Casebooks Therapy
Casebooks Therapy (University of Cambridge) is an informal reading group for those interested in using the manuscripts of Simon Forman and Richard Napier in their research. The aim of the […]
The Experience of the Physician Girolamo Donzellini in 1575 Venetian Plague
SISS – Società Italiana Di Storia Della Scienza (University of Bari Aldo Moro) Virtual Seminar. Alessandra Celati (Verona): “Facing the Plague in an Inquisition Prison: The Experience of the Physician […]
Gender and Medical Epistemology in the Early Modern Period
Scientiae (Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World) is holding a special online workshop on gender and medical epistemology in the early modern period. Speakers: Alisha Rankin (Tufts), Elizabeth Yale (Iowa), and Valentina […]
From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death
Virtual seminar organized by the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University for the “Pandemics in the Past: from Prehistory to (almost) the Present” seminar series. Guest speaker: Abigail Agresta […]
The Testimony of History: To Live and Overcome the Epidemic in the Present
The conference is a joint initiative of two ongoing hospital and health history research projects: Hospitalis: Hospital architecture in Portugal (European Institute for Culture Sciences Padre Manuel Antunes/University of Lisbon) […]
The Early Modern Quarantine Conference
A Twitter conference on the theme “The Historian, like the Iconoclast” organized by EMQuon. Panel 5: ‘Stories of the past are what propel us on’: Contemporary Theatrical Responses to Pandemic, […]
The Middle Ages in Modern Games
A Twitter conference organized by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester. Among the sessions: 3 July 2020, 14:00 BST – Magic, Medicine, and Religion […]
Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing: Gestures of Nature
Virtual workshop organized by the Maison Française d’Oxford. How is knowledge or experience of nature mediated by gesture, bodily or otherwise? In this workshop, three short, informal papers, and an […]
Reforming Medicine, ca. 1500-1700: Reforming the Christian Soul and Body
This working group (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) invites scholars to reflect on the relationships between projects and practices of reforming Christianity and the developments in academic […]
“The Ideal Body”: Perceptions of Perfection from Early Modernity to the Present
This virtual conference organized by Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group will bring together academics and professionals working within interdisciplinary fields including history, sociology, medicine and theology. It aims to […]