[Coming soon]Conference Programme
Wednesday 24th June
Arrival, check in at Ramsay Hall (8am - 11pm)
Ramsay Hall, 20 Maple Street, London W1T 5HB [see map]
Thursday 25th June
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 5th Floor, The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE [see map]
9.30 : Registration, tea & coffee (Please note that doors will not be open before 9am)
10.00 Introduction and welcome Dr. Helga Satzinger (Wellcome Trust Centre)
10.15 Keynote Speech: Prof. Roger Cooter (Wellcome Trust Centre)
11.00 Break
11.30 Session 1: Quantifying Methods
Marion Baschin (IGM Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart)
Between quantity and quality in patient history: statistics and individual fate
Felix von Reiswitz (Wellcome Trust Centre) An oblique view of 19th C hospital statistics
Chair: Prof. Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña (Universidad de Granada)
12.30 Lunch
13.40 Session 2, part 1: Elusive Histories
Mario César Sánchez Villa (CISC, Madrid) The sufferer’s perspective: representations of medicine in the Spanish lower classes between 19th and 20th century
Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal (CISC, Madrid)
Narrator without narrative
Mark Honigsbaum (Wellcome Trust Centre)
Gone but not forgotten: towards a patients’ history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic
Chair: Dr. Richard Barnett (University of Cambridge)
14.40 Tea break
15.00 Session 2, part 2: Elusive Histories, continued…
Alison Montgomery (Durham University)
Is the history of the male body really not possible? British medicine c. 1650-c. 1780 and some reflections on sources and methods.
Fraser Joyce (Oxford Brookes University)
Naming the dead in theory and practice
Chair: Dr. Richard Barnett (University of Cambridge)
16.30 Finish of day’s proceedings
19.00 Gala dinner (Speakers and chairs only)
Hilton Hotel,
17-18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT [see map]
Friday 26th June
9.00 Session 3: Oral & Colonial Histories
Mari Webel (Columbia University)
Local dynamics in transnational sleeping sickness reseach: Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, 1907-1914
Darshi Thoradeniya (University of Warwick)
Women’s health in Sri Lanka 1951-2001
Melissa Graboyes (Boston University)
Facts in the fantastic? Truth in tall tales? Narratives on medical research in East Africa, 1940-1980
Chair: Prof. Joe Cain (UCL)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 4: Cultural Approaches
Heiko Pollmeier (Medizinische Hochshule, Hannover)
The French debate on smallpox inoculation (1752-1777)
Mirjam Bugman (University of Zurich)
Hypnotism as scientific discourse and therapeutical practice: the case of Auguste Forel (1848-1931) in the Burghölzli Asylum in Zurich
David Dear (Wellcome Trust Centre)
“Why is this lying b**k lying to me?” An evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of approaches to cultural history
Corina-Maria Palasan (Freie Universität Berlin) Finding new meanings for the ‘human body.’ A semiotic inquiry into the criminal anthropology discourse in Romania at the turn of the century
Chair: Prof. Mark Jenner (York University)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 5: Understanding Visual Representations
Harriet Palfreyman (University of Warwick)
Seeing the disease: the visual culture of the pox in Britain c. 1750-1850
Tatiana Gonçalves (UCL/State University Campinas, Brazil)
Unveiling images
Norberto Serpente (Wellcome Trust Centre)
Semiotics and cell biology: signs, invisibility and meaning
Chair: Prof. Eddy Houwaart (VUMC, Amsterdam)
15.30 Tea break
15.50 [Chairs’ panel – TBC]
16.30 Finish
For any further questions, please feel free to contact the organizing committee in the meantime.
