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) […]
Poppies, Opiates, and Pain in Early Modern Scotland, c.1664–1785
What’s Your Poison? Online Seminar Series, organized by the Intoxicating Spaces project (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, University of Sheffield, Stockholm University, and Utrecht University) explores the history of specific […]
Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art
14th Annual Imago Conference, University of Haifa. Organizing committee: Gil Fishhof, Mazi Kuzi, Jochai Rosen, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan. Tuesday, 12 January 2021 9:00-9:30 Greetings and Opening Remarks Efraim Lev, Dean — […]
Disease, Death, and Therapy
The Medieval Academy of America is delighted to host a Speculum webinar that launches January 2021’s themed issue dedicated to the timely topic of “Disease, Death, and Therapy” (vol. 96.1). The […]
Epidemics and Infectious Disease
For the next Dissertation Inspiration Seminar (Wellcome Collection), the session will use a variety of materials in the collection to explore how infectious diseases have been understood across different time […]
Analysis & Synthesis in Early Modern Medicine
For the Analysis and Synthesis in Historical and Systematic Perspectives conference at Indiana University Bloomington, Evan Ragland will give a talk entitled “Knowing Diseases and Medicines Forwards and Backwards: Analysis […]
Gender and Therapeutic Performance in Late Medieval Liege
The next Medieval Studies Lecture Series at Loyola University Chicago will host Sara Ritchey (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) on “Bedside Ritual: Gender and Therapeutic Performance in Late Medieval Liege.” […]
Cross-Cultural Conversations on Poisons
Online book launch of Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice (Heidelberg UP, 2021) by Barbara Gerke (University of Vienna), in conversation with Yan Liu (SUNY […]
Size, Weight, and Pulse in Medical Theory and Practice
The next CSMBR webinar will host a session on “Measuring Health and the Body: Size, Weight, and Pulse in Medical Theory and Practice”: Yijie Huang (University of Cambridge), Expressing the […]
Servitude, Sickness and Healthcare in England
The next History Lab hybrid seminar (Institute of Historical Research London) will host Emma Marshall (University of York) on “Servitude, Sickness and Healthcare in the English Gentry Home, c. 1650-1750”. […]