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CFP: HEALTH AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER 29-30 2010&#62; We would like to direct your attention to the following call for papers:&#62; CFP: Health and Governance in Africa&#62; Stanford University, October 29-30 2010&#62; What are the links between the provision and distribution of health in&#62; Africa and economic changes, political reform, and transnational&#62; connections, in contemporary and historical frames? This conference seeks&#62; to foster conversation between scholars, policy experts, and practitioners&#62; that will address change and continuity in the relationship between health&#62; and governance in Africa.&#62;&#62; 2009 saw the launch of the Pan-African Clinical Trials Registry, an attempt&#62; to promote transparency in the growing field of medical research in&#62; Africa. Such trials at once provide some standard of health care while&#62; posing challenging ethical and political questions. In 2006, 17 people&#62; died and over 80,000 sought medical attention in the Ivory Coast when 500&#62; tons of toxic waste were dumped in the country by a Panamanian ship turned&#62; away from Amsterdam. In 1901 the colonial administration of Lagos adopted&#62; a policy of racial segregation in an attempt to fight malaria and in the&#62; 1940s, to the same ends, they remade the city's landscape by draining its&#62; marshes as part of the War effort.&#62;&#62; These examples make clear the extent to which health issues in Africa are&#62; and have long been thoroughly intertwined with questions of government and&#62; the state, political economy and the environment. In order to explore this&#62; complex terrain, we have four core questions:&#62;&#62; -How are health and illness understood, debated, and achieved by different&#62; actors and agencies operating at local, national, and transnational&#62; scales?&#62; -How are circulations of drugs and illness, doctors and aid, capital and&#62; patents managed by citizens, patients, policy makers and health&#62; practitioners?&#62; -How does health become a site in which the boundaries between the state,&#62; the population, the body, NGOs, multinational corporations, and&#62; international development institutions are negotiated?&#62; -How are these developments historically produced and what are their&#62; effects on the provision of health care?&#62;&#62; Stanford's Student Forum for African Studies invites submissions for&#62; 15-minute presentations or papers from a wide range of disciplines -&#62; anthropology, environmental studies, engineering, history, legal studies,&#62; medicine and public health, political science, psychology, science&#62; studies, sociology - that touch on the above questions. Submissions could&#62; address broad trends or specific cases. Potential panel topics include:&#62;&#62; -Security, conflict, and humanitarianism&#62; -Ecology, land use, and urban planning&#62; -Histories of colonial and postcolonial public health&#62; -Informal economies of care&#62; -Health as a public good&#62; -Climate change, pollution, and public health&#62; -Access to clean water and sanitation&#62; -Migration, mobility, and displacement&#62; -Mental health and psycho-social well being&#62; -Gender, sexuality, and reproductive health&#62; -Labor and personnel in medical infrastructure&#62; -Customary law&#62; -Legal struggles for the human right to health&#62; -Political mobilizations around treatment&#62; -Medical pluralism&#62; -Privatization of health services&#62; -Injuries, accidents, and occupational health&#62; -Nutrition and food security&#62;&#62; Abstracts or descriptions of the presentations, posters, or papers should&#62; be no longer than 250 words and should include your name, email address&#62; and telephone number, as well as your university and department&#62; affiliations. Eligibility: Although we strongly encourage graduate&#62; students, we also welcome submissions from undergraduates, professionals,&#62; post-doctoral researchers, lecturers, professors, activists, and&#62; practitioners. Papers and presentations on related topics in all&#62; disciplines and from all institutions, programs and organizations will be&#62; considered.&#62;&#62; Deadlines&#62; abstracts: August 1, 2010&#62; papers/detailed outlines for discussants: October 19, 2010&#62;&#62; Abstracts or descriptions may be sent via email to:&#62; stanfordfas@gmail.com&#60;mailto:stanfordfas@gmail.com&#62;&#62; (Link: stanfordfas@gmail.com&#60;mailto:stanfordfas@gmail.com&#62; )&#62;&#62; Info:&#62; http://www.stanford.edu/group/sfas/Conference.html (Link:&#62; http://www.stanford.edu/group/sfas/Conference.html )