4

  Ismail Umar: Imagining AI Futures: Socio-Technical Imaginaries Among Healthcare Professionals in a Dutch Hospital

  Matteo Valoncini: Algorithmic identities and the digitalization of care: an ethnography of General Practice in Italy

  Sophie Wagner: Living in the Loop: Tech Imaginaries and Patient Labor in Type 1 Diabetes Care

  Klara-Aylin Wenten: Feeling Technology: How Emotion AI Rewrites Bodies, Emotions and Genders

   

   
• 11. Tinkering Revisited: Digitalization and Agency in the Healthcare Sector of the Future

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Maren Heibges, Markus A. Feufel, Christine Schmid

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3  | Room 2-0-1

  Amina Alaoui Soulimani: When the machines can’t speak, human voices intervene

  Zuzanna Marciniak-Nuqui: Tinkering and Friction: Technology-Enabled Remote Monitoring for Patients with COPD in the English NHS
• 15. The platformization of medicine? Digital diagnostics, advanced therapies, and drug repurposing

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Sarah Wadmann. Anna Brückner Johansen, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek, Laura Emdal Navne

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1  | Room 4-0-2

  Claire Beaudevin: Crafting customized centralization: platformization of genomics in rare diseases in France

  Anna Brueckner Johansen: Platformization of payment? Curating value in gene therapy

  Michael Morrison: Adaptive manufacturing: Initial thoughts on an emerging manufacturing platform for personalised medicine

  Mette N. Svendsen: Wayward platformization: genomes as doppelgangers in transnational relations

   

   
• 25. From Welfare to Watchful Care: Digital Surveillance and State-Citizen Relations

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Laura Louise Heinsen, Nete Schwennesen, Mikkel Kenni Bruun

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-1

  Nilufer Akalin: From Care to Control: The Hidden Surveillance Network in Immigrant Healthcare

  Laura Louise Heinsen: From Surveillance to Distributed Attention: Reframing Digital Surveillance in Dementia Care

  Line Hillersdal: Surveillance care: techno-care arrangements in South Korean eldercare

  Astrid Meyer: Responsibility and Intentionality in Socio-Material Assemblages: Data-Intensive Surveillance in Dementia Care  
• 30. Health as ecology: promises of health and well-being in biotechnological approaches across humans and more-than-humans

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Victor Secco, Charlotte Brives

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-2

  Luciano Ferrari: I Am Not Your Data: Valuable Microbes and the Measure of Goodness

  Mikko Jauho: Health from biodiversity: microbes-mediated interventions for allergy control

  Sylvain Lallier: The microbiome multiple. Beyond a metagenomics-driven technological determinism
• 38. The Politics and Epistemologies of Collaboration: Inter/Transdisciplinarity as Method in Techno-Human Data Assemblages

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Lisa Lehner, Roberta Raffaetà

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2

  Andrea Butcher: Opportunity or Iconoclasm? Moments of inspiration and doubt in interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation

  Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund: Medical anthropologists in global ‘One Health’ assemblages: Interrogating science-driven collaborations

  HANA PORKERTOVÁ: ConceptLeaks: Reflections on the collaboration across disciplinary membranes
• 46. Sociality with/through AI in Health and Medicine: Current Figurations, Imagined Futures

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Bernhard Hadolt

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-2

  Tanja Ahlin: Ambivalent Socialities: Resistance, Relationality, and Care Robots in Clinical Settings

  Jorge Castillo-sepúlveda: Time re-configured: five shifts in the configuration of medical temporality mediated by Artificial Intelligence. A multi-sited case study in Chile.

  Hannah Piehl: Reconfiguring Trust: A Cartography of Trustworthiness of AI Systems in Healthcare

  Meiting Wang: Designing Care: Investigating Care Ethics and Developer Responsibility in AI Mental Health Applications
• 48. Epistemological bounds of medical technologies: Iatrogenic effects and new conceptions of health

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Alexandra Jønsson

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2, 3 | Room 4-0-2

  Natalia Filar: Psychiatric self-diagnosis through social-media as a response to socio-economic inequalities in Polish medical services

  Bodil Just Christensen: Pharmacological innovation and health inequity: an ethnographic study of Wegovy in severe obesity

  Maurizia Mezza: Rendering Side Effects Visible: Pharmacovigilance, Iatrogenesis, and the Politics of Recognition

  Kelly Mulvaney: History in Cervical Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology, or, Is Cervical Cancer a 'Sexually Transmitted Disease'?

  Charlotte Nørholm: Mass Testing, Riskscapes, and Diagnostic Biocitizenship: Ethnographic Perspectives on COVID-19 Testing in Denmark

  Anna Louise Skovgaard: Medical decision-making in the subjunctive mood. An ethnographic study of the enactment of shoulder care

  Costanza Torre: Side effects as sites of contestation: ethnographic reflections on experiences of care and oppression in the global migration regime

  Sarah Wadmann: Resource constraints and patient rights: the co-production of medical and regulatory innovation in the Danish welfare state

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• R04. Weight loss on prescription: New drugs, new moral challenges, and new types of weight stigma?

  Abstract

  Conveners: Pernille Andreassen, Fernanda Scagliusi, Alexandra Brewis

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-2

  Rachael Drewery: Accessing weight loss medication within an intensive, multi-component weight management programme 

  Sissel D. Jensen: Tinkering with Weight Loss Medication: GLP-1ra, Clinical Care, and Moral Negotiations in Danish General Practice

  Fernanda Scagliusi: From “Ozempic is my best friend” to “Ozempic made me do a bariatric”: Experiences of Brazilian fat women with GLP-1 agonists.

  Megan Warin: ‘Dear Science’: How the weaponisation of nutrition science tools serve commercial markets of weight loss injectables

  Oli Williams: How will the availability of GLP-1 drugs shift weight management norms and influence weight stigma?

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• 2. Engaging Plurality, Negotiating Diversity: Sowa Rigpa Practices and Perspectives in/on a Changing World

  Abstract

  Conveners: Stephan Kloos, Barbara Gerke

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 & 4 | Room 4-0-3

  Dara Bramson: Braiding Knowledges: Ethnographic Case Studies of Sowa Rigpa in Exile

  Barbara Gerke: Negotiating Legitimacy and Healing: Plural Landscapes of Sowa Rigpa and Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India and Bhutan

  Stephan Kloos: Rethinking Participant Observation: An Exile Perspective on Tibetan Medicine

  Patricia Mundelius: A Paradoxical Kind of Suffering: Negotiating Emotional Care within Sowa Rigpa Consultations in Europe

  Kei Nagaoka: Herbs, Senses, and Sowa Rigpa: An Ethnographic Study of the Embodied Experience of Herbal Medicine in Arunachal Pradesh, the Eastern Himalayas

  Elizabeth Turk: Searching for the ‘root cause’ of illness and moral aetiology in Mongolian health settings

  Stacey Van Vleet: Bonesetting between Tibetan scholarly medicine and Mongolian "common knowledge"

  Isabella Würthner: The Female Reproductive System And The Role Of Gender-Specific Infectious Diseases In The Tibetan World
• 7. Addiction in New Cultural and Class Contexts

  Abstract

  Conveners: Joseph Tulasiewicz, Bhrigupati Singh, Alastair Parsons

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4  | Room 2-0-1

  Armaan Mullick Alkazi: Stuck between mahols (atmospheres) : binge drinking on the street in Delhi.    

  Lucy Clarke: "Don't worry about the God stuff": How secularity shapes recovery in London's Twelve Step Fellowships

  Raffik Poole: Dependence in Recovery: Healing Suicidal Ideation with Ketamine.

  Glikery Ulunov: Misuse as Adaptation and the Breakdown of Adaptation: Control and its Limits in Russian Gabapentinoid Use

   

   
• 12. More-than-human health: challenging anthropocentric paradigms through post-humanist, ecofeminist, indigenous and decolonial perspectives

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Daniela Calvo, Sabina Vassileva

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2  | Room 4-0-4

  Verónica Calvo Valenzuela: The Where to land? workshops: A therapeutic space at the crossroads of ritual and pragmatic exercises.

  Daniela Calvo: Towards a reconceptualization of relational health: Health and more-than-human entanglements in Candomblé

  Jui-Hsin Cheng: “Green Vitality” from Germany to Taiwan: Exploring the cross-cultural transplantation of naturopathy and healing practices

  Claudia Lang: Coastal distress: The biomorality of ecological loss in Kerala, India

  Daniel Münster: Soils, carbon, and microbes. Biochar and the limits of more-than-human health

  Aparna Raghu Menon: Listen Louder: Decolonizing Autistic Non-Vernal Communication via Posthumanist Thought

  Piera Talin: Otherwise ontologies in ayahuasca ritual experience: plants, spirits, and healing. 

  Natalia Tolsty: Multiple Dimensions of Body Image and Human Agency among Indigenous Communities in Los Altos de Chiapas, Mexico
• 16. African perspectives on health and wellbeing

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Ellen Forsman Larsson

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3  | Room 4-0-4

  Peter Hoesing: “The Things of Culture”: What the Durability of African Traditional Medicine Means for Postmodern Medical Anthropology

  Geoffrey Nwaka: Towards Decolonizing Medicine and Healthcare: The Place of African Health and Healing Traditions 

  Marta Scaglioni: Beyond Extraction: Centering Tunisian Perspectives in Microbiome Research

  Zelealem Leyew Temesgen: The perceptions and expressions of death among the Amhara people of Ethiopia
• 20. Interrogating Medical Pluralism in Global Health: Navigating Diverse Forms of Healing and Caring in the Contemporary Healthcare Framework

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Daniele Mario Buonomo, Xu Liu, Matteo Valoncini

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1, 2, 3  | Room 4-0-4

  Bregje De Kok: Re-worlding reproductive knowledge: Whose and what knowledge counts?
  
  Alex Gateri: Medical Pluralism in Global Health and One Health: The Chagga medicine and antimicrobial optimization efforts
  
  Avilasha Ghosh: Medical Multiplicity and Care Rationalities in the Local Clinics of Delhi
  
  Gregory Haimovich: Indigenous Midwifery in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: Exploring the Limits of Medical Pluralism
  
  Simona Maisano: Navigating Pluralism: Ethnographic Insights from Multilingual Healthcare Encounters
  
  Sachi Matsuoka: The Changing Landscape of Plurality in Ayurveda in Kerala, India: Interactions Between Institutional Medicine and Informal Practitioners ‘Vaidyams’
  
  Baris Kamyab Muhammedrezai: Intersecting Healing Systems: Medical Pluralism, Psychiatry, and Religion in Turkey.
  
  Yuri Nonami: Community-Based Practice of Ayurveda in Japan: A Case Study from Miyazaki Prefecture
  
  Andreadi Simanjuntak: Interrogating the Use of Ginger to Understand the Complexity of Bataknese Notions of Well-Being
  
  Maria Trifon: Healing at the crossroads: medical pluralism and Orthodox Christian spirituality in Romania
  
  Prashant Vijay: Confrontation and Coexistence: Medical Pluralism among Gond Community of Chhattisgarh, India
  
  Kh Neil Young: Rethinking Health Pluralism through Traditional Healing System: A Sociological Exploration of the Poumai Naga Community
• 29. Perception through Interaction/Interaction through Perception

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Michele Friedner, Cordelia Erikson-Davis

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3

  Michele Friedner: Beyond the Neural Code: Rethinking Perception through Retinal Prostheses and Perception as Constitutive Interaction (PCI)

  Helma Korzybska: Interactions in and with perception. Shifting perspectives to relearn to see or hear

  Sina Susanna Schüttler: Bridging Ethics and Experience in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

  Susanna Trnka: Traversing: Bodies, Technologies, and Movement
• 31. Challenging dominant medico-political models through sensory ecologies of health

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Josephine Biglin, Kristina Baines, Elisabeth Hsu

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-3

  "Dhruv Gautam: The Materiality of Psychic Lives: Spatial and Material Healing in an In-Patient Psychiatric Ward and a Healing Shrine in North India"

  Lukáš Senft: The Sensorium of Metabolic Evasion: Mitigating Toxic Cocktails in Phytotherapeutic Practice

  Kaja Skoftedalen: Exploring therapeutic spaces of dhikr, a devotional sufi practice, in Southeastern Tanzania

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• 6. FRICTIONS IN HEALTHCARE ETHNOGRAPHY AS A MOTOR FOR IMPROVEMENT

  Abstract

  Conveners: Giulia Sinatti, Jennifer Creese, Julie Salvador

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3  | Room 2-0-3

  Madalina Alama:  “Is this true… what I heard? Five hundred dollars for an interview?”

  Jesse Bia: Inducing Success: Navigating the Frictions of a Biomedical Scandal

  Eliška Bydžovská: Friction and Positionality in Palliative Care: A Nurse-Researcher's Perspective

  Michelle Parsons: Misalignments in research on a defunded global health project in Kabul, Afghanistan
• 10. Exploring healthcare and research as creative practices

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Annekatrin Skeide, Jeannette Pols

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 & 2  | Room 4-0-5

  Sandra Baernreuther: Ghosts of Digitalization: Storying India’s Digital Health Transformation

  Tanja Bukovčan: Foregrounding Creativity in Later-Life Sexuality: Rethinking Health, Aging, and the Good Life

  Rebecka Fleetwood-smith: Hospital Reimagined: Using an artwork to explore the dynamic hospital environment

  Claire Harris: Situating care and creative practice in research 

  Ella Hillström: A Praxis of the Tentacular Face: A Somatic Essay 

  Martin Høybye: “Like being invited into another”: A film about co-creative movement in cancer rehabilitation

  Mizuki Igata: Uncertain Scripts: Exploring Theatre Practice as Care in Mental Health

  Taylor Riley: “Not terribly arty”: Some complexities of using photovoice in biosocial ethnographic research
• 13. Multi-perspectival ethnography in medical anthropology

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Kiara Wickremasinghe, David Mosse 

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 & 4  | Room 4-0-5

  Neda Deneva: Making Pain Personal: Embodied Relationships and Reflexive Multiplicity in Collaborative Research

  Heidi Fjeld: What Collaborations, With Whom and How?  The Ethics and Ends of Ethnographic Fieldwork with Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China

  Anne-Sophie Guernon: Letting Their Voices Shine: Creating Space for Different Perspectives in Multi-Sited Hospital Ethnography

  Janette Lindroos: Gaining, Holding, and Sharing Knowledge in Ethnographies of Doubtful Pediatric Conditions 

  Irene Maffi: On the collaboration between anthropologists and ethnopsychiatrists: two experiences in France and in Italy

  Sandra Staudacher: Navigating Multi-Perspectival Participation: Ethnographic Insights from the Swiss Long-Term Care Sector

  Eva Steinberger: Navigating multi-perspectival collaboration: Reflections from a Nigerian-German anthropological tandem in a transdisciplinary One Health project

  Susan Whyte: Covid 19 in Uganda: Multiple perspectives on uncontrolled youth and life course interruptions 
• 23. Doing Care: pedagogy, methodology, fieldwork

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Arushi Sahay, Alankrita Anand

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 6-0-1

  Cynthia Beavin: How abortion doula training can build empathetic research skills in qualitative interviews

  Imogen Bevan: Sugar consumption as care, research on sugar consumption as care?

  Sreeparna Chattopadhyay: A caring ethics and ethics of caring:  Reimagining ethical praxis using feminist ethics of care in multidisciplinary research on health and well-being

  Carolina Espinosa-Escobar: Weaving bonds of care from ethical-methodological alerts in research with renal and liver transplant recipients

  Regan Gee: Knowledges, care, and settler-colonialism: A CBPR study at an Indigenous-serving school

  Katherine Mason: Tracking Covid-19 with First-Gen Students and First-Time Ethnographers: Building a "Transformatively Supportive" Collaborative Ethnography 

  Neha Nimble: Caring by Design: Implementing Human-Centered Design (HCD) in Indian Public Health

  Harshal Sonekar: Caste and The Changing Nature of Care: An Anthropology Study of Madhya Pradesh, India 
• 34. Organizing Care as a research practice: Imaginative approaches

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Sabya Van Elswijk, Matouš Jelínek

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-1

  Sara Gerotto: Following policies of care: engaged anthropology through "the frontline" of a community-based health experience

  Siënna Hernandez: From Paper to Practice: The Material Life of Care

  Amelie Lange: Synchronising Multiple Temporalities of Care - Chronic Pain Management in the Danish Welfare State

  Jitse Schuurmans: Timing the End of Life: Choreographing Rhythms in Advance Care Planning 
• 43. Co-produced Intersectional Justice and Trauma-informed ethnographic research methodologies: emancipation and inclusion possibilities and co-optation risks 

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Carolina Borda, Xandra Miguel Lorenzo

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 4-0-3

  Elena Blanco de Tena-Dávila: The Guide to Collaborative Medication Management in mental health: an ethnographically co-produced empowerment-generating tool

  Liam Gilchrist: Biomedical Discourses and Community-Institutional Power Relationships: An Ethnographic study of UK Community Based Participatory Research.

  Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo: Recovery College students’ self-care practices awareness: from crisis prevention to routine. 

  Nel Vandekerckhove: “Are You Really in Pain?”: Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain Patients and the Potential of Trauma-Informed Care Methods in Pain Research and Pain Medicine.
• 44. The Politics of Health Care: Exploring Methodological Approaches to Exclusive Rationalities and Practices in Healthcare Systems

  Abstracts

  Conveners: Sabine Hess, Reza Bayat, Marie Fröhlich

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3, 4 | Room 2-0-3

  Reza Bayat: Borders of Healthcare / Healthcare as Bordering Process: The Production of Healthcare for Migrants in Germany

  Sweta Dash: Centering Sensitivities and Voices: Co-Producing Elements of an Intervention for Strengthening Community Voice in Urban Health Systems

  Marie Lison Froehlich: “So, who’s responsible here?”: An Ethnographic Reproduction Regime Analysis on Health Policies as Bordering Mechanisms

  Carolina Garzón-Esguerra: Migration, research, illness: interdisciplinary methodological itineraries

  Camille J. Laufer: Challenging Institutional Rationalities: Trans Self-Injection Workshops as Ethnographic Sites of Resistance

  Yuqi Liu: Lost in Translation: Linguistic and Epistemic Insecurity in International Students’ NHS Experiences

  Garvita Singh: Scoring Chronicity as Disability: Pain Disability Questionnaire in the Global South

  Lot Tiebosch: On the Threshold of Care: Exploring Oscillating Compassion and Liminality in Dutch Healthcare for the Uninsured and Uninsurable

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• R01. Material Certainties: Critical Reflections on the Future of Ethnographic Research in Disease and Pain

  Abstract

  Conveners: Jose Manuel Allard Serrano, Sofia Ceresuela Del Valle, Rodrigo Diaz-Canio

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-3

  Enka Blanchard: Pain and utilitarianism in disability studies

  Livia Fernandes: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS OF A PAIN SERVICE: HIDDEN MESSAGES IN ENVIRONMENT AND INTERACTIONS
  
  Maria Fernanda Pineda: Towards more effective organ donation systems through design 
• R06. Structural Competency: Tracing the Influence of Social Structures in Health as a Research and Teaching Agenda

  Abstract

  Conveners: Mirko Pasquini, Margret Jäger

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-4

  Nilufer Akalin: Immigrant-blind care: How immigrants experience the “inclusive” health system as they access care

  Sofia Bowen: Historical Echoes of Structural Competency: Insights from Chile’s Mid-Century Psychiatric Reforms

  Margret Jaeger: Introducing structural competency in the German speaking world to tackle inequalities 
• R07. Doing Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene

  Abstract

  Conveners: Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-3

  Ivana dos Santos Teixeira: Reclaiming human-animal traditions as collective protection: about the toxicity of the meat industry in a community in the pampas of Brazil.

  Jennie Gamlin: How can we make Indigenous people the ‘forces and agents of history’, by making their knowledge travel?

  Victor Secco: Divining the Planetary Microbiome: AI, genomics and the future of situatedness in the life sciences

  Paola M. Sesia: Health challenges in the Mexican Anthropocene: Contributions from a Critical Medical Anthropology located in the Global South

  Rano Turaeva: Ethnographic Frictions in Disability Care: Shifting Paradigms in Uzbekistan’s Healthcare System
• R08. Applied Medical Anthropology in Times of Crisis

  Abstract

  Conveners: Silvia Wojczewski, Viktoria Adler, Anna Christina Maukner, Ruth Kutalek

  Presentations:

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-3

  Nadine Beckmann: Humanising outbreak response: doing anthropology in the context of public health emergencies

  Doris Burtscher: Applied Medical Anthropology in Humanitarian Contexts: Insights from Médecins Sans Frontières

  Tamara Giles-Vernick: Sonar-Cities: A research-action for tackling vulnerabilities among urban populations facing climate-induced health emergencies and disasters

  Young Su Park: Anamnesis of Crises: Historicity of Crises and Vulnerable Populations in Ethiopia and Kiribati

  Ursula Wagner: Humanitarian health response for Ukrainian refugees in the Republic of Moldova
• R09. Crossing Boundaries between Medical Anthropology and Biomedicine (AGEM Roundtable)

  Abstract

  Conveners: Ehler Voss, Márcio Vilar, Stefan Reinsch

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 1 | Room 2-0-3

  Christine Holmberg: Building bridges: Understanding medical care at the crossroad from anthropology and epidemiology

  Seth M. Holmes: Roundtable

  Stefan Reinsch: Reflections on lerning to 'think, act and feel like a physician'.

  Torsten Risør: Torsten Risør
• R12. Closing the distance? Medical anthropology between (health) activism and academia

  Abstract

  Conveners: Sara Gerotto, Lucia Mair

  Presentations:

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2

  Gregory Haimovich: Participatory Action Research on Linguistic Rights in Health Care: The case of Proyecto Xochiuehpol

  Vivian Rocio Laurens-Rengifo: Blurring the lines between academia and activism: lessons from scholars/activists in Colombia

  Youness Loukili: Counter-storytelling by local people as a means of criticizing and redesigning policies: The Case of Covid-19 in Urban Settlements in Morocco

  Wren Wilson: HIV Activism, the Zero Transmission Goal, and Medical Anthropology in Scotland
• R14. How do hospitals (continue) to matter to anthropologists?

  Abstract

  Conveners: Fanny Chabrol, Amina Soulimani

  Presentations:

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-3

  César Abadía-barrero: Can hospitals be decolonized/Are hospitals being decolonized? 

  Janina Kehr: On the more-than-medical in hospitals today

  Mirko Pasquini: The Hospital as a Social laboratory. Investigating Privatisation and Healthcare Change Through the Lenses of Emergency Room Overcrowding.

  Harris Solomon: Glitch Medicine: Cyberattacks and the Hospital's limits

  Alice Street: The hospital as landfill: Burying, storing, and burning medical waste

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• Emerging perspectives: Master’s students panel on critical engagements in medical anthropology

  Abstract

  Conveners: Andreas Krauskopf, Paula Pospichal, Agnes Köchl

  Abstract: This panel welcomes contributions from students who are working on or have recently finished their master’s theses in medical anthropology or related disciplines engaging with well-being and health. We are master’s students ourselves, currently researching topics such as the management and perception of chronic diseases (e.g., ME/CFS and thyroid diseases), power dynamics in healthcare, and differing perspectives on mental health in a migration context. Aiming to gather master’s students with related research interests, we invite contributions located within the following thematic fields: Power relations, gender and intersectionality, migrant/refugee health(care), chronicity, disability, health activism, mental health and psychotherapy/psychiatry, medical pluralism. Through the panel, these young scholars can share their research projects among each other as well as with scholars on a more advanced level. The panel hopes to provide them with the unique opportunity to get in contact with and receive valuable feedback from differently positioned experts in the sub-discipline or related fields. At the same time, it supports them in creating and fostering networks with other master´s students with similar research interests at universities across Europe. The panel's convenors share the observation that the current global situation necessitates redefinitions of health, healing and well-being in multiple ways. By creating a safe(r) space particularly reserved for master´s students to present their work-in-progress or thesis findings, the panel simultaneously fosters the inclusion of potential future experts in debates about futures of health and well-being, and urges these aspiring scholars to critically engage with the search for such redefinitions in their work.

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• Labs

  Abstract

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2

  Lab1. Cesar Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Ruth Anderwald, Stefan Schneider - Lab title: Sensory Engagements with Microbes, Interdisciplinary Explorations of Human-Microbe Relation Affordances

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-2

  Lab2. Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Dorte Bjerre Jensen - Rest as resistance - exploring restorative practice in overstimulating times

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-2

  Lab3. Kathryn Burns, Nuria Rossell, Jullia Challinor - Food as a Technology of Care: A Feminist Perspective on Nutrition, Well-being, and Health

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-2

  Lab4. Maurizia Mezza, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Shahana Siddiqui, PhD, University of Amsterdam - Stitching Meaning: Feminist Textures in Theory and Practice

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 4-0-4

  Lab5. Hannelore van Bavel, Vivien Lou

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 4 | Room 2-0-1

  Lab6. Oli Williams, Glenn Robert, Bertil Lindenfalk - Researching and Improving Health(care) Post-Participatory Turn: can Elinor Ostrom's principles for collaborative group working help?

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 2-0-2

  Lab7. Alice Street, Millie Marriott Webb - Deconstructing devices: A practical laboratory in medical plastic

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 2 | Room 4-0-3

  Lab8. Gianna Paniagua - Solving Communication Obstacles in Teen Support Groups: A Narrative Medicine Workshop

  Friday, September 19, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 4-0-3

  Lab9. Anne-Sophie Reichert, Esther Vorwerk - In Our Own Measure: A FLINTA Workshop on Healing & Embodiment

  Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Slot 3 | Room 2-0-1

  Lab10. Ranjini Raghavendra - LAB: Health, Well-Being and Emerging Digital Technologies