Webinar: Coptic Medicine and its Remedies Exploring an Ancient Pharmacopoea – Mona Sawy
onlineCoptic Medicine and its Remedies Exploring an Ancient Pharmacopoea This talk delves into the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt as preserved and practiced by the Copts, who have inherited and adapted a rich medical tradition that dates back to the time of the pharaohs. This exploration will uncover the various medicaments used in Coptic medicine, including…
JUSTICE – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #3: JUSTICE Willemijn Ruberg (Universiteit Utrecht), 'On or in the body? Physical Examinations by Police and Forensic Doctors…
Lecture Alyson Patsavas: Sites of Intervention: Disability and the (Built) Environment in Imagined Futures
Leuven/OnlineKU Leuven organises Health Humanities lecture series KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2024-2025: Health and the Built Environment ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’, or so Winston Churchill once said. For better or for worse, our constructed physical space – the so-called built environment – impacts on our behaviours, our social interactions, and our…
Webinar: Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical knowledge in Oliva Sabuco de Nantes – Karin Durin
onlineWomen's Ideas in the History of Medicine Fertility, Maternity, and Reproduction - 2025 Webinars Series Organised by Jil Muller & Fabrizio Bigotti. Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – University of Paderborn, this series seeks to understand the role of women in the history of medicine by…
Online workshop: Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century
onlineContagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time) The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CNCSI) organises a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the relationship between contagion and contamination in nineteenth-century culture across the globe. The workshop will feature several…
Lecture Cleo Valentine: Architectural Neuroimmunology: Examining the Impact of Architectural Form on Neurophysiological Activity
Leuven/OnlineKU Leuven organises Health Humanities lecture series KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2024-2025: Health and the Built Environment ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’, or so Winston Churchill once said. For better or for worse, our constructed physical space – the so-called built environment – impacts on our behaviours, our social interactions, and our…
Symposium Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities
Amsterdam; CfP 10 March 2025On Friday 9th May 2025 the symposium Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities is held in Perdu, Amsterdam CALL FOR PAPERS The emerging field of 'health humanities' has been arguing for and highlighting the value of different and complementary perspectives on health, medicine and disability from fields ranging from literature and anthropology to sociology, philosophy and…
Webinar: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance – Viktorya Vasilyan
onlineWomen's Ideas in the History of Medicine Fertility, Maternity, and Reproduction - 2025 Webinars Series Organised by Jil Muller & Fabrizio Bigotti. Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – University of Paderborn, this series seeks to understand the role of women in the history of medicine by…
International workshop: Contested Industrialisation of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene
Utrecht; CfP 1 december 2024Contested Industrialisation of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene: Critical Histories of Agriculture- and Food-Affiliated Industries from a Global Perspective (1945-present) International workshop, May 15-16, 2025 Location: Utrecht University, the Netherlands Organizers: dr. Floor Haalboom (Erasmus University Medical Center/Utrecht University), Amber Striekwold MA (Utrecht University), Anna Teijeiro Fokkema MA (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) This workshop aims…
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers (NNMHR Congress)
Online; CfP 31 December 2024TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers The Northern Network for Medical Humanities (NNMHR) Congress, 21-23 May 2025 (online) Organisers: Benjamin Dalton, Alexander Wragge-Morley, and Stephanie Wright In recent years, the medical humanities have increasingly looked beyond western medical perspectives, and canonical western works of art and literature. The attempt to decentre western viewpoints…
CREATIVITY – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #4: CREATIVITY Erin La Cour (VU, Amsterdam) John Miers (Kingston University, UK) Date: 22 May, 15:00-17:00 Location: University…
Lecture Karin Bijsterveld: The ‘Return’ of the Retirement Home: Anthropology, Architecture and Policy Analysis in the Historiography of Postwar Housing for Older People in the Netherlands
Leuven/OnlineKU Leuven organises Health Humanities lecture series KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2024-2025: Health and the Built Environment ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’, or so Winston Churchill once said. For better or for worse, our constructed physical space – the so-called built environment – impacts on our behaviours, our social interactions, and our…