Les états corporels et la cognition dans la pensée antique

The Body's Mind and the Mind's Body. Bodily States and Cognition in the Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophical and Medical Traditions

International Colloquium

organized by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Nadja Germann and Gad Freudenthal

University of Geneva
11-13 April 2016

Salle Denis de Rougemont
2, rue Jean-Daniel Colladon


Monday, 11th April 2016


9:30 Welcome
Chair: Nadja Germann

10:00-11:00 Keynote lecture
Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)


11:00-11:30 Coffee break


THE SOUL: PARTS AND FACULTIES
11:30-12:15 Chair: Paolo Crivelli

Dag N. Hasse (University of Würzburg) What is the essence of the soul according to Avicenna? A new reading of De anima I.1-3


12:15-13:00
Meryem Sebti (CNRS, Paris) Le lien entre l’intellect et l’imagination : le cas du prophète chez Avicenne


13:00-15:00 Lunch


15:00-15:45 Chair: Laurent Cesalli
Ahmed Hasnaoui (CNRS, Paris)
Avicenne, quels obstacles à l’émergence du moi?

15:45-16:30
Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Avicenna’s psychology in Yehuda ha-Levi’s Kuzari revisited

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45
David Wirmer (Thomas Institute, University of Cologne) Cogitation: Averroes’s problem of schematism



Tuesday, 12th April 2016

THE SOUL IN THE BODY
9:30-10:15 Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou

Pavel Gregorić (University of Zagreb) Alexander of Aphrodisias on the common sense


10:15-11:00
Matyáš Havrda (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Body and cosmos in Galen’s account of cognitive activities

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15
Orly Lewis (Humboldt University, Berlin) The physiology of the mind and anatomical research in the Graeco-Roman world

12:15-13:00
Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä) On the pollution of the soul by the body in Porphyry’s On abstinence


13:00-15:00 Lunch


15:00-15:45 Chair: Ioannis Papachristou
Erika Gielen (Leuven University) Meletius on psychic faculties within the human body

15:45-16:30
Hagar Kahana-Smilansky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Cosmological-psychological faculties in Islamic philosophy: ‘impulse’ according to al-Farabi and its relation to Avicenna’s wahm


19:00 Dinner



Wednesday, 13th April 2016
THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT
9:30-10:15 Chair: Nadja Germann

David Bennett (University of Gothenburg) Inside and outside: the kalām approach to perception and action

10:15-11:00
Tamas Visi (Palacky University, Olomouc) “Breath of life” and rational soul according to Qirqisani (10th c.)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15
Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris) Astrology as a probabilistic science: The astro-social psychology of Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides, 1288-1344)

12:15-13:00
Mohamed Moustafa (Azhar University, Cairo) Upholding God’s essence: Ibn Taymiyya on the createdness of the spirit


13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:45 Chair: Gad Freudenthal

Y. Tzvi Langermann (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Restoring emotional health by repairing the pneuma in the heart: Ibn Sina's al-Adwiya al-Qalbiyya
15:45-16:30
Haggai Ben-Shammai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The soul is a fine, clear, pure substance located in the heart: Comparative observations on Saadya’s psychology




For further information, please contact:
François Nollé
Francois.Nolle@unige.ch
+41 223 797 055 È+33 617 435 479

Bourses AMS

AMS Funding Opportunities

Call for applications
 
About Associated Medical Services (AMS)

Associated Medical Services (AMS) is a small Canadian charitable organization with an impressive history as a catalyst for change. AMS has, and continues to have, a profound impact on the health care of Canadians through its support of the history of medicine and health care, health professional education, compassionate patient care and bioethics. To learn more about the AMS please visit their website.

AMS Project Grant and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program

In 2016-17 the NSHRF will be hosting the AMS project grant and post-doctoral fellowship program on behalf of AMS. The purpose of this program is to promote scholarship, teaching and public interest in history of health care, disease and medicine. AMS broadly defines medicine and this program is not necessarily limited to Canadian history in these areas.

Project Grant - Program Requirements - $10,000
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Program Requirements - $45,000


AMS has two goals for this program
To identify and promote activities designed to broaden the scope of research, teaching and public interest in the history of health care, disease and or medicine.
To stimulate new research initiatives, interest and appreciation of the history of health care/medicine/disease, among the research community, health care professionals and students.

Deadline: April 19, 2016 (2:00 p.m. AST)


Contact Information
For all inquiries related to the AMS Project Grant and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program please contact the NSHRF’s Manager, REAL Knowledge Program.

Médecine et moralité en Egypte

Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Sherry Sayed Gadelrab


Series: Library of Middle East History
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: I.B.Tauris (March 30, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1780767512

In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualisations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested men’s innate ‘active’ sexuality as opposed to women’s more ‘passive’ characteristics, interpreting the differences in female and male bodies to correspond to this hierarchy. Through examining the interconnection of medical, legal, religious and moral discourses on sexual behaviour, Gadelrab highlights the association between sex, sexuality and the creation and recreation of the concept of gender at this crucial moment in the development of Egyptian society. By analysing the debates at the time surrounding science, medicine, morality, modernity and sexuality, she paints a nuanced picture of the Egyptian understanding and manipulation of the concepts of sex and gender.

Médecine et connaissance au Moyen Orient

Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East

Workshop



Friday, April 1, 2016

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room C198



10:00-12:00 Questions of Knowledge and Methods in Early Modern Medicine

Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University) “Plague Ecology in Early Modern Ottoman Empire”

Harun Küçük, (University of Pennsylvania) “Medical Empiricism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”

Discussant: Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University)


Lunch 12:00-1:00


1:00-3:15 Politics of Medical Knowledge in Colonial Contexts

Shehab Ismail (Columbia University) “Science versus Sentiment: The Controversy over Water Supply in British Colonial Cairo”

Jennifer Derr (University of California, Santa Cruz)” The Nature of Labor: Colonial Economy, Disease, and the Question of Subjectivity in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt”

Seçil Yılmaz, (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “Remedy in a Bottle: Petitions, Experiments, and Medical Practice in Late Ottoman Period”

Discussant: Robert Tignor (Princeton University)


Break 3:15-3:30


3:30 -5:30 Environments of Other Wars

Chris Gratien (Yale University) “Year of the Mosquito: Displacement and Disease in the Ottoman Empire during WWI”

Graham A. Pitts (Georgetown University) “War as the Vector of Malaria in Twentieth-Century Lebanon”

Discussant: Alan Mikhail (Yale University)


5.30-6.00 Closing Remarks

Jennifer E. Jonhson (Brown University)



RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance.

Note that all workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.

Exposition sur le Stannington Sanatorium

Stannington Sanatorium

Exhibition

As part of Explore Archives Week, Northumberland Archives have launched their most recent online exhibition on Stannington Sanatorium. The exhibition was developed during the first phase of our Wellcome Trust funded project that catalogued and part digitised records of the Sanatorium - the first purpose built children’s TB sanatorium in the UK. There are three parts to the exhibition - ‘Examine The Patients’ which explores a series of case studies relating to the effects of TB on the human body complete with x-ray images and photographs; ‘Tour Stannington’ – an exploration of the Sanatorium buildings looking at what life was like there and some of the individuals connected with it and finally a gallery of images.

To view the exhibition follow this link - http://stannington.woodhornexhibitions.com/index.html

Postdoctorat sur le lavage de cerveau

Post-doctoral researcher position with 'Hidden Persuaders' at Birkbeck, University of London

Call for applications

The History, Classics and Archaeology Department at Birkbeck, University of London is pleased to announce a fully funded three-year post-doctoral fellowship to work on a project that falls within the scope of Daniel Pick's Wellcome Trust senior investigator award, ‘Hidden Persuaders? Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990’. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/ The new post-doctoral fellow will work closely with the Hidden Persuaders team to produce original research, organise academic conferences and public events, and also assist with various other outputs in the form of edited volumes, film, web resources and more. The post-doc will join our growing network of historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology, and should focus his/her research contributions on one or more distinct strands of the Hidden Persuaders project, described here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/research/ We would welcome applications from academics with prior knowledge of the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and/or psychology. Some previous familiarity with post-war political and/or cultural history would also be an asset. A working knowledge of one or more European languages other than English, e.g., Russian, German, Spanish or French would be useful, as would facility in one or more Asian languages (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Khmer or Malay). The ability and willingness of the appointee to travel and work for several weeks at a stretch in overseas archives (as required) is essential, as part of the post-doctoral fellow’s task will be to gather and analyse data on perceptions and use of psychological warfare and indoctrination in various Cold War campaigns overseas. The closing date for completed applications is midnight on Wednesday 13 April 2016. Interviews will be held on Thursday 28 April 2016. For further information, please consult the job announcement on Birkbeck’s website: https://www15.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_birkbeckcollege01.asp?newms=jj&id=60016

Psychiatrie et LSD au Mental

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

Kay Parley


Series: The Regina Collection (Book 3)
Hardcover: 158 pages
Publisher: University of Regina Press (March 26, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0889774117

"A revelatory account of the importance that psychiatric treatment and research from the 1950s has for mental health today." Jean Freeman, author of Fists upon a Star

Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls.

Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy, the advent of patient rights, evolving ethics in psychiatry, and the amazing cast of characters she met there.

She also reveals her role in groundbreaking experiments with LSD, pioneered by the world's leading researchers at "The Mental" to treat addiction and mental illness.

Folies, mélancolies et autres ravissements

Folies, mélancolies et autres ravissements.
Raison et déraison - Liaisons et déliaisons

Appel à communications

Journée d’étude 1

Programme Gradiva-Créations au féminin - 2016

« Être à soi-même son propre objet de folie et ne pas en devenir fou, ça pourrait être ça, le malheur merveilleux. Tout le reste est de surcroît. » (Marguerite Duras)

La thématique de la folie et de la mélancolie est en droite ligne avec celle de la jouissance que l’association Gradiva a placée au centre de sa réflexion dernièrement : de la jouissance et du désir - notamment féminins - à la folie et à la mélancolie que nous déclinerons dorénavant au pluriel. Nous proposons en effet une approche de la raison et de la déraison, de la liaison et de la déliaison sociale qu’elles impliquent, qui soit plurielle et diversifiée : non pas exclusivement la folie dans une dimension clinique et uniforme (donc subtilement effrayante de par cette univocité), mais toutes ses déclinaisons, de l’égarement au délire, de l’aliénation à l’extravagance, de l’excentricité au débordement ; non pas la mélancolie, mais toutes ses variations, de l’écœurement à l’amertume, du déplaisir à l’apathie, de la morosité au désœuvrement. Et encore ne sont-ce là que quelques références qui oscillent entre des jeux de synonymie et de profondes nuances qu’il nous appartiendra de démêler.


Ces folies et ces mélancolies, ces désirs et ces jouissances seront plus particulièrement étudiées au travers de la dimension du féminin qu’il s’agisse des œuvres de femmes ou des figurations de folles et de mélancoliques. Si le fou (du roi) a bénéficié d’une considération, voire d’une certaine déférence, qu’en est-il des folles ? Ont-elles aussi leurs rois ? Ou leurs reines ? La déliaison, l’exclusion, la forclusion induites par folies et mélancolies, quelles que soient leurs formes, sont-elles uniformément radicales et dévastatrices ou varient-elles en fonction des genres ? Peut-on envisager une spécificité générique du deuil mélancolique ?
Par ailleurs, nous proposons de réfléchir sur le ravissement et sur les mécanismes qui s’opèrent quand il génère une démarche d’ordre esthétique et/ou sacrée : le ravissement est une conduite « borderline » certes, mais il est aussi une conduite admissible et admise ; un délire qui renvoie aux confins des espaces et des institutions sociales certes, mais également une exaltation facteur d’inclusions et d’une certaine reconnaissance : celles que l’on s’autorise envers les singularités créatrices et/ou mystiques, ces singularités que l’on repère et que l’on localise à la fois comme étant en dehors des sociétés, déliées par rapport à leurs normes et comme sur la limite même de ces normes, comme dépassant et préservant les normes dans un seul et même mouvement, comme garantes du lien social en quelque sorte alors même qu’elles s’en délient ou s’en distancient par un comportement « déraisonnable ». Le fait d’être privés (ou de « se » priver ) non pas de la stricte rationalité, mais « de la maîtrise de ses  activités conscientes », le fait de faire reculer les limites pour les expérimenter plus puissamment et violemment semble « autoriser », donner un surcroît d’autorité aux créateurs et aux créatrices reconnu.e.s comme tel.les. Il sera intéressant d’observer comment se décline cette « autorisation » au cours des siècles pour les hommes et pour les femmes ; quelle est la part faite à la « folie créatrice » d’une part et à la folie dite pathologique et strictement enfermée dans ses ressorts cliniques, de l’autre
?
Enfin, nous accorderons, dans nos réflexions, une importance particulière aux corps, partant du principe que ce que dit Pierre Bourdieu du « corps sportif » pourrait être appliqué au « corps fou », la folie étant à nouveau entendue dans toutes ses nuances et ses gradations, peut-être même convoquée dans une acception étymologique ayant trait au végétal ( folium.folii : feuille, feuillage), à sa dimension parfois im-maitrisable et proliférante. Le sociologue précédemment cité affirme : « On peut poser en loi générale qu’un sport a d’autant plus de chances d’être adopté par les membres d’une
classe sociale qu’il ne contredit pas le rapport au corps dans ce qu’il a de plus profond et de plus profondément inconscient, c’est-à-dire le  schéma corporel en tant qu’il est dépositaire de toute une vision du monde social, de toute une philosophie de la personne et du corps propres. »1
Quel est le « schéma corporel » véhiculé par les créations ayant trait à la folie ? Le « corps fou » - dont il faudra déterminer les traits et les caractéristiques - ne peut-il pas constituer le socle de nouveaux liens, de liaisons innovantes ? ; en définitive, les fondements de l’affirmation de  singularités, de sujets singularisés par leur « folie », une folie encline aux liens et non plus « à lier ». La création serait alors le vecteur de « folies ouvertes », d’une jouissance passionnée et passionnante, ravageuse parfois, mais inventive et salutairement transgressive, en dépit de sa dimension fictionnelle, ou peut-être en raison de cette même dimension. 

Les propositions concernant la journée d’étude du 21 mai 2016 sont à envoyer à Catherine Flepp (catherine.flepp@gmail.com) et à Nadia Mékouar-Hertzberg (nadia.mekouar-hertzberg@univ-pau.fr) sous la forme d’une dizaine de lignes, accompagnées d’une brève bio-bibliograhie. La date limite d’envoi des propositions est le 2 avril 2016.

1 Bourdieu Pierre,  La Distinction. Critique sociale du jugement, Paris, Minuit, 1979, p. 240.

Soigner les démons en Mésopotamie

Healing Magic and Evil Demons. Canonical Udug-hul Incantations

Geller, Markham J.

In collab. with Vacin, Ludek



De Gruyten
December 2015
SBN: 978-1-61451-309-4



This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world.It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many ancient libraries.

Qu'est-ce que l'histoire sexuelle ?

What is Sexual History?

Jeffrey Weeks



Polity

First Edition
ISBN 9780745680255
Publication Dates ROW:Apr 2016

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires. In this book, Jeffrey Weeks, one of the leading international scholars in the subject, sets out clearly and concisely how sexual history has developed, and its implications for our understanding of the ways we live today.

The emergence of a new wave of feminism and lesbian and gay activism in the 1970s transformed the subject, heavily influenced by new trends in social and cultural history, radical sociological insights and the impact of Michel Foucault’s work. The result was an increasing emphasis on the historical shaping of sexuality, and on the existence of many different sexual meanings and cultures on a global scale. With chapters on, amongst others, lesbian, gay and queer history, feminist sexual history, the mainstreaming of sexual history, and the globalization of sexual history, What is Sexual History? is an indispensable guide to these developments.

Moralité et médecine

Morality and Medicine in the Scientific Age

Call for papers

2016 History of Science Society Annual Meeting

Atlanta 

from November 3rd to November 6th

This panel seeks to examine the relationship between the emergence and nature of modern medicine and morality. Discussion of morality in the history of medicine is nothing new, particularly in narratives of public health, but this panel aims to explore morality in the more intimate context of the relationships and interactions between healthcare practitioners and their patients. With this in mind, this panel will include papers that address questions along the following lines: How have doctors/nurses/genetic counselors/lactation consultants/surgeons/etc. acted as moral agents? What moral systems and codes have they operated by and helped to enforce – and how have these changed over time and/or in relation to space (i.e. the home vs. the clinic)? How have interactions with patients of various types shaped dominant conceptions of medical morality? Have there been alternative or counter-constructions of medical morality at various points in time, and how have these shaped and been shaped by the dominant discourse? My paper will address the struggles of Catholic physicians’ throughout the 20th century as they sought ways to reconcile the rules of medical morality expressed officially by the Church with the demands and realities of their patients on the ground. If you are interested, please send me a brief bio/cv and a 250-word abstract by April 1, 2016.

- Jessica Martucci (jmartucc@mail.med.upenn.edu)

La fièvre de 1721

The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics 

Stephen Coss 

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 8, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1476783086

More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776.

In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston’s grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protégé Samuel Adams.

During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death—by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. “Inoculation” led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather’s house was firebombed.

A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America’s first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James’s shop and became a father of the Independence movement.

One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution.

Poste à l'université de Kent

Lecturer in the History of Medicine (1750 to the present)

Call for applications

University of Kent - School of History
Location: Canterbury
Salary: £32,600 to £46,414 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Placed on: 9th February 2016
Closes: 25th April 2016

Job Ref: HUM0678

If you are an outstanding scholar specialising in the History of Medicine from 1750 onwards, this is a great opportunity to join one of the leading history departments in the country.

This post will see you teaching and convening undergraduate and postgraduate modules in medical history, contributing to curriculum development in these areas and supervising postgraduate students. You will be able to demonstrate an emerging record of international excellence in research and publication with evidence of guaranteed submission to REF 2020 of items likely to be graded 3* or 4*. Applications from those with research interests in, for example, the social and cultural history of war and medicine, mental health, history of emotions, gender and sexuality, medical ethics and law, medicine and the media, public and global health are particularly welcome.

If you have a flair for teaching, a willingness to work innovatively to help develop the History of Medicine at Kent and a keenness to actively participate in the public engagement and impact activities of the School and its external partners, this Lectureship at Kent offers a supportive and inspirational environment in which to work.

The School of History at the University of Kent is dedicated to excellence in research, learning and teaching. The School contains twenty nine full-time academic staff, half of whom have been appointed since 2001. The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) placed the School 8th nationally for Research Intensity, and our students work alongside lecturers and tutors who are not just excellent teachers, but world-class researchers actively working at the forefront of their chosen field. The School currently offers a range of undergraduate programmes. In recent years it has received consistently high ratings of over 90% student satisfaction for its undergraduate teaching in the National Student Survey. At postgraduate level, it offers MAs by coursework or research, an M.Sc and a full PhD programme.

Further Information

Interviews are to be held: 20 May 2016.

Please see the links on the vacancy page to view the full job description and also to apply for this post. Enquiries about the post should be addressed to Professor Ulf Schmidt at U.I.Schmidt@gre.ac.uk. If you require further information regarding the application process please contact Teresa Bubb, Resourcing Adviser, at T.C.Bubb@kent.ac.uk.

Please note - applications must be made via the University's online application system. You will be required to fill in the main details section of the application form as well as upload your CV and a summary document. Your summary should provide clear evidence and examples demonstrating where you meet the essential criteria for the post. We recommend a maximum of 4 x A4 sides for this document.

CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.

La tuberculose au Nouveau Mexique

Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health 

Nancy Owen Lewis 

Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press (March 15, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0890136126

This book tells the story of the thousands of "health seekers" who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico's population. The influx of "lungers" as they were called--many of whom remained in New Mexico--would play a critical role in New Mexico's struggle for statehood and in its growth. Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established around the state, laying the groundwork for the state's current health-care system. Among New Mexico's prominent lungers were artists Will Shuster and Carlos Vierra, who "came to heal and stayed to paint." Bronson Cutting, brought to Santa Fe on a stretcher in 1910, became the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and a powerful U.S Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, founders of the Lovelace Clinic, as well as Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson, architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for the Manhattan Project. New Mexico's most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in New Mexico when his mother, Catherine Antrim, sought treatment in Silver City.

Poste à l'Université du Texas

Tenure-track faculty position at UTMB

Call for applications

The Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position, with rank negotiable based on experience. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary faculty in ethics, history, law, policy, literature, religious studies, and visual studies who engage in research and teaching of students in the health professions and graduate students in the biomedical sciences and humanities. The IMH also offers an ethics consultation service in the university’s hospitals. The IMH is home of
the nation’s only Ph.D. program in medical humanities.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. degree in history with specialized interest in history of medicine or a related field. The candidate should be interested in teaching and research within a setting of interdisciplinary scholarship in medical humanities, ethics, social science and health policy. The successful candidate will be expected to teach medical and graduate students and conduct independent research in an area that complements the current research and scholarship of the Institute. Willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and potential to secure external grant funding are essential qualifications. An interest in health care for the underserved, health disparities and related research topics is highly desirable. Prior experience with cultural groups prominently represented among the patient population of UTMB is also highly desirable. Minimum of two plus years with teaching experience. Salary and rank is based on experience.

TO APPLY:
Send letter of interest with description of experience and career goals along with curriculum vitae and contact information for three professional references to the Search Committee c/o Beverly Claussen at beclauss@utmb.edu and reference job opening # 48373.

Equal Employment Opportunity
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Les révolutions thérapeutiques

Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970


Dr. Martin Halliwell


Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; 1 edition (April 19, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0813560649

Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.

Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact of World War II and the Cold War on mental health, Halliwell moves from the influence of work, family, and growing up in the Eisenhower years to the critique of institutional practice and the search for alternative therapeutic communities during the 1960s. Blending a discussion of such influential postwar thinkers as Erich Fromm, William Menninger, Erving Goffman, Erik Erikson, and Herbert Marcuse with perceptive readings of a range of cultural text that illuminate mental health issues--among them Spellbound, Shock Corridor, Revolutionary Road, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden--this compelling study argues that the postwar therapeutic revolutions closely interlink contrasting discourses of authority and liberation.

Médecins et chirurgiens face au démoniaque dans la France du XVIIe siècle

Le surnaturel et la gestion des corps : médecins et chirurgiens face au démoniaque dans la France du XVIIe siècle

Conférence de Rafael Mandressi

Quand : Le mercredi 6 avril à 10h
Où : A-6290, UQAM

Le conférencier sera présent par visioconférence

Le CHRS et le GRHS (Groupe de recherche en histoire des sociabilités) vous invitent à la conférence de Rafael Mandressi, Chargé de recherche au CNRS et directeur-adjoint du Centre Alexandre Koyré d’histoire des sciences à Paris (EHESS), le mercredi 6 avril à l’UQAM. Pour cette conférence, Mandressi fera une analyse des expertises médicales sous l'Ancien régime, particulièrement sur les interventions des médecins dans les cas de possession démoniaque.

Le corps est un lieu double au regard des savoirs médicaux : source des connaissances et cible de leurs applications. Dans le premier cas, les enjeux sont ceux des manières d’obtenir les connaissances et de les disposer dans des systèmes d’intelligibilité. Quant au second, les interventions des médecins ne se limitent pas à la seule sphère du thérapeutique. Il s’agit aussi d’interroger les corps pour mettre les réponses obtenues au service d’autres usages : judiciaires, théologiques, philosophiques. Les cas de possession démoniaque le montrent bien : les médecins appelés à intervenir rendent des avis sur le caractère naturel ou non des phénomènes observés, leur témoignage sert à certifier si l’on est en présence de désordres de type pathologique ou bien d’événements dépassant la nature. Aussi retrouve-t-on dans ces affaires la problématique de la preuve, non pas en termes de validation des connaissances, mais dans un tout autre registre, imposé par le cadre judiciaire et religieux : il s’agit de fournir la preuve par le corps sur la présence ou l’absence du surnaturel dans des phénomènes de dérèglement apparent de l’ordre de la nature. Les médecins, les chirurgiens, amenés à agir et, surtout pour les premiers, à émettre une parole autorisée, nourrissent ainsi de leurs critères une gestion sociale et politique des corps qui, à défaut de soigner, conseille, tente d’expliquer et de rétablir un ordre, trace des frontières.

Corps, race et genre dans le monde moderne

Intimate Empires. Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World

Tracey Rizzo and Steven Gerontakis

Oxford University Press
Publication Date - January 2016
ISBN: 9780199978342
424 pages
Paperback

Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World offers an interpretive synthesis of recent scholarship on intersections of gender, race, and empire from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It untangles the embodied experiences and representations of people all over the world in the era of Europe's global dominance. Studies of intimate experiences complicate narratives of imperialism that have traditionally revolved around political and economic developments and thus obscured the ways in which ordinary people ignored, survived, co-opted, or even subverted imperialists and their institutions. The book discusses the development and coproduction of metropolitan and colonial identities alike, incorporating art, children's literature, cookbooks, and sport in addition to migration, missionary work, and legal trials. Organized thematically, each of the six chapters moves from the mid-eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries to unfold an aspect of identity.

Bourses pour la Edward Worth Library

Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library

Call for applications

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering a one month research fellowship, to be held in 2016, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,400 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: http://www.edwardworthlibrary.ie/Home-Page

The closing date is Monday 4 April 2016.

For further details and application procedures please contact:

Dr Elizabethanne Boran,

Librarian,

The Edward Worth Library,

Dr Steevens’ Hospital,

Dublin 8,

Ireland

E-mail: elizabethanne.boran@hse.ie

Histoire des hôpitaux indiens au Canada

Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s

Maureen K. Lux

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: University of Toronto Press,

Scholarly Publishing Division (March 14, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1442645578

Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients.

Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the “Indian Hospitals,” the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations.

A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada’s First Nations that should never be forgotten.

Bourse en histoire de la médecine familiale

2016 CHFM Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine

Call for applications

The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) is proud to announce its sixth annual Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine. Interested family physicians, residents, students, other health professionals, historians, scholars, educators, scientists and others are invited to apply.

The successful applicant will be awarded a fellowship grant in an amount of up to $2,000 to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses relating to research on a project of their choosing dealing with any aspect of the history of General Practice, Family Practice, or Family Medicine in the United States. The fellowship will be awarded directly to the individual applicant and not to the institution where he or she may be employed.

The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 31, 2016. All applications will be reviewed in April, with the Fellowship award announced by May 31, 2016.

Complete fellowship rules, application forms, and instructions are available online through the Center’s website at the following link:

http://www.aafpfoundation.org/chfmfellowship

For more information, please contact:

Don Ivey, MPA
Manager
Center for the History of Family Medicine
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, KS 66211
Telephone: (800) 274-2237, ext. 4420
Fax: (913) 906-6095
E-mail: chfm@aafp.org

Perspectives historiques et philosophiques sur la classification dans les disciplines « psy »

Psy-ences. Perspectives historiques et philosophiques sur la classification dans les disciplines « psy »

Colloque organisé par Alexandra BACOPOULOS-VIAU et Vincent GUILLIN

Quelle place occupent les dispositifs de classification dans le champ des sciences psy? En réunissant des chercheurs de disciplines diverses, cette journée d’étude bilingue visera à apporter des analyses novatrices afin de cerner le rôle controversé qu’occupent ces procédés nosologiques dans les pratiques scientifiques ainsi que dans les représentations et discours contemporains.

KEYNOTE – Edward Shorter (Toronto): “The History of the Classification of Affective Disorders”

Scott Phelps (McGill) – “Seeing Ourselves, Darkly: The Awareness of Illness and Illness of Awareness”

Vincent Guillin (UQAM) – “Ethology ‘à la française’: the Intriguing Reception of J. S. Mill’s Science of Character among French fin de siècle psychologists”

Kathryn Tabb (Columbia) – “From ‘Personalized’ to ‘Precision’ Psychiatry: What’s in a Name?”

Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (McGill) – “The Re-Discovery of the Unconscious: Pierre Janet, Self and Trauma from 1900 to the Present”

Luc Faucher – “A ROAMER with a View”

Stephanie Lloyd (Laval) – Commentaires de clôture et discussion générale

QUAND : 22 avril 2016


OÙ : Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain
455, boul. René-Lévesque Est, H2L 4Y2
Salle W-5215

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE avant le 15 avril : cirst@uqam.ca

Une psychiatrie communiste en Europe de l'Est pendant la Guerre froide

Was there a Communist psychiatry in Cold War Eastern Europe?

Lecture by Sarah Marks (University of Cambridge)


Wednesday 23 March, 1pm (Arts Two: Room 3.16)
Queen Mary University of London
Lunch is available from 12.45, and the lecture starts at 1pm.


Until very recently, much of the academic literature to address the psy-disciplines in Communist Eastern Europe has reduced the story to one of three possible narratives. Firstly, the satellite states were cut off from international developments and subject to top-down imposition of dogmatic Pavlovian doctrines from Moscow, which stifled freedom and arrested scientific developments (Roger Smith, 1998; 2013). Secondly, the Communist Party elites bluntly abused the institutional power of psychiatry for punitive purposes (Bloch and Reddaway, 1984; Van Voren, 2010). Thirdly, the psy-disciplines did not have a significant role to play under Communism because such ‘technologies of the self’ are forms of governmentality found specifically in liberal democracies, and thus psychotherapeutic knowledge and practices were only likely to emerge after the fall of the Berlin Wall, once the transition to Western models of democratic governance had begun (Nikolas Rose, 1992). All three are, to an extent, Cold War mythologies, based on very limited use of primary source material, which have obscured the rich and varied ways in which the psy-professions theorized and treated mental disorder in the region. This paper will draw together cases from my own archival research on East Germany and Czechoslovakia, in comparison with the findings of contributors to Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Savelli and Marks, 2015), to discuss the ways in which Communism did - and did not – shape psychiatric research and practice behind the Iron Curtain.


All welcome, lunch will be provided. Please book for catering purposes on emotions@qmul.ac.uk


Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. For directions and a campus map, see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/

Une histoire de la marche

Une histoire de la marche

Antoine De Baecque

Éditions Perrin
ISBN : 9782262032524
370 pages
Synthèses historiques
03/03/2016

Des pèlerinages aux randonnées, des drailles transhumantes aux manifestations politiques, il n'y aura guère eu d'interruption dans la pratique de la marche. La circulation pédestre fait l'homme. Elle est une activité constitutive de l'être humain. Pour en faire l'histoire, Antoine de Baecque part à la rencontre de toutes les formes de marches, et des hommes qui les pratiquent : les peuples et les métiers dont l'identité même semble nomade et pédestre, des Lapons aux Sioux, des colporteurs aux bergers ; les pèlerins, selon toutes les traditions, ceux qui remontent aux sources du Gange ou empruntent le Tôkaidô, comme les marcheurs de Compostelle et de La Mecque. Et si la marche a quasiment perdu ses professionnels, elle a inventé ses praticiens du week-end, ses usagers du temps libre, les randonneurs. Mais l'on chemine aussi en ville, depuis l'apparition des promenades urbaines du XVIIe jusqu'aux « manifs » les plus récentes. Qu'elle permette de mieux vivre, de survivre ou qu'elle soit le support incarné de revendications, la marche a une histoire. Antoine de Baecque, nourri aux sources les plus diverses, déploie ses talents d'historien et de conteur pour offrir un livre profondément original et vivant.

Poste en histoire prémoderne à la Idaho State University

Full-time lecturer in pre-modern world or European history at ISU

Call for applications

The Department of History at Idaho State University invites applications for a full-time lecturer in pre-modern world or European history at ISU’s Idaho Falls campus. We encourage applications from scholars whose work reflects the transnational contexts for historical developments and contributes to the fields of energy, environment, or health.

The successful candidate will develop courses and teach in distance learning, lecture, and on-line formats, and will offer advanced courses in her/his field of expertise along with methods classes and research seminars for History majors. Student advising will be required. Ph.D. required by the start of this position in August 2016.

ISU is a research university with over 12,000 students enrolled in programs ranging from undergraduate to doctoral. Its Idaho Falls branch campus is located fifty minutes north of the main campus in Pocatello, close to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. The nearby Idaho National Laboratory connects Idaho Falls to national initiatives in energy and environmental research.

Review of applications begins March 28. Position open until filled.

Submit letter of application, C.V., and contact information for three references online at careers.isu.edu.

Médecine et armées pendant la Grande Guerre

Médecine et Armées

n° spécial, « Centenaire de la Grande Guerre »

Tome 44, n°1, février 2016.

Le numéro spécial et gratuit de la revue Médecine et Armées consacré à la publication des communications présentées les 4 et 5 février 2015 au Val-de-Grâce à Paris, lors du colloque « Une armée qui soigne. Le Service de santé des armées durant la Grande guerre », est disponible en ligne, en PDF, sur Calaméo :http://fr.calameo.com/read/0003547853e3dfe5082d0

Éditorial. M. Bazot, J. Timbal

Des médecins dans la Grande Guerre. Le courage et la peur. M. Bazot

1914 : de l’offensive à outrance au désastre sanitaire. R. Wey

La restructuration du Service de santé aux armées françaises de 1915 à 1918. J.-J. Ferrandis

La pathologie des tranchées. O. Farret

Les évacuations sanitaires. J.-P. Capel, P.-J. Linon

La Marine et ses navires-hôpitaux dans les Flandres et en Orient. M. Sardet

Hôpitaux militaires dans la zone de l’intérieur (1914-1918). F. Olier

Prise en charge des blessés de la face dans la XVe région militaire. J.-L. Blanc

La radiologie militaire au cours du premier conflit mondial. J. Le Vot

Les épidémies dans les troupes françaises pendant la Grande Guerre. M. Morillon

Les surprises psychiatriques de la Grande Guerre. P. Clervoy

Le Service de santé des troupes coloniales au cours de la Grande Guerre. L.-A. Heraut

Des médecins de réserve à l’origine de la médecine de l’aviation. J. Timbal

Etre vétérinaire sous l’uniforme. C.-L. Milhaud

Les pensions militaires d’invalidités en 1914-1918. P. Cristau.

Poste en histoire de la médecine depuis 1750

Lecturer in the History of Medicine (1750 to the present)

Call for applications

University of Kent - School of History

Location: Canterbury
Salary: £32,600 to £46,414 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Placed on: 9th February 2016
Closes: 25th April 2016
Job Ref: HUM0678


If you are an outstanding scholar specialising in the History of Medicine from 1750 onwards, this is a great opportunity to join one of the leading history departments in the country.

This post will see you teaching and convening undergraduate and postgraduate modules in medical history, contributing to curriculum development in these areas and supervising postgraduate students. You will be able to demonstrate an emerging record of international excellence in research and publication with evidence of guaranteed submission to REF 2020 of items likely to be graded 3* or 4*. Applications from those with research interests in, for example, the social and cultural history of war and medicine, mental health, history of emotions, gender and sexuality, medical ethics and law, medicine and the media, public and global health are particularly welcome.

If you have a flair for teaching, a willingness to work innovatively to help develop the History of Medicine at Kent and a keenness to actively participate in the public engagement and impact activities of the School and its external partners, this Lectureship at Kent offers a supportive and inspirational environment in which to work.

The School of History at the University of Kent is dedicated to excellence in research, learning and teaching. The School contains twenty nine full-time academic staff, half of whom have been appointed since 2001. The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) placed the School 8th nationally for Research Intensity, and our students work alongside lecturers and tutors who are not just excellent teachers, but world-class researchers actively working at the forefront of their chosen field. The School currently offers a range of undergraduate programmes. In recent years it has received consistently high ratings of over 90% student satisfaction for its undergraduate teaching in the National Student Survey. At postgraduate level, it offers MAs by coursework or research, an M.Sc and a full PhD programme.

Further Information

Interviews are to be held: 20 May 2016.

Please see the links on the vacancy page to view the full job description and also to apply for this post. Enquiries about the post should be addressed to Professor Ulf Schmidt at U.I.Schmidt@gre.ac.uk. If you require further information regarding the application process please contact Teresa Bubb, Resourcing Adviser, at T.C.Bubb@kent.ac.uk.

Please note - applications must be made via the University's online application system. You will be required to fill in the main details section of the application form as well as upload your CV and a summary document. Your summary should provide clear evidence and examples demonstrating where you meet the essential criteria for the post. We recommend a maximum of 4 x A4 sides for this document.

CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.

La maladie vénérienne dans l'Espagne baroque

From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain 

Cristian Berco


Series: Toronto Iberic
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (March 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1442649620

Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as a stench-filled and overcrowded place that sought to treat the body and reform the soul.

Using the sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain’s Hospital de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during, and after their hospitalization. Through an innovative combination of medical, institutional, and notarial sources, he explores the physical and social lives of the patients. What were the social repercussions of living with a shameful disease? What did living with this chronic illness mean for careers and networks, love and families, and everyday relationships? From Body to Community is a textured analysis at once touched by the illness but not solely defined by it.

Modernisme, médecine et l'incarnation de l'esprit

Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind

Call for Papers

University of Bristol, 15-16 July 2016

The AHRC-funded network, ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’, seeks to investigate the historical and discursive links between literary modernism, medical discoveries, and clinical practice, in dialogue with the insights of visual artists and art historians, dancers and dance scholars, and contemporary scientists and clinicians. Underpinning the project is the significance of phenomenology and the first-person experience of medicine, as explored in literature, theatre, dance, and the philosophy of medicine. A phenomenological approach is also applied to medical education through performance-based pedagogies.

The conference combines aesthetic criticism – which can attend to aesthetic form and engage in nuanced ways with questions of language, representation, subjectivity, and affect – with the archival emphases of cultural history and the conceptual rigour of philosophy and critical theory, to explore modernism’s specific ability to speak to seemingly unruly mental and embodied states, and the conceptual ‘black hole’ of extreme old age.

Confirmed keynote speaks include:

Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol)

Professor Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago)

Professor Laura Marcus (University of Oxford)

Among the questions the conference seeks to address are:

What can be learned from the fact that modernist formal innovations developed in dialogue with late nineteenth and early twentieth-century medical discoveries and evolving therapeutic practices in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychiatry? What are the implications of this for intellectual enquiry and clinical practice?

How might realist and humanist models of narrative and self be inadequate, injurious or counter-therapeutic in understanding experiences and events such as the radical contingency of brain injury, neuro-degeneration, certain kinds of psychiatric illness, and the epistemological and ontological uncertainties experienced in the period approaching death?

The turn of the twentieth century is also a period of intense formal experimentation in the visual arts and in dance. How can these radical aesthetic transformations be understood as responses to contemporary medical discoveries and the evolved conception of the self that these discoveries engendered? How did medical ideas affect new modes of representation in the visual arts and in dance?

What specific issues and challenges do chronic and terminal conditions of body and mind present to both patients and doctors? How might modernist modes of enquiry and representation offer alternative ways of understanding, treating and living with conditions that are resistant to the ideas of overcoming and amelioration typically articulated within conventional narrative and linguistic frameworks? How can such methods influence illness narratives and narrative medicine?

How might the insights of modernist form and phenomenological philosophy be applied to the conditions, experiences and perspectives of ageing? How might they offer new ways to think about the continuation and integrity of the self in extreme old age and dementia?

How might nosological classifications be reassessed through engagements with philosophical perspectives such as phenomenology and the emphasis on selfhood and subjective experience found in literary, theatrical and cinematic representations?

How might performance-based methodologies be applied to the development of medical pedagogy and the context of clinical care?

Cultural Programme

Jonathan Heron, international theatre practitioner and scholar, will inaugurate his new performance piece, which will be staged at Bristol’s Wickham Theatre on 15 July 2016 for conference delegates. A performance that unmakes and remakes itself, Rosemary is the outcome of Jonathan Heron’s five-year collaboration with the Beckett actor and renowned scholar Rosemary Pountney. Addressing the experiences of ageing, dying and bereavement, this new commission has been especially created for the AHRC-funded ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’ project at the universities of Bristol, Exeter and Warwick.

On 16 July 2016, the artist Deborah Robinson will inaugurate her new exhibition, Like a Signal Falling, at Glenside Psychiatric Hospital Museum in Bristol. The exhibition has been created for, and taken its inspiration from ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’. All conference delegates are warmly welcome.

The conference will take place in the historic site of Goldney Hall, situated in the Clifton area of Bristol. Some accommodation will be available in the Hall, which boasts beautiful and extensive eighteenth-century gardens, including a Grade 1-listed grotto, amid a city-centre location.

Please email abstracts of 250 words.

The deadline for abstracts is 28 March. Delegates will be notified of the outcome by 11 April.