Experiencing ear trumpets in the Enlightenment
onlineIn the Exploring Research series of the Wellcome Collection, HHH member Ruben Verwaal discusses the oldest acoustic hearing aids in the collection: ear trumpets. He will explain how ear trumpets…
New perspectives in transcultural and postcolonial psychiatry
Berlin/onlineWithin the framework of two ERC Starting Grants (‘Decolonizing Madness’, PI Ana Antic, University of Copenhagen, and ‘Governing Madness’, PI Romain Tiquet, CNRS, Marseille), a two-day conference will be organized…
Families and health: Historical perspectives
onlineThe University of Wolverhampton organises a one day online conference on November 9, 2021, that seeks to explore the relationship between family life, family relationships and health from a historical…
Staying healthy in a medieval city
Amsterdam / onlineHow was public health organised in premodern societies, and does our knowledge about the more distant past relate to experience of pandemic and public health and environmental challenges today? Various…
Medicine in early modern Italy
Florence, ItalyThe Medici Archive Project in Florence organises a conference entitled "Medicine in early modern Italy: Between theory and practice, 1500-1700" on Friday, November 19, 2021. Traditionally, the history of medicine…
Health, body, and the profit motive: Medicine as a business in history
onlineFor the night owls among us in Europe, the Historians’ Workshop and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics organises a two-day online on November 21 and 22, 2021,…
New perspectives on eugenics
on Twitter; deadline CfP Oct 15, 2021Eugenics remains one of the most relevant topics in public forums as well as scholarly publications across disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and medicine. Its past uses and…
History of Medicine within the Medical Humanities
Lund (Sweden) / online; deadline CfP Dec 1, 2021The University of Eastern Finland and Lund University are hosting an exploratory workshop on the history of medicine within the medical humanities. Its aim is to study the place of…
Useful film in (neuro)psychiatry Europe, 1900–1950
Lausanne, Switzerland; deadline cfp Oct 30, 2021On March 3 and 4, 2022, an international workshop on film in (neuro)psychiatry is held by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Since its inception, the cinematograph had many applications in…
24th SAHMS conference
Atlanta, USA; deadline CfP Nov 8, 2021From March 10-12, 2022, the 24th Annual Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Conference is held at the Emory University in Atlanta, USA. It is open…
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…
Health infrastructure and Asia’s epidemiological transitions: Historical perspectives
Singapore; deadline CfP Oct 31, 2021On April 13 and 14, 2022, the workshop "Health infrastructure and Asia’s epidemiological transitions" is organised in Singapore by the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, and…