Posts Tagged ‘health’
Gezocht: babyboeken uit 1916-1976!
Een oproep van dr. Pauline Dirven, zij werkt als postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan Tilburg University aan een project over de geschiedenis van kraamzorg: Voor mijn onderzoek naar geschiedenissen van kraamervaringen en…
Read MoreColin Sterling & Anna Woodham – Surviving the Museum – PULSE seminar series 2026
SEMINAR FEBRUARY 19TH 15:00-17:00 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 48, ROOM E1.01E COLIN STERLING – SURVIVING THE MUSEUM In 1969 The American Museum of Natural History celebrated its 100-year anniversary with…
Read MoreKULeuven Lecture Series: Talking Trash — The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics by Bruno Strasser
Talking 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…
Read MoreCaptive Healthscapes: Slavery, Medicine, and Health in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World (hybrid workshop)
Workshop on December 18, 2025: CAPTIVE HEALTHSCAPES: SLAVERY, MEDICINE, AND HEALTH IN THE PRE-MODERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD Hybrid event: online (email valentina.pugliano@unive.it for a link) and in person (Ca’ Foscari, Palazzo…
Read MoreSeminar Modern History Research Group – Onderzoek Arjan Nuijten drugsgebruik in het Nederlandse leger
Upcoming (Dutch) seminar of interest to Health Humanities researchers with an interest in history of drugs, military history and health, at University of Amsterdam: Op dinsdag 25 november om 17.00 houden we in…
Read MoreObject Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 – online workshop
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 University of Birmingham Via Zoom, Friday 5 December 2025 In recent years, material culture has expanded its reach through the humanities and social…
Read MoreQuestionnaires in the History of Health and Medicine – International Workshop
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 September 2025 This is a call for papers for a workshop at Vrije Universiteit Brussel focused on the historical use of questionnaires in the empirical…
Read MoreCall for Papers: Questionnaires in the History of Health and Medicine (VUB)
Questionnaires in the History of Health and Medicine International Workshop Deadline for abstract submission: 15 September 2025 This is a call for papers for a workshop at Vrije Universiteit Brussel…
Read MoreMercantile Cultures of Health Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval Zibaldoni (Webinar)
Mercantile Cultures of Health Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» Massimo Sbarbaro 22 July 2025 – 5 PM (CEST) In the late Middle Ages, merchants were not solely engaged…
Read MoreDiagnosis, Prognosis, and Health – Medicine and Society in the Middle Ages (1200-1400)
VivaMente Conference on 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 – 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟒𝟎𝟎) Polo Benedettine – Pisa 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Organised by 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨, 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐢, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐨…
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