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> PANTEIO UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
>
> DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
>
>
> Athens, Greece, May 16-17, 2008
>
>
> Politics of Life:
>
> Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Biosociality
>
> ALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Drawing on, and conversing with, important developments in the
> political anthropology of health, the conference invites an
> anthropological exploration of regimes of truth and technologies of
> power involved in the management of biosociality within various
> contexts of contemporary worlds. As implied by Paul Rabinow?s term ?
> biosociality,? biological life is no longer viewed as a natural and
> immutable destiny but rather as a flexible object of social-
> epistemic planning and administration.
>
> Central aim of this conference is to examine the epistemologies,
> technologies, and politics through which ?life? and ?human? are
> (re-)constituted in accordance with certain discursive domains of
> normality and intelligibility; to address the ways in which human
> life is rendered open to calculative and regulative interventions
> of administration; to reflect on the ways in which human subjects -
> as citizens and/or non-citizens, objects and subjects of knowledge,
> vulnerable living beings, and targets of discipline- are
> constituted as intelligible biosocial and biopolitical subjects.
>
> We seek to trace how national ideologies, disciplinary structures,
> discursive regimes, as well as epidemiological and demographic
> epistemologies, define and determine the human body in its complex
> intersections with the national body politic. We are interested in
> new practices and forms of life emerging from contemporary
> conditions of social suffering and biopower ?this form of power
> that, according to Michel Foucault, implicates human life in the
> workings of political and governmental regulation. We particularly
> focus on the social and cultural implications of biopolitics, as
> they vary transnationally and in relation to gender, sexuality,
> ethnicity, class, and other axes of social stratification.
>
> Among the main themes that the conference seeks to
> address are: biosocial and biopolitical domains of truth,
> reproductive technologies, biotechnologies, genetics and current
> regimes of geneticization, old and new epidemics, life science
> governance, human reproductive cloning, stem cell research, mental
> health, pharmaceutical bioscience, risk and regulation, suffering,
> medicalization and politicization of death, alternative medical
> treatment, humanitarian administration.
>
>
>
> Invited key speakers:
>
>
> Rayna Rapp, New York University
>
> Didier Fassin, EHESS
>
>
> Please submit abstracts to organizers Eleni Papagaroufali
> ([log in to unmask]) and Athena Athanasiou
> ([log in to unmask])
> by November 1, 2007.
>
>
> From: athena athanasiou <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2 October 2007 17:33:40 BDT
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [Medanthnet] POLITICS OF LIFE Conference in Athens
>
>
> PANTEIO UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
> DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
>
> Athens, Greece, May 16-17, 2008
>
> Politics of Life:
> Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Biosociality
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Drawing on, and conversing with, important developments in the
> political anthropology of health, the conference invites an
> anthropological exploration of regimes of truth and technologies of
> power involved in the management of biosociality within various
> contexts of contemporary worlds. As implied by Paul Rabinow’s term
> “biosociality,” biological life is no longer viewed as a natural
> and immutable destiny but rather as a flexible object of social-
> epistemic planning and administration.
> Central aim of this conference is to examine the epistemologies,
> technologies, and politics through which “life” and “human” are
> (re-)constituted in accordance with certain discursive domains of
> normality and intelligibility; to address the ways in which human
> life is rendered open to calculative and regulative interventions
> of administration; to reflect on the ways in which human subjects -
> as citizens and/or non-citizens, objects and subjects of knowledge,
> vulnerable living beings, and targets of discipline- are
> constituted as intelligible biosocial and biopolitical subjects.
> We seek to trace how national ideologies, disciplinary structures,
> discursive regimes, as well as epidemiological and demographic
> epistemologies, define and determine the human body in its complex
> intersections with the national body politic. We are interested in
> new practices and forms of life emerging from contemporary
> conditions of social suffering and biopower –this form of power
> that, according to Michel Foucault, implicates human life in the
> workings of political and governmental regulation. We particularly
> focus on the social and cultural implications of biopolitics, as
> they vary transnationally and in relation to gender, sexuality,
> ethnicity, class, and other axes of social stratification.
> Among the main themes that the conference seeks to
> address are: biosocial and biopolitical domains of truth,
> reproductive technologies, biotechnologies, genetics and current
> regimes of geneticization, old and new epidemics, life science
> governance, human reproductive cloning, stem cell research, mental
> health, pharmaceutical bioscience, risk and regulation, suffering,
> medicalization and politicization of death, alternative medical
> treatment, humanitarian administration.
>
> Invited key speakers:
> Rayna Rapp, New York University
> Didier Fassin, EHESS
>
> Please submit abstracts to organizers Eleni Papagaroufali
> ([log in to unmask]) and Athena Athanasiou
> ([log in to unmask]) by November 1, 2007.
>
>
>
>
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