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While several European naturalists, doctors travelled to tropical colonies to discover indigenous flora and fauna of medicinal value, their movement also enabled the formation of medical nexuses through various trade routes; the latter provided a cogent medium through which the collected knowledge could be re-located within the European metropoles. Placed in the context of medical humanities, these movements have opened an array of possibilities to study, analyse and recover the medical pasts of indigenous and colonial societies. The genre of travel writing preceded by the production and proliferation of travel texts by literate individuals saw the accumulation of data gathered by travellers during the 18th and 19th centuries. These writings shed light on imperial prowess which could vindicate territorial acquisitions. The proposed volume will examine modalities of disease causation, explanation and their trajectory as a result of interaction with colonial communities in colonized sett...

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on how scientific innovation and technological advancement can support sustainable, resilient, and inclusive societies. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and applied chapters addressing contemporary and future-oriented challenges. We encourage researchers, academics, policymakers, and practitioners to contribute to this important scholarly initiative. URL https://org.wahacademia.com/publications/

In an era marked by global health crises, increased mental-health concerns, aging populations, and ethical dilemmas, there is a growing need to examine medicine from a humanistic and cultural perspective. Beyond clinical wards, meanings of health and suffering are represented through literature, visual and performing arts, and the media. Nowadays, when healthcare systems are intensely scrutinized for their ethical, emotional, and cultural dimensions, the domain of medical humanities offers an interdisciplinary space for rethinking medicine as a profoundly human endeavour. Medical Humanities at the Intersection of Arts and Culture seeks to bring together international and interdisciplinary scholarship that explores how artistic and cultural forms shape understandings of illness, care, and the medical profession. The volume aims to advance medical humanities research by foregrounding global, critical, and culturally situated perspectives on health and medicine. URL:  https://www.igi-...

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna   What counted as evidence in the early modern world?  How did language itself – spoken, written, translated, or performed – shape conceptions of proof?  And how did sensory experience lend authority, or uncertainty, to what language claimed as true?   We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). Building on the interdisciplinary reading group   Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies  held at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies, the volume considers how early modern thinkers understood the interplay between linguistic practice and sensory experience in the making of knowledge and truth. From translation and foreign tongues to sacred utterance, magical speech, the rhetoric of governance, the eme...

Submission deadline: Wednesday, 30 September 2026 This special issue seeks to contribute to the emerging historiography of psychotherapy, focusing on the “Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices.” This topic originates from the 10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology (University of Lübeck, 2025), which brought together scholars drawing on historical epistemology and related approaches that integrate the philosophy and history of science to analyze how knowledge and therapeutic practices concerning the psyche have been co-constructed across experimental, clinical and cultural contexts. Within the history of the behavioral and human sciences, psychotherapy has only recently begun to take shape as a distinct object of inquiry in its own right (see, for example, the recent special issues edited by Marks, 2017, 2018; Rosner, 2018; Shamdasani, 2018; and Amouroux, Berger, Jaccard & Aronov, 2023). Earlier historical work on the psy-sciences la...

We are pleased to announce the publication of: Jérôme Baudry and Yohann Guffroy (with the collaboration of Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu),  Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre.  La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours , Lausanne, EPFL Press, 2025.   Richly illustrated, the book traces the history of the  Scientific Instrument Collection of the University of Lausanne and EPFL  from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It also provides the first broad overview of the history of physics teaching and research in the Lausanne region, from the training of pastors at the Academy to the technoscience practised at the Federal Institute of Technology.   As is often the case, the fate of university collections is highly contingent. In Lausanne, it was thanks to the physicist Jean‑François Loude that these objects were preserved, inventoried, and put on display from 2003 onwards, upon his retirement. Those of you with an...

Call for Contributions:  A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering  (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open access sourcebook, which aims to present and analyse a diverse range of primary sources that reveal embodied, scientific and cultural knowledges in histories of weather and weathering. Focusing on the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries, the book aims to be geographically diverse and to include textual, visual, audio and material sources that record or were shaped by different forms of knowledge and experience — from scientific measurement to bodily sensation, from quotidian cultural practices to folklore and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge.   Types of contribution:  We are open to contributions of different lengths, between c. 800 and 5,000 words, depending on the source(s) presented and the analysis offered. We also welcome essays that reflect on the significance, and o...

Data generated with Earth orbiting satellites is essential for producing scientific, economic, and governance-related knowledge about the oceans, the atmosphere, the land surfaces and the ice, as well as the communities inhabiting and managing them. Far from being neutral, satellite data are actively imagined, collected, processed, maintained, regulated, circulated and sometimes used. These practices are historically situated and involve complex negotiations among technologies, institutions, discourses and knowledge systems. Focusing on the period from 1960s to 1990s, in this workshop we would like to reflect on why and how different social groups (from scientific communities to states, space agencies, international organisations, private corporations, media or NGOs) historically engaged in satellite data work. To do so, we propose to explore what we tentatively call  data practices  – that is, the diverse and evolving ways in which different actors engaged, imagined, col...

Call for chapters for proposed edited volume,  Global Perspectives on Abortion Justice .  The project invites scholars and activists from any country to join contributors from Thailand, Spain, Kenya, Rwanda, Costa Rica, Ireland and elsewhere to examine how abortion justice operates in disparate national contexts. Using country case studies, the book compares how different political and legal regimes, healthcare systems, religious and cultural influences, and varied power structures influence abortion provision.  Abortion is often viewed through a lens of legality – permitted or prohibited, liberalized, decriminalized, or restricted. Yet across the globe, experiences of abortion access reflect a more complex reality. Legality and politics often intersect with limitations in availability shaped by constraints ranging from factors such as cost to stigma and inadequate healthcare systems. In other places, abortion may be restricted by laws but facilitated by informal networks...

We are pleased to share the call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop on  Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge  at  UCL Institute of the Americas . Please see the full CFA here:  HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/366FXSCX   The workshop will be held on  Tuesday 26 May 2026  at UCL Institute of the Americas, London. We are delighted to welcome  Professor Lina-Maria Murillo  (UT Austin) as our keynote speaker. Please email submissions to Emma Day or Sandra Rodríguez  by midnight, UK time on Friday 6th March.  The workshop will be held on  Tuesday 26 May 2026  at UCL Institute of the Americas. We are delighted to welcome  Professor Lina-Maria Murillo  (UT Austin) as our keynote speaker. Please email submissions to   emma-day@ucl.ac.uk  or  sandra.rodriguez.24@ucl.ac.uk  by midnight, UK time on Friday 6th March.  Contact Information Please contact the co-organisers   to submit your prop...