BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendarize//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendarize-heat-and-health-bodies-environments-and-unequal-thermal-wo rlds DTSTAMP:20260603T075236Z DTSTART:20260626T090000Z DTEND:20260626T190000Z SUMMARY:Heat and Health: Bodies\, Environments\, and Unequal Thermal World s DESCRIPTION:Extreme heat is linked to illness and increased mortality. Bot h harmful and therapeutic uses and effects of heat are unevenly distribute d across societies. This workshop examines heat as an embodied and sensori al experience that shapes health and illness\, exhaustion\, recovery\, and care. A second focus lies on the approach to heat in health governance: h ow do different conceptions of heat – as risk\, hazard\, or living condi tion – influence policies and public health?\nExtreme heat is increasing ly framed as a public-health problem: measurable exposure is linked to mor bidity and increased mortality\, and this nexus is addressed through epide miological evidence\, early-warning systems\, behavioural guidelines\, and policy interventions. This workshop sharpens the focus on health by askin g how heat becomes harmful (and at times therapeutic) through historically specific social relations and material arrangements. Heat is approached a s a relational and situated phenomenon emerging at the intersection of bod ies\, environments\, infrastructures\, labour regimes\, technologies\, and forms of governance. \nDrawing on phenomenological approaches\, Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, medical anthropology\, and neo-/new materia list scholarship\, the workshop foregrounds heat as an embodied and sensor ial experience that shapes health and illness\, exhaustion\, recovery\, an d care. It attends to thermal experiences and the various ways they are me diated by building materials\, clothing\, ventilation\, shade\, water\, to ols\, urban surfaces\, infrastructures\, and cooling artefacts such as gre en spaces\, as well as by everyday tactics of coping\, pacing\, resting\, and enduring. Rather than conceiving of the body as a closed biological un it\, the focus of interest is how heat shifts bodily boundaries\, exposure s\, and capacities\, reshaping rhythms of work and rest\, and producing un even health outcomes over time. \nThe workshop situates contemporary heat -health paradigms within longer historical and sociocultural trajectories of thermal bodies and climatic medicine\, shaped by (post-)colonial medica l and labour regimes\, racialised and gendered assumptions\, and uneven in frastructures of care. While extreme heat is undeniably a major driver of illness and premature death\, heat has also been used historically and con temporarily for therapeutic purposes\; from climatic and balneological med icine to heat treatments and practices of warming\, sweating\, and detoxif ication. Harm and therapy are examined as historically co-constituted and unevenly distributed. Such perspectives denaturalise present-day health me trics and guidelines\, historicise and pluralise current conceptions of he at and health\, and foreground heat as a form of slow\, often normalised v iolence that accumulates unequally across bodies. \nA further focus lies on how heat is politically defined in health governance: is heat framed as a risk\, a hazard\, an emergency\, or a background condition of everyday life? How do these classifications shape responsibility\, and which bodies are rendered protectable? The workshop analyses the effects of these defi nitions on policies as well as on lived experiences of health and illness. \nMehr Informationen X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Extreme heat is linked to illness and incr eased mortality. Both harmful and therapeutic uses and effects of heat are unevenly distributed across societies. This workshop examines heat as an embodied and sensorial experience that shapes health and illness\, exhaust ion\, recovery\, and care. A second focus lies on the approach to heat in health governance: how do different conceptions of heat – as risk\, haza rd\, or living condition – influence policies and public health?

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Extreme heat is increasingly framed as a public-health problem: measurabl e exposure is linked to morbidity and increased mortality\, and this nexus is addressed through epidemiological evidence\, early-warning systems\, b ehavioural guidelines\, and policy interventions. This workshop sharpens t he focus on health by asking how heat becomes harmful (and at times therap eutic) through historically specific social relations and material arrange ments. Heat is approached as a relational and situated phenomenon emerging at the intersection of bodies\, environments\, infrastructures\, labour r egimes\, technologies\, and forms of governance. \;

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Drawing on phenomenological approaches\, Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, medi cal anthropology\, and neo-/new materialist scholarship\, the workshop for egrounds heat as an embodied and sensorial experience that shapes health a nd illness\, exhaustion\, recovery\, and care. It attends to thermal exper iences and the various ways they are mediated by building materials\, clot hing\, ventilation\, shade\, water\, tools\, urban surfaces\, infrastructu res\, and cooling artefacts such as green spaces\, as well as by everyday tactics of coping\, pacing\, resting\, and enduring. Rather than conceivin g of the body as a closed biological unit\, the focus of interest is how h eat shifts bodily boundaries\, exposures\, and capacities\, reshaping rhyt hms of work and rest\, and producing uneven health outcomes over time.&nbs p\;

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The workshop situates contemporary heat-health paradigms withi n longer historical and sociocultural trajectories of thermal bodies and c limatic medicine\, shaped by (post-)colonial medical and labour regimes\, racialised and gendered assumptions\, and uneven infrastructures of care. While extreme heat is undeniably a major driver of illness and premature d eath\, heat has also been used historically and contemporarily for therape utic purposes\; from climatic and balneological medicine to heat treatment s and practices of warming\, sweating\, and detoxification. Harm and thera py are examined as historically co-constituted and unevenly distributed. S uch perspectives denaturalise present-day health metrics and guidelines\, historicise and pluralise current conceptions of heat and health\, and for eground heat as a form of slow\, often normalised violence that accumulate s unequally across bodies. \;

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A further focus lies on how heat is politically defined in health governance: is heat framed as a risk\, a hazard\, an emergency\, or a background condition of everyday life? How d o these classifications shape responsibility\, and which bodies are render ed protectable? The workshop analyses the effects of these definitions on policies as well as on lived experiences of health and illness.

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LOCATION:College for Social Sciences and Humanities\, Essen & online END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR