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Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”
Heidelberg; CfP 15 december 2024Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840” Organizers: Stefanie Gänger, Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, Lea-Marie Trigilia Date: 10-11 July 2025 The conference “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”, which will take place on 10-11 July 2025 at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Hosted by the ERC CoG Project FEVER based at…
Health Beyond Medicine – European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) conference
Berlin; CfP March 10, 2025EAHMH 2025 Berlin - Health Beyond Medicine August 26-29, 2025 Humboldt University In the past years, conceptions of health have been challenged on multiple levels. Medical interventions appear as one among a variety of factors that contribute to priority setting in health and wellbeing, from vaccination to laboratory capacities, and from the small scale of…
XX Biannual Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine
Düsseldorf; deadline Call for Abstracts: February 15, 2025European dissertation cultures in medicine At the core of this twentieth conference is the doctoral dissertation within the medical terrain. The Latin word dissertatio means argument or detailed discussion, making this classic form of scholarly publishing an ideal subject for longitudinal historical analysis. It allows the comparative study of academic discourse. Originally, the dissertation was…
Material Matters. Powerful Objects in Medical Museums and Collections
Ingolstadt; CfP 28 februari 2025Material Matters. Powerful Objects in Medical Museums and Collections First Biannual Conference of the “International Association of Medical Museums and Collections” (IAMMC), formerly “European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences” (EAMHMS) Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany, 10 - 13 September 2025. The last conference (Leiden 2023) investigated “New Horizons” for medical museums…
BSHM Congress 2025
Leeds; deadline CfP May 20, 2025British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) Congress 2025 focuses on three main themes: Herbs, Potions and Magic Bullets The history of medicines and their uses and abuses across time, culture and modality from herbal remedies through chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs and biologics to hi-tech treatments in Western medicine; traditional, non-Western and Indigenous practices; alternative,…
Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries
Geneva; CfP 1 March 2025"Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries", University of Geneva, September 18-19 2025 How have workers' bodies been protected in hazardous working environments? Masks, gloves, goggles, helmets, ventilators, fume hoods, radiation detectors, shields, and fuses are just some of the devices deployed to safeguard health and ensure safety in dangerous…
Artefacts 2025
Oslo; deadline CfP 15 May 2025With pleasure, Norsk Teknisk Museum (the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology) announces that the next and 30th meeting of ARTEFACTS will be held in Oslo, Norway, 12–14 October 2025. ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology, and medicine, who share the goal of promoting the use of objects…
Conference: Medical Education in Europe. Texts, Institutions, Practices (1350-1750)
Pisa/Online; CfA 15 July 2025Medical Education in Europe Texts, Institutions, Practices (1350-1750) From Bologna, Montpellier, and Paris to Padua, Ferrara, and, later, Leiden, medical education in Europe evolved within a complex landscape of texts, institutions, and practices. Medical learning has also been shaped by diverse material, philosophical, and cultural frameworks, which transformed significantly between the late Middle Ages and…
International Conference Body and care in the ordeal of war
Prague; deadline CfP May 5, 2025Body and care in the ordeal of war. A socio-historical perspective on East-Central and East-Southern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries. - CEFRES, Prague, November 12-14, 2025 In contrast to perceptions of the war phenomenon as a situation of exception and, as such, a shocking and obscure object, apprehending the war from an ordinary perspective and…
Conference: Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1600-1900
Helsinki; CfP deadline: 8 June 2025The University of Helsinki organises the international conference Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, to be held on 11–13 March 2026. The question of experiment is at the core of knowledge and practices of healing. Following the so-called ‘scientific revolution’, new medical knowledge has increasingly been both gained and tested through…