Please find details of a workshop on Dementia that we are organizing here in
<br>Copenhagen this September below and attached. Please share widely with anyone
<br>who might be interested. Thank you!
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<br>Arts of Caring, Arts of Knowing
<br>
<br>A workshop on
<br>Dementia and Knowledge Practices
<br>
<br>19-20 September 2019, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
<br>
<br>Keynotes:
<br>
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<br> Prof. Janelle
<br>Taylor,
<br>Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
<br>
<br> Prof. Annette
<br>Leibing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Montreal
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<br>Dementia is often portrayed as the emblematic figure of morbid living in one's
<br>later years, entailing "substantial human costs to countries, societies,
<br>families and individuals" (WHO, 2017). Despite many ongoing efforts to
<br>prevent, manage, and cure dementia through biomedical means, dementia remains
<br>as a condition that is to be endured and lived with/through. At the same time,
<br>we are observing the flourishing of different forms of knowledges about living
<br>with dementia and creative engagements with dementia that aim to improve what
<br>might be called "qualities of life" of people that are affected by dementia.
<br>The notion of quality of life is also constantly challenged, negotiated, and
<br>rethought in these knowledge practices. As such, dementia offers us generative
<br>opportunities to renew our attention to the ways we know, care, and live,
<br>thereby revitalizing critical, imaginative and creative engagements with
<br>people with dementia.
<br>
<br>Whereas the dominant discourse considers dementia as an irreversible loss of
<br>personhood, people with dementia and their carers strive to seek new
<br>possibilities of living differently with dementia. Putting together rich
<br>empirical researches in dementia care, the workshop Arts of Caring, Arts of
<br>Knowing: Dementia and Knowledge Practices aims to explore the generative
<br>potentials of dementia that urge and inspire us to rethink, imagine, tweak,
<br>improvise our ways of knowing, caring, and living as well as our analytic
<br>concepts and methods in humanities and social sciences.
<br>
<br>The two-day workshop challenges the prevalent imaginaries about dementia in
<br>particular and older age in general that are shaped in specific
<br>politico-economic and socio-cultural contexts, not least since these make it
<br>difficult for us to creatively imagine and engage with the life with/in
<br>dementia. We invite participants from diverse disciplines who are documenting
<br>and producing alternative discourses, practices, and imaginaries about
<br>dementia, and asking questions about what it means, is and takes to live a
<br>"good" life as humans. We hope the workshop to be a venue for conceptual,
<br>practical, and methodological innovations in dementia and dementia care
<br>research
<br>throughout the world.
<br>
<br>We seek papers that engage with the following questions, but not limited to:
<br>
<br>* Everyday experiments in dementia care both in informal and formal care
<br>settings
<br>* Production and circulation of caregiver knowledge on dementia care
<br>* Relationships between biomedical knowledge and caregiver knowledge on
<br>dementia
<br>* Mattering of "quality of life" of people with dementia and their carers in
<br>different contexts
<br>* Historical changes in dementia-related policies and their ethical and
<br>political implications
<br>* Innovative and creative engagements with dementia
<br>
<br>If you are interested, please submit an abstract (250 words max.) including
<br>3-5 keywords and a paper title to Jieun Lee (jle@anthro.ku.dk) and Laura
<br>Louise Heinsen (llh@anthro.ku.dk) by May 1, 2019. Due to space limitations,
<br>selected participants will be notified by mid-May, 2019. Participants will be
<br>asked to submit a short paper by the end of August, which will then be
<br>circulated among participants and discussed during the workshop. The workshop
<br>will take place in September 19-20, 2019 in Copenhagen.
<br>
<br>The workshop is a part of the ERC funded project "The Vitality of Disease -
<br>Quality of Life in the Making" (https://vital.ku.dk/).
<br>
<br>
<br>Ayo Wahlberg
<br>Professor MSO
<br>
<br>Department of Anthropology
<br>University of Copenhagen
<br>ster Farimagsgade 5
<br>1353 Copenhagen K
<br>Denmark
<br>TEL +45 35 32 44 51
<br>ayo.wahlberg@anthro.ku.dk
<br>@ayo_wahlberg
<br>http://anthropology.ku.dk/ayowahlberg
<br>http://vital.ku.dk/
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