Conferences & Lectures
Conferences
The Future of Medical History
15th - 17th July 2010
Goodenough College, Bloomsbury, London
The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine is hosting a three-day international conference on the future of the history of medicine. Papers will be presented on the disciplinary and methodological challenges facing the field in all aspects of research and resourcing, not excluding media technologies and publishing.
The scope, breadth, and viability of the field as a whole in the 21st Century will be discussed in Panel Sessions on ?The Neurological Turn?, ?The Place of Non-Humans in the Project of Medical Humanism? and ?Intra AsiaEurope: Technologies of self and substance? including an opening discussion of medical history.
For further details on the programme, speakers, location and how to register please visit the conference website at; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/future_histmed
History of Medicine Symposium
This annual History of Medicine symposium will discuss how medicine has been influenced by society and how the study of past epidemics helps us respond appropriately today and in the future. We will discuss the broader role of the study of the humanities in the practice of medicine. It is intended for any physician interested in a historical perspective that will help us better understand the complex socio-economic environment in which we currently practice medicine.
For further information, visit www.med.emory.edu/CME/course/10/10-ME0925.htm.
"History in the NIH"
The Office of History, National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce a symposium "History in the NIH", to be held 15 June 2010, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm. Building 45 (Natcher) Conference Room D, National Institutes of Health
Further information:
http://history.nih.gov/about/conferences.html
The Office of History, National Institutes of Health (NIH) exists to advance historical understanding of the NIH and of biomedical research supported by the NIH. One of the ways in which it achieves this goal is through the DeWitt Stetten Fellowship in the History of the Biomedical Sciences and Technology or Medicine. This fellowship program aims to bring post-doctoral scholars from leading universities across the globe to the NIH campus to research the history of research sponsored by NIH since 1945. The results of this research will be published in scholarly journals and books.
This Symposium is a 'progress report' by the seven Stetten fellows in the Office of History. Their presentations explore the NCI's cancer virus program in the 1970s, public responses to Leptin and obesity, nanotechnology and cancer, the NIH consensus development program, complementary and alternative medicine at the NIH, the history of psychosurgery, and the role of the NIH in the development of research ethics.
The meeting is open to all.
CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST
Inspired by Dalhousie University's online launch of their Dinwiddie
Archives, this conference aims to further international dialogue and
scholarly exchange between those working on the history of science in
Asia, Europe and North America by examining the global circulation of
scientific knowledge from the Early Modern Period to today.
CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will culminate in a half-day facilitation workshop to plan for further Science Studies dialogue and exchange, "East" and "West", with future conferences in Bangalore and Singapore.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Fa-ti Fan, State University of New York at Binghamton
Yves Gingras, l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
Jahnavi Phalkey, Imperial College London
Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University
Jon Topham, University of Leeds
CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will be held at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from July 21-23. For further details - including information on registration and accommodations - please visit: WWW.SITUSCI.CA.
Sponsored by the Situating Science Knowledge Cluster, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of King's College)
The James Dinwiddie (1746-1815) papers were donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 1999 and are now being prepared for online access. Dr. Dinwiddie (1746-1815) was the scientific attaché of the first British embassy to the 18th Century Chinese imperial court, and the first Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the College of Fort William in Calcutta, India. One of the most important of the new itinerant Newtonian natural philosophers and lecturers of the Early Modern Period, the bulk of Dinwiddie's papers consist of his scientific observations, experiments, lecture notes, and journals with dates ranging from 1767 to 1815.
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
Carlos III University
Madrid, Spain
11-13 November 2010
www.ScienceinSocietyConference.com
This conference addresses the social impacts, values, pedagogies, politics and economics of science. It is an inclusive forum that welcomes a breadth of perspectives on science from practitioners, teachers and researchers representing a wide range of academic disciplines.
The Science in Society Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. The Conference was inaugurated in 2009 at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. We are pleased to hold this year's conference at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to Plenary Presentations from leading speakers in the field, the Science in Society Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters submit their written papers for publication in the peer refereed "International Journal of Science in Society". If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal as well as the option of uploading a video presentation to our YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 March 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: www.ScienceinSocietyConference.com.
In 2011 the conference will be held in Washington D.C. at American Catholic University, 5-7 August.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Madrid in November.
The 21st International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) Conference
The IAHA Conferences offer a unique opportunity for scholars within the Asian region, as well as from other parts of the world, to discuss, share and gain new insights from their latest historical studies, and to foster solidarity and camaraderie among academics working on Asian history.
More information can be found at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/iaha/index.htm
WINTER 2010 COSTA RICA
Health and Health Care: A Comparative Perspective (Costa Rica and the United States) (January 4-8).
Students can register for the Winter course as a Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 course.
March 2010 courses
March 2010 courses take place March 8-12, trip March 5-14.
BETH 315/415: French Perspectives on Controversies at the Beginning and End of Life-Paris, France
BETH 315/415: Public Health Ethics: Focus on the Netherlands
BETH 315/415: From Bio-Piracy to Bio-Policing: Ethical Issues in International Genomic Research, Public Health Genetics, and DNA-based Forensics (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
BETH 315/415: International Women's Health Issues: Focus on Netherlands
BETH 315/415: Mental Health Ethics--"Stigma, De institutionalization, and the Severely Mentally Ill: European and American Experiences"--Netherlands
BETH 315/415: European Perspectives on Bioethics--Salamanca, Spain
Lectures