Laideurs grecques

Laideurs grecques. Usages et représentations antiques

Véronique  Mehl et Maria Patera (sous la direction)

Presses universitaires de Rennes

 

Date de parution : 14/05/2026
Collection : Histoire
EAN : 9791041305001
Nb de pages : 226

Les Grecs de l’Antiquité étaient beaux, croit-on. Pourquoi ne peut-on les imaginer petits, rabougris, difformes, émaciés, bedonnants, bossus, édentés, grimaçants, bigleux, blafards… tout simplement laids ? Dans les sociétés antiques où les apparences et les attitudes sont sujettes à un examen social permanent, l’aspect de la personne est aussi important au point de vue individuel que collectif. Le physique révèle souvent le psychique : une apparence dégradée peut constituer la marque des moeurs décriées, mais elle peut aussi masquer la beauté interne. La laideur régulièrement perçue comme une altérité, de genre, d’âge, d’origine ethnique, dessine les contours de la mise à l’écart sociale et permet la stigmatisation. La vulnérabilité corporelle et l’altérité physique provoquent rarement la pitié ou la sympathie, plutôt le rire ou la peur. C’est tout un pan de l’histoire du corps qui est ici esquissée, mais aussi des valeurs qu’il véhicule, éthiques comme sociales et religieuses, des émotions qu’il suscite, de son imagerie et de son imaginaire, de ses artifices et de ses exclusions, enfin, de son animalité. Détourner les yeux des « grands classiques » de l’art, regarder la laideur en face, c’est penser les normes, étudier toutes les strates de la société, s’ouvrir aux émotions et aux affects, aborder le corps et les identités sous un autre angle.

Publié avec le soutien de l’université Bretagne Sud

Poste en histoire globale des sciences

Lecturer in Global History of Science (academic)

Call for applications

 

The Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, seeks to appoint one Lecturer in Global History of Science. 

 

 

Working pattern: Full time

 Contract type: Permanent

 Salary: £54,931-£64,644

 Location: London, UK

 Application deadline: 23.59 UK time, June 9, 2026

We interpret science, technology and society broadly. We are looking for candidates who place an emphasis on the global dimension of science, as a set of practices and as a social, political and cultural phenomenon, in their research. Any period from early modern to late modern science is relevant. Candidates with a focus on non-western contexts and knowledge of non-western language(s) will be preferred.

 

For further details please view the link below:

 Application link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=18120&nPostingTargetId=44363&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext

Trajectoires individuelles des personnes infirmes, sourdes et aliénées

 

Humanités infirmières et imaginaires historiques

Nursing Humanities and Historical Imaginations: Exploring the Context and Politics of Nursing Across Time, Place and Medium

CAHN 2026 Conference


May 29 – 31, 2026



Location: Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre at York University
[The entire conference will take place at the Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre]

Address: 56 Fine Arts Rd, North York, ON M3J 1P3




Friday May 29 | Vendredi 29 Mai

18:00-21:30 Opening Panel and Reception – Schulich Private Dining Room


Welcome + Registration (18:00-18:30)

Hannah Panel | Conference Hannah (18:30-19:30)



History, Nursing and Indigenous Health

Chair, Dr. Ruth Green, Director of Social Work, York University



Crystal Point, MSN, RN, University of British Columbia

Christine Fiddler, M.Ed, BA, University of Saskatchewan


Reception: Schulich Private Dining Room (19:30-21:30)




Saturday May 30 | Samedi 30 Mai

8:30 – 9:00 Registration | inscription


9:00 – 10:00 Session 1A: Finding the Nursing Story
Chair: Michelle Danda
Location: Private Dining Room

“The White Cap Catalogue”
Ruth Thompson

“Stories from the Edges: A Personal Narrative Project to Honour Everyday Nursing History”
Kim English

“Eliciting a Narrative: The Contribution of a Peer Professional”
Lynn Hamilton


09:00 – 10:00 Session 1B: Representations in Nursing History
Chair: Sandra Harrisson
Location: Lecture Theatre

“Scénariser le soin : comment fictionnaliser le vécu des soignant.e.s et des patient.e.s pour déconstruire les discours dominants en santé mentale?”
Emily Landry-Lajoie

“Fictionalizing Nursing History: The Sisters of Service and the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1918 Toronto”
Lucia Gagliese


“Narratives as Resistance and Recognition in Nursing Practice”
Jennifer Dunn


10:00-10:15 Break | pause


10:15-11:15 Session 2A: War & Nursing

Chair: Emily Kaliel

Location: Lecture Theatre

“The Price of Commitment: Nurses in the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)”
Sioban Nelson, Cinta Sadurni-Bassols, Gloria Gallego Caminero

“An Accounting of War: A Canadian Military Nurse’s First World War Expense Record”
Suzanna Wagner

“Nursing Sister Clare Gass’s Visual War: Picturing the First World War”
Andrea McKenzie



10:15-11:15 Session 2B: Nursing Specialization

Chair: Lydia Wytenbroek
Location: Private Dining Room

“De convoité à évité : l’évolution des CHSLD québécois et du concept de milieu de vie”
Fannie Dupont


“Surgical Team Culture, Gendered Power, and the Historical Violence of the OR” Jennifer Dunn

“A New Beat: Cardiac Care Nursing at Vancouver General Hospital, 1955-1959”
Sarina Heidari



11:15-11:30 Break | pause



11:30-12:30 Session 3: Untold Histories and Reconsidered Perspectives

Chair: Sioban Nelson


“Whispers of Care in the Shadow of a Pandemic: Exploring the Untold Journeys of Gay Male Nurses during Canada’s HIV/AIDS Crisis (1981–1998)”
Sandra Harrisson

“Unravelling the Sanitized Timeline: Re-weaving Indigenous Narratives to Unlearn the History of Nursing”
Lesa Fox

“What’s Lamont Got to Do With It?: An Early Site of Negotiated Racial Inclusion in Canadian Hospital-Based Nursing Education (1925-1955)”
Emily Kaliel, Helen Vandenberg, Letitia Johnson


12:30-13:45 Lunch | déjeuner (lunch provided)


13:45-14:45 Session 4A: Rethinking Nursing Politics
Chair: Kyra Philbert
Location: Lecture Theatre

“Nurse Activism in Canada: Historical Perspectives and Leadership Imaginations for the Future”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner

“Boundaries of Care: Maternalism, Visitation, and Professional Politics in Cold War German Pediatric Nursing”
Christoph Schwamm

“Imagining Youth Mental Health Nursing Across a Century: Historical Contexts and Philosophical Shifts in British Columbia, 1900–Present”
Michelle Danda


13:45-14:45 Session 4B: Reconsidering Nursing Care

Chair: Jennifer Dunn
Location: Private Dining Room

“Feeding and Weighing: The History of Devices and 'Visual History' of Infant Nutrition in Paediatric Nursing at the Beginning of the 20th Century”
Karen Nolte

“What Does Cultural Safety Mean now?”
Yamu Ɂakiⱡ nuhu, Kwik-ga, Sara Daigle-Stevens

“The Seal of Saint Elizabeth: Care of the sick poor and female spirituality in Northern Europe in the high Middle Ages”
Sioban Nelson


14:45-15:00 Break | pause

15:00-16:00 Session 5: Nursing, Health and Colonialism
Chair: Letitia Johnson

“Public Health Nursing in the Yukon”
Alistair White

“Inventing Arctic Hysteria”
Jessica Casey

“Migrant Histories, Colonial Legacies: Filipino Nurses, Canadian Health Care, and Imagining Anti-Racist Futures”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner


18:00 Dinner | diner (organized, TBA) 

Sunday May 31 | dimanche 31 mai


8:00 Breakfast | Rafraichissements


9:00-10:15 Session 6: Nursing, Gender, Empire
Chair: Fannie Dupont

“Professional Image of Rockefeller Foundation Fellows from Brazil in Toronto: a transnational history (1939-1945)”
Camila de Freitas Lima, Luciana Barizon Luchesi

“From Fellowship to Leadership: Iranian Nurses on the Move”
Mohadeseh Saki

“Empires, Epidemics, War and Empathy: The Untold Story of Nurses in Ottoman Palestine”
Ronen Segev

“Rethinking Military Nurses: The Example of Canadian Nurses Serving in Foreign Forces”
Kate Mcpherson


10:15-10:30 Break | pause


10:30-11:45 Session 7: Teaching Humanities in Nursing

Chair: Kyra Philbert

“Humanities Elective in Nursing”
Geraldine Gorman, Shirley Stephenson, Patricia Walsh

“ Teaching Plans for Nursing History in São Paulo, Brazil (2021): A Documentary Analysis of Institutional Practices in Undergraduate Nursing Education”
Luciana Barizon Luchesi and Carla Cristina da Cruz Almeida Lima

“Documenting Nursing and Healthcare History Through Mapping”
Sally Ellis Fletcher

“Nurses and Pageantry: Performing the Past, Performing Profession”
Lydia Wytenbroek & Kyra Philbert


11:45 Closing Remarks | remarques finales
Student Award | prix étudiants
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Histoire des sciences de la vie et de la médecine

History of Life Sciences and Medicine


Medicine has accompanied human history since its very origins and, unlike any other discipline, it grapples with matters of life and death. Today, understanding the evolution of medicine and life sciences, as well as the features that make them unique, is all the more important as these disciplines are undergoing major transformations.

Perilli, L. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 1. Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Iste-Wiley, 2026

Cherici, C. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 2. Modern Era (16th to 18th Centuries). Iste-Wiley, 2026

Dupont J.-C. (Ed.) History of Life Sciences and Medicine 3. Contemporary Era (19th to -21st Centuries). Iste-Wiley, 2026.

Enfance et handicap

Enfance et handicap. Discrimination, pouvoir d’agir, inclusion

Commend Susanne (sous la direction)



Presses universitaires de Rennes 

Date de parution : 14/05/2026
Collection : Essais
EAN : 9791041310463
Nb de pages : 350

Les enfants en situation de handicap sont-ils reconnus comme des enfants à part entière – ou avant tout comme des handicapés ? Que signifie grandir en marge de la norme ? Ces questions troublantes traversent l’histoire des perceptions, des politiques et des pratiques qui entourent l’enfance en situation de handicap. Invisibilisés, vulnérabilisés ou perçus à travers leur déficience, les enfants handicapés peinent encore à être reconnus comme sujets de droits, plutôt qu’objets de soins. À travers une approche historique, sociale et politique, cet ouvrage met en lumière les parcours des jeunes polyhandicapés, des filles handicapées et des enfants autochtones et racisés. La scolarisation, les réseaux familiaux d’entraide et les représentations du handicap sont autant de thématiques abordées, avec une ouverture sur différentes perspectives internationales, de l’Afrique du Nord au Japon. En croisant les études du handicap, de la psychiatrie et de la surdité, ce livre propose une perspective inédite sur l’enfance handicapée et les barrières qui l’entourent. Une lecture essentielle pour repenser l’inclusion et apporter un nouveau regard sur les enfants handicapés.

Publié avec le soutien de l’université d’Angers

Les orbes de sang dans la Perse du XIVe siècle

Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia. The «Tānksūqnāmah» and Its Theory of the Rotational Motion of Blood

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture

 

Ben Kavoussi

28 May 2026 – 5 PM (CET)



A 14th-century Persian medical manual on the Medicine of Cathay (Northern China) known as the Tānksūqnāmah-yi Īlkhān dar funūn-i ʿulūm-i Khaṭāʾī (Tānksūqnāmah) explicitly states that blood “makes rounds” within the body, flowing from the liver to the heart, then to the lungs, and returning again to the liver. 

Commissioned by the vizier and physician Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī (1247–1318) during Mongol rule in Iran, the manual is an attempt to explain Chinese medicine to a Persian readership, translating a book that summarised Chinese medical knowledge at the time.

Drawing on Chinese cosmology and medicine, as well as the Graeco-Arabic medical tradition, the book ultimately advances its own conception of blood movement, moving beyond simple continuity. This model, which links bodily processes to celestial movements, differs from the philosophical description of pulmonary transit by Ibn al-Nafīs (1213–1288) and the quantitative theory of systemic circulation by William Harvey (1578–1657). 

The Tānksūqnāmah is therefore best understood as a product of the distinctive cross-cultural milieu of Mongol-era Iran, exemplifying how scientific ideas can emerge through reinterpretation within zones of cultural and scientific contact rather than through linear transmission within a single lineage.


To register for this event, please click here.

La navigation maritime, la santé et la médecine au XVIIIe siècle

Sea Voyaging, Health and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century 


Eighteenth-Century Life, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2026, 




Introduction
Sandhya Patel ; Sophie Vasset


Articles


“Drawn and Coloured in Drops of Blood”: Insights into Mortality, Injury, and Sickness amongst the Pathfinders of the British Royal Navy in the Late Eighteenth Century
Michael Barritt


Health at Sea: Knowledge and Care: French Medical Men at Sea in the Eighteenth Century
Odile Gannier


Disclosure: Healing Encounters in the Pacific Ocean: The Dolphin Voyage (1766–68)
Sandhya Patel


Transpacific Circulation of Medicine and Medical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Shipboard Documents
Wim De Winter


The Musée National de la Marine Network between Paris and Rochefort: A History of Shipboard Hygiene and Medical Collections
Charlotte Drahé; Marianne Tricoire


Naval Medicine in the Reframing of Medical Knowledge: Schools of Surgery and Marine Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century France
Guillaume Linte


“The Poor Crocus Pluckt Up by the Root”: Writing the Self and Social Negotiation: The Case of James Rymer, Royal Navy Surgeon (1750–1829)
Juliette Rigaud


Suffering at Sea: Alexander Falconbridge's Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
Sophie Vasset