1. EndoSRN is now SEEN

Thank you to everyone who submitted name ideas for the network’s new name.

Mie Kusk Søndergaard came up with the winning name and acronym:  SEEN – Social SciencE Endometriosis Network

EndoNet was the next runner up.  With the acronym SEEN reflecting the network’s aim to use the social sciences and humanities to help make people with endometriosis and their concerns more visible, we’ll think you’ll agree it really suits!

2. Save the Date: ‘Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures’ – July 6^th & 7^th Birmingham, UK

We have won one of the very competitive and prestigious British Academy Conference funding awards to hold, ‘Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures’

To our knowledge, this will be the first academic conference to bring together UK and internationally based endometriosis social science and humanities researchers alongside, and in conversation with, prominent (bio)medical researchers, third sector representatives and independent researchers and authors.

Save the dates: July 6^th & 7^th, Birmingham City University, UK

Booking info will shortly be listed on the British Academy website and we will email the network to ensure you have first access to the booking link as we believe this will be a very popular event.

Tickets: £40 per day/ £20 per day for students/unwaged

Just some of the confirmed speakers/moderators include:

• Dr Cara E Jones, California State University, Gender, Disability and Queer Studies
• Prof Emeritus Elaine Denny, Birmingham City University, Sociology of medicine, pain and gender
• Dr Elinor Cleghorn Author Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine & Myth in a Man-Made World
• Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, History of medicine, technology and disability
• Karen Havelin Author of Please Read this Leaflet Carefully
• Assoc Professor Kate Seear, La Trobe University Sociology, Gender Studies and the Law
• Lauren Renee Kornegay, founder/CEO of Black Endo Incorporated
• Professor Nicky Hudson, Director of Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University
• Dr Michell Chresfield, Cornell University, History of medicine, science, race and gender
• Nikita A Chadha, Author & Activist/ Cysters
• Dr Rizwana Roomaney, Stellenbosch University, Health Psychology
• Dr Sharon Dixon, University of Oxford, GP and Medical Sociology and Patient Health Experiences
• Dr Stella Bullo, Linguist, The Language of Endometriosis