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Pabellón del Carmen. Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, Barcelona. 18 de junio de 2026- 01 de noviembre de 2026 El jueves 18 de junio de 2026, la exposición Fontilles. La ciudad escondida , llegará al pabellón Nuestra del Carmen del Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, en Barcelona. En esta primera itinerancia, la exposición desanda el camino que recorrieron los veinte últimos habitantes del Hospital de San Lázaro de Horta, cuando fueron trasladados al Sanatorio San Francisco de Borja de Fontilles, en la Marina Alta alicantina, para continuar con su aislamiento, tras la clausura definitiva de la masía de Can Masdeu, en enero de 1961. Al igual que el viaje cambió la vida de los últimos de Can Masdeu y la de quienes les acogieron en Fontilles, su recuerdo ha transformado esta exposición, inundándola de sonidos. El sonido de las pequeñas radios personales, que los integrantes de la llamada “colonia catalana de Fontilles” trajeron consigo y con las que lograron romper la censura radiofónica ...

Este encuentro nace de la necesidad de fomentar un diálogo interdisciplinar sólido entre las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Salud, y se alinea con la corriente conocida como Humanidades Médicas (o Medical Humanities ). En un contexto académico y social en el que la Medicina busca rehumanizarse y las letras persiguen aplicaciones prácticas, esta propuesta ofrece una oportunidad única para analizar la enfermedad y la curación no solo como hechos biológicos, sino también como fenómenos culturales, históricos y lingüísticos complejos. Los objetivos principales son dotar al alumnado de herramientas críticas para interpretar las fuentes médicas originales, comprender la evolución diacrónica de los conceptos de salud y enfermedad, y reflexionar sobre los desafíos éticos contemporáneos desde una perspectiva histórica. Se busca que el estudiantado tenga una visión global de la Medicina y las Ciencias de la Salud como herederas de una tradición textual y filosófica de largo alcance. Respe...

The Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science is expanding our coverage to include reviews of museum exhibitions, podcasts, virtual projects, documentaries, and other media designed for a popular audience.  Editors are looking for reviews of ~750 words of current work or future projects that will be launched by the time of publication in spring 2027. Reviews can take any form (narrative, comic—feel free to surprise us!) but should cover the project’s form, aim, where it succeeds or struggles, and who might find it helpful.  We encourage submissions across a wide geographic range, and also encourage writers to consider projects based in Pittsburgh, the site of next year’s SAHMS conference. Before composing a draft, writers are encouraged to send a one-paragraph pitch to Jessica Hester. Contact Information Jessica Leigh Hester, PhD candidate, History, Johns Hopkins University URL:  https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/JSAHMS/about/submissi...

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Learning to Cut: Surgical training and practice, 1450–1800 edited by Maria Pia Donato, Elaine Leong and Tillmann Taape.   This is the first publication in a major new open access history of science series edited by Simon Werrett: Opening up the History of Science  Download it free: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/learning-to-cut/

A three-year PhD position is available in Paris for a research project on the history of the chemical bond and the history of its teaching. The position is aimed at candidates with a background in history of science and chemistry, and applicants should have at least a passive knowledge of French. Applications are open until 22 June 2026, and the successful candidate will begin the PhD on 1 October 2026. Further information and the full announcement are available at: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7219-VIRMAO-023/Default.aspx .

Se encuentra abierto el plazo de inscripción y de envío de comunicaciones para las XIV Jornadas de la Sección de Historia de la Psiquiatría de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría–Profesionales de Salud Mental (AEN-PSM). Las jornadas se celebrarán en Ourense del 22 al 24 de octubre de 2026 y constituirán un espacio de encuentro para investigadores e investigadoras interesados en la historia de la psiquiatría, la salud mental y disciplinas afines. Las personas interesadas ya pueden formalizar su inscripción y presentar propuestas de comunicación para participar en el encuentro. URL:  https://sites.google.com/view/xivjornadasdehistoriaaen/inicio?authuser=0

Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea   The rising popularity and speedy proliferation of social media in the 2010s and 2020s has resulted in the revival of a large-scale cultural interest in self-care and self-help —now reconceptualized as digital practices of self-improvement and virtual means of performing individual authenticity, in the context of increasingly blurred boundaries between the public and the private. This concern with caring for the self and preserving mental health has only peaked during moments of political crisis and social unrest, with the 2016 and 2024 elections of Donald Trump, the 2020 global pandemic, and the recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East being repeatedly referenced in popular discussions around the—highly debatable—therapeutic need for occasional political disengagement. The birth of the sociological study of therapeutic culture(s) in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the recognition of America as a particularly intriguing...

A conference taking place on 20 November 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30am – 5.00pm   Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 June 2026     2026 sees the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough FRS, perhaps the greatest exponent of natural history through television. His work is part of a long tradition of communicating often-complex ideas to a wider public. Scientists have used a variety of media to make a case for science: most traditionally in printed works, but also through anecdotes, lectures, demonstrations, exhibitions, press articles, radio and television. Today, our scientists may create websites or take to social media to gain a wider audience for their work, or to explain the work of many others. But who have been the most successful communicators and why? What narrative techniques made them effective? In an era of good and bad influencers, distortion or rejection of science, fake news, and information overload, what can...

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will receive proposals for articles that seek to reflect Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Science from the 16th through the 18th Centuries for the issue of June 2027. Full details regarding the scope, submission guidelines, and deadlines are available on the journal’s website. Call for Papers - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Science from the 16th through the 18th Centuries | Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this call with colleagues and potential contributors who may be interested in the topic.

Special issue coordinated by Pierre Petit, Alain Delattre, and Xavier Luffin Talismans are attested in the most diverse societies, spanning every epoque from prehistory to the present day, where they are being reinvented in the context of advanced capitalism and the digital world (Jackson 2022; McBain 2024). However, Japanese omamori are neither the hirizi of the Arab-Swahili world, nor the magical gems of Greco-Roman antiquity, nor the Saint Benedict ‘exorcist’ medals: the historical trajectories and cultural contexts of talismans are culturally specific. In the search for an Urreligion, many authors over the past two centuries have ignored these trajectories and contexts, adopting a generic approach to the topic (Lévy-Bruhl 1925, Marquès-Rivière 1938). By contrast, this special issue of Civilisations seeks to highlight approaches rooted in ethnographic and historical contexts, engaging reflexively in broader analytic considerations by comparing societies and periods. Talismans – or...