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Call for Oral Abstracts and Posters: 2013 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Annual Meeting

2013 CREOG and APGO ANNUAL MEETING

Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around

February 27 - March 2, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

The Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) invite you to contribute to the 2013 CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting. Medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty are all encouraged to submit abstracts in response to this Call for Abstracts and Posters.

We are excited about the theme of the 2013 Annual Meeting, “Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around” and want you to be a part of the meeting. All submissions of original work related to education in Obstetrics and Gynecology will be considered for inclusion as Oral Abstracts or Posters.

This year, we are especially interested in receiving submissions related to the five broad topics listed below in the context of education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Examples of what might fit into each category are also provided as suggestions.

Reaching Up – Setting and Attaining Stretch Goals for Individuals, Programs and Institutions

Reaching Out – Mentoring, Developing Philanthropy, Promoting Diversity, and Medical Arts and Humanities

Reaching Across – Handling Conflict Resolution, Interdisciplinary Learning, and the Educational Continuum of UME, GME and CME

Reaching Around – Considering Global Health and Medical Education; Working with Underserved Communities

Reaching Your Learners – Utilizing Technology in Education and Meaningful Assessment

All submissions will be blinded and scored by a group of peer judges who are members of CREOG and APGO. You must indicate on the form whether your submission should be considered as an oral presentation, as a poster, or as either. Up to forty abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation based on their educational merit, relevance and general interest. Unless otherwise indicated, the remaining meritorious submissions will be considered for inclusion in the poster sessions.

Every year, a number of awards are given to outstanding posters and abstracts presented at the meeting. The current list of awards appear at the bottom of this letter. Note that CREOG and APGO will be again offering an award for the best abstract submitted by a part-time/ volunteer faculty member. We are also pleased to announce a new award in 2013 sponsored by The Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. This $500 Award for Exxcellence will be presented to a Medical Student, Resident, Fellow or Faculty Member for the best use of the Exxcellence in Life-Long Learning (L3Ob/Gyn) or Pearls of Exxcellence programs directed by the Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. Please visit The Foundation for Exxcellence website for more information.

Submissions for the CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting have both written and electronic components. The electronic component must be sent via the CREOG website at http://classic.acog.org/creog-abstract-submission and must be complete by 8:00 a.m. EST on Monday, August 20, 2012. The paper component must be postmarked on or before August 20, 2012.

Call for Papers for a Session on Health, Disease, and Physical Culture at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is soliciting papers for topics in the area of Health, Disease and Culture for its annual meeting, which will be held October 26-26 on the campus of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.

Topics in Health, Disease and Culture may include such themes as below: Mass media images of health and disease in popular culture--print, film, television, etc.

Portrayals of health institutions (e.g., hospitals, clinics, medical homes, pharmacies) and health professionals in history, literature or mass media

Portrayals of Prescription Drugs (E.G., Development, Marketing, Advertising, Consumption, Role in Treatment of Chronic Illnesses

Representations of the body in discourses of health and illness

Narratives of illness from patient and health practitioner perspectives in novels, short stories, memoirs, graphic comics, etc., discussed in larger sociocultural (ethnicity, race, gender, class), and political (health care system) contexts

Disability discourses in history, literature, and public policy

Outbreak narratives of infectious diseases (e.g., endemic, epidemic, pandemic) in popular media and literature; infectious diseases in history and public policy

Historical and contemporary perspectives on the promotion of health through diet, exercise, personal or domestic hygiene, cosmetic procedures, public health campaigns (e.g., smoking, obesity).

Focuses on Public Health: The Built Environment, Global Health, Emergency Preparedness, Occupational Health, Surveillance and Public Health

Creative Writing and Health Care Presentations from patient, caregiver, health professional or medical humanities practitioners, etc.

We invite both individual papers and proposals for complete panels (please include titles and abstracts for each panelist). Please send a 1-2 page paper proposal and a one-page vita to both the Program Chair Tim Madigan tmadigan@sjfc.edu and to the Area Chair for Health, Disease and Culture, Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman jennifer.tebbe-grossman@mcphs.edu. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2012.

Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Professor of Political Science and American Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston
179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Phone: 617-732-2904
Email: jennifer.tebbe-grossman@mcphs.edu

Call for Papers: Disability and the Renaissance

Leeds Trinity University College, 8 September 2012

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on the ways in which disability can be conceptualised in/through/by the Renaissance. This seminar is particularly intended to register some of the ways that recent developments in disability theory might be applicable to scholarship on Renaissance literature and culture; to the modern tradition of Renaissance scholarship; or, indeed, might struggle to gain purchase upon the types of material and textual resources available to scholars. To that end, papers which focus on the experience or conceptualisation of disability itself, rather than disability as allegory/metaphor for the human condition in general, will be preferred.

We recognise that this is not an established field within Renaissance studies and we therefore welcome exploratory and open-ended engagements and investigations.

Topics may include, but are certainly not restricted to:

* The visibility and invisibility of disability: embodiment, Bedlam beggars, Bedlam and other sites/institutions, taxonomic practices, non-standard bodies, normativity.
* Resistance, conformity, subversion, transgression.
* The mind and mental disability.
* Representations: staging, portraying, discussing disability.
* Models of disability - how do the social and medical models bear on the Renaissance? Does the Renaissance offer further ways of modelling disability?
* Identity, difference, abjection.
* Technologies, adaptation, support.
* The impact of earlier traditions: e.g. Classical formulations of disability; folklore.
* Intersections: childhood; gender; ethnicity; class
* Medical, legal, moral, theological and spiritual understandings/engagements.

We invite proposals (250 words) for papers addressing these questions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and performance-oriented approaches are welcome, as are submissions from postgraduate students and early career researchers. Please send your proposals or any queries to Susan Anderson: s.anderson@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Deadline for proposals: 30th June 2012.

Call for Papers: Second Annual Washington University in St. Louis Graduate History Conference: The History of the Body

October 26-27, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis

Keynote speaker: Professor Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University

The Graduate Conference Committee of the History Department at Washington University in St. Louis invites graduate students to submit proposals for its second annual Graduate Conference.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for this broadly conceived topic, and are excited to see in what new and creative directions participants will take this theme. For example, the “History of the Body” might include bodies used for political and religious expression, gender and the body, sexualities, the body politic, the transgression of boundaries, the movement of people, changing ideas of “good” and “bad” bodies over time, and the idea of bodies in the formation and appropriation of personal and impersonal spaces. Very literal uses of the “body” as well as more representational and less-direct approaches are equally welcome.

The Graduate History Conference chooses a biennial rotating theme, allowing for deeper examination of historical problems and questions over a period of time. This year will be the second year to explore the “History of the Body,” and we are eager to see how this provocative topic will develop in the concluding installment of the conference.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2012

Proposals for papers should be between 200-300 words. Final papers should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Individual papers as well as
proposals for panels will be considered. We welcome new as well as returning presenters. Please submit proposals to the conference website,
http://history.artsci.wustl.edu/GHA/Conference/Submissions. For any questions please contact Ethan Bennett at ethanrbennett@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: 8th International Symposium for the History of Anaesthesia

International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia 2013, Sydney

The 8th International Symposium for the History of Anaesthesia will be held from January 22-25, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.

The Australian Society of Anaesthetists, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists are pleased to announce that they are hosting the 8th International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA) in Sydney, Australia in January 2013.

The theme of the meeting: HISTORY MATTERS!

ISHA 2013 is administered by the Australian Society of Anaesthetists.

Abstracts must be received by July 15, 2012

Papers should relate to historical aspects of anaesthesia, critical care medicine, resuscitation and pain management. Abstracts on medical humanities or ethical topics that relate to the history of these areas are also invited. All papers and presentations are to be in English which will be the language of the Symposium.

Historical themes will include the relationship of the profession with industry, military anaesthesia, equipment, pioneers and notable names, regional anaesthesia, pain management, simulation, society and education, organisations, antiquity, subspecialty anaesthesia, veterinary anaesthesia, anaesthesia and the arts, anaesthesia mortality and others.

Presentations should be no longer than 15-20 minutes including 3-5 minutes for discussion. Presentations from trainees are very welcome.

Contact

Please contact the ASA for more information.

email: isha2013@asa.org.au
tel +61 2 9327 4022

Call for Papers: Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilisation

September 13th & 14th, 2012. University of Hull, UK.

This conference focuses on the social pathologies of contemporary civilisation, i.e. on the ways in which contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses, anxieties and psycho-somatic syndromes are related to cultural pathologies of the social body, how disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society manifest at the level of individual bodies, and how the social body and bodies politic are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychological perspectives. The central research hypothesis guiding the conference is that many contemporary problems of health and well-being are to be understood in the light of radical changes of social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilisation as a whole. A particular focus of the conference is the role of humanities and social sciences, particularly sociology, philosophy and anthropology, in helping to understand the connection between individual and collective experiences of social transformations and of health and well-being.

Now in its third year, the thematic scope of the conference offers an insightful approach to unfolding social, political and cultural processes across disciplinary boundaries, with a focus extending from the experience of the individual to a global scale. Following successful conferences at Aalborg (2010) and Cork (2011), this year the conference is hosted by the University of Hull.

We invite abstracts of not more than 300 words related to any of the above themes to be submitted not later than June 10th to the email address below. All abstracts will be subject to peer-review and should be sent to the conference organisers at socialpathologies@hull.ac.uk

Organizers: University of Hull Dept of Social Sciences, University of Aalborg, University College Cork.

Call for Papers: Arts – Health – Entrepreneurship?

A Conference on arts and health projects and practices organised on 22-23 October 2012 in Helsinki

Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2012

Throughout the world, from the 1990’s on, there are several projects and studies clearly indicating that cultural consumption and cultural pursuits have a positive effect on health. It is believed that art can encourage empowerment, support life management and add social capital etc. However, further research is needed in order to turn the projects into permanent services. The ARTS – HEALTH – ENTREPRENEURSHIP? conference is focusing on the management and entrepreneurship within arts and health projects. What skills and competencies are needed in the field? What does the field offer to arts/cultural operators? How to solve the challenge of funding and financing?

There have been several projects piloting new methods for using art based process to improve wellbeing of clients in social and health care sectors. Starting point of these projects is an artist working in a care unit and mediators understanding both artistic and health care interests for co-operation. These pilots have shown that in this surrounding the cultural operator needs to have good skills and specific competencies in order to make projects long term and successful. A central challenge is how to turn the innovative pilots into permanent practices, products and stable employment. This conference aims at looking into this challenge. This conference is an initiative of the ENCATC Arts and Health Thematic Area (www.encatc.org/arts-and-health/) and is organsied by the Cultural Management Degree Programme, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (www.metropolia.fi)

In fact, in the context of arts and health, we are dealing with activities which fall into the border area of art/culture, as well as that of social services/health care. The field of applied art is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. We invite the professionals in the field to share the two topics of the conference:

1. CURRICULA DEVELOPMENT – There is a challenge to improve arts management aimed at professionals working in intermediary positions between the artists and health care units. Specific education is needed both in BA and MA levels as well as in continuing studies and in adult education. Key improvements are the better understanding of specific competence needed when working in multi-disciplinary surrounding combining large variety of expertise. Financial management is a part of the arts and health project development.

2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP – As seen in the piloted arts and health projects a central need is to find ways to enhance creative ideas into entrepreneurship. When turning the pilot into innovation with a more stable status along with new employment we need to focus on financing models, client basis and value chain of production as well as the service development. How to develop the managerial and funding skills of the practitioners?

Art in this context is understood any art form or art performance. Art and culture are basic needs for each person and bringing art and culture into hospitals and other care units has value for that sake. Further research is needed in order to develop culture and arts based wellbeing services as well as to develop circumstances for better employment by bringing together artists, mediators and healthcare professionals. In a holistic approach the customer is in the centre. A question of crucial importance is: who are the customers of arts and health services? We need to know the customer and his/her cultural capacities, needs and expectations.

The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2012. The length of abstract is max 300 words. Decisions will be made by the end of June 2012. Please send your abstract to: tanja.juntto@metropolia.fi.

The conference is free of charge but the travels, accommodation and meals are covered by the participants.

Call for Papers: Psychiatric Treatments and Patients on Screen

The main language of the conference that I am co-organizing with Jean-Christophe Coffin (Université Paris Descartes) and Alessandro Manna (IRIS-EHESS) will be French but we might include a few papers in English.

This conference might be of interest to some of you because we'd like to analyze how biographical narratives dealing with intimate experiences of madness and psychiatric treatments are adapted on screeen in order to reflect communitarian and militant processes in mental health. We would like to include papers studying to what extent cinematographical and narrative devices can become militant tools in the hands of former mental patients –now organized in Survivors movements. French films which serve to rehabilitate therapeutic practices that may have faded away within a global context of deinstitutionalization will also be discussed.

Abstracts (450 words maxi) should be sent to my e-mail by 18 May 2012 .

Nausica Zaballos, nausica.zaballos@EHESS.FR

Call for Papers: Shakespeare and Emotions

27–30 November 2012
The University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia

The study of emotions in history, literature, and other aspects of culture is a burgeoning field, and Shakespeare takes a very central and influential place. The conveners invite papers on any aspect of the ways in which Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries represented emotions in poetry, drama, and other works, and/or how these representations have been received by audiences and readers from the sixteenth century to the present day.

There are paradoxes to be explored — how ‘the bodily turn’ of physiological influence on emotions could in turn generate more modern models of inner consciousness alone; how concepts rooted historically in Elizabethan and Jacobean England could be adapted to fit the philosophies and concepts of later ages, through eighteenth-century literature of sensibility, nineteenth-century and Darwinian approaches, twentieth-century psychologism stimulated by Freud, and a host of others. Did Shakespeare tap into a ‘collective unconscious’ of ‘universal’ stories, or did he arbitrarily choose stories to dramatise which his affective eloquence incorporated into world literature? Why have his works proved so durable in their emotional power, both in themselves and adaptations into other media such as opera, music, film and dance? Equal attention is invited to plays in performance and in ‘closet’ critical readings, as well as textual studies and adaptations.

The New Fortune Theatre, built in 1964 to the exact dimensions of The Fortune playhouse that rivaled Shakespeare’s Globe in seventeenth-century London, will be available for original practice performances, open rehearsals, and stage-based research papers, etc. If you wish your presentation to be considered for a Performance Workshop on the New Fortune stage, please indicate this clearly in your title.

Abstracts of c.200 words should be submitted for consideration to conference@anzsa.org, addressed to Bob White, Chris Wortham, Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers, Mark Houlahan, and Brett D. Hirsch. Abstracts should be received by 1 July 2012.

Please bear in mind that although our venues have full capability for Powerpoint presentations and projecting files from your computers, wireless Internet reception is in some rooms unavailable. If you will need Internet access for your presentation, please make this clear in your abstract to allow us to programme accordingly.
 

Call for Papers: Pain and Old Age: 3 Centuries Of Suffering In Silence?

Public Conference: 27 October 2012

The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Birkbeck College, University

Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project, Prof. Lynn Botelho (Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

According to the British Pain Society, ‘pain is not a normal part of ageing’ (2008). Yet for generations of older people, pain was something that was intimately tied to the ageing process. For many, it was the body in pain that signalled their entry into old age. Furthermore, the elderly have not wanted to be a ‘burdens’ to their families, friends, and support systems, and consequently they often endured pain with a quiet acceptance. When did this relationship between pain and old age undergo such a profound and fundamental shift? Or, did it? Were the elderly in the past always quietly accepting of the aches and pains of a physically declining body? Or did they fight against pain and the very real physical, emotional, and familial restrictions that chronic pain can impose?

This one-day conference explores the nature of pain in old age between the 18th to the 20th centuries. It explicitly does so through the lens of the humanities, rather the hard sciences. The conference strives to be wide-ranging in terms of disciplines, methodologies, and approaches. In doing so, the conference seeks to engage both panellists and audience in discussion, dialogue, and debate. Our aim is to facilitate new ways of thinking about both the nature of pain and what it meant to be old.

Possible paper topics might include, but are not limited to

• Pain, old age and social relationships (partner, children, friends, neighbours)
• Pain and sexual relations
• The philosophy of pain
• Pain and the ageing self
• Pain as a marker of old age
• Pain, piety, and religion
• Representations of pain and old age in literature, art, and autobiography
• Pain as a mechanism of self-fashioning
• Pain clustering and the loci of pain, including physical, emotional, and spiritual pain
• The elderly’s engagement with medicine and medical practitioners
• The medical community’s response to pain in the old

Please send a 300-500 word abstract and a short C.V. by email to Lynn Botelho (Botelho@iup.edu) by 1 June 2012.

The conference will be held at Brikbeck, University of London. There is no fee to attend or register for the conference.

FUNDED BY THE WELLCOME TRUST

Prof. Lynn Botelho
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dept of History, Keith Hall
Indiana, PA 15705
USA

+724.357.2284
Email: botelho@iup.edu