The 10th Annual Minority Research Seminar
The 10th Annual Minority Research Seminar
«Wellbeing in Minorities: Sustainability and Disruptions of Health in Non-dominant Groups»
Dates: 9-10 April 2025
Location: Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) & on-line (hybrid format)
Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2024
«Wellbeing in Minorities: Sustainability and Disruptions of Health in Non-dominant Groups» invites to explore current essentials and challenges to well-being in minorities. Wellbeing, a complicated multidimensional phenomenon, refers to physical and mental health, usually understood as a lasting condition of distress and illness absence. Meanwhile, it is often challenged at best or disrupted at worst for various minorities — those who are pushed towards the peripheries of the social landscape because of their age, gender, race, language, or any other characteristic(s). These peripheral, liminal or even marginalised positions question the normative perception of the well-being concept, its characteristics, resources and barriers, as well as require critical intersectional approach to the subject analysis.
What does constitute the wellbeing in minorities? What is special about minorities' needs in terms of well- or ill-being? Who, what and how does contribute to the minorities well-being? What are the key factors and actors for securing well-being in minorities in current circumstances? We welcome scholars working in the fields of Minorities, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Well-being and Health studies, Medical Humanities, Arts, and others, to discuss wellbeing in minorities. We would like to inquire mentioned issues and to debate the actual and potential entanglements of the minority positioning and well-being shortages and deficiencies, i.e. when and why belonging to a minority hinders individuals and groups' well-being, and the ill-being leads to minoritisation.
Please, submit the abstract of your presentation (max. 200 words) and brief information about you (name, affiliation, contact details) by the 30th of November 2024. Do not forget to identify in your abstract if you would like to participate on-site or distantly.
