Critical Pedagogies of Health and Society

CFP: New Perspectives in the History of Child Health

by Marian Robbins • September 7, 2023

**2024 Workshop and Special Issue: Call for Proposals** Call for paper proposals for an international workshop on child health history hosted at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on June 21-22, 2024. There is support available for travel and lodging. The workshop is sponsored by: The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the University of Fribourg In […]


Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy

by Marian Robbins • May 25, 2022

Title: Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy What: Online Global Social Medicine Workshop When: June 1-2, 2022 For more info: https://globalsocialmedicine.org/online-workshop-making-space-for-social-medicine-inn-medical-school-curricula-transnational-perspectives-and-pedagogy/ Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-social-medicine-network-online-workshop-tickets-319707332237 Focus: Illness and healing can never fully be separated from social context. Yet while medical education around the world has legible standards for bioscientific subject […]


Conference: Reckoning with Race & Racism in Academic Medicine

by Marian Robbins • May 25, 2022

Title: Reckoning with Race & Racism in Academic Medicine What: Two-day hybrid conference, for more information visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/conf-reckoning-with-racism-med/  Where: Hybrid – Virtual & Armstrong 150 West When: Thursday, May 5th and Friday, May 6th Who: All are welcome to attend virtually. In person registration is limited to invited speakers and guests and Hopkins Affiliates. Numbers will […]


Trans/Medicine Workshop

by Marian Robbins • November 16, 2021

Medicine and medical understandings have played prominent and problematic features in framing transgender historiography. Often, the critical role of trans people in shaping and contesting medical knowledge and practices has been overlooked. In this workshop, we propose to turn the question around and ask what transgender history says about the history of medicine. How can […]


Symposium: Medical Humanities in Policy and Practice

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Mergenthaler 111, Homewood Campus in collaboration with the Concentration on Medicine, Science, & Humanities  


The Work of Diagnosis: Medical Concepts in Social Life

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, Room 303 In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology  


125th Anniversary of the School of Medicine Events

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, West Reading Room


Psychiatry As Social Medicine Workshop

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Psychiatry as Social Medicine: History of Psychiatry Workshop To register, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page. The problem of integrating the social world into the medical body has appeared and reappeared many times in the history of psychiatry. While psychiatry has always been seen as one of the more evidently ‘social’ […]


Conference – Trauma, Narratives, Institutions: Transdisciplinary Dialogues

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Trauma, Narratives, Institutions: Transdisciplinary Dialogues November 15-16, Baltimore Attendance is free for everyone. To register, scroll down or click here. For the program of the event, click here. THIS CONFERENCE IS CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL MEDICINE AND THE ALEXANDER GRASS HUMANITIES INSTITUTE Virtually all institutions are sustained through production of […]