From: Paul Longmore,
longmore@SFSU.EDU
Deadline March 15, 2010
Call for Papers and Proposals: The Question of Rights
San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16-17, 2010 exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, andsociety.
Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. We welcomepapers on assertions of rights by insurgent groups, resistance to rights claims, and governmental efforts to suppress or promoterights, in areas including but not limited to: civilliberties;disability rights; labor and economic rights; feminismandantiracism; immigration; environmental justice; access to healthcare;
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5
March
*Call for Papers: Collected Volume of Essays on Early Modern Disability*
Abstract: 500 words (Due Date: April 1, 2010)
Editors: Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood
Accepted abstracts will lead to scholarly essays (c. 5,000-6,000 words) to be included in a proposed book collection tentatively entitled “Disabling the Renaissance: Recovering Early Modern Disability.”
While Renaissance scholarship in the past few decades has been interested in all sorts of new identity histories, too little work has been undertaken on early modern disabled selves as such. Accordingly, we are interested in essay submissions that call attention to how recent conversation about difference in the early modern period has often overlooked or misidentified disability. This volume will present early modern disability studies as a productive theoretical lens that can reanimate existing scholarly dialogue about Renaissance subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies.
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January
Scientizing the Other: Science, Medicine and the Study of Human Difference, 1800-1950
A one-day postgraduate student conference to be held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge
22 June 2010
For the last two hundred years, members of the scientific and medical establishments have represented and misrepresented peoples of different class, sex, race, age and ability in their efforts to chart human variation. This conference will explore how science has been used to evaluate the ‘other’ in society, and will examine the various means by which seemingly objective conclusions were reached concerning whole segments of the population.
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29
January
Call for Papers
Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context
The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy invites submissions for the 2nd Madison Medicines Conference, “Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context,” to be held 22-23 October 2010.
Pharmaceuticals – whether from natural sources or research laboratories – have been central to the treatment of disease throughout human history. The conference organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that address the theme of placing medicines into the social, political, economic, or philosophical context of any era or place using the tools of history.
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23
January
Disability and Ethics through the Life Cycle:
Cases, Controversies, & Finding Common Ground
CALL FOR PAPERS
May 21-22, 2010
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Despite a common interest in facilitating good medical care, bioethicists and members of the disability rights community sometimes differ in their approach to issues arising in the bio-medical settings, especially on such polarizing issues as abortion and physician-assisted suicide. Focusing on these polarizing issues, however, distracts attention from other ethical issues that affect people with disabilities in biomedical contexts. This conference will offer a forum for bioethicists, disability-rights scholars, disability-rights advocates, and other stakeholders with a different focus for discussing these issues by viewing disability from a life -cycle perspective. People confront disability through the life cycle: infancy, childhood, reproductive years, middle age, and old age. At each age they confront situations with ethical dimensions that present them, their families, and their caregivers and biomedical researchers with ethical challenges. This conference is designed to promote interdisciplinary conversations about these less frequently discussed ethical issues.
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20
January
Announcement and call for applications
*First European Seminar for Philosophy of the Life Sciences*
*/Causation and Disease in the Postgenomic Era/*
Hermance (Geneva), Switzerland, September 6-11, 2010
The Brocher Foundation and a Consortium of five leading European institutions in the philosophy of the life sciences are inviting postgraduate, doctoral and early career postdoctoral researchers in the philosophy of life sciences to submit applications for participation in the First European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences, to be held on the premises of the Brocher Foundation in Hermance (Geneva), Switzerland, September 6-11, 2010. The *deadline for applications is February 22, 2010*.
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11
January
New issue of Eä: Vol. 1 Nº 2 - December 2009
We are pleased to inform you that the contents of Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology - Vol. 1 Nº 2are now available online. Eä is a periodical electronic journal in an interactive format publishing papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology (ISSN 1852-4680). Articles may be downloaded and read online for free. The contents of Vol. 1 Nº 1 - August 2009 are available in the Archive section.
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6
January
The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (HMD, NLM) is looking for two US-based graduate students to present their work in its seminar series in August 2010.
Seminars can be on any subject in the histories of health, medicine and the biomedical sciences. Speakers should plan to talk for up to 45 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes for questions. Please send a title, short abstract (200 words max), short CV, and contact details to David Cantor at the address below (email attachment preferred).
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December
Atrium, which is one of the very best open-access ethics & medical humanities journals out there, has issueda call for submissions for Issue 8 (Summer 2010). Here is the Call:
ATRIUM Call for Proposals (Theme: "Happy")
Deadline for proposals: February 1, 2010
Article deadline for accepted proposals: March 15, 2010
The theme for Issue 8 (Summer 2010) is "Happy." ATRIUM encourages potential authors to think creatively about broad interpretations of theme. For example: Does the concept of happiness have any relevance to medicine? How is pleasure a factor in medicine, illness, bioethics, or medical humanities? What's the role of emotion, affect, or the presentation of self? How should we define "patient satisfaction"? Are our students happy? Does it matter? What do you love about your work, where's the joy in medicine today? If you're not happy, what needs to change?
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22
December
1st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Philosophy:
Challenges, Reflections and Actions
May 21-22, 2010, Villa Eberhardt, Ulm
Call for Abstracts
Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. This conference will focus on three related aspects of imaging the human body, demonstrating a range of cultural, historical and scientific concerns:
• Scientific representations
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30
November