Browse events by 'Medicine'

Feb 2012
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15 - 17 Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of...

London, United Kingdom
Mar 2012
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06 Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,...

Oxford, United Kingdom
08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
09 Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically...

Huddersfield, United Kingdom
10 Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region

The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be...

Bradford-on-Avon, United Kingdom
17 Women, Health and Welfare: Women’s History Network Southern Region Study Day

Sessions, spanning the early modern, Victorian and modern eras, in Ireland, England and Italy, include women and mental health, women and reproductive health, women as health care practitioners,...

Kingston on Thames, United Kingdom
23 - 24 Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National...

Galway, Ireland
25 - 27 Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the...

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
29 - 30 Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Around 1900, few pregnant women in Europe or North America had any contact with a...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
31 Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both...

Limerick, Ireland
Apr 2012
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02 - 04 The Royal Body

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of...

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine: 3rd Annual Summit

Swansea University is hosting the third annual summit for postgraduate students and early-career researchers working in the History of Medicine. Following on from the success of two previous...

Swansea, United Kingdom
27 Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of...

Exeter, United Kingdom
27 History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science'

The day conference 'History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the "New Science"' will be held on Friday, 27 April 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Royal Society,...

London, United Kingdom
28 Spaces of Work 1770-1830

Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly interested in interrogating...

Coventry, United Kingdom
May 2012
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21 - 23 Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960.

In Science Studies, problems of scientific expertise have drawn tremendous attention in recent years. The emergence of expert authority within ever more fields of human activity has often been...

Leuven, Belgium
25 Probing the Interior 1800-2012 London, United Kingdom
25 - 26 New Histories of Love and Romance, c.1880-1960 - Extended Call for Papers: Due 24 February 2012

Unlike the broader histories of emotions and of sexuality, scholarship on the history of love is still at a nascent stage. Evolutionary and psychoanalytic models frequently posit romantic love as...

Cardiff, United Kingdom
Jun 2012
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13 - 14 AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab...

London, United Kingdom
15 - 16 Care and Cure: Diseases, Disabilities and Therapies

This interdisciplinary and cross-period conference seeks to examine the continuities and changes visible between the medieval and early modern periods in the care and cure of sick and disabled...

Swansea, United Kingdom
21 - 23 Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

This serves as a call for papers for the fifth annual British Scholar Conference. The conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Thursday, 21 June through Saturday, 23 June, 2012. This...

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
22 - 24 Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History Shanghai, China
22 - 24 2012 Annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference

The 2012 annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conference will be held in The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, from 22-24 June 2012. Confirmed plenary speakers include Christine Casey (...

Dublin, Ireland
22 - 24 LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

London, United Kingdom
22 Health and Welfare in the Archives

The Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) University of Ulster and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) are co-hosting a one day symposium on 'Health and Welfare in the...

Belfast, United Kingdom
Jul 2012
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01 - 03 Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History 

The conference theme is prompted by the challenge of globalization and the notion that Europe can no longer...

York , United Kingdom
03 - 05 Mainstreaming Co-operation: An Alternative for the 21st Century?

The United Nations has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives. In celebration, this major international forum will discuss how co-operatives in every sphere of social,...

Manchester, United Kingdom
09 - 11 Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference, Manchester (UK), July 2012

The 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held at the University of Manchester.

Accompanying events are being planned in the Whitworth Gallery, Chetham's...

Manchester, United Kingdom
30 - 01 Disability & the Victorians: Confronting Legacies

The nineteenth century was the period during which disability was conceptualised, classified, and defined. The industrial revolution, advances in medicine, emerging taxonomies and categories of...

Leeds, United Kingdom
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