Dear all,
Please see below the Second Call for Papers for the Hybrid International
Research Workshop on Making and Sharing Data in Biomedical Research,
organized by the BIO-CONTEXT research team.
Call for Papers
Data flows?
Making and Sharing Data in Biomedical Research:
Between Local and Cross-Border Practices
International Research Workshop (two days, hybrid)
10-11 April 2024, Athens, Greece
Ongoing research from Science and Technology Studies (STS) points to the
multiplicity of actors, practices and materialities involved in the
creation and mobilization of data in biomedical research, in how such data
are ‘made’ and become ‘mobile’ (e.g. Metzler et al., 2023). At the
same
time, current discourses regarding future biomedical research, connected as
they are to visions about improved healthcare, appear to be inseparable
from expectations about intensified data-based practices and digital health
(e.g. Hoeyer, 2023).
Inspired by recent studies on the production and sharing of data in
biobanking research practices (e.g. Argudo-Portal & Domènech, 2022), as
well as on the ways such practices are positioned within a national,
regional and/or global context (e.g. Aarden, 2023), this Workshop seeks to
offer a venue for sharing and discussing ongoing research on the
intensification of digitized and datafied practices in the ever-changing
landscape of biomedicine and healthcare, and on the rhetoric that
accompanies it. Accordingly, we are interested in theoretical, empirical
and methodological contributions from STS, as well as related fields such
as Data Studies, covering, but not limited to, the following themes:
§ The growing efforts to collect and compile data from various sources,
and the ways they may affect biomedical research
§ The proliferation and diversity of relevant data sources (local/national
registries, small collections, private collections and the making of
supranational datasets and collections)
§ The role of labour in data practices of relevance to biomedical research
§ The relationship between samples and data in the case of ‘digital
biobanks’
§ The role of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in ‘remaking’ and
appropriating useful data
§ Biobanks, data collections and their relations with various users and
publics
§ The current status of biobanks as infrastructures in various contexts
The Workshop will take place in Athens, Greece, at the Historical Archive
of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
(45, Skoufa
str., 10672 Athens). To ensure broad attendance and inclusivity, virtual
participation is also available.
Those interested in presenting their work, please send your abstract
(approx 250 words) and a brief biographical note (approx 150 words) to
bio-context@phs.uoa.gr, by the 26th of February 2024. Please indicate
whether you wish to participate in person or online.
Participation is cost-free; the meals are covered by the organizers.
The Workshop is organized in the context of the research project
“Contextualizing biobanking in Greece: histories, practices, discourses –
BIO-CONTEXT” (2021-24), which is funded by H.F.R.I.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: 26 February 2024
Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2024
Draft programme available to presenters: 8 March 2024
Workshop organizers
Assistant Professor Katerina Vlantoni, Dr George Zoukas and Dr Yulie
Foka-Kavallieraki, members of the BIO-CONTEXT
research
team, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens.
If you have any questions, please contact us at bio-context@phs.uoa.gr.
You may find the pdf version of the call here
.
References
Aarden, E. (2023). Infrastructuring European scientific integration:
Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure
BBMRI–ERIC. Social Studies of Science, 53(4), 572-598.
https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231162629
Argudo-Portal, V., & Domènech, M. (2022). ‘We came here to stay’: Making
biobanks worth maintaining in Spain. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44,
328–344. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13420
Hoeyer, K. (2023). Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data
Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare. The MIT Press.
Metzler, I., Ferent, L.-M., & Felt, U. (2023). On samples, data, and their
mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and
data. Big Data & Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158635
Kind regards,
George Zoukas
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