What does it mean to call someone “the picture of health”? The WHO’s 1949 constitution stated that “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” More recently “One Health”—a model of health that includes the social contexts and environmental situation that limits or…
Applications are invited for "Commonplacing Health and the Body in Early Modern England". This is a 3.5 year PhD studentship funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme to be held at UCL History and Wellcome Collection. Project Description: Matters of health and the body were everyday preoccupations for early modern…
Panel exploring Romantic-era disability, health inequity, and environmental harm. Possible topics might include constructions of non-normative embodiment, the development of professional medicine, and the environmental consequences of industrialization. 300-word abstracts and brief bios to fusonw@ucr.edu Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Contact: Fuson Wang, U of California, Riverside (fusonw@ucr.edu )
This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of…
"As part of our years-long research track spanning two key research projects on premodern/ preindustrial health (About Us), we provide a bibliography of “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies”. It is constantly updated, but our last revision was in early 2022. We’d like to open up the updating of our bibliography to fellow…
Conference for Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers on Age and Health, 1500-1800. Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Conference on24 June 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Send title, abstract (c. 200 words), and short bio to ageandhealth2024@gmail.com
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
deadline for submissions: April 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: goddardj@trine.edu In keeping with the conference theme “Health in/of the Humanities” the permanent session of the Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism panel is soliciting presentations that address illness and health in the work, criticism, or teaching of Shakespeare.…
Lightfoot Room, St John's College, Cambridge and on Zoom, June 24, 2024 - June 24, 2024 Registration is now open for the conference Age and Health, 1500-1800. The conference asks how experiences of health and ill health shaped and were governed by age stages, and how they shifted across the lifecycle. The conference is free to attend,…
The Asia Research Institute at The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, invites scholars who work on medical ideas and practices in Asia to submit an application to participate in a conference on April 11-12, 2025. Background The Asia Research Institute at The University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo) invites…
As part of an ongoing commitment to diversifying our programs, the professoriate, and the research workforce, the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia seeks applications for a Mellon Race, Place, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Nursing and Healthcare. This program recruits postdoctoral scholars who have the potential to assume…
Discourses on Illness: Ancient Ways of Coping with Ill-health Call for papers Dates: 6-7 October 2025 This conference, organized by the Department of Classics and Archaeology (University of Malta) in collaboration with the University of Durham, the University of Newcastle and Humboldt University of Berlin, to be held in Malta between 6 and 7 October…
