vendredi 31 mai 2024

Images et imaginaires du cadavre

Histoire et anthropologie de la mort. Images et imaginaires du cadavre

Journée d'étude

Cette journée d’étude, la septième organisée par le séminaire interlaboratoires Histoire et anthropologie de la mort (Aix-Marseille niversité, CNRS) continue à dérouler le fil thématique du cadavre. Elle interrogera la façon dont les imaginaires et les représentations composent avec la matérialité du corps mort et la menace de sa décomposition, qui l’éloigne de la personne défunte. Le sujet sera abordée sous l’angle des représentations littéraires et artisitiques - notamment la photographie.


Le 4 juin 2024 se tiendra dans l’amphithéâtre de la MMSH une journée d’études portée par le séminaire Histoire et anthropologie de la mort. Elle sera également accessible en visio conférence via le lien suivant.

de 10 h à 16 h 30

Amandine MALIVIN, docteure en histoire, et chercheuse indépendante. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire de la mort, du cadavre et des sensibilités. Elle est l’auteure de la thèse « Voluptés macabre : la nécrophilie en France au XIXe siècle » (2012, Université Paris 7 – Paris-Diderot) et de plusieurs articles dont « Amour d’outre-tombe » (Terrain [en ligne], 75|2021) et « L’affaire du Muy, et autres profanations nécrophiles » (in Anne Carol et Isabelle Renaudet (dir.), Des morts qui dérogent, PUP, 2023).

Des corps invisibles ? Représenter le cadavre et la nécrophilie dans l’art et la littérature (France, XIXe siècle).

La nécrophilie – attirance sexuelle pour les cadavres – est largement représentée dans les sources médicales du XIXe siècle, où elle est dépeinte comme un des exemples les plus aberrants et monstrueux de perversion sexuelle. Si ces représentations limitent en général la nécrophilie à la seule profanation sexuelle des cadavres, il en est autrement dans les œuvres littéraires ou artistiques, où elle prend des formes et des significations plus variées. Pourtant, dans tous les cas, ce sont surtout les nécrophiles qui sont dépeints, aux dépens de cadavres qui, s’ils ne sont pas totalement absents, se font plus discrets. On peut alors s’interroger sur les formes données aux corps morts profanés dans l’art et la fiction, et sur les raisons déterminant les choix opérés par les auteurs et artistes lorsqu’il s’agit de dépeindre ou de montrer ces corps, objets d’actes ou de désirs transgressifs difficilement représentables.

Clémentine GUIOL, doctorante en deuxième année au sein du Centre Alexandre Koyré de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Elle travaille actuellement à sa thèse de recherche en histoire culturelle britannique sous la direction de Laurence Talairach. Intitulée « Le cadavre féminin dans le Londres victorien : une incarnation de l’altérité », qui s’attache aux traitements funéraires et aux représentations culturelles des cadavres de femmes à l’époque victorienne sur le terrain particulier de la capitale britannique.

Représenter les femmes victimes de meurtre dans la presse tabloïde victorienne : érotisme, sensationnalisme et violence genrée.

À l’époque victorienne (1837-1901), la presse tabloïde entretient une fascination pour les crimes violents et génère une abondance de représentations de cadavres de victimes. Au sein de cette production pléthorique, les images de cadavres féminins se distinguent des corps d’hommes et d’enfants dans la façon dont leur représentation allie l’érotisme au sensationnalisme. En étudiant à la fois les représentations textuelles et iconographiques de ces cadavres féminins violentés, nous proposons d’abord de retracer leur généalogie afin de les replacer dans une longue tradition de violence genrée dans la culture britannique. Cette analyse nous permettra ensuite de démontrer comment ces représentations sont à la fois le fruit de l’idéologie de genre victorienne, et comment elles participent à la consolider. Nous essaierons enfin de déceler comment ces illustrations macabres sont l’expression des fantasmes et des craintes de la société victorienne autour de la sexualité, de la criminalité et de la moralité.

Virginia DE LA CRUZ LICHET, maîtresse de conférences HDR à l’Université de Lorraine. Sa thèse, publiée en 2013, portait sur les portraits photographiques de défunts en Galice (XIXeet XXe siècles). Ses derniers travaux portent sur les constructions mémorielles et les processus de deuil dans des contextes de violence politique et sociale en Amérique latine qui ont donné lieu à la réalisation de son HDR « La Colombie : Violence(s), Deuil(s), Mémoire(s). La création artistique, un espace de cohésion et de réparation symbolique au sein de la société.

Les représentations du cadavre. Notions, Images, Imaginaires.

À l’époque contemporaine, et surtout à partir du XXe siècle, notre attitude face à la mort a changé . Si auparavant les morts et les vivants partageaient les mêmes espaces de vie, aujourd’hui ce n’est plus le cas. C’est au moment de la veillée que se faisait la présentation du défunt en société. Peu à peu, nous sommes passés de la présentation du corps à la représentation de celui-ci ; tout d’abord par l’artiste peintre, puis par le photographe. Ces pratiques, quel que soit le médium, avaient pour objectif de rendre hommage au défunt et de produire des objets-souvenirs pour faire le deuil. Mais représenter un « cadavre » n’est pas la même chose que représenter un « défunt ». Quel statut donner à un corps mort ? Et, par conséquent, quelles formes de représentation ? L’identité de la personne morte, le lien qui existe (ou pas) avec les vivants, la violence exercée sur le corps (pré ou post-mortem) sont des éléments qui peuvent déterminer le mode de représentation et la construction d’un imaginaire collectif autour de la mort. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les notions de « cadavre » et de « défunt » en analysant des œuvres artistiques contemporaines (peinture, photographie, cinéma).

Sophie ZENON, artiste photographe. Après des études en histoire, en histoire de l’art et en anthropologie, elle initie sa pratique à la fin des années 1990 par des paysages réalisés en Mongolie entre 1996 et 2009, où elle voyage pendant plus de dix années. Marquée par cette expérience autant de vie qu’artistique, Sophie Zénon articule aujourd’hui son oeuvre autour de thèmes récurrents – la mémoire, l’histoire, la perte, le passage du temps – souvent évoqués au travers de la relation du corps au paysage. Des plaines de Mongolie aux paysages meurtris de l’Est de la France, des rizières du piémont italien de ses ancêtres aux momies de Palerme, elle créé des ponts entre histoire intime et patrimoniale, où “le présent est un réceptacle de temps et d’histoires accumulées (…) qu’elle cristallise par la trace, la métaphore et le merveilleux, en leur donnant une forme à chaque fois renouvelée ” (C. Coste, L’oeil, mai 2023).

IN CASE WE DIE (Momies de Palerme – La Danse).

Entre 2008 et 2011, Sophie Zénon a consacré plusieurs volets à la représentation du corps mort, réuni dans un cycle intitulé « In Case We Die ». En Occident, dans un contexte de déni de la mort, comment figurer l’infigurable ? Premier et troisième volets de ce cycle, Momies de Palerme et La Danse ont fait l’objet de nombreuses expositions – jusqu’à la plus récente à l’automne dernier à la Maison Robert Doisneau de Gentilly « Et nos morts ? » – et ont été acquises par plusieurs institutions. A l’occasion de ce colloque, elle revient sur sa pratique, sur ses motivations, sur ce qui l’a engagé à produire ces œuvres.
Organisation

Cette journée, organisée avec le soutien de la Mission interdisciplinarité(s) d’AMU bénéficie d'une aide de l’État gérée par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche au titre du programme d’Investissements d’avenir portant la référence ANR-20-IDES-0003.


jeudi 30 mai 2024

La diffusion des savoirs sur l'avortement en France

La diffusion des savoirs sur l'avortement en France, de l'époque moderne au XXe siècle



Rencontre

Le Laboratoire Contraception&Genre vous convie à la 25e séance de son séminaire, qui aura lieu le mardi 11 juin 2024, de 14h à 17h à la MSH Paris Nord (20 avenue George Sand, 93210 Saint-Denis), en salle 413. Il sera également possible d'y assister à distance via un système de visioconférence.

Pour y assister, merci de vous inscrire au préalable via ce formulaire, en précisant si vous voulez assister au séminaire sur place ou bien à distance (auquel cas un lien vous sera envoyé quelques jours avant la séance).

Thème de la séance : La diffusion des savoirs sur l'avortement en France, de l'époque moderne au XXe siècle.

Intervenantes :


- Laura Tatoueix (post-doctorante aux Archives Nationales/LabEx HASTEC ; EPHE, PSL) : « Divulguer les "secrets". La circulation des savoirs sur l'avortement en France à l'époque moderne. »
- Pauline Mortas (docteure en histoire, ATER à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : « La publicité pour des remèdes abortifs : un vecteur de diffusion des savoirs sous haute surveillance (France, années 1880-années 1930) »
- Carla Robison (doctorante au Centre de Recherches en Littérature Comparée, Sorbonne Université) : « Lire des romans pour apprendre à avorter ? Littérature et diffusion des savoirs abortifs (1920-1975) »


Retrouvez toutes nos actualités sur notre site: https://contraceptiongenre.wordpress.com/

mercredi 29 mai 2024

Colloque annuel de l’ACHN

Nursing Crossroads: Action, Inaction, and Reaction 

Colloque annuel de l’ACHN / Annual Meeting of CAHN


Saint Mary’s University

Halifax, NS, Canada

22 au 23 Juin 2024 – 22-23 June 2024



Samedi 22 juin 2024 – Saturday 22 June 2024


Mots de bienvenue – Welcoming Remarks 8:45

Peter L. Twohig (Présidente de l’Association canadienne pour l’histoire du nursing – President of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing)



Session One 9:00-10:00
Protest and the Politics of Nursing – Protestation et politique des soins infirmiers


Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto, “In a state of experiment and change”: nursing professional associations and collective bargaining in the second half of the twentieth century”

Gloria Stephens, Independent Scholar, Nursing Vignettes Associated with the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917


10:00 to 10:30 Pause-café – Coffee Break


Session Two 10:30 to 12:00
Creating CAHN and The History of Nursing in Canada -- Création de l’ACHN et histoire des soins infirmiers au Canada


A Facilitated Conversation with CAHN Co-Founder Dr. Barbra Keddy, Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University School of Nursing, with Peter L. Twohig


12:00 to 1:30 Lunch


Session Three 1:30 to 3:00
Nurses in Action – Infirmières en action


Lydia Wytenbroek and Tamasha Hussein, University of British Columbia, A History of South Asian Nurses in British Columbia


Hrag Yacoubian ,Memorial University of Newfoundland, Adapting to Adversity: The Pioneering Role of Nurses in the Armenian Republic in 1920




3:00 to 3:30 Pause-café – Coffee Break



Session Four 3:30 to 5:00 Hannah Lecture
Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing

Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor and Director, Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry University of Virginia School of Nursing


CONFERENCE DINNER


Dimanche 23 juin 2024 – Sunday 23 June 2024

Session Three 8:30 to 9:30
Nursing Education and Nursing History – Formation infirmière et histoire des soins infirmiers


Helen Vandenberg (University of Saskatchewan), Lydia Wytenbroek (University of British Columbia), Geertje Boschma (University of British Columbia) Nursing history in nursing curricula: incorporating photo analysis as a teaching tool


9:30 to 10:30 Pause-café - Coffee Break


Session Two 10:30 to 12:30
Nursing Roles, Technology, and Therapeutics – Rôles infirmiers, technologie et thérapeutique


Karen Nolte, Heidelberg University, “The incubator for the premature baby – machine, nursing and maternity in West Germany”

Sandra Harrisson, Université d’Ottawa Travail au féminin : Un gage d’une bonne santé mentale

Kelly Swaby, University of Manchester, Nurse Practitioners: The Lens to British Society


Christoph Schwamm, Heidelberg University, Infectious diseases, the history of childhood and the reorganisation of pediatric nursing in Germany, ca. 1950 – 1975


Lunch 12:30 to 1:30


Session Four 1:30 to 3:00
Nursing Experiences and the Military – Expériences infirmières et militaires

Delaney Beck, University of New Brunswick, “‘My own dears at home’: An Analysis of Lieutenant/Nursing Sister Bertha Merriman’s Wartime Familial Correspondence”

Ross Hebb, University of New Brunswick, “Nursing Sister Ina Lockhart’s Diary – A Surprisingly Unexpected Record”

Erin Spinney, University of New Brunswick (Saint John), Labour Upheaval: Gender, Professionalism, and Changes in 19th Century British Naval Hospitals


3:00 to 3:30 Pause-café - Coffee Break


Session Five 3:30 to 5:00
Nursing and the North and Rural Environments – Les soins infirmiers et le Nord et milieux ruraux

Amanda McCallum, RN, MN, Helen Vandenberg, RN, PhD, Kelly Penz, RN, PhD, University of Saskatchewan

Help Wanted, Experience Preferred, Stamina a Must: A Narrative Review of the Contextual Factors Influencing Nursing Recruitment and Retention in Rural and Remote Western Canada from the Early Twentieth Century to 2023

Gertrude B. Hutchinson, Russell Sage College, “The Grenfell Mission, Labrador Through the Eyes of Sophia V. Kiel, RN”

Myriam Lévesque, Université Laval, « She would teach me one on one. Then I would teach people»: rapports soignants entre infirmières et interprètes au Nunavik (1950-1996)



5:00 to 5:15 Remise de la bourse Vicky Bach - Vicky Bach Scholarship Award



mardi 28 mai 2024

Histoire de l'urine

Histoire médico-sociale de l'urine. De l’Antiquité à nos jours
 

Sofiane Bouhdiba 

 


L'Harmattan
Collection : Acteurs de la Science
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 262 pages
Langue : français
ISBN : 978-2-336-45372-9
 


En retraçant l’histoire des pathologies liées à l’urine, en montrant comment l’urologie est née à Babylone, le professeur Sofiane Bouhdiba s’adresse ici à tous. L’auteur adopte ensuite une approche moins classique, en explorant l’évolution des représentation de l’urine, ses espaces et ses objets, de l’antiquité à aujourd’hui. Le lecteur pénètre ainsi dans le monde sordide des vespasiennes, des chalets de nécessité et autres espaces d’aisance, de rencontre, de convivialité, voire de débauche.

L’auteur nous emmène également à la rencontre de personnages fascinants, tels que « Madame pipi », ou encore l’ignoble « soupeur » qui hantait les toilettes publiques de Paris au XIXème siècle. Le livre contient enfin d’étonnantes réflexions sur les pratiques sexuelles organisées autour de l’urine, ainsi que cette urinophobie inattendue qui caractérise aujourd’hui encore certaines sociétés ou religions.

Produits alimentaires et guerre

Provisioning Conflicts: Food Commodities & War 

Call for papers



Following on from the 2022 and 2023 meetings, which focused on domesticated and wild animals respectively, the British Academy ‘Commodities of Empire’ Academy Research Project invites paper proposals for an international, two-day workshop on the theme of food commodities and war, hosted at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 12-13 September, 2024. The deadline for submitting a paper abstract is 3 June 2024.

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As the present conjuncture makes all too clear, warfare has long been entangled with food and its commodification. Both as a stake in conflicts and as an instrument of them, food commodification has changed over time in part through varied and highly charged relationships to warfare, including irregular warfare and guerrilla activity. This workshop will focus on the study of food and war in order to examine the mutually constitutive operation of food systems and political-military conflicts – and to bring historians and scholars in cognate disciplines into closer conversation.

Researchers working with a wide range of methods have developed sub-fields of research on the interrelationship of food and war and we aim to build on this broad range, with an open chronological and geographical scope, while maintaining our core focus on commodities and imperial formations.

Economic historians of warfare, for example, have long analysed the role of shifting agricultural production systems in propelling geopolitical competition and military strategy, while international and legal historians have examined shifting norms and practices of food blockades and sanctions. Scholars of humanitarian activity, meanwhile, have produced rich ethnographies of the ethical matrices of food relief and historical studies of the operation of humanitarian reason or the lived experience of humanitarian predicaments. Global historians, for their part, have lately shown how warfare redefined notions of ‘raw materials’ and the mobilization of ‘natural resources’, durably reshaping landscapes and driving environmental change, for example by catalysing the rise of new technologies, input agriculture, and plantation monoculture. Finally, anthropologists and historians of ‘development’ have traced the impact of warfare on discourses, networks and practices of social transformation, increasingly paying attention to local social and cultural histories and to the operation of hierarchies of race, gender and class, among other categories, in shaping the interaction of food systems with warfare.

This workshop will ask how historians and scholars in cognate disciplines should best work in dialogue to study how warfare shaped the production, processing, trading, transport, distribution, consumption and destruction of food commodities, even as the dynamics of conflict were themselves altered by the evolving characteristics of food systems. We are particularly interested in multi-scale and multi-local projects that work imaginatively with primary sources and in collaborative research strategies that seek to re-conceptualise the relationship of food commodification to systems of value and to local or regional cultures. We place emphasis on the experiences of peoples subjected to different imperial hegemonies and on networks of circulation within, between and beyond specific empires. We are particularly attentive to local processes originating in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and to the impact of agents in the periphery on the establishment and development of commodity networks: as instigators and promoters; through their social, cultural and technological resistance; or through the production of anti-commodities. Finally, with a view to building on the work of our late colleague, Dr Kaori O’Connor, to whom a panel will be dedicated, we are interested in papers that explore the cultural biographies of food in wartime, in order to tease out multiple cultural identities and social changes.

Potential paper topics may relate to:
  • Food systems’ and food commodities’ reconfigured development or intensified exploitation during wartime, such as emergent systems of abstraction and standardization (e.g. food typologies, nutritional regulation, forms of agricultural and health knowledge, state-building via bio-politics) or emergent infrastructural arrangements (e.g. disease prevention, food transport, processing and storage, stock-piling, data/statistical/information systems).
  • The contested and plural role of economic, scientific, and legal concepts in the wartime politics of famine and hunger (e.g. markets and black markets; the politics of pricing and moral economies; surplus and scarcity construction in relation to food commodities).
  • Wartime reconfigurations of spatial arrangements characteristic of food commodification & wartime impacts on local environmental conditions and food systems (e.g. militarized extraction, production and processing, designation of home and fighting ‘fronts’, altered domestic and commercial spaces, the dynamics of blockades and autarkic economic sovereignties, “Commodity Wars” between neighbouring countries as a form of diplomatic conflict and/or internal colonialism).
  • Wartime reconfigurations of temporal frameworks characteristic of food commodification (e.g. seeding/fertilizing/disease/harvesting cycles; insurance/futures cycles; the impact of emergency mentalities and time horizons; the wartime uses of cornucopian, orientalist or declinist imaginaries; armistice periods and post-war reconstructions of food commodity systems; post-war memories and narratives of food commodities in wartime; reparations in connection with food commodities and/or the repurposing of wartime food systems for peacetime & future conflicts).
  • Racial capitalism and food commodities in wartime: expropriation and forced labour in food commodity systems, wartime approaches to financialization and the adaptation of debt and credit circuits or risk and insurance systems, the role of agricultural banks and futures contracts, wartime trading oligopolies and monopolies.
  • Input agriculture and wartime: the wartime politics of fertilizer and pesticide, seed and plant engineering, and plantation monoculture.
  • Environmental and climate histories/social practices of food commodification in wartime (e.g. the politics of temperature, irrigation and water supply, rainfall and flooding as it relates to food commodities in wartime).
  • Forms of resistance, adaptive or hybrid practice including the role of Indigenous knowledges and material cultures in the wartime politics of food commodification.
  • Systems of political obligation and humanitarian ethics in wartime as they shifted in relation to food commodities.
  • Water and war: potable water politics; irrigation infrastructure; etc.

We are interested in cases from all geographical regions, and in approaches from various disciplines, particularly history and cognate disciplines including anthropology, the environmental sciences, sociology and other scholars working on the history of food commodification in contexts of war.

This two-day workshop will be held at the University of Birmingham on 12-13 September 2024 and is part of the Commodities of Empire British Academy Research Project. Following the long-standing practice of Commodities of Empire workshops, papers will be grouped in thematic panels, pre-circulated to all workshop participants, and panel discussions will be opened by a chair or discussant. Paper-givers will then have the possibility to reply succinctly, and this will be followed by open discussion. Papers presented at the workshop may be considered for publication in the Commodities of Empire Working Papers series:

https://commoditiesofempire.org.uk/publications/working-papers/.

We strongly encourage graduate students and other early career scholars to propose papers.

Some funding is available to cover travel and accommodation expenses for early career scholars, and particularly for scholars coming from the Global South. We envisage the possibility of holding at least one panel in hybrid format to enable remote participation by speakers who may not be able to travel due to caring responsibilities, health, climate or financial considerations.

Please e-mail expressions of interest, with a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words, by 3 June 2024 to Dr Simon Jackson, at S.Jackson.1@bham.ac.uk.

We will notify authors about the acceptance of their papers by the end of June. They will then be asked to submit a draft paper of approx. 4,000-5,000 words (not counting footnotes and bibliography) 2 weeks prior to the workshop.

Contact Information

Lead organizer: Dr Simon Jackson (S.Jackson.1@bham.ac.uk)

lundi 27 mai 2024

Racisme, médecine microbienne et colonie intérieure

American Disgust. Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within


Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 

Univ Of Minnesota Press
296 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, May 2024

ISBN 978-1-5179-1624-4

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country’s history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness.

Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg’s ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease.

At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion—what goes into the body and what comes out of it—create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it—personally, politically, and theoretically—opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.


Manuel Routledge d'histoire de la médecine contemporaine

Manuel Routledge d'histoire de la médecine contemporaine: Médecine à/de les marges

Manifestation d'intérêt

Nous (Caitjan Gainty et Grazia De Michele) avons été invitées à soumettre une proposition pour un Routledge Handbook of the History of Modern Medicine. Notre vision est celle d'une collection éditée qui adopte un regard plus inclusif sur l'histoire de la médecine - un point de vue qui s'interroge sur la façon dont l'histoire de la médecine des 19e et 20e siècles se présente à ceux qui se sont tenus à l'écart de cette histoire. Cet "extérieur" peut revêtir de nombreux registres différents - universitaires, perspectives, méthodes, questions, acteurs et zones géographiques qui ne sont pas souvent inclus dans le canon de l'histoire de la médecine moderne, mais ensemble, ils offriront aux lecteurs de nouveaux outils d'interprétation tout en répondant à un besoin urgent d'une plus grande représentation et d'une plus grande inclusivité à la fois dans l'histoire et dans la contemporanéité des soins de santé.

Les contributions à ce travail peuvent représenter des perspectives sur la médecine depuis ses marges - du point de vue des dépossédés de la médecine "moderne" (par la maladie, par les préjugés, par la géographie), des critiques, des activistes, des concurrents sur le marché, etc., mais elles peuvent aussi refléter les points de vue de ceux qui travaillent dans les soins de santé : la communauté qui travaille dans les hôpitaux et les systèmes de santé, ou les praticiens et la pratique en dehors de l'Europe et de l'Amérique du Nord, qui tendent à dominer le récit de ce à quoi ressemble cette chose que nous appelons "la médecine moderne". Nous sommes également intéressées par des contributions qui pourraient réfléchir aux conséquences involontaires de la médecine - les erreurs et les préjudices médicaux, les déchets médicaux qu'elle produit, l'impact des données et l'importance des chiffres dans la pratique médicale. Ou encore des points de vue critiques sur des domaines tels que la génétique, la génomique, la santé publique, etc., qui contribuent à conférer à la médecine moderne tant d'autorité et de pouvoir. De même, de nouvelles articulations sur ce qui fait la modernité de la médecine, ainsi que sur où et pour qui cette modernité a ou n'a pas d'importance, pourraient être à l'ordre du jour.

Note: bien que le manuel soit rédigé en anglais, nous sommes en train de réunir les fonds nécessaires à sa traduction. N'hésitez donc pas à le faire circuler le plus largement possible.

Si vous souhaitez contribuer au manuel, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel à graziademichele@gmail.com et caitjan.gainty@kcl.ac.uk avant le 16 juin pour que nous puissions l'inclure dans notre proposition. 


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Routledge Handbook of the History of Modern Medicine: Medicine from/at the Margins - contributor expression of interest (Spanish and French versions below)
Hello! We (Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele) have been invited to submit a proposal for a Routledge Handbook of the History of Modern Medicine. Our vision is an edited collection that takes a more inclusive view on the history of medicine - one that asks how the history of 19th and 20th century medicine looks from the perspective of those who have stood outside of it. This “outside” can have many different registers - scholars, views, methods, issue, actors and geographical areas that are not often included in the modern medical history canon, but together they will offer readers novel interpretative tools while filling an urgent need for greater representation and inclusivity in both the history and contemporary of healthcare.


Contributions to this work might represent views of medicine from its margins - from the vantage point of "modern" medicine's dispossessed (by disease, by prejudice, by geography), critics, activists, competitors in the marketplace, etc., but it might also reflect the views of who else works in healthcare: the community who labor in hospitals and health systems, or practitioners and practice outside Europe and North America, which tend to dominate the narrative of what this thing we call “modern medicine” looks like. We are also interested in contributions that might reflect on medicine's unintended consequences - errors and medical harms, the medical waste it produces, the impacts of data and the currency of numbers for medical practice. Or in critical takes on areas like genetics, genomics, public health, etc., which help claim for modern medicine so much authority and power. Equally up for grabs might be new articulations about what makes medicine modern, as well as where and for whom that modernity does or doesn’t matter.


Note: though the handbook will be in English, we are in the process of acquiring funds for translation. Please therefore feel free to circulate this onward as widely as possible.


dimanche 26 mai 2024

Monstruosité, corps et savoir au début de l'Angleterre moderne

Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold   

Whitney Dirks 


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amsterdam University Press (May 17, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9462986673
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9462986671 


In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be shown for money, and their deaths shortly thereafter gave rise to a four-year legal battle over ownership and income. The Herring twins’ microhistory weaves throughout this book, as the chapter structure alternates between the family’s ordeal and the broader cultural context of how so-called ‘monstrous births’ (a contemporary term for deformed humans and animals) were discussed in cheap print, exhibited in London’s pubs and coffeehouses, examined by the Royal Society, portrayed in visual culture, and litigated in London’s legal courts. This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people discussed unusual bodies in early modern England because they provided newsworthy entertainment, revealed the will of God, and demonstrated the internal workings of Nature.

samedi 25 mai 2024

Cinquante ans de planification familiale en République démocratique du Congo

Fifty Years of Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 

Jane T. Bertrand 


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (May 16, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1032718870
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032718873


This book chronicles five decades of struggle to introduce family planning into one of the largest, most complex countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Interweaving details of major political, social, and economic events into the history of family planning in DRC (formerly Zaïre), the book analyses the achievements and setbacks of five decades of programmatic work. President Mobutu’s 1972 discourse on Naissances Désirables (desirable births) opened the door to organized family planning programs, which gained considerable momentum in the 1980s despite societal norms favoring large families. Two pillages and armed conflict paralyzed development work during the decade of the 1990s, and family planning was one of multiple public health programs that struggled to regain lost ground in the 2000s. With new donor funding and implementing agencies, the 2010s witnessed rapid programmatic expansion and improved strategies. By 2018, family planning was operating as a well-oiled machine. But progress is fragile. The book ends by tracing the deleterious effects of the colonial period to contemporary programming and individual contraceptive use. It asks hard questions about donor financing. And it details the six conditions needed to accelerate family planning progress in the DRC, in pursuit of providing millions of Congolese women and men with the means of controlling their own fertility.

The book will be of interest to development and public health researchers and practitioners, as well as to historians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

vendredi 24 mai 2024

L'avorteur de Howard Street

The Abortionist of Howard Street: Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York 


R.E. Fulton

 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Three Hills (May 15, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501774829


Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street.

On January 17, 1872, McCarty boarded a streetcar in Utica, New York, shot her ex-lover in the face, and disembarked, unaware that her bullet had passed through her target's head and into the heart of the innocent man sitting beside him. The unlucky passenger died within minutes. Josephine McCarty was arrested for attempted murder and quickly became the most notorious woman in central New York.

The Abortionist of Howard Street was, however, far more than a murderer. In Maryland she was "Johnny McCarty," a blockade runner and spy for Confederate forces. New Yorkers whispered of her as a mistress to corrupt Albany politicians. So who was she?

The prosecution in her murder trial claimed she was a calculating and heartless operative both in the bedroom and in her public life. Or was she the victim of ill fortune and the systemic weight of misogyny and male violence? The answer, of course, was not as simple as either narrative. In this absorbing and rich history, R.E. Fulton considers the nuances of Josephine McCarty's life from marriage to divorce, from financial abuse to quarrels with intimate partners and more, trying to decipher the truth behind the stories and myths surrounding McCarty and what ultimately led her to that Utica streetcar with a pistol in her dress pocket.

In The Abortionist of Howard Street, Fulton revisites a rich history of women's experience in mid-nineteenth century America, revealing McCarty as a multifaceted, fascinating personification of issues as broad as reproductive health, education, domestic abuse, mental illness, and criminal justice.

jeudi 23 mai 2024

Borderline

Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder 


Alexander Kriss


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press (April 30, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807007815



An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD

Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially untreatable and hopeless. When, as a graduate student, Alex Kriss first began working as a therapist in the field, his supervisors warned him that borderline patients were manipulative, difficult, and had a tendancy to drop out of treatment. Yet, years later, when Kriss was establishing his private practice and a borderline patient known as Ana came to his office, he felt compelled to try to help her, despite all of the warnings he’d heard.

Borderline is the story of his work with Ana—how his successes with her led him to open his doors to other BPD patients and advocate for them. Borderline is also the story of the disorder itself: Kriss traces accounts of the condition going back to antiquity, showing how this disease has been known by many names over the millennia, most of them gendered: possession, hysteria, witchcraft, moral insanity. All referred to a person—usually a woman—whose behavior and personality were seen as fractured, unstable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. Kriss guides us through this history up through the emergence of psychotherapy, the development of the modern diagnosis, and attitudes toward treatment today.

Race, racisme et (neo-)républicanisme en France

Race, Racism, and (neo-)Republicanism in Contemporary France

Call for papers



Political Studies Association (PSA) - French Politics Specialist Group

2024 Annual Workshop - Tuesday 17 September 2024, University of Bristol


It has become commonplace, when French politics are discussed within and beyond France, to note the threat posed by Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement national. Yet, two decades after the earthquake of Jean-Marie Le Pen reaching the second round of the presidential election of 2002, his daughter doing the same now seems comparatively unremarkable. Indeed, with 2027 on the horizon, the possibility of a far-right President in France, together with its racist narratives and politics, arguably now seems more plausible than at any previous point since the inauguration of the Fifth Republic.

In France or elsewhere, however, racism cannot be understood purely through reference to the far right. An increasing body of scholarship has emerged underlining the role of the parties of the traditional right and left, not to mention the current centrist government, in ‘mainstreaming’ racist discourses (Mondon & Winter 2020; Mondon 2022; Brown 2023). In the 2022 presidential elections, the candidacy of Éric Zemmour saw Le Pen outflanked on the right; however, at a time of rising Islamophobia within and beyond France, not only Zemmour but also current Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has accused Le Pen of being ‘un peu molle’ (‘a little soft’) in relation to Islam(ism). Discourses of ‘Islamo-gauchisme’ and of a putative ‘séparatisme’ have been reproduced not only in the far right, but also by members of the current government (Bechrouri 2023; Zia-Ebrahimi 2023).

These dynamics can usefully be situated within a broader, transnational rise, or resurgence, of racist politics. The role of French racism(s) in influencing racists beyond France’s borders has been shown, in tragic fashion, by the series of white supremacist mass murderers who have adopted the ‘grand remplacement’ conspiracy theory named as such by Renaud Camus. The influence of other nations, and particularly those in the Anglosphere, on France has however been underlined through the adoption, by French reactionaries, of English-language terms like ‘le wokisme’ (Amer Meziane 2023).

This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on race and racism in France to explore how racist politics have manifested in the French context; in what ways racist politics in France may be distinctively French; and how French racism relates to racism elsewhere. We encourage proposals for 20-minute papers. Topics may include, but are not limited to: 

  • Why is it so difficult to talk about ‘race’ in France?
  • Weaponised (neo-)republicanism: how far is French racism distinctively French?
  • Can republican language and concepts be salvaged for anti-racist ends?
  • In particular, what role does ‘laïcité’ play in French racism and are there ways to salvage the concept beyond it?
  • Transnational ‘culture wars’: how are French discourses influenced by/an influence on other nations?
  • ‘Culture wars’, racism, intersectionality: how do racist discourses intersect with other forms of bigotry (e.g. transphobia, misogyny, homophobia)?
  • Antisemitism and Islamophobia: how can both be situated in their contemporary, international, and French contexts?



Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent to the PSA French Politics Specialist Group’s co-convenors: Salomé Ietter (Salome.Ietter.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Fraser McQueen (Fraser.McQueen@bristol.ac.uk) by Friday 31st May. Selected contributors will be notified mid-June.

mercredi 22 mai 2024

Les Sanatoriums du Léman

The Sanitariums of Lake Geneva 

 
Sonja Akright


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Old Time Eyes LLC (May 14, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 101 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8894097640



Delving into firsthand accounts, rediscovering evocative imagery, and intricately weaving together long-forgotten details about the Sanitariums of Lake Geneva, including insights into their founders, staff, and patients, Sonja Akright has vividly captured the intrigue – and enduring legacy – of these once-venerated, now-vanished institutions. Now she invites readers to journey through time and explore Lake Geneva’s upscale sanitariums. Nestled in the heart of the “Newport of the West,” these facilities housed and treated patients from the regional to the far-flung, from the anonymous to the renowned. Offering an immersive, nuanced perspective on experiences within these institutions, "The Sanitariums of Lake Geneva" serves as both a tribute to the past and as a rallying cry for preserving local history. Akright's passion for her subject shines throughout this compelling narrative of the past – a storied past that has etched the landscape and character of Lake Geneva. Akright’s years of meticulous archival research, dedication to historic preservation, and determination to bring the past to life are testament to the power of community-driven stewardship, a vital aspect of safeguarding, chronicling, and giving voice to our shared heritage for future generations.

Résidences de recherche à l'Institut d'études avancées de Nantes (2025-2026)

Résidences de recherche à l'Institut d'études avancées de Nantes (2025-2026)

Appel à candidatures

L'Institut d'études avancées de Nantes ouvre ses portes pour une expérience de résidence de recherche singulière pour l'année académique 2025-2026. La date limite de candidature, initialement fixée au 15 mai 2024, a été prolongée jusqu'au 31 mai. Les résidences durent 9 mois, débutant en octobre, offrant un environnement interdisciplinaire propice à l'exploration de projets ambitieux.

Au cœur de cette initiative se trouve l'engagement à offrir aux chercheuses et chercheurs un temps précieux pour se consacrer pleinement à leurs travaux. Contrairement aux pressions habituelles du monde académique, nos résidences offrent une liberté temporelle, permettant une exploration profonde et créative des sujets les plus passionnants.

L’Institut favorise également l'interaction et l'intégration au sein d'une communauté mondiale de chercheuses et chercheurs. Imaginez-vous échanger des idées avec des collègues venus de divers horizons disciplinaires et culturels, enrichissant ainsi votre propre travail de nouvelles perspectives et de collaborations fructueuses.

Pour postuler, rendez-vous sur lien, après le renseignement d’un formulaire, vous pourrez y soumettre votre CV, votre projet de recherche et deux publications.


mardi 21 mai 2024

St. Joseph State Hospital

St. Joseph State Hospital: 150 Years

 Inc., The St. Joseph Museum


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 22, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 225 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8883763303


St. Joseph State Hospital: 150 Years chronicles the states' second lunatic asylum. The asylum was introduced to provide care for its population whom had mental health issues of varying types. Opening in 1874 as the State Lunatic Asylum #2, the institution accepted its first twenty-five patients by transfer from the county poor farm, and from the Missouri Lunatic Asylum at Fulton. In 1903, the name changed to simply State Hospital No. 2. It remained so as the institution grew and expanded its services, offering its ever changing population the chance to live as fulfilling lives as possible. Occupational and recreational therapies were very popular in the early days of the hospital. Everyone had a job - from farming to maintenance to cooking and sewing. If the patient was simply too sick to perform any of these tasks, their job was to rock in a rocking chair.
From the beginning, mental illnesses at the asylum varied greatly from dementia, syphilis, and alcoholism to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. During the wars and after, the hospital saw an uptick in patients with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders. Medicines were designed and used to treat these patients. Prior to the invention of psychiatric medications, common therapies included hydrotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and sometimes even lobotomies.
The name of the hospital changed twice more. In 1952 to the St. Joseph State Hospital. And then after much deinstitutionalization had been done, the hospital moved to the north side of Frederick Avenue and became the Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center as it still operates today.
What sets this institution apart from the other state facilities, is the completion and opening of the Glore Psychiatric Museum, which opened in 1968. George Glore was an occupational therapist at the hospital and with his patients, made replicas of the archaic instruments of the past. Many of these devices would be considered torturous by todays standards, but at the time it is all they had to work with. The museum moved under the umbrella of the St. Joseph Museum, Inc. in 2004. It still operates on the same property that the original asylum operated on. The Glore Psychiatric Museum is the largest of its kind in America.

Doctorat en histoire genrée des sciences en Asie centrale

3-year PhD position (100%) on the gendered history of science in Central Asia
 

Call for applications

at the Department of Geosciences, Geography Unit, University of Fribourg, Switzerland


This PhD position is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation grant titled “Myths of equality: the
gendered history of science in Central Asia, 1870s-1970s”. The PhD candidate will explore the social
history of women in the male dominated field work environments in Central Asia. Since the second
half of the 19th century, but especially during the 20th century women from within the Russian Empire
have been participating as scientists or observers in expeditions to the mountainous regions of Central
Asia such as the Pamir mountains or the Tian-Shan. Through archival work in Tashkent, oral-history
interviews, and the analysis of visual media the PhD student will study the dynamics of gender,
exploration, and science in Central Asia. The project is a collaboration with historians and geographers
from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the United States and the PhD candidate will be able work closely
with two other PhD candidates based in Tashkent.
 

Job description
• Archival and library fieldwork in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
• Publication of one or more scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals
• Writing up of PhD thesis (monograph or publication-based)
• Co-organisation of conference panels and the project conference
• Support of the project leader in grant administration
Required qualifications
• A Master’s degree with specialization in 19th/20th century history of the Russian Empire or
the Soviet Union, history of science, gender studies or other relevant fields.
• Excellent writing skills in English
• Good communication and writing skills in Russian, English, Uzbek an asset
• Proficient organisational and communication skills
• Interest and ability to work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary manner
 

What we offer
• A fully funded PhD position for three years
• The opportunity to gain expertise in the fields of history of science, environmental history,
archival work, and oral-history experience in Central Asia with the support of local
collaborators
• Supervision by leading experts in these fields
• Working in a dynamic, interdisciplinary and international team at the University of Fribourg
and with extended collaborators from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the United
States
Except during the period of fieldwork, that will mainly take place in Tashkent, the candidate will work
at the University of Fribourg. PhD supervision will be led by Dr. Katja Doose and Prof. Christine
Bichsel. The salary corresponds to the official rates of the SNSF (approx. EUR 48.000 / annum).
Additional funding for fieldwork and conference participation will be available.
Starting date: 1 September 2024

 
Application 

Please submit the following documents as a single PDF file to Katja Doose (katja.doose@unifr.ch)
• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• A short outline of a possible research project (ca. 500 words)
• Publication list and one sample writing (e.g. Master thesis, scientific article)
• Names and contact information of two referees
Deadline for application: 15 June 2024
Interviews: early July 2024
All inquiries should be directed to Katja Doose (katja.doose@unifr.ch).
For additional information about the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg please
visit our website: https://www3.unifr.ch/geo/en/

lundi 20 mai 2024

Franz Anton Mesmer

Franz Anton Mesmer. Le magnétiseur des Lumières 

Bruno Belhoste


Armand Colin
mai 2024


Qui est véritablement le médecin allemand Franz Anton Mesmer, passé à la postérité comme l’inventeur du magnétisme animal ? Cet ouvrage offre une nouvelle biographie de cette figure majeure de ce XVIIIe siècle féru de sciences expérimentale.

Mesmer commence en 1774 à utiliser des aimants pour soigner des malades. Sa méthode est fondée sur l’existence supposée d’un fluide magnétique universel, le magnétisme animal, dont la circulation assurerait l’harmonie entre tous les êtres. Son traitement consiste à rétablir cette circulation par l’application sur la partie malade, directement ou à distance, d’un objet « magnétisé » quelconque (un aimant, une baguette, une plante ou simplement le corps du magnétiseur).
Le magnétisme animal a suscité dès l’origine un débat passionné. Son inventeur a été jugé par certains comme un génial précurseur et par d’autres comme un charlatan, voire un imposteur. Sa méthode est en tout cas directement à l’origine de l’hypnose, puis des psychothérapies modernes et de la psychanalyse. C’est pourquoi on a pu dire que Mesmer, tel un nouveau Christophe Colomb, avait découvert sans le savoir un nouveau continent : l’inconscient.
L’ouvrage suit les différentes étapes de la vie de Mesmer – en Allemagne, à Vienne, en France et en Suisse – de 1734 à 1815. Il raconte l’histoire de la découverte et de la diffusion du magnétisme animal, met en scène les controverses qu’il suscite et leurs protagonistes, analyse les ressorts de son succès et ses implications et replace l’ensemble dans son contexte culturel, médical, politique et social. À travers cette biographie, il propose en somme une sorte de fresque de cette période de bouleversement.

dimanche 19 mai 2024

Psychiatrie et situation coloniale en Tunisie

Psychiatrie et situation coloniale en Tunisie. A travers les parcours de Salem Ech-Chadly et Frantz Fanon

Conférence de Kmar Bendana 


Date : 29 Mai, 2024Heure: 18h - 19h30 (Heure d’Egypte)

Intervenante:
Kmar Bendana est historienne, Professeure émérite à l’Université de la Manouba et chercheuse associée à l’Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain. Au fil de ses recherches sur l’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle de la Tunisie contemporaine, elle a embrassé de nombreux thèmes et objets : magazines, cinéma, universités, institutions culturelles,traduction, psychiatrie. Sur ce dernier sujet, Bendana a donné plusieurs conférences et écrit l’article « Sur les traces de Frantz Fanon à Tunis » dans la revue Algérie Littérature/Action en 2012. Elle a analysé en historienne la révolution de 2011 en Tunisie au fil de riches publications, à l’instar de son dernier ouvrage, Parler en historienne après 2011. On peut suivre ses travaux sur le blog “Histoire et culture dans la Tunisie contemporaine“.


Résumé

La période coloniale offre un cadre de réflexion intéressant pour observer le roisement des conditions et contraintes d’exercice du métier de psychiatre. La psychiatrie,cette « médecine de l’âme », née au milieu du XIXème siècle, se développe audébut du XXème siècle en France et en Europe. Le contexte tunisien, sous protectorat français à partir de 1881, connaît les premières retombées de l’institutionnalisation des mesures sanitaires. A partir du début du XXème siècle, la Tunisie enregistre des échos de cette spécialité médicale qui se nourrit des progrès des études psychologiques, de l’invention de la psychanalyse puis d’une diffusion des idées et des connaissances sur l’inconscient, les pathologies de comportement, le traitement des maladies mentales. A travers le parcours de deux médecins, considérés comme des pionniers de la psychiatrie en Tunisie, je propose de restituer la façon dont chacun s’est comporté, en son temps, comme médecin psychiatre en situation coloniale et a vécu les liens de domination qu’elle engendre.
Salem Ech-Chadly, (1896-1954) est un Tunisien nationaliste qui fait des études de médecine en France puis se spécialise pour devenir « médecin aliéniste ». Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961) est un médecin français ayant pris la nationalité algérienne et devenu membre du FLN algérien. Il a séjourné et travaillé en Tunisie de 1957 à 1961. L’un et l’autre ont exercé au sein d’une institution hospitalière créée en 1924 sous le label : Hôpital des maladies mentales de La Manouba et chacun a fait face, à sa manière, aux pratiques de la psychiatrie coloniale.

Inscription en ligne:
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samedi 18 mai 2024

Migrations et santé mentale

Migrations et santé mentale

Journée d'étude

Le vendredi 31 mai de 9h30 à 16h30 en salle 50 du bâtiment EHESS du Campus Condorcet à Aubervilliers.
 
Cette journée est organisée dans le cadre du projet financé par l’ANR-FNR et portée par Marianna Scarfone (Univ. de Strasbourg, SAGE) et Benoît Majerus (Univ. du Luxembourg, C2DH) et du séminaire Psychologie, psychiatrie, psychanalyse : histoires croisées, avec le soutien du Centre Alexandre-Koyré et de l’IUF.

Contact mscarfone@unistra.fr



9h30 | Introduction

Marianna Scarfone et Benoît Majerus

Présidence : Anne Rasmussen (EHESS)

9h45 | The implications of the 1959 Mental Health Act for mentally ill immigrants in the UK

Léna Monème (Université du Luxembourg)

10h15 | Les hôpitaux psychiatriques de la Seine et les patients d’origine nord-africaine au milieu du xxe siècle

Marianna Scarfone (Université de Strasbourg)

10h45 | Psychiatrie et migration en Allemagne (années 1950-années 1990). Traces d’une rencontre hésitante

Benoît Majerus (Université du Luxembourg)

11h15 | « Adaptation », « assimilation », « intégration » : les psychiatres face à une préoccupation politique dans la Suisse des années 1960-1970

Alice Aigrain (Université de Strasbourg)

11h45 | Discussion


12h30 | Pause déjeuner


Présidence : Richard Rechtman (EHESS)

14h30 | Jeunes Algériens au centre d’observation de l’Éducation surveillée de Savigny-sur-Orge dans les années 1950 ou l’invention d’un complexe nord-africain

Mathias Gardet (Centre d'exposition historique Enfants en Justice, Savigny-sur-Orge)

15h00 | Expertises de patients italiens à Lausanne (1950-1970)

Cristina Ferreira (Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne)

15h30 | Medicalizing the Refugee Experience. Fractured Continuities and Claims of Novelty in the Psychiatric Study of Forced Migration

Baher Ibrahim (Université de Glasgow & NHS Scotland)

16h00 | Discussion

vendredi 17 mai 2024

Les rapports de pouvoir en psychiatrie au XXe siècle à travers les archives audiovisuelles

Patient·e·s et personnel soignant. Interroger les rapports de pouvoir en psychiatrie au XXe siècle à travers les archives audiovisuelles
 

Appel à communications

 

Colloque final « Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour des collections Waldau » (FNS, 2021-2025) – 27-28 mars 2025, UNIL

Organisation : Mireille Berton (Section de cinéma, faculté des lettres, UNIL)


Que disent les archives audiovisuelles en psychiatrie des rapports entre corps médical et patient·e·s et de leur évolution au cours du XXe siècle ? Dans quelle mesure les tensions vécues par les soignant·e·s dans leur contact avec les malades ne contredisent-elles pas certaines idées foucaldiennes autour de la microphysique du pouvoir ? Est-il possible d’envisager l’opération de captation des patient.e.s par l’image photographique ou cinématographique autrement que comme un geste de double sujétion au pouvoir médical et au regard technologique ?

À partir des sources relatives au quotidien de la psychiatrie, ainsi qu’à ses lieux, ses matérialités, ses pratiques et ses savoirs, ce colloque vise à explorer à nouveaux frais les rapports patient·e·s-personnel soignant, de sorte à questionner le paradigme disciplinaire qui a longtemps prévalu dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie, comme dans les études consacrées aux films médicaux (Cartwright 1995). Dans le cas des films de recherche, ces rapports semblent jouer en défaveur des patients, visiblement en situation de vulnérabilité face à des psychiatres qui les manipulent dans un but expérimental ou démonstratif. Toutefois, certains éléments indiquent que ces liens s’avèrent moins univoques qu’on ne le pense : la résistance des malades à performer leurs symptômes ou à montrer leur visage, la difficulté à saisir des mouvements trop rapides, la porosité de la limite qui sépare parfois visuellement les protagonistes de l’histoire de la folie.

L’objectif de cette rencontre consiste, d’une part, à se demander s’il est possible de conceptualiser différemment l’asymétrie psychiatres-patient·e·s – par exemple à travers une micro-analyse des sources attentive aux interactions incarnées – et, d’autre part, à répondre à la question en s’attachant aux enjeux épistémiques, idéologiques et éthiques que recouvrent ces archives et leur étude aujourd’hui.
 
Nous accueillons toute proposition qui aborde les questions de pouvoir, de résistance, de représentation et d’éthique dans l’étude des archives audiovisuelles psychiatriques. Thématiques possibles : 

  • Étude comparative des représentations des rapports de pouvoir entre psychiatres et patient·e·s dans les films de recherche et dans les documents cliniques.
  • Stratégies de résistance et d’empowerment mises en œuvre par les patient·e·s face aux pratiques institutionnelles de la psychiatrie.
  • Transformations historiques des approches thérapeutiques et de leur impact sur les relations entre soignants et soignés.
  • Enjeux éthiques et politiques liés à la documentation et à la diffusion des images et des témoignages de patient·e·s psychiatriques.
  • Implications méthodologiques de l’anonymisation des patient·e·s qui tend à les déshumaniser et propositions d’alternatives pour les replacer au centre de notre attention.
  • Place des femmes et des minorités sociales et raciales dans le champ de la psychiatrie.


Une projection de films et une discussion sur le thème « Filmer et projeter la folie » seront proposées aux participant.e.s et au public.

Format et délai : chaque proposition contient un titre, un descriptif de 300 mots et une biographie de 200 mots. Elle peut être rédigée en français ou en anglais et doit être adressée en format Word à l’adresse suivante : mireille.berton@unil.ch avant le 20 mai 2024. Une réponse concernant les propositions retenues sera envoyée au plus tard le 15 juin 2024.

Lieu : Université de Lausanne (plus de précisions à suivre).

Les frais de déplacement et de séjour sont pris en charge.

Ce colloque est organisé dans le cadre de la recherche financée par le FNS « Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour des collections Waldau, 1920-1990 » (2021-2025), Collaboration UNIL + Cinémathèque suisse.

Site : https://waldau.hypotheses.org/ Contact : mireille.berton@unil.ch

jeudi 16 mai 2024

Dialogues de Marburg sur les arts de guérison antiques

3rd Annual Meeting of the ‘Marburg Dialogues on Ancient Healing Arts’
 

Date: 5-6 July 2024
Location: Landgrafensaal of the Hessian State Archives, Marburg
Friedrichsplatz 15, 35037 Marburg (Lahn)


Friday 5 July 2024
13:15 Registration
13:45 Welcome and introduction Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Johannes Kistenich-Zerfaß (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg)


Session 1, Chair: Stefan Weninger
14:00-14:40 Cultural responses and coping with the negative influence of parasites in the
Roman Empire: a spatial approach
Sebastian Kheml (Masaryk-Universität)


14:40-15:20 Altered Perceptions: Influence of hallucinations on emotions, the body, and cognition
Krystal Marlier (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
 

15:20-16:00 Opium Poppy in Ancient Greek Botany Maximilian Haars (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
 

Coffee break
 

Session 2, Chairs: Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel


16:30-16:40 Was können Altertumswissenschaftler zum Unterricht der modernen anatomischen Terminologie für Mediziner und Pharmazeuten beitragen?
Lutz Alexander Graumann (UKGM Gießen)
 

16:40-18:00 Discussion with all participants


Break


18:30-20:00 Public Keynote
Das medizinische Vermächtnis der ‚toten‘ Sprache Akkadisch
Markham J. Geller (University College London)


ca. 20:15 Joint dinner (optional)


Saturday 6 July 2024
09:40 Welcome


Session 3, Chair: Rita Amedick


09:45-10:25 The role of veterinary medicine in Roman agricultural treatises: Remarks on
Palladius’ Opus agriculturae
Thorsten Fögen (Northeast Normal University, Durham University)


10:25-11:05 Difficult Diagnosis – religious, ethical and medical concepts of illness and
healing in rabbinic literature in their late antique context
Lennart Lehmhauss (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)


Coffee break


Session 4, Chairs: Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel


11:30-12:10 Ancient technologies as informants for Egyptian therapeutic recipes and their
administration
Jonny Russell (Philipps-Universität Marburg)


12:10:12:50 The Observation and Interpretation of Disordered Eating in MesopotamianMedicine
Adam Howe (Philipps-Universität Marburg)


12:50 Closing address


ca. 13:00 Joint lunch (optional)

L'efficacité dans la guérison moderne

Efficacy in Early Modern Healing

Call for papers


Conference


Organisers: Emma Spary, Philippa Carter, Dániel Margócsy

Date 13—14 September 2024


This symposium seeks to bring together scholars working on the many ways in which early modern people discussed, used, accepted or dismissed efficacy claims. The question of medical efficacy—of how and why cures worked—stands at the intersection between several fields of enquiry into early modern history. Recent literature has underscored the ways in which religious conflict problematised the spiritual and medicinal efficacy inherent in material objects such as devotional items. Historians of both early modern magic and religion have addressed the problem of efficacious action between the natural and the supernatural, but often from different perspectives. Within the history of the sciences, new models of both matter and spirit have been discussed by both supporters and critics of a ‘Scientific Revolution’ model. Within the histories of medicine, pharmacy and consumption, efficacy has often been invoked to explain how foods and drugs moved between cultures worldwide, while recent studies of the household have increased the number of ‘efficacious things’ among the growing number of possessions that probate inventories documented. Commitment throughout the early modern period to the presence of virtues in healing matter meant that many drugs operated on a sacred as well as material plane.

Various forms of social, epistemological and theological commitments and divides grew up around debates over efficacy. This symposium presents efficacy as a common theme linking all these domains, and raising similar questions in each case. How far did arguments for the healing efficacy of particular substances correlate with social status, faith, occupation or gender? How did such arguments change as new definitions of religious orthodoxy, new social geographies of spiritual power, or new scientific ontologies arose over the early modern period? Models of greater or lesser rationality, or of transhistorical properties inherent in matter, have often been historians’ default explanation for how these tricky questions over efficacy were settled. But such accounts prove unsustainable in cases like the amulet, an object of small size carried on the body to defend against poison and disease, which continued to be defended by Royal Society Fellow Robert Boyle as part of a corpuscular philosophy more usually associated with Scientific Revolution narratives. Judgements about efficacy invariably entailed claims about ontology, the distribution of natural and supernatural powers within the cosmos, the nature of disease, and the power of bodies to act at a distance. Scientific and medical investigation of efficacy had implications for theological debates over how the Eucharist worked, and the ways in which grace, charity and virtue spread through society. Early modern accounts of efficacy trafficked between natural and supernatural, sacred and profane, matter and spirit, and for this reason elude material-deterministic explanations.

The early modern period also marked transformations in what was considered to possess efficacy. Colours, gemstones, and human body parts commonly featured as ingredients in collections of efficacious cures as far back as antiquity, like the red thread to be used to bind a hoopoe’s legs. In medicine, magic and religion, the early modern period was a time of transformation in the power of words to act upon matter, exemplified in love magic’s frequent recourse to incantations and spells. Yet by the period’s end, words and even many formerly healing objects were beginning to shed their attributed power, in a change that is poorly explained by recourse to a ‘decline of magic’. A second transformation arose from shifts in global trade, which gave more people access to exotic materials. In the process, these substances transformed from powerful and prized secrets into quotidian consumables, changing along with the powers attributed to colonial spaces.

We invite proposals for papers engaging with the conference’s themes. Areas of interest include the history of medicine, theatre, religion, material culture, natural philosophy, collecting, courts, empires, households, environments, drugs, intoxicants and more.


Please submit a title, abstract of c.200-250 words and contact details to: efficacy2024@outlook.com


Deadline for paper proposals: 7 June 2024

mercredi 15 mai 2024

Fin de Sexe?

Fin de Sexe? A Symposium on Sexuality



A one-day symposium exploring how the concept of 'sex' was theorised at the turn of the 20th century.

Thursday, June 27 · 9am - 6pm GMT+1


50 George Square Lecture Theatre (G.03)University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures Edinburgh EH8 9LH United Kingdom



08:30 - 09:00
Registration


09:00 - 10:30
Panel 1 - Fin de Siècle Pornography
Claudio Monopoli (University of Padua, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and University of Verona); 'From Sickness to Pleasure: Representations of Sexuality between Sexology and Pornographic Photography in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Italy', Jo Brydon-Dickenson (Birkbeck, University of London); 'Pornography and Sexology in the Fashioning of Percy Grainger's Queer Identities', Lea Felicitas Döding; 'Reading Cruelty: Sadomasochism and Literary Culture in Fin de Siècle Germany'


11:00 - 12:00
Panel 2 - Studying Desire
Chair: Ash Jayamohan (University of Edinburgh), Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford); 'Lesbian Bed (Un)Death: Renée Vivien’s Poetic Necromances', Sheelalipi Sahana (University of Edinburgh); 'Queering the Girls’ School: Being “Crooked” in the 1920-30s'



12:00 - 13:00
Networking lunch


13:00 - 14:30
Panel 3 - Sexological Archive
Chair: Dr Michael Shaw (University of Stirling), Charlie Gough (University of Birmingham); 'George Ives, The Order of Chaeronea, and Homosexual Community at the Fin de Siècle', Domenico Di Rosa (University of Glasgow); 'Queer Pederasty in John Henry Mackay’s Sagitta’s Books of the Nameless Love', Dr Ryan Helterbrand (Ohio State University); 'Hands, Mouths, Bodies: Becoming Queer in France, 1925-1926'


14:45 - 15:45
Panel 4 - Constructing and Questioning
Chair: Claudia Sterbini (University of Edinburgh), Ciara Hervás (University of Cambridge); 'Unruly Forms: Magnus Hirschfeld’s Photographic Reimagination of Sexual Difference', Piers Haslam (University of Cambridge); '‘The Moods of an Epicene’: Bachelorhood and Trans Feelings in Edwardian England'


16:15 - 17:45
Keynote speaker - Professor Heike Bauer (Birkbeck, University of London)
'Animal Lovers'

mardi 14 mai 2024

La sexualité antique revisitée

Ancient Sexuality Revisited

Call for papers 

International Conference 

King’s College London

June 26-28th 2025

Organised by Jean-Christophe COURTIL (Toulouse/Institut Universitaire de France) and Martin DINTER (King’s College London) 

 

Great battles have been fought in the field of Ancient Sexuality in the past. While not all scores may have been settled, research has moved beyond some debates which have long dominated the field. “Ancient Sexuality Revisited” invites abstract of up to 300 words which reflect the recent shift in interest towards engagement with ancient law, ancient science and ancient medicine. We encourage readings which showcase how ancient sexuality permeates Greek and Roman literature and culture and highlight the ramifications of ancient law, science and medicine for the conceptualisation of ancient sexuality. The working language for these conferences will be English. - 

Invited speakers include: Sandra Boehringer (Strasbourg) Jean-Christophe Courtil (Toulouse/Institut Universitaire de France) Gabriel Alexandre Fernandes Da Silva (Lisbon) Antoine Pietrobelli (Besançon) - Confirmed respondents include: Anthony Corbeill (Virginia) Niall Slater (Emory) Rebecca Langlands (Exeter) Daniel Orrells (KCL) 

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to jean-christophe.courtil@univ-tlse2.fr and martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk by 1st September 2024. We will review the abstracts before 15th Sept. 2024. Presentations should last 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minutes discussion. The event will be co-hosted by KCL’s Classics Department, Centre of Medical Humanities, Centre of Late Antique Studies and Queer at King's and is generously supported by the Institut Universitaire de France. Accommodation will be provided for all speakers as well as contributions to travel costs for early career researchers. We intend to publish select papers.

Doctorats en médecine antique

Two PhD Fellowships on Ancient Medicine / Greco-Arabica (and digital humanities) 

Call for applications


I'd be grateful for your help in circulating the call for two fully funded PhD positions in Classics, with a focus on Ancient Medicine or Greco-Arabica at the Hebrew University, advertised in the context of the MSCA Doctoral Network "MECANO: Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Greco-Roman Antiquity" (https://mecano-dn.eu/) funded by the European Union.

MECANO brings together five universities and an array of academic and non-academic institutions interested in the topic of canonicity. MECANO's twofold goal is to develop a new model for the study of canonicity and to train ten PhD researchers to become versatile intellectuals ready to tackle the challenges of modern engagement with the topics of canonicity, diversity, and cultural heritage, including also the use of digital technologies.


Full information can be found online in the following links:

PhD 4: Pulse and Physiology in Hellenistic Science: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/190367

PhD-7: Syntax, formulaic structures, and canon-marking in Greek and Arabic: documentary texts and Galen

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/190887

The deadline for application is 20 June, 2024.



Eligibility: The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the MSCA mobility requirement: not having resided in Israel for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment.



Start of Fellowship: September 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter (for 3 years).
Flexibility in arrival date in Israel will be possible.
(Attendance of all PhD candidates is expected at the kickoff event in Leuven in mid-September 2024.)

For questions about these positions, please write to me at mecanojlm@mail.huji.ac.il


Both positions are at the department of Classics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is home to a multicultural and highly diverse community of students, researchers and staff, and international visitors in a wide range of fellowships and programmes, working and studying together.


I realise concerns may arise in light of the current situation in Israel and the Middle East. Prospective candidates are very welcome to contact me with any questions, and/or if they would like me to put them in touch with other international students currently at HUJI.

lundi 13 mai 2024

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship

2024-25 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship 

Call for applications

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2024, funded by a donation from the Wilkinson Charitable Trust. Only those applicants who meet all the eligibility criteria outlined below can be considered for this studentship.


The research training environment

Students, academics, and professionals come to LSHTM from all over the world because of its international presence, collaborative ethos, research excellence and prestigious study programmes in public and global health. Find out details of the School’s rankings and awards as well as current research in action.

The studentship will be based in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy (PHP) which is focussed on the improvement of health throughout the UK and worldwide. We do this through research, teaching and the provision of advice in the areas of health policy, health systems and services, and individual, social and environmental influences on health. Interests and activities embrace the health needs of people living in countries at all levels of development. We run a range of popular and highly respected MSc courses, short courses and CPD. We encompass the disciplines of epidemiology, public health medicine, economics, political science, international relations, anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, statistics and mathematics.

General information about the MPhil/PhD programme structure at LSHTM can be found on the Research Degrees and Doctoral College pages. Students will be mentored by supervisors at LSHTM, and can be guided by an Advisory Committee consisting of at least two other experienced researchers who may be external to LSHTM. Students are expected to take part in the academic life of their department and can also be members of Academic Centres. All research seminars and journal clubs are open to PhD students from across LSHTM. Students are able to take up to four Master’s level Study Modules per academic year, subject to approval from their supervisor. The PhD programme also facilitates national and international conference attendance by students.

Support for research students’ future career development is covered through the supervision process, through the Transferable Skills Programme (in the School and the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network) and the LSHTM’s Careers Service.

The successful applicant will have unprecedented opportunities to network and establish professional contacts through formal and informal interactions with members of staff at LSHTM and other students.


Doctoral research project

The Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship is available to applicants interested in pursuing a PhD project in the history of public health.

The research project will be supervised by one of the following Centre for History in Public Health (CHiPH) staff:Janet Weston
Martin Gorsky
Alex Mold

The exact focus of the project will be developed by the successful candidate in discussion with their proposed supervisor. Possible topics for historical research include, but are not limited to the areas listed below.Contact Janet Weston for projects in the history of:Health laws and ethics
Mental illness
HIV/AIDS
Healthcare in prisons
Contact Martin Gorsky for projects in the history of:Colonialism and schools of tropical medicine
Colonialism and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine
Health systems and policy, including the British NHS
Contact Alex Mold for projects in the history of:Health education/promotion
Health consumerism
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
Public health in post-war Britain


Financial support

The studentship award covers:tuition fees (at the LSHTM Home fee rate);
a tax-free stipend at the UKRI Studentship rate (2023-24 rate, with London weighting, is GBP 20,622.00); and
up to GBP 2,000.00 per annum research training support grant (RTSG) for relevant research study costs determined by the supervisory team (e.g. travel to archives, meetings and/or attendance at conferences and necessary equipment, training and fieldwork) for three years. 


Eligibility criteria

All applicants must meet minimum LSHTM entry requirements.

Applicants must hold undergraduate and Master’s degrees in history, or a cognate social science discipline, both awarded at a high grade. Applicants with a very strong undergraduate degree in these disciplines and relevant experience will be exceptionally considered.

This PhD Studentship award is only available to candidates who meet the eligibility requirements for the Home fee rate. Please see the LSHTM fee assessment policy in particular the ’criteria‘ section, for further details. Further information about fee status assessment can be found on the UKCISA website.

Please note that due to the high volume of enquiries we receive, we will not be able to respond to emails from applicants who do not meet these eligibility criteria.


How to apply

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact their proposed primary supervisor for an informal discussion before applying. The proposed primary supervisor must be one of the following:Janet Weston
Martin Gorsky
Alex Mold

To apply, submit a completed research degree application online using the LSHTM application portal by the scholarship deadline of 23:59 (BST) on Monday 3 June 2024

Applicants must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria before contacting their proposed primary supervisor. When contacting their proposed supervisor, applicants are encouraged to write a short paragraph about their experience and research interests, including ideas for the PhD and explaining how these match the proposed supervisor’s expertise, and to provide a short CV.

Proposed primary supervisors may be able to comment on one draft proposal, or offer other suggestions to strengthen the application: applicants are therefore encouraged to get in touch at an early stage.

Applicants must only contact one proposed supervisor.

Applicants must ensure all information and standard required documents outlined on the LSHTM ‘before you apply’ page is included/uploaded with the application, including:academic transcripts (official transcripts for all completed study; interim transcripts for any ongoing programmes of study);
a two-page Curriculum Vitae;
a research proposal (the research proposal should identify a specific research question or hypothesis, expanding on one of the topics listed on the website, summarise the relevant background information (with no more than five key references) and should outline an appropriate research methodology by which the question can be addressed); and
References.

In addition, applicants for this scholarship must upload the following documents:A personal statement outlining why you are interested in, and suited to, undertaking a PhD in this area at LSHTM; and
A writing sample (this may consist of your dissertation, an essay, a blog post or other piece of long-form writing and should be around 5,000-10,000 words long).

Applicants must indicate that they wish to apply for this funding by selecting ‘2024-25 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship’ from the drop down menu in the ‘Funding’ section of the admissions portal.

Incomplete applications will not be considered for this studentship. This includes any applications missing supporting/supplementary documents (eg transcripts or references) at the deadline. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete and therefore applications should be submitted as early as possible to give referees time to submit their references prior to the deadline.

By submitting an application for this funding applicants agree to its Terms & Conditions.

All applications for this studentship will be held by the PHP Research Degree Office, and will only be reviewed and processed after the deadline. All applications that are submitted before the deadline will be considered equally, regardless of submission date.

Applicants short-listed for funding will be invited for interview. Interviews will likely be held remotely (via Teams or Zoom).The successful applicant will be notified of the outcome by the week beginning Monday 1 July 2024.