Wykład dr Terezy Hendl: Addressing the gaps: Where is Eastern Europe in global health research?, 9 kwietnia 2025, godz. 16.45

Zapraszamy na wykład, który wygłosi goszcząca na naszym Wydziale w ramach stypendium EACME  dr Tereza Hendl (Uniwersytet w Augsburgu), pt. Addressing the gaps: Where is Eastern Europe in global health research?

Wykład odbędzie się 9 kwietnia 2025, o godz. 16.45, w sali 108.

Wykład odbędzie się w ramach zajęć prowadzonych na naszym Wydziale, ma jednak charakter otwarty dla wszystkich pracowników_ic i studentów_ek naszego Wydziału.

Abstrakt

Europe’s East has been almost invisible in debates on global health. On the rare occasions, when the region was discussed, it has largely been done through Western-dominating perspectives and Russia-centric frameworks. These debates have not only come short of accounting for some of the major social determinants of health and wellbeing in the Eastern parts of Europe, such as the ongoing and intertwined legacies of German and Russian imperialism and extractivism, but commonly contributed to their disregarding, minimising and enabling. Moreover, these debates have often theorised the region through negative tropes and stereotypes, including racializing and hierarchizing narratives. Symptomatically, this scholarship has rarely meaningfully engaged with Europe’s East as a site of knowledge production, resulting in epistemically unjust re-presentations of the region and its health concerns. In response, this talk will argue that an incorporation of Europe’s East into global health debates is needed, yet crucially, in non-extractivist, historically and materially informed, epistemically just and ethically sound ways. This shift is not only warranted in order to fill major epistemic gaps, but also to address persistent European East-West (health) inequalities in ways that will support the agency and health benefit of populations in the Eastern parts of the European continent under their own leadership.

Sylwetka gościni

Tereza Hendl is a political philosopher, specialised in issues of global health and East-West hierarchies of knowledge (University of Augsburg, currently an EACME Visiting Researcher at the University of Warsaw Center for Bioethics & Biolaw). She investigates concerns of oppression, vulnerability, refusal, empowerment, justice, and solidarity, and the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions. She is the founder of the CEE Feminist Research Network and a co-founder of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation.