CfP: Sense and Nonsense
Conference call for papers: Sense and Nonsense
This biennial conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) marks the 30th anniversary of the Association since its founding conference in Strasbourg in 1989. The title of the conference has been chosen to recognise key themes at the heart of medical history debates and discussions, and will take place in the heart of England, at the University of Birmingham.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (University of Durham), Professor Robert Jütte (University of Stuttgart), Dr Tracey Loughran (University of Essex) and Dr Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham), who will also be running expert sessions on public engagement and social media, among others, specifically for early career scholars on the first day of the conference.
For a full description of the conference theme, please visit: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
We particularly welcome proposals for panels touching on these and other topics, including, but not limited to:
- Epistemologies of the senses through time
- Animal, human, inter-species and transhuman senses
- Reading non-verbal signals and uncovering the rationale behind premodern medicines
- Extra/sensory perception and its metaphors across cultures and clinics
- Visual cultures and those of taste, sound, scent and touch
- Looking/seeing, listening/hearing, touching, smelling and tasting in medical education, examination and diagnosis
- Energy, chakras, meditation, mindfulness and the senses and their management
- Pain, torture, itching, scratching, numbing and sedating as experience, crime, punishment or therapy
- Hyper-sensitivity, diversity, ability or disability through the senses, including burns, light sensitivity, synaesthesia, acute hearing or sight loss
- Insensibility, drugs and psychoactive substances
- Enabling technologies and technologies of touch, tactile imagery and haptic healing
- Material culture and experiences of space through the senses, health, illness or as patients
- Feeling and feelings
- Mental capacity, signs of reason, neurological signs and auras
- Fever, chills, hallucination, delusion and trauma