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Call for Posters

The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites abstracts for posters in any area of the history of health, healing, or medicine for its 98th annual meeting and its centennial, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, May 1-4, 2025.

If you are planning on attending the AAHM, we strongly encourage you to submit a poster and encourage students, undergraduates and graduates, to submit posters too.

The AAHM welcomes posters on the history of medicine, disease, and health broadly defined, including the history of medical ideas, practices, institutions, and technologies; the history of healing, disability, illness, disease, pharmaceuticals, and public health; and the history of peoples’ experiences of health, illness, and disability. We invite posters that engage with biomedical and non-biomedical therapeutic systems and traditions in all eras and regions of the world. We particularly encourage poster proposals examining relations and historical processes of power in medicine and health. We welcome proposals that address the role of medicine in reinforcing and challenging social hierarchies of race, gender, empire/nation, ability, and more; that build connections between the history of medicine and related fields and disciplines; and that expand the methodological, thematic, chronological, and geographic diversity of the history of medicine.

Posters will be displayed during the poster session on Saturday, May 3, 2025. From 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM. Presenters should be prepared to give a two-minute elevator talk covering their research. Posters should be no larger than 48 x 36 inches. Materials should be easily read at a distance of six feet. Each poster should include the title of the presentation (104-point size), the author(s) and affiliation(s) (72-point size). A point size of 18 or larger is recommended for any text on the poster. Many universities offer printing services. UPS stores and other printer stores can also often provide this service. The AAHM particularly encourages posters that utilize creative means of engaging in public history and that can inspire conversations about the poster as a medium of historical engagement.

To submit an abstract for a poster, please complete this form by February 20th: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6548/submitter.

All accepted poster presenters are expected to attend the poster session in person and register for the annual meeting. There are no virtual options for posters.

All presenters are welcome to apply for travel grants from the AAHM and History of Science Society. Apply for a travel grant by filling out this form.