Extended Call for Posters: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
September 25-26, 2026 Johns Hopkins University
The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University will host the 18th annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS-Med) between September 25th and 26th, 2026, in Baltimore, MD. Originally founded in 2002 with a mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for graduate research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and student-organized. We welcome interest and participation from graduate students pursuing research in the history of medicine and related fields, including students from anthropology, sociology, public health, bioethics, law, gender and sexuality studies, political science, as well as ethnicity, race, and migration studies.
A limited amount of space is available for poster presentations. We invite all interested students to submit an abstract for consideration. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis, but priority will be given to students who submit by September 4th, 11:59 PM EST.
Please submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/Vo15xsQZwjxrpGpJ7
We encourage student presentations on any topic, including those utilizing interdisciplinary approaches. Past presenters have worked with geographic information systems, statistics, demography, literary criticism, ethnography, and visual analysis. By welcoming these varied forms of scholarship, we hope to inspire a sustained and rigorous discussion on what it means to produce histories of medicine. Funding may be available to print your poster without charge; this would require submission of your poster by September 11th. If you would be interested in this option, please indicate so in the appropriate question. We do not currently anticipate being able to offer travel grants to poster presenters, but other opportunities for funding may be found on our website: https://jashistofmed.wordpress.com/travel-grant/
Attendance is free, and registration is now open at: https://forms.gle/dFnCX1PYd2XxdsX68
We look forward to welcoming you to Baltimore in September!
Please feel free to reach out with questions or concerns at: jashistofmed@gmail.com.