Call for Papers: POUR LE PREMIER COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ICARES – POUR UNE APPROCHE INTÉGRATIVE DE LA SANTÉ PERSPECTIVES CROISÉES EN SHS

Date: Thursday 28 and Friday 29 November 2024 Location: Montpellier, Site Saint-Charles. UPVM Application deadline: Saturday 15 June 2024 Too often focused on the search for a single cause and a simple, technical solution to the problem – such as the discovery of a new treatment – we sometimes overlook the complex, systemic and multiscalar…

Congress: 18th Vaccine Congress

Date: 8-11 September 2024 Location: Altis Grand Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal Link: https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/all/vaccine-congress Organized by Vaccine (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vaccine), the premier journal for those interested in vaccine science, the congress will bring together leading experts from all over the world to share the latest cutting-edge discoveries in the field. Join us to present your own research, as well…

Event: Infodemics, vaccination and anthropological theories – International workshop

Date: July, 1, 2024, 10.00 – 18.00 Location: Amphithéâtre Jaurès,  29 rue d’Ulm (entrée par la loge 24 rue Lhomond), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris In February 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting, the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the uncertainty about this new disease would produce an “infodemics”,…

Conference: XVIIIe colloque de l’Association Internationale des criminologues de Langue Française – Du double mouvement de “complotisation” des hésitations et défiances vaccinales à l’ère de la Covid19 en France : Entre récupérations opportunistes et assignations disqualifiantes

Link to the website: https://www.aiclf2024.net/ Date: 22 May 2024 Location: Université de Liège This presentation will show how certain conspiracy theorists (opportunistic recuperations) and ‘anti-conspi’ activists (disqualifying assignments) have contributed to the emergence in the media of the monolithic and reductive figure of the ‘irrational conspiracy Antivax’, even though vaccine defiance and hesitation are plural…

Call for papers: Les Doctoriales en Sciences Sociales de l’Eau – 7th edition

Every 18 to 24 months, the Doctoriales en Sciences Sociales de l’Eau (DSSE) aims to bring together and unite the French-speaking community of young researchers working on water issues in the humanities and social sciences (geography, ethnology, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, political science, law, etc.). The event includes plenary lectures by guest speakers, parallel…

Publication: Health Literacy and Health Care System Confidence as Determinants of Attitudes to Vaccines in France: Representative Cross-Sectional Study

Khoury G, Ward J, Mancini J, Gagneux-Brunon A, Luong Nguyen L. Health Literacy and Health Care System Confidence as Determinants of Attitudes to Vaccines in France: Representative Cross-Sectional Study, JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e45837, DOI: 10.2196/45837 Abstract Background:Health literacy involves individuals’ knowledge, personal skills, and confidence to take action to evaluate and appraise health-related information…

Conference: MARC BLOCH SCHOOL OF LECTURES ‘Investigating the frontiers of epidemics: science, history, social sciences’.

Location and date: 21 May 2024, at 5pm – Campus Condorcet Centre de colloques, Auditorium 150 Aubervilliers Registration link (Open to all, followed by a cocktail reception) : https://formulaires.demarches.ehess.fr/com/conference-d-anne-rasmussen-enquetes-aux-frontieres-des-epidemies-sciences-histoire-sciences-sociales/ Anne Rasmussen, historian at EHESS and director of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CAK), will be giving a lecture on Tuesday 21 May 2024 at 5pm at the…

Call for Projects: Priority Research Program and Equipment for Emerging Infectious Diseases

https://anrs.fr/fr/financements/tous-les-appels-a-projets/appel-a-projets-2024-du-programme-et-equipements-prioritaires-de-recherche-maladies-infectieuses-emergentes Strand 3 of the Call for Projects ‘Priority Research Programme and Equipment’ Emerging Infectious Diseases (PEPR MIE) specifically targets SHS and public health and is entitled ‘Enabling public policies and society to cope with epidemic crises’. It is structured around the following three areas, examples of which are given in the text of the…