BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250428T121558Z DTSTART:20250617T120000Z DTEND:20250617T160000Z SUMMARY:Rethinking Neurodevelopment: From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}ir-ma11kzie -byoc9u DESCRIPTION:Neurodevelopmental conditions have emerged over the past deca des as key points of interest for psychological and neuroscientific rese arch. This has generated new understandings of conditions such as autism \, ADHD\, and dyspraxia\, alongside heated debates about overdiagnosis. As a result\, neurodevelopmental conditions have become central to publi c discussions and have increasingly become focal points for political an d social debate.\nRecently\, new technologically-driven social movements have generated novel perspectives on neurodevelopment and neurodiversit y\, also incorporating other axes of identity\, such as gender. These ha ve since come to the forefront of debates within the neurosciences in ge neral. Questions arise as to how gender influences neurodevelopment and how far individual needs should be recognised and supported via policies in both national and international settings. Answers to these questions involve complex\, yet still evolving\, information from the fields of n euroscience and numerous other disciplines. However\, neurodevelopmental conditions are not new. The history of autism\, for example\, dates bac k to the early twentieth century and the concept has undergone numerous transformations since this time. Key players in this evolution include i nternational agencies\, such as the WHO\, as well as smaller activist gr oups. Their roles in this process\, and the new understandings of develo pmental differences that they propose\, have shaped new paradigms for co nsidering human development and social interaction in general.\n\nThis i nterdisciplinary workshop offers an opportunity to discuss and rethink n eurodevelopmental conditions\, their historical and contemporary transfo rmations\, and to explore the future direction of research in this field .\n\n[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking-neurodevelopment-from-who- policies-to-neurodiversity-and-care-tickets-1336366491149?aff=oddtdtcrea tor/ Register to attend]\n\nSpeakers\n\nAnna Stenning (she /they) is a researcher in the critical medical humanities. She is the au thor of Narrating the Many Autisms: Agency\, Identity\, Mattering (Routl edge US\, 2024) co-editor of Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Para digm\, with Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist and Nicholas Chown (Routledge U K\, 2020).\n\nDifference\, Dependence\, and Diversity: Neurodiversity Theory\, Care Ethics\, and the Politics of Pluralism\n\nThis talk b rings together ecological models of neurodiversity\, social justice fram eworks\, and care ethics. It explores how each offers different insights and limitations for understanding the experiences of those subject to n euromedical diagnoses. By placing these frameworks in dialogue\, I argue for a more relational and pluralistic approach to neuromedical differen ces that values interdependence and challenges normative ideas of autono my.\n \n\nBonnie Evans is Lecturer in the History of Medicine and Health at Manchester University. She is the author of The Metamorphosis of Autism (Manchester\, 2017). She has published widely in the history of psychology and the neurosciences and she recently co-edited a volume of The History of the Human Sciences on ‘Film\, Observation and the Mind ’ (2024). She is currently writing a new book for Reaktion Press on the international history of neurodevelopmental diagnoses and their influenc e on changing approaches to childhood.\n\nThe World Health Organizati on and International Approaches to Neurodevelopment 1948-2024\n\nWhe n the World Health Organisation was founded in 1948\, one of its aims wa s to develop novel methods to study neurodevelopment across different co untries. Yet this ambitious international work was fraught with difficul ties as the legacy of eugenics had encouraged a widespread scepticism of child development sciences amongst many international partners. This ta lk looks at how psychologists overcame this suspicion by using epidemiol ogy and other sciences to develop universal diagnostic methods that went on to achieve widespread international acceptance\, in particular autis m and ADHD.\n \n\nCinzia Greco is a Mid-Career Wellcome Trust Res earch Fellow in the Centre for the History of Science\, Technology and M edicine at The University of Manchester. After a PhD at the EHESS\, she has been a British Academy Newton International Fellow and a Wellcome Tr ust Early-Career Fellow. She has conducted research on cancer\, medical uncertainty\, chronic conditions\, and\, more recently\, mental health\, gender and feminism.\n\nRewiring women’s brain: neurodiversity betwe en neuroscience and neuro-sexism\n\nDevelopments in neuroscience are crucial for our understanding of mental health. In this talk\, I will e xplore feminist approaches within neuroscience\, including those that ha ve contributed to the emergence of neurofeminism. These approaches empha size the concept of neurological plasticity\, which may seem to contradi ct the neurodiversity paradigm that highlights “wired” cognitive differe nces among individuals. I explore ways in which neurofeminism and neurod iversity can be put in dialogue. Our understanding of the brain is incom plete and provisional\, and these areas of uncertainty present a valuabl e opportunity for dialogue between the two perspectives.\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Room 2.57 (CHSTM Seminar Room)\, Simon Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR