2025

Book Launch: IT'S A JOURNEY

The launch of IT'S A JOURNEY, a groundbreaking graphic medicine book that beautifully intertwines the visual narrative of graphic design with the rigor of medical knowledge, exploring the profound experiences of gender diverse individuals living with endometriosis.

Date: 15 January

Speakers: ASIEL, Maddalena Giacomozzi

 

Health Activism as Life Support

How can grassroots activism in Nicaragua's sugarcane zone illuminate the broader concept of "life support" in planetary health? Anthropologist Alexander Nading explored this in his public lecture.

Date: 20 February

Speaker: Dr. Alex Nading

 

Academic Podcasting: A Hands-on Workshop for SSGH Members

The Centre for Social Science and Global Health organized a one-day podcast workshop on 13 March designed to showcase the research of our members in an engaging audio format. Led by professional podcast maker Sander de Heer, this workshop went beyond interviews to help researchers transform academic work into compelling audio stories.

Date: 13 March

Speaker: Sander de Heer

 

The Future of Birth and Midwifery

On 7 May, Professor Barbara Katz Rothman, a renowned sociologist who has been a midwifery and homebirth advocate since the eighties, visited the Centre for Social Science and Global Health and lent her expertise to researchers who wanted to present their work and discuss the future of midwifery and birth work together.

Date: 7 May
Speaker: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman

 

Social Sciences and Global Health speed-dating event

Would you like to get to know social scientists and humanities scholars in other departments who work on health? Find out how colleagues engage with, and relate to, health & well-being? What projects and grant applications people work on? What keeps people going? Identify possible synergies? These questions and more were explored during this short and sweet speed-dating event.

Date: 12 May

 

Ëconeêrã - Wuasikamas Education, ‘medicines’ that heal the Earth

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy and Ana Cristina Rodríguez Muñoz are two Inga community leaders from the Piedemonte Andino-Amazónico region in Colombia. They presented the process “Ëconêêrã – Wuasikamas,” a decolonial education initiative that seeks to imagine new ways of thinking and acting to foster global healing and care. This conversation explored an ecological approach to education, centered on listening, positionality, and interdisciplinary engagement.

Date: 15 May
Speakers: Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Ana Cristina Rodríguez Muñoz 

 

Exploring Disability Worlds

A symposium celebrating the launch of the book Disability Worlds by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, a powerful exploration of disability, kinship, and community-making in the U.S. context.

Date: 17 June
Speakers: Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp, Leonie Dronkert, Annerienke Fioole, Patrick McKearney, Annekatrin Skeide, Jeannette Pols

 

Stop-Motion Co-Animation as a Participatory Method

This workshop was designed for researchers and practitioners seeking innovative, participatory methods to engage with youth. It introduced Stop-Motion Co-Animation, a collaborative animation technique that enables participants to express their perspectives in a creative and interactive way.

Date: 19 June

Speaker: Butet Manurung

 

Arrested Mobility in the Cycling Capital: Exploring Equity and Belonging in Amsterdam’s Bicycle Paradise

Lecture by Charles T. Brown

Amsterdam is often held up as a shining example of bicycle-friendly urban design. But even in this celebrated city of cycling, not all residents experience the same freedom of movement.

Date: 5 September

Speaker: Charles T. Brown

 

How do we do justice to the term “reproductive justice"?

Activist Workshop by Khiara Bridges

This workshop invited scholars from the social sciences, humanities and law, as well as Dutch perinatal care practitioners to discuss the ways in which we can best use the notion of reproductive justice respectfully and effectively in academic research; and how our reproductive justice research can effectively be translated into action.

Date: 26 September
Speakers: prof. Khiara Bridges, dr. Kim Sigmund, Nicole Moran, Mara Clarke, Syllona Kanu, Etiennette Coster

 

Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

SSGH Public Lecture by Dr. Khiara Bridges

In this lecture, UC Berkeley Law Professor and Anthropologist Khiara Bridges explored the SSHG theme of “unhealthy cities” through a chapter about the city of San Francisco, USA from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Expecting Inequity. This ethnography is about class-privileged pregnant black people in San Francisco and their attempts to purchase an exit from obstetric racism.

Date: 26 September

Speaker: prof. Khiara Bridges

 

Speed Dating for Researchers in the Social and Health Sciences

SSGH Networking Event

This informal networking event was open to students, early-career and senior researchers, in social sciences and humanities, working on the theme of health.

Date: 3 December