Medical humanities: (In)Visibility
onlineNNMHR congress 2021 21 April 2021-23 April 2021, online The fourth Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) Congress is organised by the Institute for Medical Humanities in Durham (UK). These congresses are an opportunity for people who are passionate or even simply curious about medical humanities research to present their work, share ideas, and…
De hokjes voorbij: Inclusie en destigmatisering rond psychische problematiek vanuit verschillende perspectieven
onlineSymposium about inclusion and destigmatisation regarding mental health problems from various perspectives (keynotes in English) 18 June 2021 @ 12:30-17:00, online Interdisciplinary symposium about inclusion and destigmatisation of people with mental health problems from various perspectives: past and present; psychology, sociology, humanities and human rights; experience, theory and practice. Organised by the Open University of…
SSHM 50th Anniversary Conference: Resilience
Swansea, UKBiennual conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine 24-26 June The Society for the Social History of Medicine had to postpone last year's conference to June 2021. The theme is resilience: What are the histories of resilience as a medical, psychiatric and biological concept? What are the connections between resilience and the…
Historicidagen 2021: Grenzeloze geschiedenis POSTPONED
RotterdamHistoricidagen 2021 (in Dutch) postponed to 25-27 August 2022 Due to the ongoing pandemic, the biennual Historicidagen (Historian’s Days) have been postponed to next year. They are an initiative of the KNHG – this edition is hosted by the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and its theme is grenzeloze geschiedenis, boundless history. More information on the…
Faith, medicine and religion
onlineEAHMH Biennual Conference 7 September 2021 - 10 September 2021, online The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) organises its biennial meeting this year in cooperation with the Research Group Cultural History since 1750 at KU Leuven. Faith and religion are part and parcel of the field of medicine and of…
British Society for the History of Medicine Biennial Congress
SheffieldThe British Society for the History of Medicine is organising its biennual congress in Sheffield this year. Key themes are: the history of medicine in the workplace pandemics nursing innovation in medical engineering and other general topics in the history of medicine Abstract submissions are welcome until May 31, 2021. For more information go the…
New perspectives in transcultural and postcolonial psychiatry
Berlin/online, deadline cfp May 1 2021Within the framework of two ERC Starting Grants (‘Decolonizing Madness’, PI Ana Antic, University of Copenhagen, and ‘Governing Madness’, PI Romain Tiquet, CNRS, Marseille), a two-day conference will be organized at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) at the beginning of November 2021 with a focus on new perspectives in the history and anthropology of transcultural…
Suicide and its prevention: Contemporary and historical perspectives in nursing, 1880–2020
Leiden, deadline cfp May 31, 2021The European Association for the History of Nursing and five professional nursing organisations from The Netherlands organise a pan-European conference that will examine contemporary and historical perspectives on suicide and its prevention, with reference to theory and practice. It will be limited to a maximum of 75 participants in order to facilitate thorough discussion and…
Grenzeloze geschiedenis
RotterdamHistoricidagen (in Dutch) postponed to 25-27 August 2022 Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2021 edition of the Historicidagen (Historian’s Days) has been postponed to nthe summer of 2022. This year it is hosted by the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and its theme is grenzeloze geschiedenis, boundless history.