Call for Papers-Appel à communications

Situating and Interpreting States of Mind, 1700-2000

An Interdisciplinary Conference 14-16 June 2012 Northumbria University Keynote Speakers: Professor Joel P. Eigen (Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania) Professor Melinda A. Rabb (Professor of English, Brown University, Rhode Island) Dr. Judith A. Tucker (Senior Lecturer in the School of Design, Leeds University) This cross-period and interdisciplinary conference seeks …

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The History of Pain Without Lesion in the mid-late Nineteenth Century West

The Birkbeck Pain Project invites the submission of abstracts in connection with a public Workshop to be held on 19 May 2012 at The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London entitled “The History of Pain Without Lesion in the Mid-to-Late 19th c. West.” The Workshop is being organised by Visiting Fellow Daniel …

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Appel de communications, Congrès annuel, SCHM

La Société canadienne d?histoire de la médecine lance un appel de communications à l?occasion de sa réunion annuelle qui se tiendra pendant le Congrès des sciences humaines à l?Université Wilfrid Laurier et à l?Université de Waterloo du 26 au 28 mai 2012. Le thème général du Congrès est « À un carrefour : la recherche …

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Call for Papers, Annual Meeting, CSHM, May 2012

The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine is launching a call for papers for its annual meeting which takes place at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo between 26 ? 28 May 2012. The general theme of this year?s Congress is ?Crossroads: Scholarship …

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CFP: Learning from Lister: Antisepsis, Safer Surgery, and Global Health

King?s College London, The Royal Society, The Royal College of Surgeons of England ?Joseph Lister almost single-handedly revolutionised modern surgery through his development of antisepsis, or so traditional accounts have stated.? Lindsay Granshaw, 1992. Joseph Lister (1827 ? 1912), Professor of Clinical Surgery at King?s College London from 1877 to 1893 and President of the …

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Call for papers: History of Western Medicine in China, 1835-1950

Call for Papers Indiana University, Indianapolis June 15-16, 2012. Indiana University (Indianapolis) will host the first of two conferences* aimed to increase understanding of Western medicine (xiyi in Chinese) in modern China in the pre-Maoist period. We invite conference papers to examine the establishment of this new medicine which left archives tracing new directions in …

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