CfP: History of medicine in the Indian Ocean World
International Conference, "Histories of Medicine in
the Indian Ocean World"
Call for Papers
Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
26-27 April 2013
Organiser: Anna Winterbottom (IOWC, McGill University)
The IOWC is looking for papers that address any aspect of
medicine in the region of the Indian Ocean world, including Northeast, East and
South Africa; the Middle East, the Indian Ocean islands; South, Southeast and
East Asia, in any historical period. The aim of the conference is to
interrogate the concept of the Indian Ocean as a "world" using the
exchange of medical goods, texts, instruments and ideas as a lens through which
to examine how far the region may be regarded as a cultural entity. As well as
being an article of trade, medicine is associated with religious, spiritual,
and cultural ideas about the body and its relation to the environment. These
ideas both govern the acceptance, modification or rejection of medicines and
medical ideas, and are altered by them. Medical exchanges can thus be used to
provide a cultural perspective on historical events and trends, such as the
spread of Islam and other faiths, the movement of migrant and diaspora
communities, free and enslaved, and the rise and fall of empires in the region.
The conference being multidisciplinary, papers from geography, sociology,
anthropology and area studies as well as the history of medicine and science are
welcome.
SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION
Papers should be in English or French. Each paper will be
grouped according to theme. Individual authors will have a certain amount of
time to present their papers, to be followed by a summary presentation by a
discussant during sessions devoted to each theme, followed by general
discussion.
A registration fee of $110 CAD ($65 CAD for students)
will be charged. The fee for late registration is $130 CAD ($75 CAD for
students).
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 14 January 2013.
Deadline for payment of registration fees is 1 March
2013.
Abstracts should be submitted to the following address: iowc@mcgill.ca.
Enquiries may be directed to anna.winterbottom@mail.mcgill.ca.
Methods of payment for registration, locations and
accommodation will be available online by the end of September.