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Fwd: [aarg] CFP *Prolonging Life, Challenging Religion?: ARVs, New Moralities and the Politics of Social Justice* (Lusaka, 15-18 April 2009)

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MARSLAND Rebecca <[log in to unmask]>

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MARSLAND Rebecca <[log in to unmask]>

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Hansjoerg Dilger <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS for the "International Research Network on Religion  
> and AIDS in Africa" Symposium entitled:
>
> *Prolonging Life, Challenging Religion?: ARVs, New Moralities and  
> the Politics of Social Justice*
>
> Justo Mwale College, Lusaka
> 15-18 April 2009
>
>
> *Symposium background and themes*
>
> Access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for HIV/AIDS patients has  
> been made possible in most Sub-Saharan African countries in recent  
> years. A wide range of local, national and international actors has  
> become involved in the provision of these life-extending drugs that  
> have turned HIV/AIDS from a fatal disease into a chronic condition.  
> At the end of 2007, a total of 1.3 million people with HIV/AIDS  
> were being treated with ARVs in the Sub-Saharan African region and  
> the number of ARV patients in low- and middle-income countries is  
> expected to climb to 18 million by the year 2025.
>
> In addition to governmental and non-governmental institutions and  
> agencies, religious actors have become involved in this  
> antiretroviral therapy, often in collaboration with more secular  
> organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa’s increasingly diversified  
> healthcare systems. This growing involvement with the biomedical  
> sector is challenging religious organizations and their followers  
> on multiple levels: ARVs are expected to effect a shift in values  
> concerning life, death and personal responsibility in the era of  
> HIV/AIDS and change moral concepts of sociality, solidarity and  
> healing within congregations, communities and kinship networks.  
> Religious organizations are also being confronted with questions  
> about how to support the establishment of effective systems of  
> treatment and counselling that help their clients to access ARVs in  
> low-income areas. Finally, religious actors are facing the  
> challenge of reorganizing and disciplining their followers’ lives  
> in ways that are consistent !
>  with the rigid regimes associated with ARVs; and combine medico- 
> scientific models of counselling, treatment and ‘living positively’  
> with religious ideas and practices surrounding sexuality, health,  
> marriage and reproduction.
>
> While all these issues may be challenging to religious groups,  
> practices and ideologies, the question is also whether religion is  
> challenging Western bio-medicine and ‘secular’ development – and  
> their premises of human life – as well as local, national and  
> international systems of access and availability of ARVs. How are  
> these institutions and organizations and the communities that they  
> serve relating to the growing involvement of religious actors in  
> the HIV/AIDS field?
>
> The proposed symposium will take up these questions and explore  
> interrelations between religion and ARVs in Africa with regard to  
> the following issues:
>
> •	*Humanitarianism, philanthropy and the challenge of religious  
> health governance*
> The workshop will consider how philanthropic and religious  
> organizations have become involved in the provision of ARVs and  
> counselling services in Africa in recent years. What kind of  
> funding channels have emerged in relation to faith-based  
> developments in Africa and under which political-economic  
> circumstances have religious organizations become implicated in  
> transnationally funded treatment programmes and healthcare  
> provision? How do concepts of social and distributional justice,  
> charity and philanthropy – and the specific terminologies that are  
> connected to these concepts – inform the engagement of religious  
> organizations in the context of local, national and international  
> AIDS work? Is the rollout of ARVs leading to a different  
> positioning of religion in the public domain that lends religious  
> bodies and their influence vis-à-vis the general public a new  
> impetus? Is the economic power of international religious bodies  
> contributing to the already ongoing fragmentation of l!
>  ocal healthcare systems? While the introduction of ARVs may be  
> assumed to lead religious groups to vie for different policies, the  
> increased visibility of their often conservative and moralistic  
> agendas may also present a challenge for other actors in the health  
> field: How do the biomedical institutions and non-religious AIDS  
> organizations perceive the growing presence of religious actors in  
> the healthcare system and the diverting of funds to faith-based  
> organizations (FBOs)? How are notions of the ‘secular’ negotiated  
> and maintained by funding agencies and governmental authorities  
> that have supported and promoted the involvement of religious  
> actors in the wake of HIV/AIDS?
>
> •	*Religious development and distributional justice on the ground*
> At another level, the symposium will investigate how philanthropic  
> engagement and religiously defined concepts of social and  
> distributional justice are being translated into actual treatment  
> and counselling programmes on the ground. How can ideas of  
> compassion, charisma and spirituality be reconciled with  
> professionalized systems of accountability and ethics and the  
> bureaucratic and technical language of healthcare interventions  
> that are enforced by international donors and biomedical experts in  
> the context of HIV/AIDS? How are fellow believers being turned into  
> ‘clients’ and ‘patients’ who are supposed to take responsibility  
> for their own and their families’ health and bodies? And how are  
> equitable and non-discriminatory systems of counselling and  
> treatment being established in the face of poverty, suffering and  
> inequality? Is religion developing modes of critical engagement  
> with local access and the availability of therapies or does it run  
> the risk of being perceived as be!
>  ing complicit in existing inequalities? All these questions should  
> take into account the fact that access to counselling and treatment  
> are shaped by factors like the age, gender and socio-economic  
> status of the clients, counsellors and health personnel alike, and  
> that religious organizations are establishing their services in  
> relation to and in communication with other actors in the  
> healthcare system. Equally, it should be considered whether  
> religious actors are establishing their activities in relation to  
> specific target groups (e.g. sex workers, street children, gay and  
> bisexual men) that have been defined – not unproblematically – as  
> ‘risk groups’ by earlier interventions.
>
> •	*Facing ‘old’ challenges in the era of ARVs: Stigma, prevention  
> and care*
> While ARVs have become increasingly available in Sub-Saharan  
> Africa, it has also become evident that access to them remains  
> limited and that prevention, care and the reduction of stigma will  
> remain core features of (religious) AIDS organizations’ work. The  
> symposium will explore whether the manageability of the disease and  
> the availability of drugs have led to changing perceptions of risk,  
> solidarity and sociality among individuals, families and  
> communities and how such changes have affected the work of FBOs  
> regarding prevention, care and the promotion of ‘living positively’  
> programmes. How are ideas of fidelity, abstinence and the  
> ‘sacredness of sex’ negotiated and discussed by religious groups  
> and communities? And how are these concepts being dealt with by  
> internationally composed advisory boards and employees of donor  
> agencies and NGOs? What role can religion play in the prevention of  
> new styles of risk-taking behaviour that may be expected to occur  
> as a result of the ava!
>  ilability of life-prolonging drugs? How do religious leaders  
> themselves view the challenges of stigmatization and living  
> positively and how are they positing themselves as public leaders  
> in the context of ARV provision and global development?
>
> •	*Shifting notions of life, death and healing*
> In the same vein as antiretroviral medications have turned HIV/AIDS  
> into a treatable disease, the availability of the drugs may be  
> expected to lead to shifting understandings of life, death and  
> healing within religious communities and regarding religious  
> practice. It can be assumed that the increased availability of  
> drugs and the ‘medicalization’ of people’s lives in the context of  
> HIV/AIDS will pose questions about the (continued) relevance of  
> religious actors in the field of healing. What role does religious  
> healing play in a world where people’s problems are increasingly  
> being solved by the rapidly growing (secular) HIV/AIDS industry?  
> How does the availability of drugs affect concepts of disease and  
> healing that may ascribe the reason for suffering to witchcraft and/ 
> or the disturbance of social relations? Who has the authority to  
> change the trajectories of healing and treatment? At another level,  
> antiretroviral therapy may also have a strong impact on local  
> notions of sex!
>  uality, reproduction and well-being: How does the availability of  
> ARVs influence people’s decisions to marry and have children? How  
> are antiretroviral therapies inscribing themselves in kinship-based  
> reproductive orders and what role are religious leaders playing in  
> the definition of ‘proper’ family and marriage arrangements in this  
> context?
>
>
> *Symposium Structure and Participants*
>
> We hope to attract paper presentations that deal with the above- 
> mentioned issues from different disciplinary perspectives (e.g.  
> anthropology, sociology, political science, history, theology,  
> religious studies, public health), as well as from a wide range of  
> vantage points: FBOs and NGOs; different denominations; patients,  
> clients and communities; governments and donors, etc. Papers  
> dealing with these issues in all Sub-Saharan African regions are  
> welcome.
>
> While the symposium will primarily create a space for scholarly  
> exchange for researchers from Africa, Europe and other parts of the  
> world, the workshop will be followed by a roundtable discussion  
> involving representatives from national and local governments,  
> faith-based organizations and international donor agencies. The  
> topic for the roundtable discussion has not yet been finalized but  
> will be related to the larger workshop agenda.
>
>
> *Funding, Call for Papers and Symposium Outcome*
>
> To attract funding for participants of the symposium (especially  
> travel and accommodation), a grant proposal will be submitted to  
> potential funding institutions by mid-September 2008. As the  
> funding proposal is to be accompanied by a preliminary programme  
> indicating a list of presenters and the preliminary paper titles,  
> we request the submission of preliminary titles and short abstracts  
> (100-150 words) by 30 August 2008. Notification of the acceptance  
> of papers will follow in mid-September.
> *Abstracts should be submitted by 30 August 2008 to Marian  
> Burchardt: [log in to unmask]*
>
> One major outcome of the symposium will be the publication of  
> selected symposium papers in an edited volume and/or as a special  
> issue of a relevant journal. In addition, a separate session of the  
> symposium will be dedicated to discussing possibilities for the  
> establishment of a research programme on religion and HIV/AIDS in  
> Africa that would involve African and non-African scholars. Funding  
> possibilities for the research network will be discussed at the  
> meeting in Lusaka.
>
>
> *Convenors*
>
> Rijk van Dijk (African Studies Centre, Leiden)
> Hansjoerg Dilger (Free University of Berlin)
> Marian Burchardt (University of Leipzig)
> Thera Rasing (University of Zambia)
>
>
> *Workshop partners*
>
> Justo Mwale College, Lusaka
> University of Zambia (UNZA)
> Christian Health Organization, Zambia (CHAZ)
> Zambia Interfaith Networking Group on HIV/AIDS (ZINGO)
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