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CREATIVITY – Seminar series Pulse Network

Amsterdam

It’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/Online

KU 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…

Voorjaarsbijeenkomst Gewina: Internationalisering in de wetenschap

Maastricht

Gewina 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…

Masterclass Frances Gage: Imagination in medicine and the arts

Groningen

The 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…

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World

John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, CfP February 3, 2025

Bodies 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 2025

Open 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

Amsterdam

We 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 2025

Cutting 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 2024

Conference: “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…