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Type:  Call for Papers Date:  November 7, 2016 Location:  United Kingdom Subject Fields:  Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Health and Health Care, Urban Design and Planning CFP: “Beyond Therapy: Situating art and design in healthcare contexts” Panel at Association of Art Historians (AAH) annual conference, 6th to 8th April 2017, Loughborough University Deadline for Paper Proposals: 7 November 2016 Convenors: Tamar Tembeck, McGill University, tamar[DOT]tembeck[AT]mcgill[DOT]ca Mary Hunter, McGill University, mary[DOT]hunter2[AT]mcgill[DOT]ca In Europe and North America, greater attention is being paid to the built environment in medical spaces. ‘Healthy design’ initiatives are increasingly being integrated into hospital planning, in a vision that is coherent with the WHO’s definition of health, according to which ‘mental and social well-being’ are considered in addition ...

Type:  Call for Papers Date: September 10, 2016 Location: Poland Subject Fields:  Health and Health Care, Humanities, Psychology, Sociology 2017 International Conference on Medical Humanities 10-11 March 2017 – Warsaw, Poland Interdisciplinary Research Foundation Conference venue: As-Bud Conference Centre, Al. Jerozolimskie 81, Warsaw “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity” Hippocrates Keynote speaker: Dr Helen Lambert, University of Bristol (UK) The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body. The conference will also focus on the issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill. Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to: history of medicine medical ant...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  October 1, 2016 Though research on the environmental history of war has made major advances, we have had little success in studying East Europe as a region.  The 2017 European Society for Environmental History conference on 28 June – 2 July presents an ideal opportunity to make progress, since it will be hosted by our colleagues in Zagreb, Croatia.   I welcome proposals or suggestions for panels on East Europe, and especially its southern region.  One conference theme is contact among states, economic systems, cultures and religions.  New understandings of the environmental settings and consequences of wars in that region’s history would be an important contribution.  If you are interested to participate, please send a 250 word abstract and short CV to rptucker@umich.edu . For more information on the conference, see http://eseh.org/event/next-conference/ . The deadline for proposals is 1 Oct...

Call for Papers: Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Nineteenth Annual Meeting,  Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 16-18, 2017 Submissions for individual papers or for panels can be made online at the SAHMS website, at http://www.sahms.net/call-for-papers.html . SAHMS is seeking paper submissions from scholars in the history of medicine and science. Anyone including students, with an academic interest in the history of medicine and or science is to welcome and encouraged to submit a paper.  History of Medicine and Science is broadly construed to encompass all fields and subfields historical, literary, philosophical, legal, and sociological related to the historical understanding of any aspect of science, medicine, health care, and the medical and health science professions.  SAHMS also welcomes paper submissions on closely related topics, including issues related to science or medicine involving ...

Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe 10th Anniversary Annual Meeting, Swansea University 2-4 December 2016 at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea Disability and Religion CALL FOR PAPERS This three-day conference forms the tenth workshop in the D&D series and aims to explore the interactions between disability and medicine in the Middle Ages by bringing together established scholars and postgraduates, international discourses and theoretical approaches from across a wide range of the humanities and sciences. Paper proposals are invited on, but certainly not limited to, the following topics: Medieval disability and the 'religious model' of disability Disability and charity Medieval theological concepts of disability Canon law and disability Interstices of law and medicine in the Middle Ages Religion versus science/medicine? Devotion, piety and religiosity and voluntary disability Disability as form of religious expressio...

The History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine is seeking a part-time professional historian to help develop a web archive collection of materials related to Auto-immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). NLM holds a large collection of AIDS materials consisting of manuscript, audio-visual, photographic, and printed materials. To further enrich the NLM’s publicly-available, AIDS-related resources and information, NLM seeks to identify and select for long term preservation web content that documents the history of AIDS. The historian will research and identify web (online) content related to AIDS including public health campaigns and other public health information; patient narratives; care giver narratives; World AIDS Day content; social media; news stories; and web sites and social media of organizations such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, Doctors without Borders, the National Institute for Allergy ...

The Center for Science, Technology, and Society [STS] expects to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications for this expected position at this time. The successful applicant would begin September 1, 2017. This position continues the re-invigoration of the research potential of the STS Center at Drexel University, which included the successful recruitment of a new  Director in 2011, an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in 2012, and an Assistant Professor in 2013. The position will be a joint appointment with the successful candidate’s appropriate disciplinary department (e.g. globa history, political science, sociology, etc.) We are primarily interested in candidates who investigate the social and political dimensions of information technologies and/or digital infrastructures, especially as those relate to uneven distributions of power. Faculty expertise could, for example, be in the historical, cultural and political dimensions o...