Category: Conference Reports
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Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context
Written by Alessandro Bianchi, Newcastle University I had the pleasure of attending the ‘Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health…
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Preserving Black Health Histories: Archives, Memory, and Community
Written by Naomi Samake-Bäckert (naomi.samake-backert@graduateinstitute.ch) & Che Kelly (che.kelly@qmul.ac.uk) All photographs were taken by Francesca Nyakora (francescanyakora@gmail.com) The workshop, ‘Archives…
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Representing, Reshaping Reenacting.
Anatolii Kozlov, (Université de Genève) What is common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Between social interactions and formal…
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War, Trauma and Emotional Injury (Part 2)
Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Freie Universität Berlin) The Military Welfare History Network held its second symposium at Birmingham University on the…
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Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic (19th Annual MEMSA Conference)
Ana Inés Aldazabal, Andrea Cartia, Virginia Ghelarducci, Vittoria Faga (Boğaziçi University) Against the breath-taking backdrop of Durham Castle and blessed…
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Health and Medicine in the Colonial, Postcolonial and Global Worlds (10th History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) Conference)
Mai Thi My Vi (National Cheng Kung University); Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (University of Manchester); Dr Vivek Neelakantan Report 1 The tenth International…
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Death and Disease in Anatolia (SHIFA-ANA Workshop)
Alper Kerem Koşar (Boğaziçi University) The SHIFA-ANA Workshop: Death and Disease in Anatolia was held on 11–13 June 2025 at Koç…
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Writing Population History in a Time of Planetary Crisis
Eloïse Richard (University of Geneva) The workshop Writing Population History in a Time of Planetary Crisis took place at the…
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The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: Preparations, Evolutions and Legacies (Part 1)
Soundararajan Jagdish (Independent Researcher) The Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) held its first symposium at the University of Birmingham (10-11…
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Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World
Samantha Hosein (University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.) The ‘Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking…