Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Sites of Health: A Symposium on the Medical Humanities
This symposium aims to bring together early career scholars to create an interdisciplinary discussion upon the current state of medical humanities and its future, with a particular focus on the history of medicine. The symposium committee welcomes papers examining themes including but not limited to: global health activism, networks in health, (post)colonial health, hygienic modernity, alternative medicines, wellbeing and daily culture, health and identity, teaching medical humanities, and global health in the future. The event will take place on 26 and 27 April 2019 at Shanghai University. Please submit a paper title and an abstract of no more than 150 words by 7 January 2019. More information.
- 2019 Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award, nomination deadline 12/7/18
- Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Special Issue: “Interrogating the Past and Shaping the Future of Mental Health Rhetoric Research,” proposal deadline 12/10/18
- Regarding the Pain of Others: What emotions have to do in the History of Humanitarian Images?, proposal deadline 12/14/18
- Wellcome Photography Prize 2019, deadline 12/17/18
- Tenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night, abstract deadline 12/20/18
- AMA Journal of Ethics, theme: “Ethics of Global Health “Immersion” in Health Professions Education,” deadline 12/21/18
- Perspectives on the Philosophy of Medicine, deadline 12/31/18
- (Dis)ability and Comics: Fifth Annual Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation, abstract submission 1/7/19
- Creating Space IX: Cultural Humility and Contemporary Medical Practice: (How) Can the Humanities Help?, proposal deadline 1/15/19
- Healthcare in Children’s Literature, proposal deadline 1/30/19
- 2019 Hippocrates Open and Health Professional Awards, deadline 2/14/19
