HOMSEA 2019

8th International Conference on History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2019)

Call for papers

To be held at the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong HKSAR

12-14 December 2019

We invite scholars working on medicine and health in Southeast Asia to participate in the 9th International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA). As a global city with historic links to Southeast Asia, Hong Kong provides a critical site for exploring issues of interregional and transnational connections. The organizing committee welcomes contributions on any aspect of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia, including, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Ecologies (vectors and infectious diseases; environment(s); animal health)

• Governance (infrastructures; (post)colonial medicine; health metrics and big data)

• Borders (migrations; mobility; therapeutic travel; borderlands)

• Therapeutics (pharmaceuticals; alternative / complementary / minority medicines)

• Caregiving (children; ageing; end-of-life care; chronic and acute illness experience)

1. Individual papers: Submit an abstract of 300 words, together with a title, keywords, and a brief biography/CV (not more than 1 page, listing current affiliation, educational and work history, and publications).

2. Panel proposals: Submit a panel abstract of 300 words, together with a panel title, keywords, and a brief biography/CV of the panel organizer. Panels should consist of 4 to 6 presenters (proposals should include paper titles and abstracts of 150-300 words for each of the presenters with their names and affiliations).

Please send submissions in a Word file to Dr. Carmen Tomfohrde at chm1@hku.hk by 15 May 2019.

There are limited funds to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from the Southeast Asia region, and for research postgraduate students. Please note that research postgraduate students will require a letter of support from their primary supervisors. If you wish to apply for funding, please click here, download the funding application form, and send it with the letter of support to chm1@hku.hk no later than 15 May 2019. 

Keynote Speaker:

Sunil Amrith 

Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University

Key Dates:

Submission: 15 May 2019

Notification: mid-July 2019

Program Committee:

Prof. Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney

Dr. Francis A. Gealogo, Ateneo University

Prof. Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal

Prof. Robert Peckham, University of Hong Kong

Prof. Hans Pols, University of Sydney, Australia

Dr. Ria Sinha, University of Hong Kong

Dr. Priscilla Song, University of Hong Kong

Dr. Harry Wu, University of Hong Kong