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El XXIII Congrés Internacional d’Història de la Medicina Catalana es celebrarà a Granollers, els dies 16 i 17 d’octubre de 2026. L’organització, a càrrec de la Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya (RAMC) i la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Medicina (SCHM), compta amb el recolzament local de la Filial del Vallès Oriental de l’Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears (ACMSCB).   Des de fa mesos el Comitè Organitzador (CO), el Comitè Científic (CC) i el Comitè de Suport Local (CSL), els membres dels quals s’adjunten en la present circular, estan treballant amb molta il·lusió en la preparació del congrés, que comptarà amb diferents conferències, simposis, taules rodones, sessions monogràfiques i comunicacions científiques, així com amb un programa cultural addicional.   El lema d’enguany del congrés és “ Història, ciència i salut: una trobada amb el llegat mèdic català”  i el seu objectiu és donar a conèixer els estudis històrics més recent...

Priority Deadline: August 15, 2025 Submit to: Robert Lifset at: robertlifset “at” ou.edu The Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Working Groups brings together scholars from around the world in online forum to share their works-in-progress on specialized topics in the history of science, technology and medicine.  https://www.chstm.org/ .  The Energy History Working Group solicits work from within the field of energy history for our 2025-2026 schedule.  Meetings will begin in October and will be held the second Friday of each month at 12:30 EST. Meetings will be held via Zoom.  A full schedule can be found here:  https://www.chstm.org/content/energy-history .  The Energy History Working Group seeks to highlight work that provides new analytical focus for the study of energy and its history. We solicit papers that access the deep linkages between business, labor, and environmental history as well as issues of technological developm...

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers:   Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline? Patients, policy and practice in public mental hospitals in England, 1918–1930  by Claire Hilton. Download it free:  https://bit.ly/3ZZ1xva

Intergenerational Justice Journal:  Monash Bioethics Review Guest editor: Romina Rekers Opening date:  01.07.2025 Closing date:  30.11.2025 The development of antimicrobials has historically contributed significantly to human progress. However, their overuse and misuse have led to one of the most pressing global health threats: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As with climate change, the Global North has benefited more from the past use of antimicrobials, while the Global South bears a disproportionate share of the harms and risks associated with AMR. The distribution of AMR burdens is also shaped by interconnected historical injustices, such as colonization, as well as present-day structural inequalities inherited from that past. At the same time, how the current generation responds to AMR will profoundly impact the health and well-being of future generations. That is why many efforts are now focused on building a sustainable future in the context of AMR. Ac...

Os invitamos a participar en la sesión que organizamos para el X Congreso Internacional de Historia Ferroviaria. Esta sesión lleva por título “La internacionalización de las empresas ferroviarias (siglos XIX-XXI)”. La expansión del ferrocarril conllevó un novedoso desarrollo de conocimiento, tecnología y profesiones que se organizó en estructuras empresariales de nuevo cuño. Este modelo se expandió desde los países pioneros de la industrialización (Gran Bretaña, Bélgica, Francia o Estados Unidos) hacia países y regiones seguidoras (Italia, España, Portugal, América Latina, etc.), y convirtió pronto al ferrocarril en un símbolo de la primera globalización. La amplia movilidad de los factores capital y trabajo fue la impulsora de ese proceso decimonónico, en un marco dominado por la explotación de las redes en manos de empresas privadas. En el siglo XX, con la progresiva nacionalización de las empresas ferroviarias, también se produciría un intenso intercambio de conocimiento y tecnologí...

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany,  11-13 May 2026 In recent decades, there has emerged an important wave of scholarship by historians, philosophers, literary scholars, biographers, and sociologists (amongst others), which has unveiled the crucial ‘hidden’ intellectual, social, and domestic labour women have provided throughout history in helping to make the careers and public reputations of their male colleagues, family members, and partners. This scholarship has illuminated the myriad harmful ways women’s historical labour has been effaced, during their lifetimes, in the subsequent historiography, and in archival institutions. The reasons why female accomplishments have long been marginalised in public consciousness has often been discussed under the term ‘Matilda Effect’—a concept that has also gained traction in wider public discourse. However, a key phenomenon within collaborative cultures remains strikingly under-researched: the role played by couples whose c...

“Videotape is NOT an archival medium,” influential documentary filmmaker George Stoney provocatively announced in 1998. Videotape is, as Stoney knew, an extraordinarily fragile medium – easily damaged through handling but also in danger of natural deterioration after only a few years. Further, there’s no possibility for videotape “restoration” in the manner of celluloid film; once magnetic media is damaged, that information is lost. That’s why, Stoney asserted, the work of archivists and scholars is so important -without active study and intervention,  the work of videomakers is in perpetual danger of being lost forever. The “videotape era” began in the late 1960s with the introduction of the Sony Portapak. Tape was more affordable than film, and re-useable, and the equipment was easy to learn. The next decade saw a remarkable wave of independent and community-based productions – journalism, documentary, artist tapes, activist videos incorporated into political actions, home movies...