Foi, médecine et religion

Faith, Medicine and Religion

EAHMH Conference


Leuven. September 7 to 10.

Tuesday, 07/Sept/2021
3:00pm - 4:00pm EAHMH Board Meeting

4:30pm - 4:45pm Opening of the Conference and Welcome by Kaat Wils

4:45pm - 5:00pm Leuven Medical History in 20 slides by Joris Vandendriessche


5:00pm - 6:30pm Shinjini Das: Sacred Histories of Public Health: Leper Asylums, and the Medical-Evangelical State in Twentieth Century British India
Session Chair: Prof. Frank Huisman, UMC Utrecht. The Netherlands




Wednesday, 08/Sept/2021
9:00am - 10:15am 1A: Exploring Trust in Oral Medical History
Session Chair: Dr. Felicitas Petra Söhner, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf


9:00am - 10:15am 1B: Medical Care and Catholicism in France (1930s-1960s)
Session Chair: Dr. Florent Serina, University of Strasbourg


9:00am - 10:15am 1C: Catholic Discourses on Reproductive Health in State-Socialist Poland, 1960s-1990s
Session Chair: Dr. Katerina Liskova, Masaryk University


9:00am - 10:15am 1D: Illness, Gift or Punishment? Medical Examinations of Religious Corporeal Practices in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1830-1870
Session Chair: Prof. Tine Van Osselaer, University of Antwerp


9:00am - 10:15am 1E: Learned Medicine and Sacred Diseases
Session Chair: Marc M Dooms, UZLeuven


10:15am - 10:45am Break


10:45am - 12:00pm 2A: Managing Melancholy: Dynamics of Medicine and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Dr. Catherine Beck, University of Plymouth


10:45am - 12:00pm 2B: Global Hospital Networks
Session Chair: Prof. Jonathan Reinarz, U Birmingham, Great Britain


10:45am - 12:00pm 2C: Faith and the National Health Service
Session Chair: Dr. Rosemary Cresswell, University of Strathclyde


10:45am - 12:00pm 2D: Faith and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century
Session Chair: Prof. Herve Guillemain, U of Le Mans, France


10:45am - 12:00pm 2E: Twentieth Century Missionary Health Care
Session Chair: Prof. Frank Huisman, UMC Utrecht. The Netherlands


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 1A: Roundtable Digital Methods in Medical History. Reflections from a Research Project on Religion and Ideology in Nineteenth Century Medicine
Session Chair: Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 1B: Roundtable Religious Healing Practices in the History of Nursing
Session Chair: Luc De Munck, KU Leuven


12:45pm - 1:30pm Break


1:30pm - 2:45pm 3A: Bodies out of Control
Session Chair: Kristof Smeyers, University of Antwerp


1:30pm - 2:45pm 3B: Health Movements in the Twenty-First Century
Session Chair: Dr. Ian Miller, Ulster University


1:30pm - 2:45pm 3C: Old Age in Early Modern England
Session Chair: Prof. Javier Moscoso, CSIC


1:30pm - 2:45pm 3D: Religion in Twentieth Century Hospitals
Session Chair: Dr. Joris Vandendriessche, KU Leuven


2:45pm - 3:15pm Break


3:15pm - 4:30pm 4A: Cultures of Healing in the Early Middle Ages (c. 750-900)
Session Chair: Dr. Debby Banham, University of Cambridge


3:15pm - 4:30pm 4B: Abortion, Medicine and Morality in the Twentieth Century
Session Chair: Dr. Agata Ignaciuk, University of Granada


3:15pm - 4:30pm 4C: German Chronicles of Welfare, Health, and Spirituality, 1750-1900
Session Chair: Dr. Avi Sharma, TU Berlin


3:15pm - 4:30pm 4D: Nurses and Midwives
Session Chair: Prof. Hilary Marland, U of Warwick, Great Britain


3:15pm - 4:30pm 4E: Health and Religion in Latin-America
Session Chair: Prof. Frank Huisman, UMC Utrecht. The Netherlands


4:30pm - 5:00pm Break


5:00pm - 6:30pm Anne Harrington: Almost a Miracle: Reflections on a Medical Archive at the Boundaries of Skepticism and Experience
Session Chair: Dr. Rosemary Cresswell, University of Strathclyde 

 

Thursday, 09/Sept/2021
9:00am - 10:15am 5A: Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Religion in Nineteenth Century Europe
Session Chair: Prof. Heather Wolffram, University of Canterbury


9:00am - 10:15am 5B: Rethinking Changing Concepts of Health and Disease
Session Chair: Dr. Hieke Huistra, Utrecht University


9:00am - 10:15am 5C: Faith and Healing in the Middle East
Session Chair: Prof. Javier Moscoso, CSIC


9:00am - 10:15am 5D: Modern Mental Health Discourses
Session Chair: Prof. Octavian Buda, 'Carol Davila' University, Bucharest


9:00am - 10:15am 5E: Female Bodies Across Time
Session Chair: Prof. Anne Kveim Lie, U of Oslo, Norway


10:15am - 10:45am Break


10:45am - 12:00pm 6A: Religious Differentials in Causes of Death, 1850-1940. Part I
Session Chair: Prof. Angélique Janssens, Radboud University Nijmegen


10:45am - 12:00pm 6B: Continuity, Convergence and Consensus Between Religion and the Mind Sciences
Session Chair: Prof. Benoit Majerus, Université du Luxembourg


10:45am - 12:00pm 6C: The Role of Religious Institutions in Health Care: English and Belgian cases
Session Chair: Dr. Joris Vandendriessche, KU Leuven


10:45am - 12:00pm 6D: Reproductive Medicine and (Loss of) Faith
Session Chair: Dr. Anne Hanley, Birkbeck, U of London


10:45am - 12:00pm 6E: Faith, Medicine and the Cold War
Session Chair: Prof. Heiner Fangerau, U of Düsseldorf, Germany


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 2A: Presentation of a Game
Session Chair: Jelle Janssens


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 2B: Roundtable Religious Medical Heritage in Leuven
Session Chair: Marc M Dooms, UZLeuven
Session Chair: Prof. Luc Verpoest, KU Leuven


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 2C: Roundtable Does Religion Matter for Histories of Reproduction in Post-War Europe? (cases France, Germany and the Nordic Countries)
Session Chair: Dr. Agata Ignaciuk, University of Granada


12:45pm - 1:30pm Lunch Session 3: Presentation EAHMH Book Award Winner


1:30pm - 2:45pm 7A: Religious Differentials in Causes of Death, 1850-1940. Part II
Session Chair: Prof. Isabelle Devos, Ghent University


1:30pm - 2:45pm 7B: Missionary and Colonial Medical Practices
Session Chair: Dr. Tinne Claes, KU Leuven


1:30pm - 2:45pm 7C: Medical Objects: Faith and Healing
Session Chair: Dr. Joris Vandendriessche, KU Leuven


1:30pm - 2:45pm 7D: Faith in/and Psychiatry
Session Chair: Prof. Heiner Fangerau, U of Düsseldorf, Germany


2:45pm - 3:15pm Break


3:15pm - 4:30pm 8A: Roundtable Modern Medicine and Catholicism: Historiographical Challenges
Session Chair: Prof. Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University


3:15pm - 4:30pm 8B: International Scientific Research stays to fight against Infectious Diseases: Faith in Vaccines and Vaccination
Session Chair: Prof. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Session Chair: Dr. Marta Velasco-Martín, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)


3:15pm - 4:30pm 8C: Hospitals, Medical Practices and the Church
Session Chair: Prof. Javier Moscoso, CSIC


3:15pm - 4:30pm 8D: Moralizing Pregnancy and Infancy through Care
Session Chair: Prof. Hilary Marland, U of Warwick, Great Britain


3:15pm - 4:30pm 8E: End of Life: Reflections and Debates
Session Chair: Prof. Anne Kveim Lie, U of Oslo, Norway


4:30pm - 5:00pm Break


5:00pm - 6:30pm Tine Van Osselaer: Between Hope and Resignation: the ‘Patient’ in Catholic Devotional Culture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Session Chair: Dr. Joris Vandendriessche, KU Leuven

Friday, 10/Sept/2021
9:00am - 10:15am 9A: Healing Miracles and Medical Expertise
Session Chair: Prof. Vincent Barras, Institute for the Humanities in Medicine


9:00am - 10:15am 9B: Medical Ethics
Session Chair: Dr. Noortje Jacobs, U of Rotterdam, Netherlands


9:00am - 10:15am 9C: Religious Actors in Russian and Eastern European Health Care
Session Chair: Dr. Tinne Claes, KU Leuven


9:00am - 10:15am 9D: From Mesmerism to Jean-Martin Charcot
Session Chair: Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven


9:00am - 10:15am 9E: Faith, Relief and Medical Education in the Low Countries
Session Chair: Dr. Joris Vandendriessche, KU Leuven


10:15am - 10:45am Break


10:45am - 12:00pm The EAHMH Buddy Program


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 4A: Heritage of Care - Care for Heritage
Session Chair: Dr. Kristien Suenens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven


12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch Session 4B: Roundtable Does Religion Matter for Histories of Reproduction in Post-War Europe? (cases: Belgium, United Kingdom and Ukraine)
Session Chair: Dr. Agata Ignaciuk, University of Granada


12:45pm - 1:30pm Lunch Session 5: Presentation of the European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health


1:30pm - 2:45pm EAHMH General Meeting


2:45pm - 3:00pm Break


3:00pm - 4:15pm 10A: Catholic Doctors and Medical Ethics
Session Chair: Dr. Tinne Claes, KU Leuven


3:00pm - 4:15pm 10B: Spiritual Mothers: Medieval Discourses of Medicine, Religion and Reproduction
Session Chair: Lydia Rose Shahan, Harvard University


3:00pm - 4:15pm 10C: Cancer and Miracle Cures in the Twentieth Century
Session Chair: Dr. Noortje Jacobs, U of Rotterdam, Netherlands


3:00pm - 4:15pm 10D: Fear and Epidemics in Early Modern Europe
Session Chair: Prof. Laurinda Abreu, U of Évora, Portugal


3:00pm - 4:15pm 10E: Healing Bodies
Session Chair: Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven


4:15pm - 5:00pm Break


5:00pm - 6:15pm Maria Pia Donato: Medicine and Religion at the Deathbed. Reflections on Death, Dying and the Doctors in Early Modern Europe
Session Chair: Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven

6:15pm - 6:30pm Van Foreest Student Award & Closing Remarks by Kaat Wils