Full program

Follow this link to access the conference program.

The Program Booklet and Book of Abstracts can be downloaded here as PDF files.

The Program Booklet will be given to you as hard copy in the conference bag and there is no need to print it out. If you have pre-ordered the Book of Abstracts, you will also find it in their conference bags.

Meet our fantastic 2023 keynote speakers

Rudolf Virchow Lecture: Jeremy Greene, Johns Hopkins University

Julia Irwin, University of South Florida

Britt Kramvig, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Guillaume Lachenal, Sciences Po

Thanks to our local sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council through the research project Biomedicalization from the Inside Out (BIO). The BIO project explores the changing (and political) use of biomedical frameworks to explain nature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Within this project, researchers have examined the instruments, technologies, and practices associated with (bio)medicalization. This investigation has been carried out across three empirical fields that are traditionally considered "border zones" of biomedical practice, where these processes have had particular social effect and importance: 1) the history of transgender care, 2) the history of substance use care, 3) the history of psychiatric diagnoses in the courtroom. Across these fields, the project has charted the history of the social medicine discipline, which has historically adopted a biosocial approach to health and illness. BIO is transnational and interdisciplinary, combining historical investigation with cognate fields in the medical humanities and the social sciences. The project has actively engaged with activists, patient/user groups, policymakers, researchers, and clinicians.

We are also grateful for support from UiO:Life Science, The Science Studies Colloquium and the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health at UiO.