Monitieteinen kivuntutkimuksen symposium Tampereella 11.12.2024

PAIN IN CONTEXT: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

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.

Register by November 30th via this link: https://bit.ly/47Sq6ws

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PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Väinö Linna -sali, Linna building, Tampere University (Kalevantie 5)

9:00 Registration & coffee

9:15 Opening HENNI ALAVA & ANNA OVASKA
Welcome Professor MIANNA MESKUS, TASTI

9:25  Pain Studies in Transdisciplinary Perspective - Disrupting Knowledge and Experience 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

10:10 Break

10:25 PANEL 1: CULTURES, POLITICS AND BODIES OF PAIN
Chair: Anna Ovaska
Chronic Pain and the Agony of Bureaucracy ELINA NIINIVAARA & SALOME TUOMAALA-ÖZDEMIR Kone foundation research fellows

Acute postoperative pain - Biology and beyond  TEIJO SAARI Professor, Anaesthesiology, University of Turku
Fictionalizing chronic pain to better understand it EVA TORDERA NUÑO Doctoral researcher, Aalto University
What makes pain chronic? HENNI ALAVA Academy Research Fellow, Tampere University

 

12:25–13:30 Lunch & coffee

13.30 PANEL 2: KNOWING, EXPERIENCING, ENCOUNTERING PAIN
Chair: Henni Alava
Pain, Emotions, Interoception and Bodily Sensations in Patients with Endometriosis SAARA PASTERNACK Doctoral researcher, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, University of Helsinki.
Sensing, understanding and treating endometriosis pain VENLA OIKKONEN Associate professor, Tampere University, ELINA HELOSVUORI Postdoctoral researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies & MARIA TEMMES Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University:
Treating fibromyalgia ALEKSI VARINEN MD, clinical instructor, Tampere University
Making meaning of fibromyalgia AHALYA GANESH Doctoral researcher, Tampere University
Better readers of pain? ANNA OVASKA Kone foundation research fellow, Tampere University

 

16:00–16:15 Closing words & thank you HENNI ALAVA & ANNA OVASKA