Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2023 NEW DATES: 4th -7th July

AMH President and Council

Fevers, Frets, and Futures: Uncertainty and New Ecologies for Post-Covid Healthcare — AMH Annual Conference in association with the IAS, UCL

<h2>AMH International Annual Conference in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London</h2><h2>4th – 7th July 2023 </h2><h2>Hybrid: Online and On site </h2><p></p><h3>Organiser: Dr Deborah Padfield</h3><h3>Conference Administrators: Cyrus Hung &amp; Sara Borga</h3><h3>Student organisers: Ananya Sood &amp; Lorna Bo</h3><h3>Header image: Onya McCausland</h3><p></p><p>The last two and a half years have exposed points of encounter between existing anxieties about climate change and environmental collapse and new crises of health and well-being in the face of the Covid pandemic. These two global concerns about the sustainability of human life have revealed ethical, political and cultural fractures and challenges, not least because of their differential impact on countries, peoples, and communities. Sustainability has different meanings in different fields. In medicine and healthcare, for instance, it is complex and multi-faceted. As a discipline, medicine has internalised its own meanings and perspectives on sustainability that would benefit from updating. By its very nature, sustainability is a relatively recent, fluid interdisciplinary field, of increasing complexity and responsive to change, with new policy developments, such as UNESCO 17 Sustainable Development Goals.</p><p>At the centre of current biopolitical concerns sits a fundamentally epistemological question, about how knowledge is formed, organised, and interrelated. It has become clear that although STEM subjects such as Science, Technology, Medicine and Healthcare were crucial to creating vaccines and other safety measures, it is SHAPE subjects such as the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences that can explain why and how populations would welcome or refuse these. The latter offer alternative methodological approaches which foreground open questions and critical thinking, allowing for a toleration of ambiguity and uncertainty rather than a foreclosing of solutions to complex problems. In this way they are able to address sustainability in a way that the sciences on their own cannot. It is by bringing these communities of practice together that we can hope to solve the major health and climate challenges facing us.</p><p>At the heart of this moment of crisis lies a set of ecological concerns: what does the future look like in complex personal or environmental conditions? How does this change our thinking about immunity, longevity and the limits of healthcare, especially given stark contrasts between the global north and south? Importantly, as clinicians, patients, and humans whose vital dependence on nonhuman life forms has suddenly been made starkly visible, what are the lessons we can learn from the frets and fevers of a global pandemic, to think and create new futures and a new sustainability in our work, our lives, and the environments on which, we now know, they precariously depend? Further to this is the added complexity of how countries and communities form part of our wider environment, when that environment is under threat.</p><p>What new transdisciplinarity is required, to make sure that if we fire-fight in one area of practice or learning we are not simultaneously causing a fire elsewhere? How do we, as clinicians, patients, academics and artists, understand our knowledges as inevitably interrelated, impacting on each other whether we intend them to or not, forming an implicate cultural order no matter how we fragment them into disciplines or funding streams?</p><p></p><p><strong>CONFIRMED KEYNOTE/PLENARY CONTRIBUTORS</strong></p><p>Dr Ayesha Ahmad, Prof Helen Chatterjee, Prof Anthony Costello, Prof Julian Ma, Dr Nick Watts (Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England), Invisible Flock and the Land Body Ecologies Team at the Wellcome Hub, Prof James Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Dr Dhruv Gupta, Dr Rochelle Burgess, Dr Emily Baker, Dr Sarah de Leeuw, Dr Margaret Greenwood, Kung Jaadee, Dr Margot Parkes, Prof Ilan Kelman, and artists Dr Onya McCausland, Lisa Boivin, Christine Wertheim, Prof Dryden Goodwin, Dr Sarah Fortais, Hannah Fletcher, Meg Hodgson, poet Prof Sharon Morris and dancer Anusha Subramanyam (<a href="https://Beeja.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beeja.com</a>).</p><p></p><p>To join the Association for Medical Humanities and enjoy discounted rates for this event, kindly <a href="https://amh.ac.uk/membership/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>. </p><p></p><p><strong>Information for those who already hold tickets:</strong></p><p>If you registered last year, your ticket is valid for these new dates and you do not need to book again. We very much appreciate your support and hope that you will be able to join us. We will contact you via email with instructions for joining.</p><p>However, if you cannot attend the new dates, please contact conference@amh.ac.uk.</p>

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