Past SSHM and SSHM-funded conferences

2019

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM in 2019:

  • ‘Ailing Empires’, 31 May 2019, University of Edinburgh
  • ‘Liquid Modernity: Space, Place & Contemporary Drinking Cultures’, 11-12 April 2019, Bournemouth University.

2016

Biennial conference:

  • “Medicine in its Place”, was held from 7 to 10 July 2016 at the University of Canterbury, Kent.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM in 2016:

  • Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 15-16 April 2016, Birkbeck
  • After the End of Disease, 26-27 May 2016, Royal Society of Medicine / Birkbeck
  • Death, Art and Anatomy Conference, 3-6 June 2016, University of Winchester
  • Dietary Innovation and Disease in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 8-10 June 2016, University of Leicester
  • Alchemy, Medicine, and Prolongation of Life, 4 July 2016, University of Oxford
  • Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, 28-29 July 2016, University of Exeter
  • From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention, 1-2 September 2016, King’s College London  

2015

Conference:

  • Following a tradition established in 2005, the SSHM and the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health mutually sponsor each other’s biennial conferences. The EAHMH Conference 2015, “Cash and Care”, was held in Cologne, Germany from 2 to 5 September 2015.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM in 2015:

  • “The Black Sea in the Socialist World”, Birkbeck College, University of London, 6-7 February.
  • “Segregation and Integration in the History of Hospitals”, International Network for the History of Hospitals, 10-11 April.
  • “Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century”, Durham University, 7 May.
  • “Monastic Sciences: Medicina, Mechanica, Philosophia”, University of Leeds, 8-9 May.
  • “The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions”, Institute of Historical Research, 16 May.
  • The Australian & New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 14th Biennial Conference, North Sydney, 30 June – 4 July
  • Oral History Society Annual Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 10-11 July
  • “Health History in Action”, the 2015 SSHM Postgraduate Career Development Workshop and Conference, Loch Lamond, 26-28 August
  • “Food as Medicine: Historical Perspectives”, Dublin City, 9-10 October
  • The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 16-17 October

2014

Biennial conference:

  • “Disease, Health and the State”, was held in Oxford from 10 to 12 July 2014.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM in 2014:

  • “Health and Welfare of Seafarers”, University of Hull, 30 January-
    1 February.
  • “Music, Emotions, and Well-being”, Queen Mary University of London, 20 June.
  • “Hands On Instruments”, Cambridge University, 20-22 July.
  • Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, University of Exeter, 24-25 July.
  • World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine: 41st Congress, Imperial College London, 10-13 September.
  • Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine (JASMed), Johns Hopkins University, 3-4 October.
  • “The Early Modern Military Medical Complex”, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität – Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, Germany, 7-8 November.

2013

Conference:

  • Following a tradition established in 2005, the SSHM and the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health mutually sponsor each other’s biennial conferences. The EAHMH Conference 2013, “Risk and Disaster in Medicine and Health”, was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 4 to 7 September 2013.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM:

  • “Naval Expertise and the Making of the Modern World”, University of Oxford, 10-11 May 2013.
  • “Under control?: Alcohol and drug regulation, past and present”, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 21-23 June 2013
  • “Infertility in History, Science, and Culture”, University of Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2013.
  • “Knowledge at Work”: 24th International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, 21-28 July 2013.
  • “Vaccination between Research, Health Politics, and Nations”, Charité Berlin/University of Norwich, 14-16 October 2013.
  • “The Medical History of the First World War”, University of Leeds, 17-18 October 2013.

2012

Biennial conference:

  • “Emotions, Health, and Wellbeing”, was held at Queen Mary, University of London, from 10 to 12 September 2012.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM:

  • “Bob Woods Memorial Symposium”, 9 to 10 March 2012, University of Liverpool.
  • “Learning from Lister: Antisepsis, Safer Surgery & Global Health”, 22 to 24 March 2012, King’s College London.
  • “Publishing and Funding for Early Career Historians”, Glasgow Caledonian University, 27 June 2012.

2010

Biennial conference:

  • “Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives”, was held in Durham and Newcastle from 8 to 11 July 2010.

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM:

  • “The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment”, Durham, 6 to 7 July 2010.
  • “Handle with Care” and “Navigating Nightingale”, King’s College London and the Wellcome Collection, 17 and 18 September 2010.
  • “Scratching the Surface: The History of Skin, its Diseases and their Treatment”, Birmingham, 29 to 30 October 2010.

2008

Biennial conference:

  • History and the Healthy Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine (Glasgow, 3-5 September)

Other conferences and workshops sponsored by the SSHM in 2008:

  • Imagining and Practicing Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960 (University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College, 10-12 January)
  • Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness – Marking 60 Years of the National Health Service (University of Birmingham, 4-5 July)