Les infirmières pendant la première guerre mondiale

The First World War: Nursing

Call for Papers

Saturday, 21 November 2015
University of Worcester, City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester, WR1 3AS.

The Conference is organised by: The Women‟s History Network, Midlands Region

The University of Worcester‟s annual Women‟s History Conference seeks papers for next year‟s event under the heading of „The First World War: Nursing‟.

Edith Cavell was executed by a firing squad in Brussels on 12 October 1915 and as part of our ongoing participation in events to mark the centenary of the First World War, the centenary of Cavell‟s death seemed to provide an important reminder of the contribution made by nurses to that conflict. As a result we are calling for papers on any topic related to the role of nurses in the First World War. As always we encourage contributions that reflect the global nature of this war and the wide variety of women who provided care for those suffering the devastating results of mechanised warfare.

The keynote address entitled ‘Nursing: An International Profession in a World Conflict’will be delivered by Professor of Nursing History, Christine E. Hallett, The University of Manchester.

Send an abstract of 300 words to Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk by 31 July 2015.

La psychiatrie pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale

Psychiatry During World War One 

Call for papers

The Heimatpflege des Bezirks Schwaben, the Schwabenakademie Irsee and the Bildungswerk des Bayerischen Bezirketags will host a conference entitled “Psychiatry during WWI” in collaboration with the Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II of Ulm University at Kloster Irsee.

Calls for papers due 20th July 2015 We invite proposals for contributions of unpublished research of 30 minutes max., followed by a discussion of 15 minutes. We particularly welcome reports dealing with hospitals and asylums in Britain, France and Italy as well as summarising accounts from these countries.

The conference languages are German and English. The event takes place on Thursday and Friday, 4 and 5 February 2016. Publication of the conference results is envisaged as part of the series “Irseer Schriften: Studien zur Wirtschafts-, Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte” (UVK Verlagsgesellschaft).

Stress dans la Grande Bretagne d'après-guerre

Stress in Post-war Britain. 1945-1985

Mark Jackson (Editor)


Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (June 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1848934733

In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies. Chapters in part one look at the experience and management of stress for both civilians and former military personnel immediately after the war, while part two deals with the development of psychological, physiological and psychosocial theories in the second half of the twentieth century.

L'hôpital de convalescence de Leeds

Temple Newsam House: Convalescent Hospital

Exhibition

A new exhibition has opened at Temple Newsam House in Leeds focussing on the history of the house as First World War convalescent hospital. This new exhibition is in partnership with Legacies of War at the University of Leeds. The collaboration has shone new light on the lives of the nurses who worked at the hospital and working with the university has put the lives of the stories brought forward by members of the community into a wider context.

The hospital was run by Lady Dorothy Wood and unique access to the archives of the Halifax Estate has brought her pragmatic attitude to running the hospital to the fore in the exhibition. Lady Dorothy recalled in her memoirs that she left much of the nursing to the VADs as “they were so keen to practice”. On another occasion she teaches some soldiers returning late and drunk a lesson by confiscating their trousers.

Embed trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpE0b7tJUBc

The exhibition runs until 1st November 2015 and is accompanied by a series of public events includes: The Country House & the First World War, Study Day: Nurses & Nursing , The film „Griet‟ ,The Gledhow Scrapbook and Frontline Medicine.

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/Temple-Newsam.aspx or contact lucy.moore@leeds.gov.uk

Journal d'un chirurgien confédéré

Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865 

Thomas Robertson



Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1611212600

Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon’s Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865, by Francis Marion Robertson (edited by Thomas H. Robertson, Jr.) fills in many of the gaps and adds tremendously to our knowledge of this region and those troubled final days of the Confederacy.

Surgeon Francis Robertson fled Charleston with the Confederate garrison in 1865 in an effort to stay ahead of General Sherman’s Federal army as it marched north from Savannah. The Southern high command was attempting to assemble General Joseph E. Johnston’s force in North Carolina for a last-ditch effort to defeat Sherman and perhaps join with General Lee in Virginia, or at least gain better terms for surrender. Dr. Robertson, a West Pointer, physician, professor, politician, patrician, and Presbyterian, with five sons in the Confederate army, kept a daily journal for the final three months of the Civil War while traveling more than 900 miles through four states. His account looks critically at the decisions of generals from a middle ranking officer’s viewpoint, describes army movements from a ground level perspective, and places the military campaign within the everyday events of average citizens suffering under the boot of war.

Editor and descendant Thomas Robertson followed in his ancestor’s footsteps, conducting exhaustive research to identify the people, route, and places mentioned in the journal. Sidebars on a wide variety of related issues include coverage of politics and the Battle of Averasboro, where one of the surgeon’s sons was shot. An extensive introduction covers the military situation in and around Charleston that led to the evacuation described so vividly by Surgeon Robertson, and an epilogue summarizes what happened to the diary characters after the war. Resisting Sherman is a valuable addition to Civil War literature.

Histoire de la pilosité faciale

Framing the Face. New perspectives on the history of facial hair

Call for Papers


One-day workshop, 28 November 2015

Friend’s Meeting House, Euston Road, London

Over the past five centuries, facial hair has been central to debates about masculinity. Over time, changing views of masculinity, self-fashioning, the body, gender, sexuality and culture have all strongly influenced men’s decisions to wear, or not wear, facial hair. For British Tudor men, beards were a symbol of sexual maturity and prowess. Throughout the early modern period, debates also raged about the place of facial hair within a humoural medical framework. The eighteenth century, by contrast, saw beards as unrefined and uncouth; clean-shaven faces reflected enlightened values of neatness and elegance, and razors were linked to new technologies. Victorians conceived of facial hair in terms of the natural primacy of men, and new models of hirsute manliness. All manner of other factors from religion to celebrity culture have intervened to shape decisions about facial hair and shaving. 

And yet, despite a recent growth in interest in the subject, we still know little about the significance, context and meanings of beards and moustaches through time, or of its relationship to important factors such as medicine and medical practice, technology and shifting models of masculinity. We therefore welcome papers related to, but by no means limited to the following questions: 

• To what extent were beards a symbol of masculinity and what key attributes of masculinity did they symbolise? 
• To what extent did the profession of the barber influence beard styles and the management of facial hair? 
• To what extent were beard trends led by the elite and by metropolitan fashion? 
• How far did provincial trends influence metropolitan trends through migration? 
• What impact did changing shaving technologies have on beard fashions/trends?
• How were beards understood within the medical frameworks of different eras? 
• How have women responded to facial hair in different eras? 
• How has the display of facial hair by women been viewed as both a medical and cultural phenomena?

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words, by 30th September 2015, to framingtheface@gmail.com

For further information please contact the organisers

Dr Alun Withey, University of Exeter A.Withey@exeter.ac.uk

Dr Jennifer Evans, University of Hertfordshire J.evans5@herts.ac.uk

https://framingtheface.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

Sociohistoire des pollutions atmosphériques

Un air familier ? Sociohistoire des pollutions atmosphériques

Charvolin Florian , Frioux Stéphane , Kamoun Léa , Mélard François, Roussel Isabelle


Date : 2015 -06
Editions : Presses des mines
Collection : Sciences sociales
ISBN : 978-2-35671-206-6
- 238 pages

Pollutions au mercaptan, particules de moteur diesel dans l’air, odeurs de raffineries, rejets d’anhydrides sulfureux… nous avons tous périodiquement l’impression de vivre dans un monde irrespirable. Cet air, si familier qu’il passe aussi inaperçu que le fait de le respirer, est devenu avec le progrès scientifique et l’industrialisation une affaire d’expertise et de politiques publiques. L’ouvrage montre comment l’air se manifeste dans la vie de nos concitoyens depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle : affaire de perception d’abord, de revendication ensuite, et finalement, depuis les années 1950, d’appareillage technique. La population est acteur à plus d’un titre de la politique de l’air, publique comme privée : elle multiplie les plaintes, s’élève contre la pollution chronique, est la destinataire d’informations techniques comme l’indice atmo, mène des actions locales pour lutter contre les gênes, etc. C’est ce que montre cet ouvrage dans une enquête qui associe historien, sociologue, politiste et géographe. Et l’on pourra ainsi se demander si mesurer l’air est une façon d’exprimer sa foi dans la maîtrise « sur » les problèmes environnementaux par la modernisation technique, ou bien si c’est le début d’une exploration plus démocratique de l’homme « dans » son environnement, avec le retour en grâce de la participation des habitants, comme ce fut récemment le cas dans la cartographie des odeurs.

Histoire, cinéma et professions psy

Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy Professions

Workshop 

The 3rd and 4th of July 2015

Birkbeck Cinema

43 Gordon Square

WC1H 0PD London

United Kingdom

The full programme and free registration for this event can be found here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brainwash-history-cinema-and-the-psy-professions-tickets-16380168525

The history of cinema, like the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychotherapy, percolates with Western suspicions that our minds are susceptible to covert, even unconscious manipulation. Cinema and psychoanalysis—two essential exponents of subjectivity in the twentieth century—have been celebrated as royal roads to the unconscious, catalysts for our dreams, and means of self-discovery and human emancipation. But cinema and psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, have also been castigated for their special capacity to tap the unconscious, and as tools for mind control, even as they have depicted and shaped understanding of what it means to have or to manipulate a mind.

In this workshop we ask whether the Cold War obsession with brainwashing was a break with past narratives and anxieties over mental manipulation and suggestion. We consider how far cinema, television and video have been caught up in this history of hidden or coercive persuasion, and how far they have changed the terms of debate. What forms of human experimentation inspired interest in brainwashing, and vice versa? And how and why did depictions of automatism on screen so often connect to fears of the ‘psy’ professions?

In addressing these questions we revisit some iconic and obscure brainwashing sagas of the past. By re-examining Cold War films and some of their precursors, we invite discussion of the representation of coercively altered states of consciousness—the dangerous spell that film and 'the talking cure' have been said to exert.

_Workshop Programme_

3 July:

Raymond Bellour (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): Cinema and Hypnoses: Mabuse as an example

Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, University of London): From Momism to The Feminine Mystique

Maya Oppenheimer & Rod Dickinson (University of West England): Re-enacting Obedience: laboratory on film

Jelena Martinovic (Geneva University of Art and Design): Depatterning desire: Aversion therapy on film

Laura Marcus (University of Oxford): Flicker

Marcie Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London): Flickering lights: mind control on screen

4 July:

Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Soviet story: From interrogation to confession

Ana Antic (Birkbeck, University of London): Cinema and education: Building the new communist person

Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia): Interrogating The Interrogator: Cyprus, the BBC, and the performance of violence

Gavin Collinson (BBC) Brainwashing on the Box: Depictions of brainwashing on British TV

Daniel Pick (Birkbeck, University of London): Suddenly: Some thoughts about assassination at the cinema

Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge): Manchurian automata

The full programme and free registration for this event can be found here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brainwash-history-cinema-and-the-psy-professions-tickets-16380168525

For more information about the Hidden Persuaders Project please visit our website: http://bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders

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