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…
Conference: Age and Health, 1500-1800
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,…
CFP Deadline: Disabling Environments
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 )
CFP: Health and Work in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750 ca.
Deadline for submissions: 10th June Send abstracts to: marielouise.leonard AT unive.it Conference Dates: September 20-21, Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy) This conference aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of the relationship between health and work in the early modern period. Scholarship in health and medicine has examined how people cared for…
