Save the date: Symposium van het Historisch College FNI – 9 oktober 2024
UtrechtOp woensdagmiddag 9 oktober 2024 organiseert het Historisch College FNI bij V&VN zijn jaarlijkse middagsymposium met dit keer als thema: Van puntenboekje tot professionele werkplaats. Over de waarde van geschiedenis voor het verpleegkundig en verzorgend onderwijs en werk. In de middag staat de volgende vraag centraal. Hoe kunnen erfgoed en geschiedenis verpleegkundigen en verzorgenden in…
Domus dag: ‘Het medisch consult als ontmoeting’ + KNMG jubileum congres
Den Bosch/OnlineOp donderdag 10 oktober 2024 organiseert de KNMG een bijzondere editie van de Domus Dag. Dit jaar staat het evenement in het teken van 'Het medisch consult als ontmoeting', waarbij dieper wordt ingegaan op de historische context van de band tussen arts en patiënt. Hoe heeft bijvoorbeeld het medisch consult zich ontwikkeld? Wat zeiden voorzitters…
A Perfect Death? Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on Life, Death, and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Leuven; deadline CfP February 20, 2024We are pleased to announce the two-day conference “A Perfect Death? Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on Life, Death, and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity”, which will take place in person on 15-16 October 2024 at KU Leuven (Belgium). We invite scholars and researchers working on Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, and ancient philosophy to…
Healing Powers Elixir, Medicinal Waters, Precious Stones and their Use in Medicine and Alchemy (1300-1500) Conference
Pisa/OnlineConference Description The rich cultural and intellectual exchange between the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities in the Occitan-Catalan region created a unique environment that greatly influenced the development of medical alchemy. At the heart of the alchemical school that flourished in this region were the so-called Fraticelli, or ‘Spiritual Franciscans’, who opposed changes to the…
Mental Health Narratives in Singapore: Challenging Stigma through Interdisciplinary and Cross-sector Collaboration
Durham, onlineDurham University's Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH), is organising he following event: Mental Health Narratives in Singapore: Challenging Stigma through Interdisciplinary and Cross-sector Collaboration Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 12:00–13:30 BST | Online & In-person Stigma is one of the chief reasons for treatment-avoidant behaviour among people with mental health conditions. Stigmatising attitudes are spread through multiple determinants,…
Writing the Self in Pain – Historical Perspectives
Helsinki; deadline CfP May 31, 2024Pain as an affective, simultaneously sensory and emotional experience has made a prominent entrance into historical inquiries during the past two decades. Inquiries into what caused pain, how it was managed and endured, and how pain was constructed through the interaction of language, culture, society, body, and mind, have broadened our view of the experiential and…
Narratio in Medicine and The Law. Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Pisa, online; deadline CfP May 30, 2024This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical and medico-legal consilia. The event emerges out of the organisers’ research projects on diagnosis (King) and legal medicine (Papakonstantinou). It will allow participants to analyse both…
Launch Drugs Monologen oral history project
RotterdamOn 28 October, the oral history project Drugs Monologen (Drug Monologues) is launched during a talkshow in Verhalenhuis Belvédère in Rotterdam. Special attention will be paid to the innovative Drugs Monologen web app that allows the public to contribute their stories from the privacy of their own device. Drugs Monologen is a NWO funded project, led by prof. dr.…
BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture: Infiltrating the Curriculum: A Historian’s Tales from the Medical Trench
onlineOn Monday 28 October 2024 the British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) organises a Webinar and Poynter Lecture. The 2024 BSHM Webinar will begin at 5pm (UK) with contributions from three invited speakers: Inside the Medical World of Stalin’s Gulag - Dan Healey Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural…
Mini conference 40 years abortion legislation in the Netherlands
GroningenLegal abortion access and provision cannot be taken for granted. While some states have made abortion illegal again today, there are also states that – on the contrary – ensure this right by putting it into their constitution. Histories of legal abortion and journeys towards it matter and they need to be remembered and acknowledged.…
History of Medicine and Health Seminars – Semester Surgery (with drinks!)
GroningenThe History of Medicine and Health Brown Bag Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 13:00, and everyone is welcome to join. You can attend in person at Collaboratory E or tune in online (see the flyer for detailed locations per event). This year’s theme is…
Fall Symposium: Cabinet of Wonders in the History of Science + 111th anniversary of Gewina
GentThis fall, Gewina celebrates its 111th anniversary during the Flemish 'Day of Science' at the GUM (Gents Universiteitsmuseum) on November 24. The GUM is the newest museum of the history of science in the Low Countries. The museum showcases past experiments and is, in itself, a modern experiment, blending objects, artworks, and big questions. The…