Message posted on 07/01/2025
HEAT call for abstracts: hormones as mediators of health and environment
Dear Colleagues: I hope the new year finds you well! Please see the CFP below for a panel on the 2025 Health, Environment, and Anthropology (HEAT) Conference, to be held at Durham University, UK, April 23-24, 2025, co-organised by Durham and Edinburgh universities and sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Society (RAI). Abstracts can be submitted via the Abstract Management portal. The website includes guidance and a list of panels a proposer can select from. The call is scheduled to close on 13 January, although we will keep this under review and extend if it seems necessary. Many thanks, Andrea Panel #21: Intimate mediation: hormones and endocrine disruption across species, place, and time Keywords: hormones, chemicals, endocrine disruption, EDCs, plastics, prescription drugs, side effects, alterlife, green chemistry This panel invites consideration of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) as a key link between health and environment. EDCs are synthetic chemicals that interact with the hormonal messaging processes of humans and other animals, commonly found in everyday items, notably many plastics. These ubiquitous substances transcend local environments through weather patterns and industrial chains, defy consumer rationales of personal protection through "organic" or "green" choices, and have effects that are unpredictable and may remain latent for generations. EDCs are now constitutive of our bodies, complicating any ideas about an un-altered "pure" state, and have been linked to health issues as disparate as diabetes, endometriosis, asthma, early puberty, obesity, and gender dysphoria. There is good reason to consider hormonally-active pharmaceuticals as EDCs, particularly given how they can exceed the consumer's bodily system and enter into waterways and other shared environments. EDCs trouble standard political positions around individual autonomy and choice, complicating conservative impulses towards protectionism and immunity. Studying "the exposome" troubles standard ways of making knowledge about chemicals: chemical effects come into being in interaction with one another instead of as isolated variables, and timing of exposure often matters more than dosage (counter to the toxicological maxim 'the dose makes the poison'). Add to this the lobbying pressure from petroleum and chemical industries, and it is clear why it can be profoundly difficult to acknowledge and take action about EDCs. Yet, some medical research centers, activist groups, artists, and even industrial initiatives around "green chemistry" are doing so. This nexus begs further anthropological inquiry. -- Andrea Ford, PhD (she/her) Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Social Sciences and Humanities Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society | Usher Institute | University of Edinburgh Medical School [signature_156742838] Newest books: Near Birth and Hormonal Theory Recent publications: How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and Self Out of Place. Medicine Anthropology Theory 11(1). The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re) Conceptualizing Relations. Medicine Anthropology Theory 11(1). Hormonal Stories: A New Materialist Exploration of Hormonal Emplotment in Four Case Studies. BioSocieties. How and Why to Use Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Disease Risk, Indeterminacy and Normality. BMJ Medical Humanities 50. Hormonal Health: Period Tracking Apps, Wellness, and Self-Management within Surveillance Capitalism. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 7(1). The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th ann an Oilthigh Dhn ideann, clraichte an Alba, ireamh clraidh SC005336. EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/ Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings. Website: https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/ Meet us on Mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@easst Or X: https://twitter.com/STSeasstview formatted text
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