Gender and Health meetings & conferences

5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

September 19-22, 2012 Windhoek, Namibia

The 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is being hosted by the Namibia Planned Parenthood Association (NAPPA), an affiliate member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) under the auspices of the African Federation for Sexual Health and Rights. The conference theme is “Sexual Health and Rights in Africa: Where are We?”

This conference will interrogate the status of sexual health and rights in Africa and in particular focus on women, girls, adolescents and youth. Efforts will be made to ensure that many constituent groups and stakeholders engage in learning exchange around policy and programme management including financing for sexual health.

Objectives
- To take stock of responses to sexual health and rights on the continent since ICPD
- To explore sexual health and rights of women, girls, adolescents and youth in Africa

The conference presentations, papers and posters will explore the conference theme and the sub-themes “Sexual and Reproductive Rights-Legal, Policy and Programme Issues (including financing sexual and reproductive health)” and “Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents and Youth” through the following thematic areas:

- Adolescent and Youth Sexuality

- Women’s and Girls Sexuality

- Disabilities and Sexual Rights

- Sexual Rights and Sex Work

- HIV/AIDS and Sexuality

- Sexuality, Culture and Religion

- Sexual and Reproductive Rights (Legal, Policy and Programme Issues- financing, equity, access, implementation, enforcement and redress)

- Sexual Orientation, Sexual/Gender Identity and Sexual and Reproductive Rights

- Capacity building and Knowledge Management

Desired Outcomes
- Alliance building, capacity enhancement and learning exchange for improved Policy, Legal and Programme management on sexual and reproductive rights.
- To disseminate relevant international declarations, charters and guidelines to civil society organizations to enhance their role in promoting sexual and reproductive rights.
- To plan and conduct a communications strategy, around the conference in order to produce dialogue on issues of sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights.
- To produce a conference technical report/publication that can be publicized for use by various institutions working in the field of sexual and reproductive rights.

Expected Participants
The conference is expected to be attended by policy makers, civil society organisations, academia, educationists, media, development activists, sexual health and rights advocates, women, girls, adolescents and youth. The conference offers a unique opportunity to further seek ways of mobilizing actions for improved understanding of sexuality and promotion of sexual health and well-being of all peoples on the African continent.

Conference Host
Namibia Planned Parenthood Association
P.O. Box 10936
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 230250
Fax: +264 61 230251
Email: conference@africasexuality.org
www.nappa.com.na

Relational Selves and Families in Medicine: Gender Perspectives

Conference Dec 10-12, 2012, Linköping, Sweden

In many cases, there is only one patient in the patient-health care professional encounter. This, however, is not always the case. As some examples, two individuals may seek medical assistance in order to conceive a child together and more individuals may be involved if a sibling donates egg or sperm to a family-member and her/his partner.

Many other examples can be given of encounters and treatments that involve more than one patient and one health care professional. When the patient is a minor child, parent(s) may face difficult treatment decisions as regards medical treatment for their children. If two parents are involved in the decision, they may not always agree on what is the best treatment for their child. And what say does the child have in terms of treatments? As yet another example, cases of sibling organ donation where a sibling donates an organ to a brother or sister highlight how intimately family members can become involved in each other’s medical treatment. Finally, the topic of families in medicine can be pertinent in relation to aging and health care needs in later life, where relatives can become thoroughly involved in this care and where gender roles can feed into this care work.

Still, comparably little attention has been given to the role of families in medical encounters, treatment decisions, care work and illness experiences.

The aim of the conference

Relational selves and families in medicine: Gender Perspectives is to bring together scholars who examine the role of extended families, parents, siblings, children, and close friends in medicine, and this with a gender perspective. We welcome contributions from scholars with interdisciplinary and various disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences and the humanities. We specially invite contributions that focus on (but are not limited to):

Assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, egg-, sperm- and embryo donation, adoption and other ways of becoming parents

The welfare of the child in medicine

Conceptions and norms of parenthood in medicine

Corrective measures: what is ‘corrected’ and why, in children’s and teen-agers’ bodies?

Ageing and care in later life

- Relational conceptions of selves and relational autonomy

- The interplay between self and others, and how this can inform the illness experience as well as experiences of hope, strength and health.

Registration

Deadline for registration is October 15, 2012. Conference fee (100 Euro) covers one conference abstract booklet, coffee in pauses and one conference dinner. Register by sending an e-mail to conference.genderandhealth@gmail.com in which you state name, affiliation, allergies/food preferences. The conference fee is to be submitted using one of the alternatives below.

Participants with a Swedish bank account: Please use the account Bankgiro 743-8609 (Danske Bank). The reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Participants with an international bank account: Please use the account: 8901-1 924 339 671-1. Address: Swedbank, S-105 34 Stockholm, Sweden, BIC: SWEDSESS, IBAN: SE34 8000 0890 1192 4339 6711. Please note that the reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Any questions and enquiries can be sent to conference: genderandhealth@gmail.com

3rd International Conference on Survivors of Rape

The Third International Conference on Survivors of Rape (ICSoR) is a two day conference which will be held on November 9th and 10th 2012, with a seminar day taking place on Thursday the 8th, in the West of Ireland, city of Galway. Your hosts are the Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI).

We believe this year's conference, building on the strong foundations of previous conferences, can deepen our understanding of how to meet survivor needs with a sustained and robust multiagency approach.

RCNI are keen to make this conference a platform for learning, building up of relationships and research partnerships, which contribute to our shared international evidence base in responding to sexual violence.

This conference is of relevance to medical practitioners, psychotherapists, counsellors, advocates, police, legal and judical professionals, policy makers, academics and researchers, specialist nursing practitioners, public representatives, activists and others.

The conference themes for ICSoR 2012 are:

How to create and sustain effective multiagency working, more

New approaches to identifying and meeting survivor needs, more

Responding to survivors of rape's medical and forensic needs, more

Effective and ethical recording and use of data on prevalence, perpetrators and survivors of rape, more

The role of those responding to survivors of rape in primary prevention, more

The role of alcohol in rape, more

Supporting a survivor of rape engaging in the criminal justice process, more

Contact Us

Email: events@rcni.ie

Postal
Rape Crisis Network Ireland, The Halls, Quay Street, Galway, Republic of Ireland

Phone: 00 353 91 563676

Fax: 00 353 91 563677

Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health 2012 National Conference

“Creating a Culture of Healthy Sexuality: Shaping the Future”

Featuring a Track on Diagnosing and Treating Women and Sex Addiction

September 19-22, 2012 San Antonio, Texas

19th International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress

November 14-16, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

The International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress is held every 2 years. Previous Congress has been held is Sao Pedro, Sao Pau, Brazil (2004). Sidney , Australia (2006), Gaborone, Botswana (2008), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2010), we are pleased to announce that the 19th International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 14th November – 16th November 2012.

The Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University (MU), Thailand and The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) are proud to present the 19th ICOWHI Congress on "Women's Health 2012: Partnering for a Brighter Global Future". The Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University was founded under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Sripatcharintra, the Queen of King Rama V, as the first nursing school in Thailand in 1896. Historically, the Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University has long had a vital role in improving people' health status and promote their quality of life, while establishing a network for education and research at national and international levels.

The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women throughout the world through participation, education, and research. It serves as a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates of those committed to improving women's health and quality of life. The ICOWHI Congress is held every 2 years.

Possible themes:

Partnerships, Collaborations, and Opportunities to Promote Women’s Health
Law and Policy for future Women’s Health
Cross cultural & Indigenous Women’s Health
Women & Chronic illness
Women & Child Health Issues
Women & Healthy aging
Women’s Health in urban and rural areas
Social Transitions & Fostering women and girls’ safety and health
Trafficking & Violence against women

Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University, 2 Phrannok Road, Bangkok 10700. THAILAND
http://www.ns.mahidol.ac.th
Phone: (662) 419 7466-80
Fax: (662) 412 8415
E-mail: nsicowhi2012@diamond.mahidol.ac.th

15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH15)

August 5-10, 2012 Fairbanks, Alaska

Through the ICCH, the International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH) promotes exchange of the health-related knowledge and discussion of recent research results between scientists, health care professionals, policy analysts, government agency representatives, and community leaders for the benefit of all humankind.

Preliminary Scientifc Program Themes:

The North: Unique Land and Social Environment
Anthropology, demography, genetics, housing, infrastructure, health service, delivery, climate change, health impacts, etc.
History of Circumpolar Health
The International Polar Year legacy, evolution of public health organizations in the North, etc.
Research in the Circumpolar North
Indigenous research and ethics, community participatory research methods, building research capacity, etc.
Social Determinants of Health
Social justice, education, health promotion, social marketing, health and social well-being, etc.
Healthy Families
Family health and well-being, women’s health, men’s health, child health, etc.
Nutrition and Food Security
Traditional diets, factors affecting food security, the politics of food, climate change for food
Behavioral Health
Suicide, addictions, holistic and other healing community programs, etc.
Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health
Water and sanitation issues, successful occupational health programs, etc.
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention in the North
Chronic Diseases
Cancer, diabetes, obesity, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis, hepatitis, H. pylori, HPV, etc.

Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research

Montréal, Canada on October 29-31, 2012

The conference will explore advances in our understandings of how sex and gender influence the health of women, men, and people of diverse gender identities over the lifespan. It will showcase excellence across the full scope of health research, from cell to society, offering a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and exchange. The conference will feature dynamic presentations on new discoveries and innovative interventions, interactive poster sessions, lively discussions and valuable networking opportunities with leaders in the field.

The conference is open to all researchers, policy-makers, health care providers, non-governmental organizations, students and others with a shared interest in gender, sex and health. While there are no single agreed-upon definitions of “gender” or “sex,” it is fairly common to associate gender with socially constructed roles, relationships, behaviours, relative power, and other traits that societies ascribe to women, men and people of diverse gender identities. Gender has multiple dimensions, including but not limited to gender roles, gender identities, gender relations and institutionalized gender. We tend to think of gender in binary terms (e.g., masculine/feminine) but it is more appropriate to think of gender as existing on a spectrum because of the broad range of gender identities and expressions.

Sex is typically understood to refer to the biological and physiological characteristics that distinguish females from males. Like gender, it is a multi-dimensional construct that encompasses characteristics such as hormones, genes, anatomy and physiology. We also tend to think of sex in binary terms (e.g., male/female) yet considerable diversity exists in sex (e.g., variation in hormone levels, chromosomal differences, etc.).

While gender and sex are interrelated sex does not determine gender, nor does gender determine sex. For example, someone born female might have a masculine gender identity. Together gender and sex play an important role in determining health experiences, access to care, and treatment outcomes.

Conference streams will include:

Theoretical and methodological innovations
Promising interventions
Emerging areas
Integrating both gender and sex in health research
Health and social inequities
The biology of sex and health

Who should attend:

The conference will be ideal for: all researchers, policy-makers, health care providers, non-governmental organizations, students, and other stakeholders and individuals who share an interest in how gender and sex influence health.

Conference venue:

Hilton Montréal Bonaventure
900 de la Gauchetière Street West
Montréal, Québec, Canada

For further information, please contact:

Louisa Davis
Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research Conference
c/o PRIME
475 – 425 Carrall Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6B 6E3
Telephone: +1 604 689 3446 ext 456
Email: Louisa.Davis@pr1me.ca

www.genderandhealthconference.com

3rd International Congress on Abdominal Obesity

July 9-12, 2012 Québec City, Québec, Canada

The 3rd International Congress on Abdominal Obesity (ICAO 2012) is a highly anticipated event that will build on the success of last year’s Congress, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Congress’s primary objective is to bring together medical professionals from all specialties to exchange ideas and information and raise awareness of abdominal obesity as a new modifiable risk factor which, along with traditional risk factors, plays a central role in this new concept of global cardiometabolic risk.

This relatively new Congress’s innovative multidisciplinary approach has facilitated the development of a new medical paradigm, whereby complications as hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are no longer evaluated and treated in isolation.

We look forward to seeing you in Québec City, Québec, Canada, for what promises to be an exciting and cutting edge gathering of medical professionals of varied interests and backgrounds.

Abstract Topics

Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Adipokines
Adipose Tissue
Cardiometabolic Risk
Cardiovascular Disease
Childhood Obesity
Clinical Cardiology
Clinical Trials
Diabetes
Ectopic Fat
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Gender Differences
Genetics
Hypertension
Inflammation
Insulin Resistance
Interventional Cardiology
Lipids/Lipoproteins
Metabolic Syndrome
Nutrition
Obesity
Pathophysiology/Basic Science/Animal Studies
Pathophysiology/Clinical Science/Human Studies
Physical Activity/Exercise
Prevention
Smoking
Steroid Hormones
Thrombosis

Contact Us

Kenes International
1-3 Rue de Chantepoulet
PO Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 906 9140
Email: icao@kenes.com

Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association

17-20 July 2012, Canberra, Australia

The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association.

The field of auto/biography and life narrative studies is dynamic and interdisciplinary. Founded in 1999, the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) is the leading international forum for scholars, critics and practitioners. The Framing Lives conference will feature distinguished international speakers and events at the National Portrait Gallery and other national collecting institutions.

Framing Lives draws attention to the extraordinary turn to the visual in contemporary life narrative: to graphics and animations, photographs and portraits, installations and performances, avatars and characters, that come alive on screens, stages, pages, and canvas, through digital and analogue technologies. At the same time, framing suggests the ways that lives are lived, recorded and viewed through multiple frames including those of language, politics, place, gender, history and culture. It draws attention to the multiple ‘I’s of auto/biographical representations now, and the various fields of vision, lines of sight, and points of focus for critics, artists, writers, historians and curators in the life worlds of auto/biography. Conference themes include depiction and display, ethics and rights, living archives, place and displacement, media and celebrity, digital identity and social media, and creative life narrative.

Convenors

Paul Arthur (Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University)
Rosanne Kennedy (Associate Professor and Head of Discipline, Gender Sexuality & Culture, Australian National University)
Gillian Whitlock (ARC Professorial Fellow, School of English, Media Studies & Art History, University of Queensland)

Conference Themes

1. Depiction and display

Histories and analyses of visual representations of lives
Lives as art, including portraiture, sculpture, photography, film and new media
The life of objects and things in storytelling
Curating online collections
Adaptation and remediation
Eavesdropping and voyeurism
Framing, filtering, capturing, exposing, colouring lives
Digitisation, simulation, authenticity

2. Ethics and rights

Human rights, privacy, advocacy, law
Rights of biographical subjects
Trauma, grief and testimony
Editing and ethics
Disability, illness, therapy and recovery in life narrative
Environmental biography
Posthuman lives
Gender and sexuality
Secrets and lies

3. Living archives

The archive within: genetics, genomics, neurology, emotions
Archival legacies: remembering and forgetting
Managing archival material: methodologies, policies, selection, metadata
Oral history theory and practice
Life story consent, copyright, constraints
Preserving ephemera
Institutional partnerships
Transnational archives
Transgenerational archives

4. Place and displacement

Translating ‘life’ and lives across cultures and languages
Indigenous lives
Diasporic lives
Immigrant lives
Transnational lives
Minoritarian life narrative
Genealogies
Witnessing publics

5. Media and celebrity

Press, radio, television, film and music biographies
The media as biographer
Creating notoriety
The changing nature of fame
Collective memory and biography
Refashioning identity: bodies in the media
Confessional modes in public life
Obituaries

6. Digital identity and social media

Cyberlives
Auto/graphics
Social media audiences
Digital relationships, communities, intimacy
Epistolarity before and after email
Avatars, animation, machinima
Transfigured bodies
Pocket lives: iPhone, iPad, Android, apps

7. Creative life narrative

New hybrid forms of life narrative
Approaches to constructing the autobiographical self
Memoirs, journals, diaries, reflections
Autoethnography
Scholarship versus creative practice
Fantasy lives
Personal journeys
Digital storytelling

International Federation on Ageing 11th Global Conference on Ageing

28 May - 1 June 2012 Prague Czech Republic

Ageing Connects - IFA 11th Global Conference will take place at an important juncture in the largest demographic upheaval in the world’s history: globalisation, urbanisation and population ageing.

Be part of this historical event by registering your interest now

Older people and development; health and well being; enabling environments and connected technologies are the themes through which delegates, sponsors and partner are linked across this ‘must be seen at’ global event.

Conference Goal and Objectives

The IFA 11th Global Conference on Ageing entitled ‘Ageing Connects” aims to have a positive impact on age-related policy and practice globally with particular interest in contributing to the dialogue in the Czech Republic and its region of Eastern Europe and the neighbouring region of Central Asia.

Specific conference objectives are:

To improve the capacity of delegates to introduce, implement, and advocate for effective, age-related policies and practices in their communities, countries and regions.
To influence leaders, including key policy makers, to increase their commitment to gender and age sensitive, evidence-based and human rights-based programs.
To serve as an accountability and feedback mechanism for those engaged at various levels on the response to ageing policy.
To improve public awareness of the impact of age discrimination and the need for responses to this stigmatization through the media and other means.
To improve understanding of the connection between human rights and the productivity and independence of older people.
To improve understanding of the relationship between the policy responses to global health, human rights, workplace priorities and development priorities among key stakeholders in these distinct fields.
To provide opportunities for multi-stakeholder dialogue in creative solutions to unresolved challenges in research and implementation of specific ageing policies and programmes.

Contact

Conference Host
Život 90
Mr. Jan Lorman, Director
Karolíny Světlé 18, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 222 333 530
Email: jan.lorman@zivot90.cz

PhDr. Daniela Retková
Karolíny Světlé 18, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 222 333 559
Email: Daniela.Retkova@zivot90.cz

Professional Congress Organizer
GUARANT International spol. s r.o.
Ms. Jitka Puldová, Project Manager
Opletalova 22, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 284 001 444
Email: puldova@guarant.cz
Fax: +420 284 001 448

Ms. Kristýna Mazánková, Sponsorship Manager
Opletalova 22, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 284 001 444
Email: mazankova@guarant.cz
Fax: +420 284 001 448

International Federation on Ageing
Dr. Jane Barratt, Secretary General
351 Christie Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 3C3, Canada
Email: jbarratt@ifa-fiv.org
Website: www.ifa-fiv.org