CFP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine

JOINT ATLANTIC SEMINAR FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine is seeking abstracts for research presentations on topics related to the history of health and healing; of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and of illness, disease, and public health, from all eras and regions of the world.

 

The 10^th Annual seminar will be held the weekend of October 5-6, 2012 in New Haven, CT and is jointly hosted by the Section in the History of Medicine and the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University.

Abstracts should be no more than 350 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Please note that abstracts more than 350 words in length will not be reviewed. Speakers must be enrolled as graduate students at the time of the conference.

We will be accepting abstracts for twenty-minute presentations as well as a limited number of pre-circulated papers (20-25 pages). The pre-circulated paper sessions will be with a small group of peers who have read your paper before the conference. This option is ideal for papers that are being submitted for publication.

 

The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across the United States working in fields related to the history of medicine. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds. For more information, including previous years’ programs, please visit www.jasmed.org

 

All abstracts should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to jasmed2012@gmail.com with a completed cover page. The cover page is attached this email and is also available at www.jasmed.org. A panel of graduate students from several different institutions will review the abstracts. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2012.

 

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide financial support for travel to participants. We will, however, make every effort to provide free accommodation for presenters. We urge students whose papers are accepted to seek financial support from their home institutions to participate in the seminar. Registration for the conference is free.

Kelly O’Donnell and Heidi Knoblauch

Program in the History of Science and Medicine

Yale University

kelly.odonnell@yale.edu

heidi.knoblauch@yale.edu

CFP: The Book in Art and Science

fwd from SHARP-L  (with apologies for cross-posting)

Just a reminder that the deadline for individual and panel proposals for the SHARP 2011 conference is November 30, 2010. The links to the electronic proposal submission forms for individual papers and panels can be found at the SHARP website and the conference website.

Washington, DC is served by three airports, train, and a variety of buses running the Northeast corridor.  Accommodations will offer a range of prices, and we will have a message board for room sharing on the conference on website.

Taking “The Book in Art & Science” as its theme, the nineteenth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will be held in Washington, DC, Thursday, 14 July through Sunday, 17 July 2011. The sponsors of the conference are the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Institute, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. The National Library of Medicine will be the site for welcome ceremonies and the conference’s opening keynote address by Dr. Jon Topham, Senior Lecturer in History of Science & Director of the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds. Evoking Washington’s status as an artistic and scientific center, ”The Book in Art & Science” is a theme open to multiple interpretations. Besides prompting considerations of the book as a force in either art or science or the two fields working in tandem, it also encourages examinations of the scientific text; the book as a
work of art; the art and science of manuscript, print, or digital textual production; the role of censorship and politics in the creation, production, distribution, or reception of particular scientific or artistic texts; the relationship between the verbal and the visual in works of art or science; art and science titles from the standpoint of publishing history or the histories of specific publishers; and much more. As always, proposals dealing with any aspect of book history are welcome.

We look forward to seeing many long-time SHARP members as well as new faces in Washington, DC, this coming July.  For those of you are frequent lurkers on or contributors to SHARP-L but have never officially joined the Society, we’d like this year to be the year that you do! SHARP conferences afford a wonderful opportunity for
exchange and to forge ties with fellow scholars working in the field and particular areas within the history of the book (and, of course, that includes manuscripts, periodicals, ephemera, digital texts, and
more).

If you would like a copy of the CFP to circulate, please just email me directly: eshevlin@wcupa.edu.

Best,

Eleanor Shevlin and Casey Smith

Conference co-chairs

Eleanor F. Shevlin, Ph.D.
Dept. of English
548 Main Hall
West Chester University
610-436-2463
eshevlin@wcupa.edu<mailto:eshevlin@wcupa.edu>

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
Membership Secretary
members@sharpweb.org<mailto:members@sharpweb.org>

Home/Mailing Address

2006 Columbia Road, NW
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Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-462-3105

CFP: Routledge Handbook series on History of Nursing

We have been given to opportunity by Routledge, a prestigious and global publisher to create an edited volume that captures both the state of the art scholarship in new areas of the history of nursing, and that invites readers to consider new understandings of the historical work and worth of nursing in a larger and more global context.

This opportunity comes at a perfect moment as our field has become increasingly important to historians exploring the global circulation of ideas about the care of the sick; about gender and the valuation of care work; about the intersections of lay and professional care; and about the actual practice of care work in different settings and contexts ranging from homes to hospitals to battlefields.

This edited collection would join Routledge’s Handbook… series: books on a range of topics capturing state of the art thinking and scholarship in discrete areas.

We are looking for scholars to participate in this project. The only criterion is that your work be new (not published elsewhere) and that it contain a discussion of its place in the current historiography of your topic. We welcome inquiries from all disciplines that use nursing or nursing care as a vehicle for exploring larger historical issues.
To propose a chapter idea, please email Julie Fairman and Patricia D’Antonio, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania (Fairman@nursing.upenn.edu) who will co-edit this volume.

CFP: Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts

NEASECS CFP, “Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts,”

October 21-23, 2010

We are still considering paper proposals for the panel “Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts in the Long Eighteenth Century,” which will occur during the annual NEASECS meeting to be held in Buffalo from October 21-23, 2010. If you are interested in submitting a paper proposal, please email a 250 word abstract and a brief CV by May 15.

Danielle Spratt and Angela Monsam

dspratt@fordham.edu and <mailto:amonsam@yahoo.com>amonsam@yahoo.com

“Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Over the past several decades, critics have explored how literature and medical texts represented and often objectified women during the long eighteenth century. In addition to examining representations of women, their bodies, and “female” illnesses – both in medical and literary texts — this panel also considers how women responded or “wrote back” to such objectification. We are especially interested in papers that explore the various ways in which women directly adopt, negotiate, or manipulate discourses of medicine, whether about their own bodies or the bodies of others. In so doing, the panel hopes to demonstrate how women writers were able to carve out their own empowered textual space in the increasingly male-dominated medical realm. Possible authors include (but are not limited to) Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Joanna Baille, Ann Hunter, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Mary Robinson; potential textual sources include signed and anonymous midwifery and cookery books.

For more information on the conference, please visit:

<http://www.buffalostate.edu/neasecs/x559.xml>http://www.buffalostate.edu/neasecs/x559.xml

–

Danielle Spratt

PhD Candidate

Departmental Teaching Fellow

Fordham University

Dealy Hall 550

441 East Fordham Rd.

Bronx, NY 10458

To search the C18-L Archives:

http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=C18-L

CFP: The Future of Medical History

Dear WHOMers,

Those of you involved with the international community of medical historians will want to know this – and also consider submitting abstracts for the proposed conference in July.

The Future of Medical History
15th – 17th July 2010
International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

The Wellcome Trust and University College London have decided to close the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and initiate a two year wind down, without a quinquennial peer review. This marks the end of the Centre, and its prior incarnation of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

The academic staff of the Centre will be hosting a three day international conference on the Future of Medical History, to take place on 15-17 July 2010 at Goodenough College in London. In keeping with the research of the Centre and former Institute, contributions will be welcome on all aspects of medical history. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes each.

Please send an abstract and contact details to Lauren Cracknell (l.cracknell@ucl.ac.uk) by 1 June 2010. Due to current circumstances, the Centre will not be able to cover the cost of travel or accommodation.  Further details will be available on the Centre website soon.

–
Monica Green
Professor of History
4th floor, Coor Hall
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287-4302
Monica.green@asu.edu
https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/384868

CFP: Health Activism in the 20th Century

Call for Papers:

Health Activism in the Twentieth Century: A History of Medicine Symposium at Yale University

October 22-23 2010

The Section for the History of Medicine at Yale University and the Department of History at the University of Manitoba invite scholars to participate in a symposium on health activism in the twentieth century with particular attention to issues of race, gender, sexual orientation and disability.  The symposium will be held at Yale.  Papers are welcomed dealing with this topic in any country.   This small symposium will consist of three moderated panel sessions where the majority of the audience will be presenters.  Potential participants must submit an abstract of 300 words by May 15, 2010.

We especially invite papers focused on:

• Health workers and patients as political agents
• Fundraising and models of “charity” in health activism
• Inequality and discrimination within medical and health-related organizations
• Ideas that have driven health activism (such as social justice, human rights, fiscal conservatism and “family values”)
• Comparisons of health-related movements with other social movements, especially their reliance on specialized scientific knowledge.

Papers will be pre-circulated to symposium participants in advance.

Interested scholars should submit the following:
(1) Applicant’s name, institutional affiliation and contact details
(2) A 300 word abstract
(3) A one-page CV
Submissions should be emailed to: ewa.lech@yale.edu

Abstracts are due on May 15, 2010.
Successful applicants will be informed that their paper has been accepted by June 15, 2010.
Completed papers must be submitted by October 1, 2010 so that they can be circulated and read by all symposium participants.

CFP: Gender Studies of Science

Colleagues,

The Max Planck Institute’for the History of Science’s Workshop on Gender Studies of Science will host a conference next June that should invigorate and enlarge our work on women and gender studies. It has the evocative title Using and Producing Science Beyond the Academy. This meeting grew out of a small group discussion last year that discussed possible new avenues, practical and theoretical, where research on women and gender in science, technology, and medicine might be directed in the near future. Please consider the attached call for papers. If you or someone you know might make a contribution, please plan to submit a proposal and encourage others to do so.

Best,
Jennifer Gunn

–
Jennifer Gunn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Acting Director
Program in the History of Medicine
University of Minnesota
MMC 506
420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.624.1909
612.625.7938 (FAX)

CFP: History of Medicine in Southeast Asia

CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Conference on

The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia

(HOMSEA 2010)

To be held in Singapore

22-25 June 2010

to coincide with IAHA 2010 (International Association of Historians of Asia)

Organised by:

Department of History, STS Research Cluster & Asia Research Institute (ARI)

National University of Singapore

With support from:

The National University of Singapore

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine

University College London (UCL)

The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism

Université de Montréal (Canada)

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, The Netherlands)

Program Committee:

Professor Harold Cook, Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at UCL

Professor Rethy Chhem, Medical University of Vienna/ Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University

Dr. Laurence Monnais, University of Montreal, CRC in Health Care Pluralism

Dr. John DiMoia, National University of Singapore

Dr. Liew Kai Khiun, National University of Singapore

and other members of the LOC (Local Organizing Committee)

All proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of:

New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism

The theme “New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism” intends to explore how both local and metropolitan actors in Southeast Asia have contributed historically to the growth and development of medical markets throughout the region, here implying both traditional pharmacopeia as well as the arrival of newer pharmaceuticals in colonial and post-colonial settings. With a time frame preceding formal colonial intervention in the region and ranging up to the present, with the creation of a local infrastructure for biomedical and biotech work, participants are encouraged to submit individual papers and panels with possible themes including:

Women and Health in Southeast Asia

Medical pluralism in Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective

Medical markets in SEA

Southeast Asian Biopoleis (including the growth of biomedical infrastructure, Science Parks, and Local Production Facilities—identification of pharmacopoeia, drug development)

New Sources, New Methodologies, New Historiographies

As the HOMSEA meeting will coincide with the IAHA 2010 meeting in Singapore, those interested in expanding the discussion either geographically—to include North East Asia and South Asia—chronologically, or methodologically are encouraged to apply to HOMSEA as well as the IAHA meeting to broaden the scope of discussion.

Please see the IAHA website at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/iaha/index.htm

Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by 30th December 2009 to: Laurence Monnais (laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca)

Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from less wealthy countries.

For further information about funding and the general organization of the meeting, please contact: John DiMoia (hisjpd@nus.edu.sg)

Dr. Laurence MONNAIS

Associate professor/ Professeur agrégé

Département d’histoire – Centre d’Etudes de l’Asie de l’Est

Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur le pluralisme en santé/ Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism http://www.chairs.gc.ca/

Equipe MEOS (Le MEdicament comme Objet Social) http://www.meos.qc.ca/

Université de Montréal

C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, H3C 3J7

Tel: (514) 343-6544