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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…
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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…
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Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Health – Medicine and Society in the Middle Ages (1200-1400)
Pisa/Online; Online participation registration deadline: 14 JulyVivaMente Conference on 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 - 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟒𝟎𝟎) Polo Benedettine - Pisa 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Organised by 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨, 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐢, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢 Keynote Speakers: 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐨, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞, 𝐆𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐚, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢, 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐨, 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐭, 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐙𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧 CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Conference: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
Leiden; CfP deadline 1 November 2025On 22 and 23 January 2026 Fenneke Sysling and Caroline Schep are organising a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context. Practical information: Venue: Boerhaave Museum, Leiden Conference date: 22 and 23 January 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 1 November 2025 Keynote: prof. Projit Mukharji This conference…