An exciting start to 2024! January’s Social SciencEs Endometriosis Network newsletter includes two callouts for social science endometriosis research, a congratulations to SEEN members whose research has made headlines (‘Patient experiences of being advised by a healthcare professional to get pregnant to manage or treat endometriosis’), and more…
Submission Calls:
· Conference papers: Endometriosis (Revolution): Making the Invisible Visible, May 2024, Austria (Feb 1st deadline)
· Chapters for edited volume & future special issue journal, Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures (Feb 29th deadline)
Latest Research
- SEEN members’ research on makes headlines! See: ‘Outdated pseudoscience’: women still being told having a baby will cure endometriosis’
- Publication Highlights
Membership Matters
- Reminder- SEEN launches website with (free) Members’ Directory
Submission Calls:
Call for Papers: Endometriosis (R)evolution: Making the Invisible Visible
May 23, 2024 – May 24, 2024
University of Graz, Austria
This interdisciplinary conference aims to gather scholars from different fields who are able to offer a contemporary view on the medical, social, and cultural realities of endometriosis. The goal is to represent work which deals with the deconstruction of medical gender-bias and cultural taboos which directly affect the treatment, care, and life experiences of those affected by endometriosis.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- The effect of gender-bias in medicine on treatment received by endometriosis patients
- Endometriosis and quality of life
- Endometriosis activism
- Endometriosis representation in the media, popular culture, and the arts
- Menstruation, taboo, and hysteria
- Endometriosis and the LGBTQ+ community
- Endometriosis and menopause
- Endometriosis in a historical framework
We are accepting proposals for panels (maximum three papers per panel). We are also accepting proposals for interactive workshops (creative writing, arts and activism are welcomed topics).
Submission deadline: February 1. 2024
Please find attached a detailed call for papers which features further details about the academic context of the conference, the topics we are interested in exploring, deadlines, as well as information on the keynote speaker and the art exhibition that will open the conference.
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Alekszandra Rokvity, MA (she/her)
PhD Researcher
In/Visible Endometriosis: Menstruation, Menopause, and Narrative Medicine
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care
University of Graz, Schubertstraße 23/1, 8010 Graz, Austria
+43 (0)316 380 – 3674
*Please circulate widely* (Call attached) Building on the success of the British Academy-Wellcome Trust conference, ‘Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures,’ we are excited to announce this invitation for chapter proposal submissions for an edited volume. Note: an additional, separate proposed special issue in a medical journal announcement is forthcoming (see more info below). Background: Endometriosis is a common yet poorly understood condition. In recent years, failures in diagnosis and treatment are increasingly highlighted in media and academic discourse as emblematic of gender biases in health and medical research. The remerging field of critical menstruation studies also revitalised scholarly interest in the condition. This timely edited volume will be the first to bring together social science and humanities perspectives, alongside and in conversation with, (bio)medical and patient advocate perspectives, on endometriosis. It will focus on practices of exclusion in past and present approaches to endometriosis, as well as potential inclusive futures to address the ongoing inertia around care improvement. See full submission details attached To receive the forthcoming separate proposed special issue in a medical journal call, please contactsocialendonet@gmail.com or annalise.weckesser@bcu.ac.uk. |
Publication & Media Highlights
SEEN members’ research on makes headlines!
The Guardian (see ‘Outdated pseudoscience’: women still being told having a baby will cure endometriosis’) and other media outlets highlighted findings from the paper, Patient experiences of being advised by a healthcare professional to get pregnant to manage or treat endometriosis: a cross-sectional study, published this past December in BMC Women’s Health. The study is from the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute and was conducted in collaboration with EndoActive Australia & NZ and U of Sydney researchers. Congratulations to the whole team for this important study, which not only evidenced how over half of study participants were advised to ‘get pregnant’ to manage or treat their condition, but also the impact of such advice on patients.
Additional publication highlights:
- The lived experiences of endometriosis in adolescence-A critical hermeneutic perspective by Nielsen, et al. (2023)
- Endometriosis on campus: How students manage their pain and academics by Chaikof, J, & Newton-Francis, M. (2024)
- Closing the Women’s Health Gap: A 1 Trillion Dollar Opportunity to Improve Lives and EconomiesMcKinsey Health Institute (2024)
Did we miss any publications?
Include recent publications in next newsletter, email: annalise.weckesser@bcu.ac.uk
Membership Matters
SEEN has a website! We listened to the membership and ensured the website has a free Members’ Directory so that you can connect with fellow endometriosis researchers across the world. To join and have your listing reviewed for approval/inclusion click here: JOIN NOW
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