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…
Symposium for the 30 years of the Florence Nightingale Institute
UtrechtThe online museum for nursing and care FNI (Florence Nightingale Institute) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To celebrate this happy occasion, V&VN is organizing a symposium on October…
The National Health Service ad the legacies of empire
BerlinThis two-day international symposium marks the 75th anniversary of the British National Health Service (NHS) by focusing on a neglected theme in the organisation’s history, culture and current medical practices.…
Book presentation “De poppenspeler van Mengele” by Leo van Bergen
UtrechtBook presentation – Mini-symposium (in Dutch) De poppenspeler van Mengele van Leo van Bergen Programma Anita Hendricx (historicus, filosoof en oud-docent levensbeschouwing) (medische) metaforen in nationaalsocialistisch taalgebruik Stephen Snelders (historicus werkzaam bij…
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Rights. Health Feminism, Reproductive Knowledge and Women’s Activism Across Europe in the long 20th Century
KonstanzThe conference aims at exploring health feminism and women's activism from the perspective of the history of knowledge. It intends to interrogate the homogeneity of the existing Western European narratives…
“The Micro as Macro”: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
Santa Cruz; deadline CfP August 11, 2023The UCSC Center for World History invites paper proposals for its fourth (almost) annual graduate student conference, which explores non-European places and actors by centering on techno-scientific, environmental, sensorial, and…
PULSE network seminar on the mind
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit…
The cultural biography of the prostate
onlineThe Kolloquium des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf will host two webinars in collaboration with the European Association for the History of Medicine…
PULSE network seminar on AIDS
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit…
PULSE network seminar on food
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit…
The speculum paradox: A history of medicine, morality and menopause
onlineThe Kolloquium des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf will host two webinars in collaboration with the European Association for the History of Medicine…
Health in American History
Erfurt; deadline CfP July 31, 2023Exploring the history of health means to historicize what people have understood as health, as being healthy, and as living a healthy life. Moreover, questions of health have affected politics…