Environment and Information: What is Alive and What is Dead in J.J. Gibson Ecological Theory of Perception
Florence, onlineMattia della Rocca (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) will give a talk in the framework of the lecture series on 'History of the Human Mind' hosted by the EUI History of Science and Medicine Working Group. Mattia Della Rocca will discuss James J. Gibson's The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception from 1979. Through the analysis…
Ageing in the British Archives
onlineTalk by Charlotte Greenhalgh, part of the health humanities lecture series on ageing organised by KU Leuven. For all information, please visit this page.
Health, science and society in India
Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka; deadline CfP October 15, 2022We are delighted to announce our upcoming one-day Interdisciplinary Conference on Health, Science and Society in India to be held on 10 February, 2023 at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka. We are calling for abstracts from Doctoral and Early Career Scholars addressing diverse understandings of health in…
Bodies, Remedies, Policies: From Early Modern Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narratives
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main; deadline CfP December 4, 2022Early Modern expansionism and its aftermaths constitute a biopolitical laboratory, measuring, administering, and controlling social and individual bodies, their well-being and decay (Jáuregui/Solodkow 2020, Foucault 1976). Bodies, Remedies, Policies: From Early Modern Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narrative Interdisciplinary Conference The power over life and death defines healthy bodies and adequate remedies through policies…
Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965: Ideas and Improvisations
onlineHistory of Medicine and Health Seminar organised under the auspices of the Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies Tizian Zumthurm (Universität Bern) Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965: Ideas and Improvisations The seminar is hosted on ZOOM. For link email: james.kennaway@rug.nl Find the full programme of the…
How far down does top-down go? Franz Boas between psychology and anthropology
Florence, onlineNoga Arikha (European University Institute) will give a talk in the framework of the lecture series on 'History of the Human Mind' hosted by the EUI History of Science and Medicine Working Group. How far down does top-down go? Franz Boas between psychology and anthropology. There is a rich and growing body of experimental research…
The Meaning of Midlife
Leuven, onlineTalk by Ben Hutchinson, part of the health humanities lecture series on ageing organised by KU Leuven. For all information, please visit this page.
How to be suspicious of your own mind: From Bacon to Locke
Florence, onlineGuido Giglioni (Università di Macerata) will give a talk in the framework of the lecture series on ‘History of the Human Mind’ hosted by the EUI History of Science and Medicine Working Group. For more information and to receive the Zoom link, please email one of the organisers: timo.houtekamer@eui.eu, marie.vanhaaster@eui.eu, maxime.guttin@eui.eu.
Hidden Histories of HIV
London; onlineJoin two cultural historians, Dr Hannah Elizabeth and Dr Janet Weston, who will share their research recovering the hidden histories of people affected during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Their work unearths the stories of those often missing from mainstream narratives about HIV in the UK and Europe, such as people living and working in prisons, drug…
HHH spring meeting: Framing statistics?
Radboud University, NijmegenMedical history meets historical demography On the 10th of March, the History Health and Healing network will meet with historical demography! This meeting will take place at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, where professor dr. Jan Kok, professor in economic, social and demographic history, will give a word of welcome. The keynote will be given by…
Exploring Donor Anonymity: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
KU Leuven, onlineIn the last decades, donor anonymity has gained critical attention in many European countries, including in Belgium. Partially in response to the activism of donor-conceived persons, a number of law proposals have been submitted since 2015 to partially or completely waive donor anonymity. Donor anonymity has also become a topic of debate in Belgian society…
Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
onlineHistory of Medicine and Health Seminar organised under the auspices of the Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies Samuël Coghe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola The seminar is hosted on ZOOM. For link email: james.kennaway@rug.nl Find the full programme…