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Intoxicated Warfare: Psychoactive Substances, Violence and Trauma
Grand Rapids; deadline CfP May 15, 2024This conference focuses on the numerous forms of drug use in wars throughout history, and it considers the aims and effects of these drugs, including enhancement, stimulation, control, remedy, cover-up, escape, or numbing the side effects of perpetration or experience of violence. Intoxicated Warfare: Psychoactive Substances, Violence and Trauma Since ancient times, drugs have been…
A Perfect Death? Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on Life, Death, and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Leuven; deadline CfP February 20, 2024The final program and details about the event can be found on this website. We 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…
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…
Writing the Self in Pain – Historical Perspectives
Helsinki; deadline CfP May 31, 2024For the final programme and more information on this event visit this website. Pain 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,…
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…
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.…
Medical Modernities: Panel in the Society of Classical Studies 156th Annual Meeting
Philadelphia; deadline CfP March 15, 2024Panel Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine Society of Classical Studies 156th Annual Meeting When reflecting on the causes for the errors in Galen’s writings, the medieval Islamicate physician-philosopher Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. c. 925 CE) proposes in his Doubts about Galen (Koetschet 2019) that the ‘arts never cease progressing towards and approaching perfection’.…
10th PhD Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and the Humanities
Eibergen; CfP 1 December 2024The organizers of the Tenth PhD Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and the Humanities—a biennial event by and for PhD researchers from universities in Belgium and the Netherlands—are seeking contributions! The conference will be held over two days, on 9-10 April 2025. PhD researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands working in field of…
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…
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World
John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, CfP February 3, 2025Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World 9th-10th June 2025 John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, UK · Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute) · PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to apply. · Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers will be covered. · Please send…
Social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments (conference)
London; registration before 14 March 2025Open call for participants: 2 day conference on Social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments, 11th and 12th June 2025, Mary Ward House, London. This is an open call for participants interested in joining a two-day conference on social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments organised by Elizabeth Shove…
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…