Events
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Talking Trash — The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics by Bruno Strasser
Leuven/OnlineTalking Trash: The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics In the 1950s, Western medicine began to embrace single-use medical devices such as masks, gloves, syringes, and catheters. Within just two decades, this “throwaway” culture, rooted in the modernist appeal of plastics, transformed hospital care. It took the COVID-19 pandemic for the…
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Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration ((online) talk)
London/OnlineThursday 5 March 2026, 5 – 8pm (talks and online event from 6pm) Book to attend in person or online here. Join the Royal College of Nursing for the launch of a new exhibition exploring stories of migration in the history of nursing. From the colonial legacy of missionary nurses in the nineteenth century to the…
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Conference: Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1600-1900
Helsinki; CfP deadline: 8 June 2025The University of Helsinki organises the international conference Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, to be held on 11–13 March 2026. The question of experiment is at the core of knowledge and practices of healing. Following the so-called ‘scientific revolution’, new medical knowledge has increasingly been both gained and tested through…
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Book launch: The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, & The Medical Humanities
Durham, onlineThis book launch is a celebration of both the new Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities as well as the growing and enduring interest in the overlap between those three domains. To applaud and recognise that interest, the launch will include a panel discussion with the volume's co-editors - Kristy Slominski (University…
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Pulse Seminar: Edward Fischer & Manon Parry – Cultural Contexts of Health & Long Covid
AmsterdamPulse Seminar March 19th, 15:00-17:00 University of Amsterdam: Kloveniersburgwal 48, room e1.01e Edward fischer - Long Covid, Lived Experience, and the Limits of Medical Categories Long Covid resists biomedical approaches that organize illness into discrete systems-neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal-as if the body were a machine with separable parts. Instead, it moves between and across these supposed…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar by Samuël Coghe
Leuven/OnlineAnthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Madagascar became an important exporter of live cattle and cattle commodities such as hides and beef. While this process started before French colonial conquest in 1895, the cattle frontier was fuelled…
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Lecture: From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property
LeidenLECTURE | GLOBAL HISTORIES OF KNOWLEDGE SEMINAR | LEIDEN UNIVERSITY From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property Natacha Klein Käfer (University of Copenhagen / Lund University) Date: Friday 20 March 2026 Time 15:30 - 17:00 Series Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Location: Leiden University, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16,…
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HoMH Seminars RUG – dr. Chris Millard – Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England.
onlineThis year, the theme for The History of Medicine and Health Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is “diagnosis”. Wednesday 25 March, 16.00-17.00: dr. Chris Millard (University of Sheffield) - Harrowing, discomfiting, perilous, brutish and unpleasant: the visibility of diagnostic procedures in Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England. This session will be held online, you can contact Diedelot…
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Showing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations (1 day Conference)
ParisShowing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations National Academy of Medicine, Paris, 26 March 2026 Call for Papers As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, ‘to be dead is to be a prey for the living’ (1956, 593). The vulnerability of the dead, described by the French philosopher, applies to their memories as well as their…
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First Annual HHH Meeting & Lecture
UtrechtAs you all know, we recently announced a new direction for HHH: from now on, instead of our two separate spring and autumn meetings, we will come together once a year for one larger annual event. With this yearly festive lecture, we hope to strengthen the network function of HHH and create a moment where…
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Symposium: Koloniale verleden van Nederlandse medische (kennis)instellingen
UtrechtDe Universiteit Utrecht is zich de afgelopen jaren steeds meer bewust geworden van het feit dat het koloniale verleden van Nederland mogelijk nog steeds van invloed is op de huidige wetenschappelijke kennisproductie. Om die reden hebben verschillende faculteiten besloten hun mogelijke bijdrage aan koloniaal onderzoek en beleid te onderzoeken. Aan het UMC Utrecht is een…
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Lecture: Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
IIAS, LeidenLecture organised by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Leiden University Institute for History. Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 15:00 ~ 16:30 Location: Leiden University, IIAS Conference Room HMO 0.28, Witte Singel 27a, 2311BG Leiden Measles is “back”. But is vaccine hesitancy the only culprit? Looking at Southeast Asia and mobilising the…