Flushed, Pipelined, Recycled: Landscapes of Bodily Waste and Value / Termine
Oulu; deadline contributions September 18, 2023The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History We are seeking participants who run or lead group projects (workshops, special issues, collected papers, museum collaborations, etc.) on or related to the broadly defined topic of bodily waste and value. We invite them to present their collective projects (10 min presentations) and contribute to a discussion of…
Biennial meeting of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Oslo; deadline CfP January 30, 2023The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) invites submissions for its biennial meeting, 30 August – 2 September 2023, which will take place in Oslo. The Association welcomes abstracts for individual papers, panels, roundtables and contributions to a mixed media session on the general theme Crisis in Medicine. For all details…
BSHM Congress 2023
CardiffThe President and Officers of the British Society for the History of Medicine look forward to welcoming you to the 2023 BSHM Congress at Cardiff University. Participation is open to all interested in the history of medicine and there are reduced rates for students. Cardiff is a thriving and dynamic creative capital city with a…
Joint meeting of the Société Française d’Histoire de La Médecine and the Nederlandse Veneriging voor Medische Geschiedenis
For the first time, the Société Française d'Histoire de La Médecine meets beyond its borders. On September 16, 2023, the Société will meet with the Nederlandse Veneriging voor Medische Geschiedenis (NVMG) in the Boerhaave Museum. The programme will focus on Franco-Batavian connections. The programme also includes a guided tour of the museum and a joint…
New Horizons for Medical Museums and Collections
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden; deadline CfP February 28, 2023Medical museums are in permanent flux. Collections containing objects related to the history of medicine and health play a role in teaching, research and learning in the broadest sense. The past years medical museums in particular have demonstrated the power to contribute to patient communities, health and wellbeing, and society at large. Yet from small…
The ‘cause of the mentally ill’: Mediatisating and destigmatising madness in the second half of the 20th century
Strasbourg; deadline CfP July 15, 2023This international conference aims to bring together multiple perspectives on the way in which madness and its forms of care were mediatised and discussed in the public arena in a context marked, in France as in other European countries, by profound transformations in the field of psychiatry and mental health policies. Based on the observation…
Decolonizing Medicine in Africa and its Diaspora
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Towson University, Maryland, online; deadline CfP March 15, 2023Medicine in Africa and the diaspora continues to be dominated by theories, narratives, and archives that reinforce the belief that modern medicine is external to Africa. A legacy of Eurocentric scholarship has generated the misconception that medicine was gifted to Africans by pious missionaries, granted to Africans in the form of colonial medicine, and sustained…
From Birth To Death: Age and Ageing in the Postsocialist Transformation
Dresden, Germany; deadline CfP January 15, 2023Up to today the post-1989 transformation has had long-lasting effects on lives and biographies in postsocialist societies. The biographical disruptions caused by the postsocialist reconfigurations created many so-called ‘losers’ of the transformation, who have not had the chance or were unable to create biographical coherence across the systemic divide. Many of these so-called ‘losers’ tend…
The Right Man in the Right Place Education, Pre-Eugenics, and the Brain in Huarte’s “Examen de Ingenios”
onlineHow did Galenism influence education, politics, and professional selection up to the late 17th century? A relevant and clear-cut source is Juan Huarte’s Examen de Ingenios, published in 1575 and soon condemned by the Index and translated into the main European languages during the subsequent century. Huarte, a Spanish physician, relies on Galen’s Quod animi…
How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice
Utrecht; deadline CfP April 14, 2023How to take patients’ histories: Doing medical history from below in practice Workshop organized by Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University), Noortje Jacobs (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and Martijn van der Meer (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) Almost forty years ago, Roy Porter published his seminal article ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’. Historians routinely ignored the roles,…
PULSE network seminar on disability
AmsterdamSeminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024 In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies 28 September DISABILITY Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Eline Pollaert and Floris Plak (Open Universiteit and Vrije Universiteit) ‘”To create a beginning, where first there was an end.” Stigma and Het…
Does science need heroes? (Nobel) Prize cultures in the Netherlands
Leiden; deadline cfp July 15, 2022The symposium "Does science need heroes? (Nobel) Prize cultures in the Netherlands, will take place in Leiden on September 29-30, 2023. It is organized by the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and Nils Hansson of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf. The history of the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious and visible science award in the world, is since the very…