Conferences, Exhibits & Calls for Papers
Medical History Program

Calls for Paper
Special Issue: ‘A Hundred Years of Evolutionary Psychiatry (1872–1972)’
Guest editors: Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block
To be published in early 2010, this Special Issue seeks to explore the history of evolutionary accounts of mental disorders. For convenience, it will focus on the period 1872–1972 marked by the publication of Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and Tinbergen’s Early Childhood Autism – An Ethological Approach, respectively. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the correspondence between Darwin and Sir James Crichton-Browne; the phylogenetic speculations of Freud and other psychoanalysts (e.g., Imre Hermann, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Gustav Jung); John Bowlby’s attachment theory; postwar evolutionary attempts to make sense of the persistence of mental disorders (including the 1964 Nature paper on schizophrenia, written by Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Abraham Hoffer and Humphry Osmond); and Tinbergen’s theories on childhood autism. Contributions on other ‘evolutionary psychiatrists’ – such as Paul Broca, Wilhelm Fliess, Havelock Ellis, Gilbert Hamilton, Harry Harlow and Paul D. Maclean – are also welcome. Papers should be historical in nature. Scholars are invited to send a 500-word proposal to Pieter R. Adriaens at Pieter.Adriaens@hiw.kuleuven.be by 1 November 2008. Final contributions should not exceed 7500 words inclusive of notes and references. The deadline for final submissions is 1 April 2009.

Calls for Paper
HSS 2008 Annual Meeting:
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
6-9 November 2008
The History of Science Society will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in
Pittsburgh, PA in the Omni William Penn hotel. This will be a joint meeting
with the Philosophy of Science Association. Proposals for sessions,
contributed papers, and, for the first time, posters, must be submitted by 1
April 2008 to the History of Science Society¹s Executive Office. Papers that
are part of a session are due no later than 8 April 2008. Poster proposals
must describe the visual material that will make up the poster. The HSS is
also exploring the possibility of pre-circulated papers. Please contact the
program chairs to discuss this. Electronic submissions are strongly
encouraged - please go to http://www.hssonline.org.

Submissions on all topics are requested. All proposals must be submitted on
the HSS Web site (http://www.hssonline.org) or on the annual meeting
proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. You do not
need to be an HSS member to participate, but all participants must register
for the meeting. Applicants are encouraged to propose sessions that include
diverse participants: a mix of men and women and/or a balance of
professional ranks (e.g., mixing senior scholars with junior scholars and
graduate students). Strong preference will be given to panels whose
presenters have different institutional affiliations. Please note that
travel grants, funded by the National Science Foundation, are available for
graduate students, independent scholars and junior scholars who appear on
the program. Only one proposal per person may be submitted. In order to
ensure broad involvement, an individual may only appear once on the program
(see the guidelines for exceptions:
http://www.hssonline.org/meeting/2008HSSCFPPitt.html). Prior participation
at the 2006 or 2007 meetings will be taken into consideration. Before
sending a proposal to the HSS Office, we ask that everyone read the
Committee on Meetings and Programs¹ ³Guidelines for Selecting Papers,
Posters, and Sessions² (see URL above). The 2008 program co-chairs are Ted
Porter (UCLA) tporter@history.ucla.edu and Ken Alder (Northwestern
University) k-alder@northwestern.edu. For general questions, please
contact the HSS office at info@hssonline.org,  352.392.1677.

Robert J. Malone, Ph.D.
Executive Director
History of Science Society
PO Box 117360
3310 Turlington Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7360
352.392.1677
352.392.2795 (fax)
http://hssonline.org
jay@hssonline.org

Established in 1924, the History of Science Society fosters interest in the
history of science.

Calls for Paper
The Darwin Correspondence Project
will award a prize of £1000 for the best student essay on a specific topic in the field of science and religion. The prize essay will be published on the Darwin Correspondence Project's website. Funding for the award has been provided by the John Templeton Foundation.
Students from any discipline and at any stage of education may enter.
The essay should use materials from the Darwin correspondence, but need not be based exclusively on such materials. Essays that engage closely with the letters, and that connect the nineteenth-century debates about science and religion with current debates and concerns, are encouraged.
Students are advised to use the Darwin and religion section of the website, which contains lists of correspondence on particular subjects, other historical materials, and modern commentaries. Students can also search the online database for other relevant letters.
Submission details:
The essay must be written in English and must be between 4000 and 8000 words long. Essays should be submitted via email to Dr Paul White psw24@cam.ac.uk as an attachment in Word, OpenOffice, RTF or plain-text format. The author's name should not appear on the essay, but should be provided on a separate title page, together with contact details, and the name of the institution and programme in which the author is a student.
The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2008.
The decision will be announced in July 2008.
Any questions about the prize may be addressed to Dr Paul White psw24@cam.ac.uk

Calls for Paper
Print Culture in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine
Final call for papers for the Print Culture in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM) Conference to held in Madison, Wisconsin September 12-13, 2008 at the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern American. Information about registration and accommodation will be posted in March at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/-printcul/

Call for Paper
Before Depression: The Representation and Culture of Depression in Britain and Europe, 1660-1800 Conference.
June 19-21, 2008
The Universities of Northumbria and Sunderland, UK
The details are posted at www.beforedepression.com and contact Dr Clark Lawlor or Tel: 0191 227 4993 for any conference queries. The deadline is the end of January but, given the late posting of this CFP, we will be flexible about late submissions.


Durham University, England
CONFERENCE ON "HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND WELLBEING" february 22-25, 2008. www.durham.ac.uk/project.srilanka/rahunaconference

The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
2008 Congress is at University of British Columbia May31-June 8, 2008.

The International Society for Holistic Health
will hold their fourth International Conference on Holistic Health and Medicine at the
Four Points Sheraton Hotel,
Newtown Pike, Lexington, KY
September 17-19, 2008.

The Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick University is pleased to annouce that it will be holding a Summer School in July 2008 on the theme Medicine and New Media.

When: 7-11 July 2008
Where: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Medicine and New Media, the first postgraduate Summer School organized by the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick will explore the history of medical imaging from the Renaissance to present times. Participants will trace technological developments and their consequences in medicine, alongside consideration of how these new ways of ‘seeing’ the human body reflected and were shaped by the concerns of scientists, physicians, artists, and the general population.

The aim of the Summer School is to bring together current and recently completed postgraduates from the humanities and sciences with experts from a number of different fields to engage with a range of technologies for making scientific images of the human body, including the fine arts, drawing and painting, as well as film, photography, X-ray and the current medical imaging techniques of digital biomedicine. Moreover, it addresses itself to students who are investigating questions about the meaning of images of the human body and how agreement about such meaning is negotiated (in the laboratory, in modern mass-media, public displays in museums, in university anatomy teaching). What are the epistemological, moral and philosophical consequences of our desire to picture all functions of the human body? What does it mean to be human in a world of global mass media in which the individual body is central, yet increasingly public and commercialised? Are there alternatives to the understanding in Western science since the nineteenth century that vision is the primary avenue to knowledge and sight takes precedence over the other senses as a tool in the analysis of living things?

The emphasis of the course will be on encouraging discussion and exchanging ideas across disciplinary boundaries. Participants will meet every morning with two experts to discuss the topic of the day. The afternoon will be reserved for activities related to the theoretical issues discussed of the morning, such as digital anatomy, scanning, and photography sessions. A background reading pack will be sent to each participant in advance.

We are delighted that Professor Sander Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA), has been named a Visiting Fellow by the Institute of Advanced Study at Warwick, enabling him to be in residence at Warwick for the duration of the Summer School. In addition to bringing his expertise to bear upon discussion throughout the Summer School sessions and activities, Professor Gilman will give a keynote lecture on the opening night of the School.

For more information, including how to apply, please visit www.warwick.ac.uk/go/histmedsummerschool.

With best wishes,
Molly Rogers
Programme Manager
Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Warwick