Now in its 8th iteration, the In Sickness & In Health conference is one of the world’s foremost venues for critical healthcare thinking.
The next conference will be held from 13-15 February 2024 in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Come to ISIH 2024 for:
The fantastic talks, including four ground-breaking keynotes
A friendly, spacious, open, and inclusive community
Radical ideas
Summertime in New Zealand
Health professional activists, consumers, educators, practitioners, researchers, and students, as well as architects, cultural theorists, economists, geographers, historians, media scholars, philosophers, and sociologists, are all invited to submit abstracts for the conference.
Submission deadline
The deadline for abstract submissions is 31 March 2023.
All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Conference Scientific Committee and you will be notified of the outcome no later than 1 June 2023.
Review criteria
The reviewers will look for abstracts that:
Focus on contemporary health care and health professional issues
Have a strong focus on critical theory (*see below)
Are provocative
Present work that will appeal to a diverse audience
Connects to the conference theme of diagnosis \\ destruction \\ voice \\ assemblage
Abstract formats
This year we’ll be experimenting with two different kinds of abstracts: formal and informal. You can submit your abstract in either format.
Formal abstracts
The familiar, traditional format.
300-word limit, including title, your name and contact details, five keywords, and the text of your abstract.
Ideal for presenting specific projects with a very clear scope.
Email your abstract in Word, Pages, or Markdown format (not PDF) to david.nicholls@aut.ac.nz
Informal abstracts
A more relaxed format.
Submit a broad proposal for the area you would like to explore at the conference.
150-word limit, including title, your name and contact details, five keywords, and the text of your proposal.
Ideal for projects that are still developing (and may change between now and the conference), or where you would like to explore broader themes beyond the confines of a specific project.
Email your abstract in Word, Pages, or Markdown format (not PDF) to david.nicholls@aut.ac.nz
You can find out more about the conference here.
*Critical theory here refers to a wide range of sociological and philosophical perspectives drawn particularly from critical sociology and continental philosophical traditions. Specifically here, it refers to an interest in social change, and concerns for government, social control, discipline, and resistance; questions of the societal workings knowledge, power and truth manifesting in diverse ways throughout healthcare today; emancipation and political transformation especially around race, gender, queer and disability activism; post-modern, post-structural and post-human concerns for language, desire, transgression, and the more-than-human.