The Medicine and Its Objects Workshop is pleased to announce its call for submissions for the 2024-2025 academic year!
Medicine and Its Objects Workshop (MIO) is a forum for critically exploring the plurality of medicine within diverse social and material contexts. It examines the ‘objects’ of medicine and health sciences, including objects of inquiry that guide knowledge production, institutional structures and encounters, therapeutic interventions, and the material elements mediating the relationship between theory and practice. Participants collaboratively explore what constitutes the objects of medicine, how these objects are mobilized through bodies, communities, policies, practices, and institutions, and the philosophical, theoretical, and experiential dimensions of medicine within socio-historical, embodied, political, and economic contexts.
If you’re interested in presenting this year or would like to discuss the possibility, please submit a participant interest form by Wednesday, October 2nd. We also encourage you to email us, Andy Archer (andyarcher@uchicago.edu) and Fulden Arisan (farisan@uchicago.edu), with any questions.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the workshop brings together perspectives from the social sciences, biomedicine, humanities, and science and technology studies, all converging around the social study of medicine and health sciences. We encourage a variety of formats (documentary, website, audiovisual project, game, or any other creative work) to foster interdisciplinary exchange and experience with different academic genres.
We welcome participants at any stage of their graduate studies or post-graduate careers working in social sciences, humanities, arts, social work, religious studies, public health, or any other field that critically engages with medicine, the body, and healing.
If you have a project and appreciate constructive feedback and input from an engaged and supportive community, we encourage you to check out our website and submit a participant interest form by Wednesday, October 2nd. Feel free to share this call with anyone in the university community who may be interested.
We look forward to hearing from you!