Events
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Pulse Seminar: Edward Fischer & Manon Parry – Cultural Contexts of Health & Long Covid
AmsterdamPulse Seminar March 19th, 15:00-17:00 University of Amsterdam: Kloveniersburgwal 48, room e1.01e Edward fischer - Long Covid, Lived Experience, and the Limits of Medical Categories Long Covid resists biomedical approaches that organize illness into discrete systems-neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal-as if the body were a machine with separable parts. Instead, it moves between and across these supposed…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar by Samuël Coghe
Leuven/OnlineAnthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Madagascar became an important exporter of live cattle and cattle commodities such as hides and beef. While this process started before French colonial conquest in 1895, the cattle frontier was fuelled…
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Lecture: From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property
LeidenLECTURE | GLOBAL HISTORIES OF KNOWLEDGE SEMINAR | LEIDEN UNIVERSITY From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property Natacha Klein Käfer (University of Copenhagen / Lund University) Date: Friday 20 March 2026 Time 15:30 - 17:00 Series Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Location: Leiden University, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16,…
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HoMH Seminars RUG – dr. Chris Millard – Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England.
onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 25 March, 16.00-17.00: dr. Chris Millard (University of Sheffield) - Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England. This session will be held online, you can contact Diedelot…
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Showing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations (1 day Conference)
ParisShowing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations National Academy of Medicine, Paris, 26 March 2026 Call for Papers As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, ‘to be dead is to be a prey for the living’ (1956, 593). The vulnerability of the dead, described by the French philosopher, applies to their memories as well as their…
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First Annual HHH Meeting & Lecture
UtrechtAs you all know, we recently announced a new direction for HHH: from now on, instead of our two separate spring and autumn meetings, we will come together once a year for one larger annual event. With this yearly festive lecture, we hope to strengthen the network function of HHH and create a moment where…
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Symposium: Koloniale verleden van Nederlandse medische (kennis)instellingen
UtrechtDe Universiteit Utrecht is zich de afgelopen jaren steeds meer bewust geworden van het feit dat het koloniale verleden van Nederland mogelijk nog steeds van invloed is op de huidige wetenschappelijke kennisproductie. Om die reden hebben verschillende faculteiten besloten hun mogelijke bijdrage aan koloniaal onderzoek en beleid te onderzoeken. Aan het UMC Utrecht is een…
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Lecture: Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
IIAS, LeidenLecture organised by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Leiden University Institute for History. Date: 14 April 2026 Time: 15:00 ~ 16:30 Location: Leiden University, IIAS Conference Room HMO 0.28, Witte Singel 27a, 2311BG Leiden Measles is “back”. But is vaccine hesitancy the only culprit? Looking at Southeast Asia and mobilising the…
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8th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health
Leuven; CfA deadline 6 January 20268th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health, 15-17 April 2026 @ KU Leuven Organised by: ICOH Scientific Committee on the History of the Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Diseases The scientific program will focus on the importance of taking into account the history of occupational and environmental health. Throughout history, occupational…
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HoMH Seminars RUG – prof. dr. Stefanie Gänger – ‘More people die of fevers, than of any other distemper’. On the Ascendancy of a Diagnosis, 1760–1830
onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 22 April, 16.00-17.00: Prof. dr. Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University) - 'More people die of fevers, than of any other distemper'. On the Ascendancy of a Diagnosis, 1760–1830. This session will be held online, you can contact Diedelot Denessen…
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Voorjaarsbijeenkomst Gewina ‘Objecten van onderzoek’
UtrechtSave the date: 23 april 2026 voorjaars-bijeenkomst ‘Objecten van onderzoek’ Over dilemma’s in het bewaren en presenteren van wetenschappelijk erfgoed Locatie: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht In de ochtend zal het programma beginnen met de huishoudelijke vergadering van Gewina, in de namiddag vinden lezingen plaats, een workshop, en een rondleiding door het Universiteitsmuseum.
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Everyone Needs Beauty by Samantha Walton
Leuven/OnlineEveryone Needs Beauty TBA Samantha Walton Samantha Walton is Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, where she leads interdisciplinary collaborations across the social and life sciences, arts and humanities, and law. Her research focuses on the intersections of environment and health, with particular interests in nature and wellbeing legislation,…