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Outsiders, outcasts and eccentrics: Experiences of deviancy and deviant experiences
Tampere University, Finland; deadline CfP January 13, 2023The concepts of deviance and deviancy once anchored a great many social scientific and humanistic studies. Beginning in the 1990s, however, scholars began to question their usefulness, with some declaring the study of deviance a dead field. Nevertheless, historians have found the theme of deviance productive, contributing to the study of a number of social…
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History of Nursing Research Colloquium
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How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice
Utrecht; deadline CfP April 14, 2023How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice Workshop organized by Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University), Noortje Jacobs (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and Martijn van der Meer (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) Almost forty years ago, Roy Porter published his seminal article ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’. Historians routinely ignored the roles,…
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Decoding Recipes: Histories of Knowledge and Practice across Time and Space
University of Sheffield, online; deadline CfP 1 December 2022Note: exact date of event not yet known. The event will take place in October 2023. This two-day hybrid workshop, jointly supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, aims to explore recipes as sources and methods for thinking and writing about the past. As demonstrated by a growing corpus across a number of fields,…
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Health and socialism: of shortages and solidarity
Berlin, onlineThis workshop discusses how notions of international solidarity and material and financial shortages impacted socialist global health. Health and socialism: of shortages and solidarity The research project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, funded by ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, explores the emergence of global health in the 20th century, primarily focusing on the socialist…
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Laboratory Animal (Im)mobilities: Relocating Pasts and Presents of Biomedical Experimentation
MaastrichtOver the last decade or so, geographers, anthropologists and historians have begun to address ways the movement of animals (and the prevention of such movement) intersects with human culture. Investigation of such themes as the role of flight and migration in hunting and scientific observation, the enrolment of animals in European colonization projects, tensions and…
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Descartes Centre colloquium: Florentine Medical Alchemy in the Renaissance and a practical hands-on experience in the ArtLab
UtrechtParticipation in this colloquium is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email infodescartescentre@uu.nl to reserve a place. Abstracts Talk 1 (Jo Hedesan): Francesco I de Medici’s Alchemical Laboratory as Depicted by Jan Stradanus (1570) My talk will revolve around a painting of an alchemical laboratory created by Jan van der Straet or Stradanus (1523-1605), a Flemish-born artist…
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Over the Global Counter: Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long Twentieth Century
Nottingham; deadline CfP March 28, 2024A one-day workshop at the University of Nottingham, Friday 14 June 2024 Over the twentieth century, health, hygiene, and beauty have become progressively commodified all around the world. From hot water bottles to toothbrushes, aspirin to vitamins, customers navigated an increasingly crowded marketplace crammed with products claiming to help them look and feel better. Consumer…
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Online workshop: Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century
onlineContagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time) The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CNCSI) organises a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the relationship between contagion and contamination in nineteenth-century culture across the globe. The workshop will feature several…
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International workshop: Contested Industrialisation of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene
Utrecht; CfP 1 december 2024Contested Industrialisation of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene: Critical Histories of Agriculture- and Food-Affiliated Industries from a Global Perspective (1945-present) International workshop, May 15-16, 2025 Location: Utrecht University, the Netherlands Organizers: dr. Floor Haalboom (Erasmus University Medical Center/Utrecht University), Amber Striekwold MA (Utrecht University), Anna Teijeiro Fokkema MA (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) This workshop aims…
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Masterclass Frances Gage: Imagination in medicine and the arts
GroningenThe idea of ‘imagination’ is central to the humanities and indispensable in the medical- and health sciences. Everyone knows that the imagination can make you sick and vice versa, that it can make you feel better. Psychosomatics is full of examples of how ideas can cause psychological and bodily distress, while at the same time…
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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 – online workshop
Online; Proposal deadline 6 October 2025Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 University of Birmingham Via Zoom, Friday 5 December 2025 In recent years, material culture has expanded its reach through the humanities and social sciences, allowing for new kinds of histories to be written. In the medical humanities, the study of objects is one methodology that has allowed historians…