[Linganth] REMINDER - Call for participation: Early Career workshop on Ethnography, Politics, and Health; 1st-2nd October

[Alfonso Del Percio]

Please find below details of an "Ethnographies and Health" workshop in
London for PhD students and Early Career Researchers from across the social
sciences.

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Re-politicising Public Health: A workshop for early career ethnographers
King’s College London, 1st and 2nd October 2018

Find the full call for abstracts and details for the workshop on the
workshop website<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health <
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health>>.


Overview
This two-day workshop invites participants to interrogate how ethnographic
research can lend itself to political change in health, paying close
attention to methodological problems that may arise in enacting what we
might call “activist scholarship”. Our point of departure is a shared
concern that health related research often shies away from both discussion
and engagement in political change; we are interested in disrupting this
trend by drawing on ethnographic methodologies. We are particularly
interested in the ways ethnographies might connect us to new and unexpected
ways of influencing the world. Yet we are also acutely aware of the uneasy
relationship that ethnography can have with “more direct” political work
such as activism. Through critical and imaginative engagement with concepts
such as impact, accountability and power, this workshop will explore how
ethnographic methods can re-politicise public health research.

Confirmed keynote speakers
Ingunn Moser (VID Specialised University, Oslo)
Michele Lancione (University of Sheffield)

Participants
We invite participants (doctoral students, post-doctoral and self-defining
early career researchers) to discuss the workshop themes<
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health#call-for-abstracts <
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health#call-for-abstracts>>
in different fieldwork settings focusing on health and inequality, broadly
defined. We welcome perspectives from a range of disciplines including
anthropology, sociology, geography, history and more.


Organisers
The workshop is organised by Hannah Cowan, Natassia Brenman (London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Charlotte Kühlbrandt (King’s College
London), with the support of Professor Simon Cohn and Professor Christopher
McKevitt who will be our discussants. The Foundation for the Sociology of
Health and Illness has generously provided funding for the workshop.

Attendance
Attendance is free of any cost to invited participants. Five small
bursaries of £75 will be available as contributions towards travel and
accommodation costs for delegates with limited funding for attending
workshops. Please indicate when you submit your abstract if you wish to be
considered for a bursary and why.

Abstract submission
Abstracts should be submitted as a word document to
ethnographies.health.2018 at gmail.com <mailto:ethnographies.health.2
018 at gmail.com><mailto:ethnographies.health.2018 at gmail.com <mailto:
ethnographies.health.2018 at gmail.com>>, no later than the 30th June and
should not exceed 250 words, excluding title. Please also include your
title, your position and institution, and pick out 3-5 key words or phrases
(not included in the word count) to focus our attention to themes and
issues you are most interested in discussing. We will notify you if your
abstract is successful by the end of July.

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*Dr Alfonso Del Percio*
*Lecturer in Applied Linguistics*
UCL Institute of Education
University College London
Centre for Applied Linguistics
20 Bedford Way, Room 628a
London WC1H 0AL
Associate Editor: Language, Culture and Society
https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/lcs/main
Blog: https://disruptiveinequalities.com/
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