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Pulse Network Seminar on health, the environment and food history
AmsterdamThe first seminar of Pulse Network - Medical & Health Humanities is about health, the environment and food history featuring Noreen Masud and YingTzu Lin: Noreen Masud (University of Bristol) “SOUTH AFRICA AS A HEALTH RESORT: WRITER OLIVE SCHREINER’S ‘BREATH’ AND MEDICO-COLONIAL NARRATIVES AROUND ‘GOOD AIR’ AND ‘VARIETY’” In the late nineteenth century, the medico-colonial…
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Planetary Health Dialogues – First Session: “Common Good”
GroningenOn February 13, 2025, the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health is kicking off the Planetary Health Dialogues, a new interdisciplinary series in collaboration with the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development UG. This series brings together experts from diverse fields to explore key themes in Planetary Health, fostering fresh perspectives and collaboration. Each session…
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DECOLONISE – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt's a new semester, so the Pulse Network - Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month's speakers and topics. Seminar #2: DECOLONISE Arya Thampuran of Durham University, co-lead of the Black Health and the Humanities Network and the…
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CARE – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #2: CARE Hugo Schalwijk (Verpleegkundigen & Verzorgenden Nederland) and Bart Both (UvA) Kristine Krause (UvA) Date: 27 March,…
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JUSTICE – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #3: JUSTICE Willemijn Ruberg (Universiteit Utrecht), 'On or in the body? Physical Examinations by Police and Forensic Doctors…
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CREATIVITY – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #4: CREATIVITY Erin La Cour (VU, Amsterdam) John Miers (Kingston University, UK) Date: 22 May, 15:00-17:00 Location: University…
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HoH Seminars RUG – dr. Timo Bolt – A global epidemic of what? The expansive taxonomy of diabetes and prediabetes
Groningen/onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 26 November, 16.00-17.00, followed by drinks: dr. Timo Bolt - A global epidemic of what? The expansive taxonomy of diabetes and prediabetes Wednesday 28 January, 16.00-17.00: dr. Pauline Dirven - Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues in Rape and Murder Examinations…
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HoH Seminars RUG – dr. Pauline Dirven – Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues in Rape and Murder Examinations in 20th Century Britain
Groningen/onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 28 January, 16.00-17.00: dr. Pauline Dirven - Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues in Rape and Murder Examinations in 20th Century Britain Sessions semester 2: Wednesday 25 March, 16.00-17.00 Wednesday 22 April, 16.00-17.00 Wednesday 27 May, 16.00-17.00, followed by…
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Colin Sterling & Anna Woodham – Surviving the Museum – PULSE seminar series 2026
AmsterdamSEMINAR FEBRUARY 19TH 15:00-17:00 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 48, ROOM E1.01E COLIN STERLING - SURVIVING THE MUSEUM In 1969 The American Museum of Natural History celebrated its 100-year anniversary with an exhibition on the nascent environmental crisis. The exhibition - ominously titled Can Man Survive? - was an immersive audio-visual extravaganza with jagged scenography, stark…
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Pulse Seminar: Edward Fischer & Manon Parry – Cultural Contexts of Health & Long Covid
AmsterdamPulse Seminar March 19th, 15:00-17:00 University of Amsterdam: Kloveniersburgwal 48, room e1.01e Edward fischer - Long Covid, Lived Experience, and the Limits of Medical Categories Long Covid resists biomedical approaches that organize illness into discrete systems-neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal-as if the body were a machine with separable parts. Instead, it moves between and across these supposed…
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HoMH Seminars RUG – dr. Chris Millard – Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England.
onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 25 March, 16.00-17.00: dr. Chris Millard (University of Sheffield) - Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England. This session will be held online, you can contact Diedelot…
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HoMH Seminars RUG – prof. dr. Stefanie Gänger – ‘More people die of fevers, than of any other distemper’. On the Ascendancy of a Diagnosis, 1760–1830
onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 22 April, 16.00-17.00: Prof. dr. Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University) - 'More people die of fevers, than of any other distemper'. On the Ascendancy of a Diagnosis, 1760–1830. This session will be held online, you can contact Diedelot Denessen…