International Organizations in the Global South: Body Politics, Power Relations, Local Impacts
Geneva; deadline CfP April 20, 2023The conference will discuss the role of international organizations in shaping body politics in countries of the Global South during the twentieth century. International Organizations in the Global South: Body Politics, Power Relations, Local Impacts The conference will discuss the role of international organizations in shaping body politics in countries of the Global South during…
Gewina Woudschoten Conference: Ecology & Economy: History of Knowledge during the Unequal Anthropocene
Zeist; deadline CfP January 15, 2024On 21-22 Juni 2024 Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, will hold its double-jubilee biannual meeting in the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre (Zeist). Gewina itself celebrates its 111th year, and its meeting in Woudschoten will be the 10th. The conference brings together historians of science, humanities, medicine, universities and…
Het erfgoed van de Nederlandse gedragswetenschappen: van het verleden naar heden en toekomst
GroningenThe following symposium, in Dutch, will take place at the University of Groningen (Muntinggebouw, Grote Kruisstraat 2, M0074) on June 21, 2024 from 13:00 till 16:30. Symposium: Het erfgoed van de Nederlandse gedragswetenschappen: van het verleden naar heden en toekomst Georganiseerd door: Dutch Expertise Centre For Theory and History of Education and Psychology (DEEP) Centrum…
Lectures on Autism & Social Well-being
TilburgLectures by: Dr. Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist (Södertörn University): "Find what feels good" - Exploring Neuroaffirmative Social Work with Autistic People Dr. Leni Van Goidsenhoven (University of Amsterdam): "From Autism in Plural to Neurodiversity Scholarship" Date & location: Thursday 27th of June, 1.30-3.30 PM CEST DZ004, Tilburg University Attendance is free of charge, Please register by email:…
Ischia Summer School: Humans, Natures and the Nature of Humans
Ischia; deadline applications February 28, 2024Course organizers Christiane Groeben (Naples, local organizer), Nick Hopwood (University of Cambridge), Erika L. Milam (Princeton University), Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Cambridge) and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Confirmed faculty Christophe Bonneuil (Centre des recherches historiques, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France), Rebecca Flemming (University of Exeter, UK), Jia Hui Lee (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Sadiah Qureshi (University…
Exploring Medieval Health Crises: Authority, Practice, & Knowledge (session at IMC Leeds 2024)
Leeds; deadline CfP September 15, 2023From epidemics and famine to barber surgeons and midwives, healing during the Middle Ages represented the ultimate response to social and personal crises. While the medieval medical experience was often a tale of hardship and loss, historians of medicine continue to demonstrate that healing knowledge and practice in this period also revealed remarkable resilience, practicality,…
Female Seeds, Powers, and Bodies: Albert the Great and the Vegetal Sexuality by Amalia Cerrito
onlineThe 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds that contain all necessary conditions for plant generation. Furthermore, the primary paternal and maternal functions, such as fertilization, generative material provision, and nourishment during development,…
Joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science
AmsterdamThe 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites panels, presentations, making & doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in an era of grand societal…
Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body
Potsdam; deadline CfP January 7, 2024Call for Panels and Papers for the 2024 yearly conference of the International Society for Cultural History, which will take place in Potsdam on September 4th-6th, 2024. Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body CALL FOR PAPERS Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body September 4-6, 2024,…
ESHS conference: Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth
Barcelone; deadline CfP February 19, 2024The theme of the ESHS 2024 conference will be Science, technology, humanity, and the Earth. Science is one of the primary means by which mankind understands, represents and intervenes in the world. Humanity is facing challenges that can threaten its future and the future of the planet where it lives. As historians of science, we are committed…
Inaugural lecture by Gemma Blok
UtrechtSince August 2023, Gemma Blok has been working at Utrecht University for two days a week as a professor of the History of Psychiatry. She succeeds Joost Vijselaar, who held this chair between 2004 and 2022. The endowed chair is funded by the Foundation for the Chair in the History of Psychiatry and is embedded…
History of Medicine and Health Seminars – Imagining Treatment: Patient Interaction and Confession in Late-Medieval England
Groningen / onlineThe History of Medicine and Health Brown Bag Seminars at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 13:00, and everyone is welcome to join. You can attend in person at Collaboratory E or tune in online (see the flyer for detailed locations per event). This year’s theme is…