ETNA
Scientific
Programme
International Conference 2023
25-28 June | Odense | Denmark
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Scientific
Programme
ETNA | 8th Conference 2023 | 25-28 June | Odense
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Call for Abstracts (closed)
Deadline 1 March 2023
Early Bird Fee
Until Monday 3 April 2023
Regular Fee
From Tuesday 4 April 2023
Preliminary Event Schedule 25-28 June
Important
Dates
Call for Abstracts (closed)
- Deadline 1 March 2023
Early Bird Fee
- Until Monday 3 April 2023
Regular Fee
- From Tuesday 4 April 2023
Preliminary Event
Schedule 25-28 June 2023
Sunday 25 June 2023
Pre-Conference
- Time: 10:00 – 16:00
- Venue: Odense University Hospital
- Participants: Early career researchers and PhD Students
- Moderator: Professor Dorthe S. Nielsen
- Fee: Free of charge
- Registration: Required
- Focus: International networking and collaboration
Welcome Reception and Networking
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: To be announced soon
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests.
- Fee: Included in the conference fee
- Registration: Required
Monday 26 June 2023
Scientific Programme
- Venue: University of Southern Denmark
- 08:00 Registration opens and cultural entertainment
- 09:30 Welcome by Professor Dorthe S. Nielsen
- 09:45 Conference opening by Vice President Dorthe Boe Danbjørg, Danish Nurses Organization
- 10:00 Keynote speaker: Professor Anne Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Abstract title: Changing Perspectives. Existential and Ethical Lessons of Covid-19 and Possibilities for Healthcare - 10:45 Coffee and refreshments
- 11:00 Parallel sessions
- 12:00 Lunch and poster presentation
- 13:00 Parallel sessions
- 14:30 Coffee and refreshments
- 15:00 Memorial to Professor Christiana Kouta
- 15:15 Keynote speaker: Professor Irena Papadopoulos
Abstract title: I have a Dream! - 16:00 End of day and poster presentation
Gala Dinner at Gallery Galschiøt
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: Gallery Galschiøt, Banevænget 22, DK – 5270 Odense N
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: 81 Euro per person (not included in the conference fee)
- Registration: Required
Tuesday 27 June 2023
Scientific Programme
- Venue: University of Southern Denmark
- 08:00 Registration opens
- 09:00 Good morning
- 09:15 Keynote speaker: Dr Enrique Castro-Sanchez
Abstract title: Permacrisis in the Anthropocene: challenges for transcultural nursing - 10:00 Coffee and refreshments
- 10:15 Parallel sessions
- 12:15 Lunch and poster presentation
- 13:00 Parallel sessions
- 14:30 Coffee and refreshments
- 15:00 Panel discussion chaired by Dr Dula Pacquiao
Topic: Revolutionizing Transcultural Care – reflecting, exploring, and responding to global health and care challenge - 16:00 The Christiana Kouta Award for best poster and presentation
- 16:30 Goodbye and thank you
Social Dinner at Storms Pakhus
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: Storms Pakhus (Odense Street Food), Lerchesgade 4, DK – 5000 Odense C
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: Additional cost at venue (app. 15-40 euros)
- Registration: Required
Wednesday 28 June 2023
Visit to Hans Christian Andersen’s House
- Time: 10:00
- Location: H.C. Andersen Haven 1, DK-5000 Odense C
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: Additional cost at venue (app. 20 euros)
- Registration: Required
Sunday 25 June 2023
Pre-Conference
- Time: 13:00 – 16:00
- Venue: Odense University Hospital
- Participants: Early career researchers and PhD Students
- Moderator: Professor Dorthe S. Nielsen
- Fee: Free of charge
- Registration: Required
- Focus: International networking and collaboration
Welcome Reception and Networking
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: To be announced soon
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: Included in the conference fee
- Registration: Required
Monday 26 June 2023
Preliminary Scientific Programme
- Venue: University of Southern Denmark
- 08:00 Registration opens and cultural entertainment
- 09:30 Welcome by Professor Dorthe S. Nielsen
- 09:45 Conference opening by Vice President Dorthe Boe Danbjørg, Danish Nurses Organization
- 10:00 Keynote speaker: Professor Anne Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Abstract title: Changing Perspectives. Existential and Ethical Lessons of Covid-19 and Possibilities for Healthcare - 10:45 Coffee and refreshments
- 11:00 Parallel sessions
- 12:00 Lunch and poster presentation
- 13:00 Parallel sessions
- 14:30 Coffee and refreshments
- 15:00 Memorial to Professor Christiana Kouta
- 15:15 Keynote speaker: Professor Irena Papadopoulos
Abstract title: I have a Dream! - 16:00 End of day and poster presentation
Gala Dinner at Gallery Galschiøt
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: Gallery Galschiøt, Banevænget 22, 5270 Odense N
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: 81 euros per person (not included in the conference fee)
- Registration: Required
Tuesday 27 June 2023
Preliminary Scientific Programme
- Venue: University of Southern Denmark
- 08:00 Registration opens
- 09:00 Good morning
- 09:15 Keynote speaker: Dr Enrique Castro-Sanchez
Abstract title: Permacrisis in the Anthropocene: challenges for transcultural nursing - 10:00 Coffee and refreshments
- 10:15 Parallel sessions
- 12:15 Lunch and poster presentation
- 13:00 Parallel sessions
- 14:30 Coffee and refreshments
- 15:00 Panel discussion chaired by Dr Dula Pacquiao
Topic: Revolutionizing Transcultural Care – reflecting, exploring, and responding to global health and care challenge - 16:00 The Christiana Kouta Award for best poster and presentation
- 16:30 Goodbye and thank you
Social Dinner at Storms Pakhus
- Time: 19:00
- Venue: Storms Pakhus (Odense Street Food), Lerchesgade 4, 5000 Odense C
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: Additional cost at the venue (app. 15-40 euros)
- Registration: Required
Wednesday 28 June 2023
Visit to Hans Christian Andersen’s House
- Time: 10:00
- Venue: H.C. Andersen Haven 1, 5000 Odense C
- Participants: Conference attendees and accompanying guests
- Fee: Additional cost at venue (app. 20 euros)
- Registration: Required
Scientific Programme
Scientific Programme
Revolutionizing Transcultural Care
We are delighted to invite you to participate in ETNA’s 8th International Conference 2023 in Odense, Denmark. The conference aims to bring together health and social care professionals, along with researchers, who share a common interest in transcultural issues. The conference seeks to encourage the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and research findings, and to foster collaboration among professionals and nations, thereby breaking down barriers.
The conference will address the topic: Revolutionizing Transcultural Care – reflecting, exploring, and responding to global health and care challenges, which is a highly relevant and timely subject matter given the current global health landscape.
Moreover, the conference will feature five key themes:
- Health disasters
- Transcultural care
- Nursing innovation
- Spirituality and health needs
- Transcultural practice
Additionally, the submission of abstracts provided participants with the opportunity to propose themes that were in line with the main topic of the conference. We anticipate that this will significantly enhance the dynamic and interactive nature of the conference stimulating conversations and productive collaborations.
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
Preliminary Scientific Programme
Revolutionizing Transcultural Care
We are delighted to invite you to participate in ETNA’s 8th International Conference 2023 in Odense, Denmark. The conference aims to bring together health and social care professionals, along with researchers, who share a common interest in transcultural issues. The conference seeks to encourage the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and research findings, and to foster collaboration among professionals and nations, thereby breaking down barriers.
The conference will address the topic: Revolutionizing Transcultural Care – Reflecting, exploring, and responding to global health and care challenges, which is a highly relevant and timely subject matter given the current global health landscape.
Moreover, the conference will feature five key themes:
- Health disasters
- Transcultural care
- Nursing innovation
- Spirituality and health needs
- Transcultural practice
Additionally, the submission of abstracts provided participants with the opportunity to propose themes that were in line with the main topic of the conference. We anticipate that this will significantly enhance the dynamic and interactive nature of the conference stimulating conversations and productive collaborations.
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
Keynote Speakers and Abstracts
Keynote Speakers
and Abstracts
Irena Papadopoulos
Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing
Middlesex University London
Title
I have a Dream!
Abstract
Inspired by the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his unforgettable speech “I Have a Dream”, during which he called for social change and the end of racism in the US, I too have a dream! My dream is about radical changes in nursing, particularly transcultural nursing.
The 21st century has ushered in a technological revolution, more centenarians, an environmental wake up call, the globalisation of conflicts and terrorism, huge migration waves, global economic crises, advances in medical sciences, and pandemics, to mention but a few.
Transcultural nursing has been around for nearly 70 years. The dream of its founder, Dr Madeleine Leininger, was that “the culture care needs of all people will be met by nurses prepared in transcultural nursing”. Although during the last 70 years, transcultural nursing has developed a huge corpus of knowledge, I can say with some confidence, that globally we are far away from Dr Leininger’s dream.
In my keynote address, I will examine the reasons why transcultural nursing has not become the nursing framework for global use. I will also propose ways that the existing transcultural knowledge needs to be expanded and changed. I will challenge the audience by asking them to engage in the discussion about revolutionising transcultural nursing and how we can achieve this manifesto.
As John Lennon sings in his amazing song ‘Imagine’ which laments the changes he wanted to see in the world “I hope someday you’ll join me…”.
Irena Papadopoulos is the Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing, and the Founder and Head of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health at Middlesex University, London.
Papadopoulos has been researching issues related to transcultural health and cultural competence for over 30 years, and she is the originator of the work that led to the development of the Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor model of cultural competence (1998).
Since 2010, Papadopoulos has been researching compassion, coining the concepts of ‘culturally competent compassion’, as well as ‘culturally competent and compassionate leadership’. In 2018 she published the book ‘Culturally Competent Compassion: A guide for healthcare students and practitioners’, which includes chapters on CCC leadership, CCC learning and practising, researching CC compassion, measuring CC compassion, etc.
Papadopoulos is the co-founder of the IENE programme (Intercultural Education of Nurses in Europe, 2008 onwards) and the originator and co-ordinator of projects 1-6, 8 and 10. The European Commission funded all ten projects.
During 2017-2020, Papadopoulos was also part of the HORIZON 2020 partnership project between the European Union and Japan titled CARESSES, which developed the first culturally competent robot for health and social care.
Later, during the Covid pandemic (2020-2021), she led two projects designed to provide spiritual care to hospitalised patients, both of which are available on the website of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health. View the reports here.
Papadopoulos is furthermore a founding member of ETNA (European Transcultural Nursing Association) and has been its elected president for a number of years.
Enrique Castro-Sánchez
Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges, Brunel University, London & Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London
Title
Permacrisis in the Anthropocene: challenges for transcultural nursing
Abstract
The Anthropocene, the geological era reflecting the scarring on the planet by the human footprint, is characterised by the increased complexity and interconnection of crucial biological, sociocultural, and technological systems necessary to sustain planetary life. The increased entanglement and dependency among these systems threaten their stability and foster the effect of multifactorial planetary threats such as drug-resistant infections or climate breakdown. It also makes it difficult to forecast and prevent unintended consequences from planetary interventions.
This ‘permacrisis’, with its constant ‘crisis mode’ and uncertainty, is claimed now to be a permanent planetary feature rather than an isolated status.
A planetary perspective towards improving the health and life of humans, animals, and the environment demands collaborative work which would benefit from a transcultural lens. Thanks to their holistic, bio-psycho-social remit, nurses may a priory be ideally positioned to lead and contribute to these planetary solutions. In particular, transcultural nursing would offer an optimal platform to underpin interventions, recognising the richness and variety of global societies.
However, nurses are unlikely to impact the malaises of the Anthropocene unless they transcend their current focus on clinical work (typically, hospital-based, and curative), and aim to disrupt the structural determinants which perpetuate and benefit from the permacrisis. All nurses would need to collaborate to dismantle the systemic injustices affecting the profession, the patients, the local society, and planetary citizenship. Whether the profession is ready or willing to engage with these issues is yet to be seen.
The keynote will explore the challenges, threats, and opportunities afforded by the Anthropocene for nurses engaged in transcultural care.
- Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges (Planetary Health). Brunel University London, College of Business, Arts, and Social Sciences, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
- Honorary Lecturer. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Lecturer in Planetary Health. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Visiting Professor. Global Health & Sustainable Human Development Research Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
- Visiting Faculty, Shifa Al-Tameer Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Enrique Castro-Sánchez is the Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges (Planetary Health) at the BASc Global Challenges programme, Brunel University London.
He gained his degree in Nursing in Spain, and migrated to the UK shortly after to practice in infectious diseases. He received a Diploma in Tropical Nursing and an MSc Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After a period centred on developing advanced practice roles in tuberculosis and HIV, Castro-Sánchez worked as Lead Nurse for Research at the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London, focused on developing innovations and behaviour change interventions.
Castro-Sánchez completed his PhD in 2015, and received postdoctoral funding to research participation of nurses in antimicrobial stewardship in South Africa and Rwanda, and social determinants of infections. His research funding includes grants from the NIHR, AHRC, ESRC, BRC, and the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
In 2016, he was selected as Emerging Leader in International Infectious Diseases by the International Society for Infectious Diseases, and in 2017 he worked as Consultant for the World Health Organisation developing leadership education for national focal persons in infection control, supporting the Core Components in Infection Control. That year, he was also appointed by the NIHR 70@70 Senior Nurse Research Leader programme as one of the 70 nurses in the country selected to increase capacity and capability in research for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.
In 2020-2022, Castro-Sánchez held positions at City University and University of West London, and worked as Infection Prevention and Control fellow at the national IPC unit in NHS England/Improvement, developing education for board members and senior IPC nurses, whilst supporting the local, national, and international COVID-19 response.
Castro-Sánchez has been funded to carry out research and provide education in multiple settings, including Pakistan, India, Rwanda, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Spain. He is Editor-in-Chief of Infection Ecology and Epidemiology journal, and collaborates with the European Society of Specialist Organisations in Brussels, advising in IPC and AMR.
Anne-Marie S. Christensen
Professor of Ethics
University of Southern Denmark
Title
Changing Perspectives. Existential and Ethical Lessons of Covid-19 and Possibilities for Healthcare
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic made it all too evident that human beings are vulnerable beings. We knew this already, of course, and modern healthcare is one of our communal attempts to remedy this fact. Still, in healthcare, a predominantly focus on rationality (especially seen as evidence and efficiency) and autonomy (especially seen as freedom and choice) has pushed our awareness of vulnerability aside, distorting or even hiding it. In this sense, Covid-19 revitalised a sense of fragility and dependence in healthcare in relation not only to patients, but to healthcare professionals as well.
The Covid-19 pandemic also made it evident that human beings are relational and communal beings. This means that we can develop common values and purpose, and from this, we can reshape our shared world, just as we from day-to-day reshaped healthcare to meet the challenges of the pandemic. In this sense, Covid-19 revitalised our awareness of the fact that modern healthcare is just one system among infinitely many possible healthcare systems, and it is a system that we can change, rethink, reform, even in very fundamental ways.
These two lessons from Covid-19 should not be lost. In this talk, I argue that we should continue to reshape healthcare, and we should do so from a revitalised sense of the vulnerability of both patients and professionals. The background of the talk is western thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and K.E. Løgstrup, and the main field is the Danish healthcare system, but I hope to address assumptions that are hegemonic in many systems of healthcare today. The aim is to show that a renewed sense of vulnerability and fragility is great potential, and I look at a few examples of how we can draw on this potential when developing new concepts, practices and ways of working in healthcare.
Anne-Marie S. Christensen is Professor of Ethics at the University of Southern Denmark.
Her main fields of expertise are Wittgensteinian ethics, virtue ethics, professional ethics and ethics of health, and she now works to develop theoretical tools for a contextual and empirical approach to ethics.
Christensen is the author of a Danish book on contemporary virtue ethics and a monograph on the diverse and varied ways that ethics plays into our lives, Moral Theory and Moral Life (Oxford University Press, 2021).
She has also published substantially in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry and Journal of Applied Philosophy.
She currently serves as the Chair of the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the Humanities.
Irena Papadopoulos
Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing
Middlesex University London
Title
I have a Dream!
Abstract
Inspired by the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his unforgettable speech “I Have a Dream”, during which he called for social change and the end of racism in the US, I too have a dream! My dream is about radical changes in nursing, particularly transcultural nursing.
The 21st century has ushered in a technological revolution, more centenarians, an environmental wake up call, the globalisation of conflicts and terrorism, huge migration waves, global economic crises, advances in medical sciences, and pandemics, to mention but a few.
Transcultural nursing has been around for nearly 70 years. The dream of its founder, Dr Madeleine Leininger, was that “the culture care needs of all people will be met by nurses prepared in transcultural nursing”. Although during the last 70 years, transcultural nursing has developed a huge corpus of knowledge, I can say with some confidence, that globally we are far away from Dr Leininger’s dream.
In my keynote address, I will examine the reasons why transcultural nursing has not become the nursing framework for global use. I will also propose ways that the existing transcultural knowledge needs to be expanded and changed. I will challenge the audience by asking them to engage in the discussion about revolutionising transcultural nursing and how we can achieve this manifesto.
As John Lennon sings in his amazing song ‘Imagine’ which laments the changes he wanted to see in the world “I hope someday you’ll join me…”.
Irena Papadopoulos is the Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing, and the Founder and Head of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health at Middlesex University, London.
Papadopoulos has been researching issues related to transcultural health and cultural competence for over 30 years, and she is the originator of the work that led to the development of the Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor model of cultural competence (1998).
Since 2010, Papadopoulos has been researching compassion, coining the concepts of ‘culturally competent compassion’, as well as ‘culturally competent and compassionate leadership’. In 2018 she published the book ‘Culturally Competent Compassion: A guide for healthcare students and practitioners’, which includes chapters on CCC leadership, CCC learning and practising, researching CC compassion, measuring CC compassion, etc.
Papadopoulos is the co-founder of the IENE programme (Intercultural Education of Nurses in Europe, 2008 onwards) and the originator and co-ordinator of projects 1-6, 8 and 10. The European Commission funded all ten projects.
During 2017-2020, Papadopoulos was also part of the HORIZON 2020 partnership project between the European Union and Japan titled CARESSES, which developed the first culturally competent robot for health and social care.
Later, during the Covid pandemic (2020-2021), she led two projects designed to provide spiritual care to hospitalised patients, both of which are available on the website of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health. View the reports here.
Papadopoulos is furthermore a founding member of ETNA (European Transcultural Nursing Association) and has been its elected president for a number of years.
Enrique Castro-Sánchez
Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges, Brunel University, London & Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London
Title
Permacrisis in the Anthropocene: challenges for transcultural nursing
Abstract
The Anthropocene, the geological era reflecting the scarring on the planet by the human footprint, is characterised by the increased complexity and interconnection of crucial biological, sociocultural, and technological systems necessary to sustain planetary life. The increased entanglement and dependency among these systems threaten their stability and foster the effect of multifactorial planetary threats such as drug-resistant infections or climate breakdown. It also makes it difficult to forecast and prevent unintended consequences from planetary interventions.
This ‘permacrisis’, with its constant ‘crisis mode’ and uncertainty, is claimed now to be a permanent planetary feature rather than an isolated status.
A planetary perspective towards improving the health and life of humans, animals, and the environment demands collaborative work which would benefit from a transcultural lens. Thanks to their holistic, bio-psycho-social remit, nurses may a priory be ideally positioned to lead and contribute to these planetary solutions. In particular, transcultural nursing would offer an optimal platform to underpin interventions, recognising the richness and variety of global societies.
However, nurses are unlikely to impact the malaises of the Anthropocene unless they transcend their current focus on clinical work (typically, hospital-based, and curative), and aim to disrupt the structural determinants which perpetuate and benefit from the permacrisis. All nurses would need to collaborate to dismantle the systemic injustices affecting the profession, the patients, the local society, and planetary citizenship. Whether the profession is ready or willing to engage with these issues is yet to be seen.
The keynote will explore the challenges, threats, and opportunities afforded by the Anthropocene for nurses engaged in transcultural care.
Affiliations
- Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges (Planetary Health). Brunel University London, College of Business, Arts, and Social Sciences, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
- Honorary Lecturer. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Lecturer in Planetary Health. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Visiting Professor. Global Health & Sustainable Human Development Research Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
- Visiting Faculty, Shifa Al-Tameer Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Biography
Enrique Castro-Sánchez is the Senior Lecturer in Global Challenges (Planetary Health) at the BASc Global Challenges programme, Brunel University London.
He gained his degree in Nursing in Spain, and migrated to the UK shortly after to practice in infectious diseases. He received a Diploma in Tropical Nursing and an MSc Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After a period centred on developing advanced practice roles in tuberculosis and HIV, Castro-Sánchez worked as Lead Nurse for Research at the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London, focused on developing innovations and behaviour change interventions.
Castro-Sánchez completed his PhD in 2015, and received postdoctoral funding to research participation of nurses in antimicrobial stewardship in South Africa and Rwanda, and social determinants of infections. His research funding includes grants from the NIHR, AHRC, ESRC, BRC, and the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
In 2016, he was selected as Emerging Leader in International Infectious Diseases by the International Society for Infectious Diseases, and in 2017 he worked as Consultant for the World Health Organisation developing leadership education for national focal persons in infection control, supporting the Core Components in Infection Control. That year, he was also appointed by the NIHR 70@70 Senior Nurse Research Leader programme as one of the 70 nurses in the country selected to increase capacity and capability in research for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.
In 2020-2022, Castro-Sánchez held positions at City University and University of West London, and worked as Infection Prevention and Control fellow at the national IPC unit in NHS England/Improvement, developing education for board members and senior IPC nurses, whilst supporting the local, national, and international COVID-19 response.
Castro-Sánchez has been funded to carry out research and provide education in multiple settings, including Pakistan, India, Rwanda, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Spain. He is Editor-in-Chief of Infection Ecology and Epidemiology journal, and collaborates with the European Society of Specialist Organisations in Brussels, advising in IPC and AMR.
Anne-Marie S. Christensen
Professor of Ethics, University of Southern Denmark
Title
Changing Perspectives. Existential and Ethical Lessons of Covid-19 and Possibilities for Healthcare
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic made it all too evident that human beings are vulnerable beings. We knew this already, of course, and modern healthcare is one of our communal attempts to remedy this fact. Still, in healthcare, a predominantly focus on rationality (especially seen as evidence and efficiency) and autonomy (especially seen as freedom and choice) has pushed our awareness of vulnerability aside, distorting or even hiding it. In this sense, Covid-19 revitalised a sense of fragility and dependence in healthcare in relation not only to patients but to healthcare professionals as well.
The Covid-19 pandemic also made it evident that human beings are relational and communal beings. This means that we can develop common values and purpose, and from this, we can reshape our shared world, just as we from day-to-day reshaped healthcare to meet the challenges of the pandemic. In this sense, Covid-19 revitalised our awareness of the fact that modern healthcare is just one system among infinitely many possible healthcare systems, and it is a system that we can change, rethink, reform, even in very fundamental ways.
These two lessons from Covid-19 should not be lost. In this talk, I argue that we should continue to reshape healthcare, and we should do so from a revitalised sense of the vulnerability of both patients and professionals. The background of the talk is western thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and K.E. Løgstrup, and the main field is the Danish healthcare system, but I hope to address assumptions that are hegemonic in many systems of healthcare today. The aim is to show that a renewed sense of vulnerability and fragility is great potential, and I look at a few examples of how we can draw on this potential when developing new concepts, practices and ways of working in healthcare.
Anne-Marie S. Christensen is a Professor of Ethics at the University of Southern Denmark.
Her main fields of expertise are Wittgensteinian ethics, virtue ethics, professional ethics and ethics of health, and she now works to develop theoretical tools for a contextual and empirical approach to ethics.
Christensen is the author of a Danish book on contemporary virtue ethics and a monograph on the diverse and varied ways that ethics plays into our lives, Moral Theory and Moral Life (Oxford University Press, 2021).
She has also published substantially in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry and Journal of Applied Philosophy.
She currently serves as the Chair of the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the Humanities.
Social Programme
Academics and social activities go hand in hand, and conferences serve a broader purpose than simply promoting academia.
Therefore, we hope that you will engage in the conference’s small social spaces – to network, but also to take home interesting, fun and quirky memories.
If you want to combine the conference with a few days off or a family holiday, Odense is an ideal and convenient starting point.
Among the 50 cities the New York Times recommends tourists visit in 2023, Odense ranks 28 as the only Danish city on the list. In addition to all the attractions in the city itself, you can also easily and safely travel by public transport or drive beyond Odense to explore other parts of Denmark.
Find more information and tips to plan our trip here
@VisitOdense: Johan Joensen
Academics and social activities go hand in hand, and conferences serve a broader purpose than simply promoting academia.
Therefore, we hope that you will engage in the conference’s small social spaces – to network, but also to take home interesting, fun and quirky memories.
If you want to combine the conference with a few days off or a family holiday, Odense is an ideal and convenient starting point. Among the 50 cities the New York Times recommends tourists visit in 2023, Odense ranks 28 as the only Danish city on the list. Aside from all the things to do in the city itself, it is also easy to explore the rest of Denmark from here – by car or by public transportation. Find more information and tips to plan our trip here
Social events and activities
Academics and social activities go hand in hand, and conferences serve a broader purpose than simply promoting academia.
Therefore, we hope that you will engage in the conference’s small social spaces – to network, but also to take home interesting, fun and quirky memories.
If you want to combine the conference with a few days off or a family holiday, Odense is also an ideal and convenient starting point. Among the 50 cities the New York Times recommends tourists visit in 2023, Odense ranks 28 as the only Danish city on the list. Aside from all the things to do in the city itself, it is also easy to explore the rest of Denmark from here – by car or by public transportation. Find more information and tips to plan our trip here
Social Dinner at Storms Pakhus (Odense Street Food)
ETNA invites all conference delegates and accompanying guests to a fun social evening in the relaxed and unpretentious atmosphere at Storms Pakhus in Odense.
At Storms Pakhus 3000 m2 warehouse you will find the most passionate entrepreneurs on Funen, working with gastronomy and creativity. As an incubator for new restaurateurs and creative innovators, Pakhuset provides a platform for young restaurateurs and creative innovators to realize their dreams and potential.
Storms Pakhus is the perfect place to socialize, while you enjoy your food or a good craft beer among the other guests, and a visit to the authentic industrial halls is in itself an experience.
In the years following the warehouse’s construction around 1942, it led a somewhat turbulent life and stood empty for years. Despite this, Storms Pakhus opened its doors in September 2017 in an effort to preserve the warehouse’s soul and history and at the same time promote entrepreneurship on Funen. The warehouse’s original facade and interior architecture have therefore been preserved, and the interior uses recycled materials, including old wooden beams that were removed and reused for Pakhuset’s food stalls, workshops and bars.
Conveniently located in the city centre close to the harbour, Storms Pakhus is within 10-15 minutes walking distance of Odense Station (also called “Odense Banegård Center – OBC”) and most down town hotels via the City’s Bridge.
Please note that the Social Dinner is NOT included in your conference registration fee, but registration is required.
How to book a ticket: