CREATIVITY – Seminar series Pulse Network
AmsterdamIt’s a new semester, so the Pulse Network – Medical & Health Humanities at University of Amsterdam is organising a new seminar series. Follow Pulse on LinkedIn for more details on each month’s speakers and topics. Seminar #4: CREATIVITY Erin La Cour (VU, Amsterdam) John Miers (Kingston University, UK) Date: 22 May, 15:00-17:00 Location: University…
Lecture Karin Bijsterveld: The ‘Return’ of the Retirement Home: Anthropology, Architecture and Policy Analysis in the Historiography of Postwar Housing for Older People in the Netherlands
Leuven/OnlineKU Leuven organises Health Humanities lecture series KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series 2024-2025: Health and the Built Environment ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’, or so Winston Churchill once said. For better or for worse, our constructed physical space – the so-called built environment – impacts on our behaviours, our social interactions, and our…
Lezing: Chirurgijns in den vreemde. De geneeskundige zorg van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC)
NijmegenOp 22 mei om 19.00 (inloop vanaf 18.30) zal er in het kader van de lezingencyclus van de Medisch Historische Club Nijmegen ‘Daniël de Moulin’ een lezing worden gehouden over de medische zorg voor het personeel in Azië van de VOC, de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, 17e en 18e eeuw. Wie waren zij? Wie betaalde hen…
Voorjaarsbijeenkomst Gewina: Internationalisering in de wetenschap
MaastrichtGewina organiseert de voorjaarsbijeenkomst ‘Internationalisering in de wetenschap’ op vrijdag 23 mei 2025 in Maastricht. Programma Voor Gewina-leden: 10.30: Inloop 11.00: Huishoudelijke vergadering 12.00: Lunch Inhoudelijk programma: 12.30: Welkom door Gewina en Tracé 12.45: Sessie 1: ‘Grensoverschrijdend: historische perspectieven op de internationalisering van wetenschap en regio’ • Georgiana Kotsou over internationale congressen • Luca Forgiarini…
Webinar: Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s “The Midwives’ Book” (1671) – Martina Guzzetti
onlineWomen's Ideas in the History of Medicine Fertility, Maternity, and Reproduction - 2025 Webinars Series Organised by Jil Muller & Fabrizio Bigotti. Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – University of Paderborn, this series seeks to understand the role of women in the history of medicine by…
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…
Public Lecture – Frances Gage: Picturing La Vecchia: Time, Gender and Aging in the Early Modern Imagination
GroningenPublic Lecture (open to all) Frances Gage (Buffalo State University), will give a public keynote lecture at the University of Groningen (as an addition to the masterclass also taking place there on June 4th, see events calendar). In her groundbreaking book Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome (Pennsylvania, 2008), she has shown that paintings…
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World
John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, CfP February 3, 2025Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World 9th-10th June 2025 John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, UK · Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute) · PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to apply. · Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers will be covered. · Please send…
Social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments (conference)
London; registration before 14 March 2025Open call for participants: 2 day conference on Social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments, 11th and 12th June 2025, Mary Ward House, London. This is an open call for participants interested in joining a two-day conference on social practice theory and public health: microbes, bodies and environments organised by Elizabeth Shove…
HHH summer event – Keynote & Film Screening on Sensing the History of Medicine
AmsterdamWe are excited to announce the next HHH meeting, which will take place on June 30 in Amsterdam. The event is organised in conjunction with the HHH/Huizinga Summer School “Sensing the History of Medicine: Sources, Methods, and Results.” Explore the role of the senses in shaping medical history during this afternoon. The event kicks off…
Summer School: Cutting and Curing. Anatomy and Surgery in Early Modern Europe (1500-1700)
Pisa/Online; Registration deadline 30 June 2025Cutting and Curing. Anatomy and Surgery in Early Modern Europe (1500-1700) 8-10 July 2025 Keynote Speakers: Sandra Cavallo, Heidi Hausse, Vivian Nutton, Katharine Park, Michael Stolberg, Tillmann Taape Anatomy held an important place in Renaissance learned medicine. Anatomists continued to draw on the writings of the ancients but, together with botany and clinical medicine, anatomy…
Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”
Heidelberg; CfP 15 december 2024Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840” Organizers: Stefanie Gänger, Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, Lea-Marie Trigilia Date: 10-11 July 2025 The conference “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”, which will take place on 10-11 July 2025 at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Hosted by the ERC CoG Project FEVER based at…