Links to Seminars in Social History of Medicine
 

History of Medicine Jobs

• Endowed Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario: The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading research intensive universities, seeks applicants for the endowed Chair in the History of Medicine. Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment at the Associate Professor level or, if appropriate, at a higher rank. Applications will be reviewed from 1 April 2008 until the position is filled. Interested applicants should click here for more information.
   

Forthcoming Conferences and Workshops in History of Medicine World Wide

• Health and Welfare Symposium, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge, 13 June 2008. This interdisciplinary workshop explores the nature of knowledge about health, disease and society. The newly formed Health and Welfare Research Group aims to use a comparative approach to focus on the conceptualisation of human and social well-being in diverse historical periods and geographic areas. The symposium focuses on three themes: classification, identity, and the body . The deadline for abstract submissions is 11 May 2008. For more information or to submit an abstract (150-300 words), please contact one of the following convenors: Bonnie Evans, Julia Moses, or Sian Pooley.
   
• Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicine in Transnational Perspective, 16-17 September 2008, St. Anne's College, Oxford. This conference therefore aims to provide a platform for exchange to scholars who are working on the history of medicines in different geographical regions in Asia, Africa, Austral-Pacific and the Americas and within the varied contexts of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch and British colonialisms. In addition to appealing to researchers working on these various, seemingly clearly demarcated colonial and neo-colonial empires, contributions are invited from those who locate internal colonialism within the imperial metropoles (such as, for example, the Scottish Highlands, Canadian Arctic). Presentations on issues of transnational entanglements, ‘circulation’ of ideas and exchanges between different ways of healing within different colonial/medical contexts are particularly welcome. The deadline for abstract submissions (300 words) is 1 June 2008. For more information on the conference, please click here or address your enquiries to Ms Manjita Palit.
   
• American Association for the History of Medicine 2009, April 23-26, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, OH, April 23-26, 2009. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. Besides single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2008. For more information on how to submit, please click here .
   
• Chasing Eden: Nature, Health & the Politics of Environment, September 4-5, 2008, Eden Project & University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus). This two day conference seeks to encourage a conversation between historians of politics and historians of science, medicine, and environment on the topic of environmental politcs in the modern era (particularly the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). The call for paper proposals has passed, but please address any other enquiries to Dr. Timothy Cooper.
   
• Summer School on "Medicine and New Media", 7-11 July 2008, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. This is the first postgraduate Summer School organized by the Centre. It will explore the history of medical imaging from the Renaissance to present times. Participants will trace technological developments and their consequences in medicine, alongside consideration of how these new ways of 'seeing' the human body reflected and were shaped by the concerns of scientists, physicians, artists, and the general population. The aim of the Summer School is to bring together current and recently completed postgraduates from the humanities and sciences with experts from a number of different fields to engage with a range of technologies for making scientific images of the human body, including the fine arts, drawing and painting, as well as film, photography, X-ray and the current medical imaging techniques of digital biomedicine. Moreover, it addresses itself to students who are investigating questions about the meaning of images of the human body and how agreement about such meaning is negotiated (in the laboratory, in modern mass-media, public displays in museums, in university anatomy teaching). The deadline for application is 24 March 2008. For more information on the summer school and on how to apply, please visit the Summer School website.
   

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