International Nursing History Conference
online; deadline CfP Nov 1, 2021On March 18-19, 2022, the 5th Agnes Dillon Randolph International Nursing History Conference is held online, organised by the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and hosted by the University of Virginia School of Nursing. The conference's subject is the history of nursing and health care, with particular attention for the methodological, thematic, chronological and…
Disability history, objects and heritage
online; deadline CfP Jan 21, 2022On March 22 and 23, the conference "Invisible and underrepresented, Disability history, objects and heritage" is organised online. The experiences and histories of disabled people, like other marginalised groups, are often absent or hidden the museum or archive. Almost twenty years ago, both Annie Delin (2002) and Catherine Kudlick (2002) separately suggested that the place…
Patients, prayers and pilgrims
Reading, UK; deadline CfP Jan 10, 2022"Patients, prayers and pilgrims" is the third edition of the "Maladies, Miracles and Medicine’ conference organised by the University of Reading on April 1, 2022. Healthcare in the Middle Ages covered a broad range of practices, influenced by religious and scholarly theories of the body. Patients might look to a range of restorative practices from…
Medical humanities in the Middle East
online; deadline CfP Feb 15, 2022The 2nd international conference "Medical humanities in the Middle East" takes place online on April 9 and 10. It invites proposals for oral presentations and posters on the topics of narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in medicine occurring…
Health infrastructure and Asia’s epidemiological transitions: Historical perspectives
Singapore; deadline CfP Oct 31, 2021On April 13 and 14, 2022, the workshop "Health infrastructure and Asia’s epidemiological transitions" is organised in Singapore by the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, and the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. This workshop will investigate Asian experiences, and in particular those of East and Southeast Asia, in crafting…
AAHM’s 95th annual meeting
Saratoga Springs NY, deadline cfp Sept 27, 2021The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) holds its 95th annual meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York, April 21-24, 2022. The AAHM welcomes papers on the history of health and healing; the history of medical ideas, institutions, nursing and medical practices; and the history of illness, disease, or public health. Submissions pertaining to…
From automata to transhumans
Pisa and online; deadline CfP Feb 14, 2022The conference "From automata to transhumans, Debating human nature and its limitations 1600-2000" takes place in Pisa and online on April 21 and 22, 2022. An important part of the contemporary debate on human nature was shaped by debates taking place in early modern Europe in the attempt to remove the animal part of the…
Mapping bodies
Chicago / deadline CfP Feb 15, 2022On April 22-24, 2022, the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place (IASESP) holds an interdisciplinary conference in Chicago entitled "Mapping bodies". The global pandemic highlights already existing disparities in U.S. health care - especially racial, social, economic, and age inequities - seen, for example, in inadequate elderly care, vaccine access, and…
Trend reversals in the public health of Limburg, past and present
MaastrichtOn April 29, the Centre for the Social History of Limburg and Maastricht University organize a public event on trend reversals in the public health of Limburg, in the past and present. The province of Limburg is known for its historical and present-day lower life expectancy compared to other Dutch regions. Speakers from varying backgrounds…
Pandemic pasts, pandemic futures
Menorca, Spain; deadline CfP Nov 15, 2021The postponed conference “Pandemic pasts, pandemic futures. Sources, histories, imaginations” has been finally scheduled for 5-7 May 2022, to be held - as originally planned - in the premises of the old lazaretto of Mahon, Balearic Islands, Spain. The COVID-19 pandemic has definitively shaken the late 20th-century belief in the end of infectious disease outbreaks…
Reckoning with race and racism in academic medicine
Baltimore, USA; deadline CfP Jan 31, 2022On May 5-6, 2022, a conference is held at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore entitled "Reckoning with race and racism in academic medicine". The conference is organised in order to confront the legacies of white supremacy and exclusion in American academic medicine and the central role that academic medicine has played and continues to play…
Suicide and its prevention: Contemporary and historical perspectives in nursing, 1880–2020
Leiden, deadline cfp May 31, 2021On May 19, 2022, the 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…