Call for papers_ 2nd Portuguese-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine
Call for Papers
MEETING WEBSITE: http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/conghmt
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd Portuguese -Brazilian
Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine (2LBMHTM) will be held in Lisbon,
Portugal, 14-16 October 2015. It is organized by the Interuniversity
Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and the Institute of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT) of the New University of Lisbon, the
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil, and the Centre for Global Health
Histories (CGHH), of the University of York.The Portuguese-Brazilian Meetings
on the History of Tropical Medicine have always sought to strike a balance
between historiographical reflections, which help develop a broader comparative
analysis, and case-studies examining different national, colonial,
post-colonial, international and global contexts. We will continue to favor
both approaches at the 1st meeting. The bulk of historiographical research has
explored the period in the post-World War II.
The Scientific Committee encourages contributions on a range of themes
addressing the following topics:
1.
Medical knowledge and practices: plural histories and traditions
2.
Actors, pathogenic agents, diseases, and institutions
3.
International public health policies and networks
4.
Archives and museums: documents and collections
5.
Tropical medicine and the environment
6.
Tropical medicine and bioethics
The 2nd Portuguese-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine
welcomes proposals for individual papers, but preference will be given to
organized sessions of three or more papers. We particularly invite
contributions with a transnational dimension concerning the historical analyses
of the links between tropical medicine and international health in post-World
War II, in paying particular attention to ideas, exchanges, technologies and
practices in Portuguese-African-Asian-Brazilian relations, notably by
addressing the circulation of ideas in the light of each region’s
socioeconomic, political, and administrative peculiarities, as well as power
correlations between markets, nation states and international agencies.