Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas
October 2-3, 2025

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals

Sam Houston State University is hosting a medical humanities conference, which aims to
promote interdisciplinary discussion around topics common to medicine, humanities, and the
social sciences. We invite proposals for panels and paper presentations on topics related to
health, medicine, and disability, broadly construed. The conference will feature plenary talks by
Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness, and Lynn Harter, Ohio University, whose
extensive research focuses on issues of health care communications and narrative.
The NEH Medical Humanities Conference will be held on the campus of Sam Houston State
University from Thursday, October 2, to Friday, October 3, 2025. Sam Houston State is
located in Huntsville, Texas, about one hour north of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental
Airport.

We invite panel and paper proposals from scholars at all ranks, including graduate students, for
topics including but not limited to the following:

Community Health
Health Disparities
Health and the Environment
Health Justice
History of Medicine
Medicalization of Society
Medicine and the Arts and Literature
Medicine and Ethics
Medicine, Globalization, and New Infectious Diseases
Medicine, Health, and Society
Medicine and Public Policy
Medicine: Traditional/Folkloric/Alternative and Contemporary
Medicine and (World) Languages
Nutrition and Wellness
Political Determinates of Decision-Making in Medicine
Medical Education
Public Health and Prevention
AI in Medicine
Oral paper presentations will be twenty minutes in length, with ten minutes for questions and
answers.

Please submit a panel or paper proposal of between 300 to 500 words with background,
objectives, methods, results, and conclusion. Submissions should be received by February 1,

2025. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Abstract Review Committee and evaluated according to
      importance of the question and organization and clarity. Receipt of abstract submissions will be
      acknowledged via e-mail to the submitting author. After the review process is complete, the
      author will be notified regarding the acceptance or rejection of her or his abstract.
      To be included in the official program, participants must register for the (free) conference.
      Please send your abstract electronically to
      NEH Medical Humanities Conference
      Abstract Review Committee
      Care of Paul W. Child, Program Committee Chair: [email protected]

The conference is funded in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.