Call For Papers: PGR/ECR Symposium on Critical Approaches to Global Health

A collaboration between the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health, SHS Health, Mind and Society, and the Institute of Advanced Studies.
 
This symposium brings together social science, humanities and medical scholars working critically on global health across UCL. There is a wealth of critical global health scholarship at UCL, both within and outside traditional ‘health’ disciplines. In this IAS-hosted/hybrid event, we hope to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations between emerging and established researchers, continuing conversations begun in our earlier podcast series and roundtable (entitled “What is Critical Global Health?”). This symposium will offer a supportive environment for emerging scholars at all levels, from MA/MSc to PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
 
To this end, we invite postgraduates and early-career scholars from across the university to submit proposals for presentations which critically consider the empirical, theoretical and/or practical dimensions of global health. These might address, for example: critical genealogies of health and ill-health; historical and colonial aspects of health and health inequities; discursive framings of health; critical geopolitics or economics of health; intersections between health and other social, infrastructural or environmental issues; ethical and practical dimensions of critical health research and collaboration; critical health research methods and positionality; and/or the role of institutions and researchers in perpetuating or alleviating global health inequities. We welcome research focused on the global South, global North or any combination thereof. 
 
Alongside PGR and ECR presentations, this event features two keynote speakers: 

Dr Chisomo Kalinga (Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh) will critically examine the role of health humanities in Africa.

Dr Jean Segata (Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) will discuss the “unhealthy ecologies” linking animal agribusiness and COVID-19 in Brazil.

In the interest of accessibility and inclusion, this event will be fully hybrid, with virtual attendance open to all. For the in-person component, masks will be recommended (and provided).
 
Submission instructions: 
 
Please submit titles and abstracts of not more than 150 words to Catriona Gold (c.gold@ucl.ac.uk), with “CGH Symposium” in the subject line. Presentations will be 10-15 minutes in length. Please include your full name, title and departmental affiliation, and indicate whether you would prefer to present in person or remotely. The submission deadline is 28 April 2023.
 
This event is hosted by UCL’s Grand Challenge of Global Health (GCGH), co-sponsored by SHS Health, Mind and Society, and co-funded by the IAS Octagon Fund, SHS and Grand Challenges.