All in your Head: Reviewing the History of the Mind through Approaches, Classifications and Objects
KU Leuven, onlineOn April 20th, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez organizes the conference All in your Head: Reviewing the History of the Mind through Approaches, Classifications and Objects. The objective of this one-day conference…
Connecting childhood and old age in children’s literature
Leuven, onlineTalk by Vanessa Joosen, part of the health humanities lecture series on ageing organised by KU Leuven. For all information, please visit this page.
Modernity and the Gut
Glasgow; deadline CfP January 16, 2023Modernity and the Gut Keynote speaker Professor Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island Concerns about gastric disorders have been around for centuries, but anxiety surrounding the gut intensified with the…
Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900)
Regensburg, Germany; deadline CfP November 15, 2022Colonization and exploration of the non-European territories was an inherently bodily experience. Food and diet became central arguments to underscore and explain the physical and cultural differences between Europeans and…
Voorkomen is beter dan genezen
Utrecht, onlineDe afgelopen tijd is duidelijk geworden dat de zorg de patiëntenstroom niet meer aan kan. Wat kunnen we doen om te voorkomen dat mensen patiënt worden? Hoe beïnvloeden omgevingsfactoren en…
American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting
Ann Arbor, Michigan; online; deadline CfP October 10, 2022The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites abstracts for papers in any area of the history of health and healing for its 96th annual meeting, to be held…
The Medicalised Body
Edinburgh, online; deadline CfP February 17, 2023The University of Edinburgh is the seat of many historical and contemporary breakthroughs in medicine and epidemiology. On top of this, the medical humanities are increasingly influential at the university,…
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity
LeuvenTalk by Simon Hayhoe, part of the health humanities lecture series on ageing organised by KU Leuven. For all information, please visit this page.
Slavery at Sea and the Future of Medical Education
onlineHistory of Medicine and Health Seminar organised under the auspices of the Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies Sowande’ Mustakeem (Washington University in St.…
Hospitals in times of crisis
Warsaw; deadline CfP October 15, 2022The conference "hospitals in times of crisis" will take place in Warsaw from 18–20 May 2023 in cooperation with Prof. Dr Michał Kopczyński from the University of Warsaw, the International…
Health sciences and the social: Health and social mobilization, 1950-2020s
CERMES3, Paris; deadline CfP December 31, 2022Rudolf Virchow’s much quoted aphorism “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale” (1848) dominated an era, from the late 19th to…
Queer dis-eases: Disruptive histories, politics, and bodies
Florence, Italy & online; deadline CfP January 31, 2023Queering is a productive point of departure from which to break down traditional cultural and scholarly categories and hierarchies. Queerness inherently positions itself against dominant modes of thought, creating social,…