Medicine, Science, & Humanities
Jews as Subjects and Objects in Medicine Workshop
RSVP is not required. Submitting this form gives you access to the papers being discussed. This workshop is for works-in-progress, do not share or cite from the presented papers without the author’s explicit permission. Attendance is in-person in the 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building on Friday, May 9, 2025 from 9am to 4pm.
New “For the Medical Record” Mini-Episode with Bharat Venkat
In this mini episode, Richard and Mia talk to Bharat Venkat, a professor of anthropology at UCLA, about the research he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series and his upcoming book project, “Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World.” Related links for […]
A Refutation presented by Theater of War
This is a hybrid event presented both in person and via zoom, to get tickets to either form of attendance, click here. A REFUTATION presents dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of excerpts from two conflicting historic accounts of Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic as a catalyst for guided audience discussions about health inequities in America today, […]
STS+MH Hub: Sofia Grant
The STS+Medical Humanities Hub will meet next on Monday, 2/24 from 6-7:30pm in Mergenthaler 266 on the Homewood campus. Dinner and drinks will be served. At the meeting, Sofia Grant, a PhD student in History of Medicine, will workshop her second-year paper. Please contact Hub organizer Gabrielle Robbins (grobbin4@jhu.edu) for a Zoom link and paper materials. The STS+MH Hub is […]
STS+MH Hub Kick-Off
The spring semester kick-off meeting for the STS+MH Hub (formerly Collective Scholarship Working Group) will be Monday 1/27 from 6-7:30pm in Mergenthaler 266 on the Homewood campus. Dinner and drinks will be served. Please join us to celebrate a return to campus and plan for the semester ahead! The STS+MH Hub is a collegial biweekly gathering for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdocs, early-career […]
CFP: New Perspectives in the History of Child Health
**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 […]
Visual Histories of Humor and Health: A Virtual Symposium
Register here for this virtual event! Join us for this virtual symposium exploring visual histories of humor and health, organized by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley in collaboration with Johns Hopkins’s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. These discussions of medically adjacent art will examine the role that visual humor has had […]
Conference: Achieving Health Equity in a World of Data
For more information and to join us live, or to watch a replay, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/achieving-health-equity-data-conf/
Trans/Medicine Workshop
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 […]
VERDANT MEDICINE: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary
VERDANT MEDICINE: HIlDEGARD\’S RESONANT APOTHECARY, a livestream concert by medieval ensemble Alkemie and a roundtable conversation on the medicinal use of plants by composer, abbess, and apothecary Hildegard of Bingen.Register by Apr. 22 to receive mailed \”intersensory program cards\”!