Date: Late June 2013
Location: University of Guelph

Papers and panel proposals are invited for an international conference on the history of alcohol and drug regulation to be held in Bristol, UK 21st-23rd June 2013. The conference will explore all aspects of alcohol, drug and tobacco policy. It will consider whether historical perspectives can shed light on contemporary debates around issues such as as drug prohibition, treatment, alcohol licensing, criminal justice and controls on the representation of substance use in popular culture.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Virginia Berridge (LSHTM)
Professor Paul Gootenberg (SUNY)

Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington
November 1-3, 2012

We invite contributions for a conference on Austrian Thought at the turn of the 20th Century. Philosophers of this period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire—led by Franz Brentano—advanced myriad areas of philosophy and innovative psychological research (e.g., Gestalt theory, the Graz School of experimental psychology). Additionally, economists—led by Carl Menger—set forth the theory of subjective value, which prepared the ground for a new conceptual framework for economics. Together, Austrian

A joint meeting of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions and the Queen Mary City Centre

Wednesday 21 March 2012

The city has long been held up as a kind of psychopathological miasma. From the urban hypochondria identified by George Cheyne in The English

Date: 3-4 July 2012
Place: Oxford

This conference aims to bring together leading specialists from a range of the medical humanities with healthcare professionals to explore the trope of the retelling of stories about pregnancy and birth. While recent work has considered the way in which stories of exceptional pregnancies and unusual births have been told again and again over western history, from Greek mythology and the Old Testament until the present day, the methodological and intellectual questions raised by these retellings have not been discussed in detail.