From Birth To Death: Age and Ageing in the Postsocialist Transformation
Dresden, Germany; deadline CfP January 15, 2023Up to today the post-1989 transformation has had long-lasting effects on lives and biographies in postsocialist societies. The biographical disruptions caused by the postsocialist reconfigurations created many so-called ‘losers’ of the transformation, who have not had the chance or were unable to create biographical coherence across the systemic divide. Many of these so-called ‘losers’ tend…
How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice
Utrecht; deadline CfP April 14, 2023How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice Workshop organized by Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University), Noortje Jacobs (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and Martijn van der Meer (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) Almost forty years ago, Roy Porter published his seminal article ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’. Historians routinely ignored the roles,…
PULSE network seminar on disability
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Eline Pollaert and Floris Plak (Open Universiteit and Vrije Universiteit) ‘”To create a beginning, where first there was an end.” Stigma and Het…
Does science need heroes? (Nobel) Prize cultures in the Netherlands
Leiden; deadline cfp July 15, 2022The symposium "Does science need heroes? (Nobel) Prize cultures in the Netherlands, will take place in Leiden on September 29-30, 2023. It is organized by the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and Nils Hansson of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf. The history of the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious and visible science award in the world, is since the very…
Decoding Recipes: Histories of Knowledge and Practice across Time and Space
University of Sheffield, online; deadline CfP 1 December 2022Note: exact date of event not yet known. The event will take place in October 2023. This two-day hybrid workshop, jointly supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, aims to explore recipes as sources and methods for thinking and writing about the past. As demonstrated by a growing corpus across a number of fields,…
Symposium for the 30 years of the Florence Nightingale Institute
UtrechtThe online museum for nursing and care FNI (Florence Nightingale Institute) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To celebrate this happy occasion, V&VN is organizing a symposium on October 4. With an interesting programme we commemorate 30 years of FNI and the value of nursing’s heritage for nursing and care. (Note that the symposium will…
The National Health Service ad the legacies of empire
BerlinThis two-day international symposium marks the 75th anniversary of the British National Health Service (NHS) by focusing on a neglected theme in the organisation’s history, culture and current medical practices. 'The NHS and the legacies of empire' investigates the influence of race, colonialism and migration on different aspects of public health in the UK from…
Book presentation “De poppenspeler van Mengele” by Leo van Bergen
UtrechtBook presentation – Mini-symposium (in Dutch) De poppenspeler van Mengele van Leo van Bergen Programma Anita Hendricx (historicus, filosoof en oud-docent levensbeschouwing) (medische) metaforen in nationaalsocialistisch taalgebruik Stephen Snelders (historicus werkzaam bij het Descartescentrum en het Freudenthal-instituut, Utrecht). Rassenhygiëne en eugenetica in Nederland Muzikaal intermezzo Liederen van de Shoah: Leo van Bergen, fluit; Naut de Bruin, piano…
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Rights. Health Feminism, Reproductive Knowledge and Women’s Activism Across Europe in the long 20th Century
KonstanzThe conference aims at exploring health feminism and women's activism from the perspective of the history of knowledge. It intends to interrogate the homogeneity of the existing Western European narratives focusing on the 1970s and on the argument that North America was the hub of knowledge transfer to the rest of the world. Against this…
“The Micro as Macro”: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
Santa Cruz; deadline CfP August 11, 2023The UCSC Center for World History invites paper proposals for its fourth (almost) annual graduate student conference, which explores non-European places and actors by centering on techno-scientific, environmental, sensorial, and spatial-based themes that reveal how the relationship between “small” subjects like microorganisms have shaped world history in ways that challenge or reimagine conceptions of progress…
PULSE network seminar on the mind
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Eline Pollaert and Floris Plak (Open Universiteit and Vrije Universiteit) ‘”To create a beginning, where first there was an end.” Stigma and Het…
The cultural biography of the prostate
onlineThe Kolloquium des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf will host two webinars in collaboration with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. 29 November 2023, 12.30-14: Ericka Johnson, Linköping: The cultural biography of the prostate. MS Teams https://bit.ly/45FJzhp 31 January 2024, 12.30-14: Rina Knoeff, Groningen: The speculum…