Pain in Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
TaSTI (Tampere Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies)
This symposium brings together pain scholars from across disciplines — medicine, psychology, history, social sciences, art, and philosophy — to explore the different contexts in which pain is experienced, recognised, cared for and bypassed in contemporary societies. Drawing together highlights of contemporary research in different fields, and discussing key challenges for pain scholarship across disciplines, we seek to identify areas where interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration could offer ways forward.
Please register by November 30th via this link: https://bit.ly/47Sq6ws
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Väinö Linna -sali, Linna building, Tampere University (Kalevantie 5)
9:00 Registration & coffee
9:15 HENNI ALAVA & ANNA OVASKA: Opening
Professor MIANNA MESKUS, TASTI: Welcome words
9:25 KEYNOTE LECTURE BY ROB BODDICE Senior Research Fellow at the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX), Tampere University: Pain Studies in Transdisciplinary Perspective – Disrupting Knowledge and Experience
10:10 Break
10:25 PANEL 1: CULTURES, POLITICS AND BODIES OF PAIN
Chair: Anna Ovaska
ELINA NIINIVAARA & SALOME TUOMAALA-ÖZDEMIR Kone foundation research fellows: Chronic Pain and the Agony of Bureaucracy
TEIJO SAARI Professor, Anaesthesiology, University of Turku: Acute postoperative pain – Biology and beyond
EVA TORDERA NUÑO Doctoral researcher, Aalto University: Fictionalizing chronic pain to better understand it
HENNI ALAVA Academy Research Fellow, Tampere University: What makes pain chronic?
PANEL DISCUSSION
12:25–13:30 Lunch & coffee (self-paid for attendees)
13.30 PANEL 2: KNOWING, EXPERIENCING, ENCOUNTERING PAIN
Chair: Henni Alava
SAARA PASTERNACK Doctoral researcher, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, University of Helsinki: Pain, Emotions, Interoception and Bodily Sensations in Patients with Endometriosis
VENLA OIKKONEN Associate professor, Tampere University, ELINA HELOSVUORI Postdoctoral researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies & MARIA TEMMES Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University: Sensing, understanding and treating endometriosis pain
ALEKSI VARINEN MD, clinical instructor, Tampere University: Treating fibromyalgia
AHALYA GANESH Doctoral researcher, Tampere University: Making meaning of fibromyalgia
ANNA OVASKA Kone foundation research fellow, Tampere University: Better readers of pain?
15:00–15:15 Break
PANEL DISCUSSION
16:00–16:15 HENNI ALAVA & ANNA OVASKA: Closing words & thank you