Past Events

Advocacy and Action: Supporting the Needs of Our Immigrant Neighbors

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

School of Nursing, Room 320 In collaboration with SOURCE and the Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship  


125th Anniversary of the School of Medicine Events

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, West Reading Room


Indigenous Environments & the Anthropocene

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

(click for more details) Title: Indigenous Environments & the Anthropocene What: a symposium and roundtable discussion Who: Featuring Candis Calison of University of British Columbia, Timothy Neale of Alfred Deakin Institute, & Zoe Todd of Carleton University When: Monday, April 8, 2019 Where: 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, 21205


Sawyer Seminar

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

The Sawyer Seminar Series on Precision and Uncertainty in A World of Data has a new website! Visit https://worldsofdata.org for updated information on their upcoming events. Sawyer Seminar: Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data The Departments of Anthropology and the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine will […]


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 […]


Conference: Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Place: Online Conference, event links will be sent to those who register. Dates: February 3-7, 2021 Register here! See below for draft schedule. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS We are grateful for sponsorship from the Ilza Veith Endowment of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, […]


Health Disparities and Structural Racism

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Health Disparities and Structural Racism Featuring Dr. Claire Decoteau & Dr. Lisa Cooper Speaker series – Epidemic//Endemic: Medical Humanities & Social Medicine 2020-21 Zoom Webinar Registration For more information on the series, see below. The COVID-19 epidemic has starkly illuminated a series of structural forces in health and society that produce endemic disparities. As a […]


International Order, Organizations, and Cooperation in the 2020’s

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

International Order, Organizations, and Cooperation in the 2020’s Featuring Dr. Christy Thorton & Dr. Nistan Chorev Speaker series – Epidemic//Endemic: Medical Humanities & Social Medicine 2020-21 Zoom Webinar Registration For more information on the series, see below. The COVID-19 epidemic has starkly illuminated a series of structural forces in health and society that produce endemic […]


Epidemic Narratives: Data, Visualization, and the Mediation of Care

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Kirsten Ostherr and Kim Gallon Co-Sponsored with the Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data Reflections on the talks by Alexander Parry Featuring Dr. Kirsten Ostherr & Dr. Kim Gallon Speaker series – Epidemic//Endemic: Medical Humanities & Social Medicine 2020-21 Zoom Webinar Registration For more information on the series, see below. […]