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Hello! We (Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele) have been invited to submit a proposal for a Routledge Handbook of the History of Modern Medicine. Our vision is an edited collection that takes a more inclusive view on the history of medicine - one that asks how the history of 19th and 20th century medicine looks from the perspective of those who have stood outside of it. This “outside” can have many different registers - scholars, views, methods, issue, actors and geographical areas that are not often included in the modern medical history canon, but together they will offer readers novel interpretative tools while filling an urgent need for greater representation and inclusivity in both the history and contemporary of healthcare. Contributions to this work might represent views of medicine from its margins - from the vantage point of "modern" medicine's dispossessed (by disease, by prejudice, by geography), critics, activists, competitors in the marketplace, etc., but i...

When: 19th and 20th of September 2024 Where: The University of Southern Denmark, Odense What can public health policy and practice gain from arts and humanities research? Indeed, should the two be considered as separate? How and where do public health and the humanities combine, and what can be done to promote further interaction? We invite proposals for a two-day conference to explore these questions. Public health’s focus on population-level measurements and interventions, and prevention rather than treatment, means that its practice requires understandings of human health and behaviour that go beyond biomedicine and the doctor-patient relationship. As a result, it is inherently multi- and inter-disciplinary, frequently drawing on expertise from fields including epidemiology, demography, statistics, sociology, psychology and many more. Arts and humanities methods, concepts, and findings are well positioned to deliver rich insights into the health-related and health-shaping experience...

Johns Hopkins University Press now has a new book series, "Disability in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine" with Jaipreet Virdi , Mara Mills and Wayne Tan as Series Editors. About the Series Disability has always been part-and-parcel of human experience. Within the past twenty years, disability history has rapidly emerged as a subdiscipline with an analytical framework for examining the lived experiences of disabled people, across time and place, alongside the structural barriers that construct how disability is experienced and understood. Medical historians have examined how disability is historically contingent to scientific and clinical ideas about the body and health, while rethinking disease histories in the context of disability. Historians of technology have unraveled the roles disabled people play as creators, users, and redesigners of consumer products and scientific apparatuses. Historians of science have explored disability expertise, disability e...

Humboldt University of Berlin, November 28-30, 2024. Submission deadline: June 12, 2024. Acceptance letters in August Small textual and material forms seem particularly adept at circulating within and between different publics. This conference investigates how the movement of brief, compressed, and otherwise small forms ranging from early modern pamphlets to Instagram stories shape the development of diverse publics, as well as the interplay between them. We propose to explore the relationship between small forms and publics through three related strands of inquiry: how infrastructures affect the circulation of small forms, how practices including remediation enable their circulation, and how the circulation of small forms shapes the formation, operation, and dissolution of public life. Due to their compactness and tendency to circulate rapidly, small forms accelerate the movement of information in ways that (trans)form both historical and contemporary publics. The development of t...

We invite submissions for a conference on "Emerging Technologies and Classical Liberalism." The conference will explore classical liberal, ordoliberal and libertarian perspectives on emerging technologies, examining ethical, political, economic and regulatory aspects. Suitable topics/questions include but are not limited to: Is there a distinctive classical liberal/ordoliberal/libertarian way of thinking about technology? Classical liberal/ordoliberal/libertarian perspectives on specific technologies (artificial intelligence, geo-engineering, human enhancement, medical technologies, crypto-currencies, etc.) Potentials and limits of tech regulation Techno-optimism, effective accelerationism Technology and the ethics of economic growth Classical liberalism/libertarianism and science fiction Invited speakers Bartek Chomanski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) Johanna Jauernig (Freedom Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Anselm Küsters (Center for European Polic...

Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies. International conference, University of Lausanne, 27-28 January 2025 Hosted by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne Papers are invited within three main research axes: Transmedia circulations, adaptations and reciprocal influences Intersections, reconfigurations and new media genealogies New approaches, resources and methods See the conference website: https://impresso.github.io/transmedia/

Date: December 18-20, 2024 Location: Istanbul University Faculty of Letters, Türkiye Organizers: Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Philosophy (Scientific Partner Institution) The III. International Social Sciences Congress of the Faculty of Letters Congist’24, titled “Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice,” will be held on December 18-20, 2024. This year, the theme of Congist’24 will explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and social sciences, with a pioneering institute on AI research Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Philosophy as our partner institution. In today’s world, the use of AI influences various aspects of our lives and directly reshaping social structures. Its inclusion in areas such as political and ethical debates, as well as its impacts on creation, distribution, and utilization of scientific knowledge highlights its profound effects. The congress aims to examine the relationshi...