Friday, April 14, 2023 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM EDT
Online Location, TBA
Increasing attention is being given to the ways in which imperialism/colonialism has silenced and suppressed the knowledge of countless peoples, distorting the fields of inquiry and practice informing global health policy and practice, and continuing to perpetuate injustices. This one-day conference is dedicated to methodologies aimed at making reparations, and in particular, epistemic reparations needed for realizing global health justice. Epistemic reparations can be understood as “intentionally reparative actions in the form of epistemic goods given to those epistemically wronged by parties who acknowledge these wrongs and whose reparative actions are intended to redress them” (Lackey forthcoming, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association). We bring together scholars, practitioners, and artists to help address such questions as: What specific methodologies can we use in pursuing greater global health equity/justice to identify and integrate knowledge resources that may be less visible, or have been damaged or diminished due to historical and current injustice? For example: how can we both use and be critical of long-accepted methods in fields like epidemiology, economics, and philosophy that were generated and developed in a context of injustice?; how can we show value of and access information from community-based publications which don’t surface in academic databases and lit searches? How can we gain knowledge from aid recipients in humanitarian response? How might we learn from migrants about the conditions that threaten their health? What are the potential pitfalls of proposed methodologies? Why might this endeavor fail and how might we avoid that?".
There is additionally a graduate student workshop within the online conference that will take place from 1:15pm to 2:45pm.
Conference details can be found here.
Additional details will be posted as they become available. Please contact Lisa Eckenwiler with questions.
