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Location:  Warburg Institute, University of London Conference date:  24 October 2025 Submission deadline:  15 June 2025 Organiser : Sergei Zotov (Frances Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute) Keynote : Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge, Trinity College) on how emblematic worldview shaped early modern scientific thought and representation, from Vesalius and Brahe to Gessner, Camerarius Jr, and Boyle. Zodiac Man as medical microcosm, Christ’s limbs symbolising chapters of the Bible, alchemical androgyne embodying sulphur and mercury, four demons representing cardinal winds, compass legs as lovers, the labyrinth as a path to divine truth — there are many examples illustrating how pre-modern sciences employed allegory to visualise and organise knowledge. This conference investigates the multifaceted roles of allegory within scientific and intellectual traditions from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period in Europe. Focusing on a wide range of disciplines — including anatomy, a...

El próximo 21 de mayo de 2025 , se celebrará una nueva sesión de los Seminarios Concepción Arenal , bajo el título "El patrimonio cultural de la salud. Fontilles y las memorias de la lepra" . El evento tendrá lugar de 12:00 a 13:00 horas en el Seminario Concepción Arenal , ubicado en el Edificio de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Alicante , y también podrá seguirse en línea . Este seminario contará con la participación de Inés Antón Dayas y Antonio García Belmar , ambos profesores de Historia de la Ciencia en la Universitat d’Alacant y responsables del Fontilles Heritage Project , una iniciativa de recuperación de la memoria histórica vinculada al sanatorio de Fontilles, un lugar emblemático en la historia del tratamiento y estigmatización de la lepra en España. La actividad está organizada por el Grupo Balmis de Investigación en Historia de la Ciencia, Cuidados en Salud y Alimentación (BALMIS) , y se enmarca en los esfuerzos por visibilizar el papel del patrimonio...

Meeting 9–10 September, 2025 at the Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany Invitation and call for papers Medical wax model collections have been the subject of renewed scientific interest since the turn of the millennium. As part of the material turn, scholars in history and cultural studies increasingly study historical objects in museums and university collections. Wax moulages in particular, with their specific characteristics, have attracted attention from medical professionals and historians alike. A German-speaking Moulages Working Group was formed in Berlin in 2013, following a major international conference in Dresden 2009. Ten years later, at a meeting in Zurich in 2023, the circle of participants was expanded to represent collections from all over the world. As an international working group, we now take the next step and join the newly founded International Association of Medical Museums and Collections (IAMMC) as the International Working Group on Medica...

Acaba de publicarse el ensayo "Las locas que no lo eran" ("As tolas que non o eran" en su versión en gallego), de la autoría de Carmen V. Valiña, doctora en historia contemporánea y profesora en la UEMC. La obra rastrea la historia de las mujeres internas en Conxo, el gran manicomio del noroeste peninsular, entre su fundación en 1885 y la Guerra Civil. Todas ellas reunían los ingredientes que condenan a una persona al margen: mujeres, aldeanas, pobres, analfabetas. Estudiar sus casi 500 historias clínicas para ir más allá de las palabras de los médicos permite recuperar las historias de cada una a través de sus cartas y relatos, perdidos entre toda esa documentación que, cuando la miramos atentamente, muestra su humanidad. En "Las locas que no lo eran" vas a descubrir, además, que muchas de estas mujeres, y de ahí el título, no tenían ninguna enfermedad mental que justificase su encierro en un psiquiátrico: algunas eran madres solteras; otras, alcohólicas;...

2-3 October 2025 , Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus Digital technologies have profoundly transformed human life, in ways that remain, despite the rising interest, still largely uncharted and insufficiently understood – partly because these technologies continue to evolve at an extraordinary pace. Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented digitization of the lifeworld. Our reliance on digital technologies is so pervasive and far-reaching that one could argue they have already transformed human nature – fundamentally altering lived experience, whether by creating new forms of experience or by reshaping existing ones. Sometimes, these transformations are conspicuous; at other times, they remain inconspicuous. It has become increasingly clear that the Humanities have acquired a new momentum of relevance coupled with a challenge that might define their value in this new setting. This challenge, however, presupposes and demands a reconsideration of our overall theoretica...

Norsk Teknisk Museum  (the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology) announces that the next and 30th meeting of ARTEFACTS will be held in Oslo, Norway,  12–14 October 2025 . ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology, and medicine, who share the goal of promoting the use of objects in research. The consortium was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts and collections in the making of science and technology and related areas. See  https://www. sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our- work/research-public-history/ artefacts-consortium . The theme of the 2025 meeting is  CARE AND REPAIR , and we encourage proposals (see formats below) concerning how erosion, breakdown, and maintenance, instead of progress and innovation, can be starting points for research. What are the limits of our fragile world, and what work does caring do? We characterize ‘care and repair’ broad...