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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…
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Youth sexuality in postwar Britain
online; POSTPONEDIn the online seminar series of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (Glasgow), on March 22 from 5-6.30 (CET) Caroline Rusterholz (University of Cambridge) holds a lecture on the subject of youth sexuality in postwar Britain. You can register at the CSHHH website in order to receive the Zoom link.
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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…
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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…
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Acting out disease: How patient organizations shaped modern medicine
onlineOn April 21, Ylva Söderfeldt holds her lecture “Acting out disease: How patient organizations shaped modern medicine“. The lecture is part of the KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2021-2022, which has patient agency as its overall theme. Contrary to previously established periodizations, patient organizations first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the twentieth…
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Chemistry outside the laboratory
online; deadline CfP Feb 1, 2022The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) invites proposals for its 13th annual postgraduate workshop, “Chemistry Outside the Laboratory” on May 13 and 14, 2022. This two-day virtual workshop follows the (al)chemical sciences beyond their traditional laboratory remit (which has long been a productive object of historical inquiry) and focuses instead on…
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Narrative agency, autism and recognition in the age of neurodiversity
onlineOn May 22, Anne Stenning holds her lecture “Narrative agency, autism and recognition in the age of neurodiversity". The lecture is part of the KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2021-2022, which has patient agency as its overall theme. Dr Stenning's current project is on life writing (including autobiography, memoir and mixed media) by autistic…
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Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945
Glasgow and online; deadline CfP Feb 7, 2022The conference "Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945" takes place on June 9 and 10 in Glasgow and online. The conference explores the emergence of notions of reproductive rights, reproductive justice and reproductive choice and autonomy over the course of the second half of the…
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In the shadow of historiography: Toward another history of healthcare
Ottawa, Canada / online; deadline cfp Dec 31, 2021The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing is organising their annual meeting on June 9-11, 2022, on the subject of missing voices in the historiography of healthcare. The history of healthcare was for a long time devoted only to the history of doctors and their inventions and theories. It was not until the 1970s…
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Fat bodies in the early modern world
Frankfurt / Edinburgh / online; deadline CfP Jan 15, 2022On June 28-30, the conference "Fat bodies in the early modern world" takes place onsite in Frankfurt and Edinburgh as well as online. In the emerging field of Fat Studies, historical overviews about the perception and representation of fat and dieting tend to focus on the 19th and 21st centuries. More recent studies, however, have…
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(Critical) blindness studies
onlineFrom June 30 to July 5, the international conference "(Critical) blindness studies: Current debates and future directions" takes place online. In this conference, Anglo-American Disability Studies and Francophone studies of disability come together. The organizers' goal is to end the conference with the collaborative authorship of a "Blindness studies manifesto”, a statement generated by the…
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Sensing Spaces: The History of Colour, Art and Care (online lecture)
onlineJoin for an online talk on the history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals. What are the colours of care? In this fascinating talk, Victoria Bates explores the history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals, including the growing interest in hospital art in the post-war period. Delve into the sensory history of health care, and…