Making Space 17-19 June 2020, University of Limerick, Ireland Organiser: Dr Ciara Breathnach. Conference Administrator: Dr Rachel Murphy. This conference invites practitioners, artists, scholars and patients to think about space in the broadest terms. This may take the form of…

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biennial, international, and interdisciplinary conference. In years without SSHM conference, we sponsor the biennial conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. Call for Papers 50th…

The Aesthetics Research Centre at The University of Kent invites abstracts for: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities 7–9 February 2020, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This conference will bring together Analytic Aesthetics and…

Describing and Deconstructing Rhetoric of Health and Medicine’s Commonplaces Ralph Cintron (2010) has noted that topoi or commonplaces are “storehouses of social energy” that  “organize our sentiments, beliefs, and actions in the lifeworld” (p. 100).  Similarly, convention chair Julie Lindquist’s…

Disability Bioethics How does thinking about disability inform our understanding of bioethical issues, broadly defined, in literature and/or culture? 300-word abstract to Maren Linett at mlinett@purdue.edu by 7 March, 2019. And here are some examples of the types of questions…