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Socialist Governmentality? Healthcare, technologies of the self, and subjectification in European state socialism, 1945-1990
Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine - Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; deadline CfP December 19, 2022The two-day workshop aims to discuss the question, whether and how Michel Foucault’s ideas on liberal (and capitalist) “governmentality” can be productively applied on contemporary or historical socialist societies. It intends to take a closer look at governmentality, not from the perspective of policy makers or the power apparatus, but by using the example of…
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Histories of surgical training, skills and knowledge in early modern Europe
Paris, France; deadline CfP Feb 15, 2022On September 23 and 24, 2022, the workshop "Learning to cut, bandage and cure. Histories of surgical training, skills and knowledge in early modern Europe" is held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In the past decades, historians of medicine and science have scrutinised early modern scholarly practices and book cultures, rediscovered genres of…
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Gendering epistemologies – Gender and situated knowledge perspectives from central, eastern and southeastern Europe
Prague/Liblice, onlineMore than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay “Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands “objective knowledge” as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as “situated knowledge”. We seek…
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Call for seminar papers: Historical perspectives on morals, values, and ethics in public health
London, online; deadline CfP October 28, 2022The Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine invites expressions of interest from researchers who would like to give a seminar paper as part of a series focusing on morals, values, and ethics in public health (in any time period or geographic location), from historical perspectives. Public health, meaning collective organised…
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From the body politic to political bodies: power and disease in the early modern period
The Netherlands (exact location tba), online; deadline CfP December 1, 2022The Huizinga Institute will host a hybrid workshop on January 17, 2023 (10-18h), open to all PhD and RMA students. Deadline for presentation proposals: 1 December 2022 Deadline for participation without a presentation: 8 December 2022 Register here Abstract In early modern political theory, analogies between the state and the body were widespread. The ideal society…
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Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900)
Regensburg, Germany; deadline CfP November 15, 2022Colonization and exploration of the non-European territories was an inherently bodily experience. Food and diet became central arguments to underscore and explain the physical and cultural differences between Europeans and indigenous people. The workshop aims to bring into dialogue scholars of colonialism and food focused on different regions of the world. The task is to…
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Health sciences and the social: Health and social mobilization, 1950-2020s
CERMES3, Paris; deadline CfP December 31, 2022Rudolf Virchow’s much quoted aphorism “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale” (1848) dominated an era, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, when medicine provided a series of concepts, instruments and practices, models and experiments to a wide range of social and political experiences,…
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Fertility, Medicine and the Body. Theory and Practice across the Premodern World
Domus Comeliana, Pisa; deadline CfP April 17, 2023Organised by Catherine Rider Sarah Toulalan Keynote Speakers Carmen Caballero-Navas Regina Toepfer Tracey Loughran This Vivamente Conference addresses a broad spectrum of issues to do with fertility (and infertility), with a particular focus on the transmission of ideas between Europe, the Islamicate world, and beyond. To this end, it will bring together scholars working on…
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Cholera in the Indian Ocean World since the Nineteenth Century
Vienna, Austria & online; deadline CfP January 15, 2023Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences Organizers: Dr Eva-Maria Knoll, Medical anthropologist and Senior Researcher at ISA & Dr Vivek Neelakantan, Medical historian, 2023 Brocher Foundation Fellow & ISA Guest Researcher Keynote: Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University Cholera—first described in the Ganges delta in 1817—spread globally in seven pandemics during the past…
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Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History
Oslo, Norway; deadline CfP February 1, 2023Keynote speaker: Professor Kate Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) This workshop aims to develop a multidisciplinary dialogue on the entanglements of politics, society, ecology, environment, health, and disease in the regions of East-Central Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, bringing together scholars in the history of medicine and the medical humanities with scholars in…
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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
Chichester; deadline CfP March 17, 2023