Programme 2024-2025 SSoM

McGill Social Studies of Medicine Upcoming Seminars & Events

Seminars will take place live and in person on Wednesdays,
2:30PM – 4:00PM
Room 101, 3647 Peel Street
 

Seminars and Events - Fall 2024



Department Seminar 

September 11, 2024

Theresa Ventura, (Concordia University)

When Breast Isn't Best: Infant Mortality and the Undoing of Tropical Medicine in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1945




Department Seminar 

October 9, 2024

Simplice Ayangma Bonoho (Université de Montréal)

The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)





Osler Lecture 

November 6, 2024

Roger Kneebone (Imperial College London)

Medicine - the art of the expert performer

What clinicians can learn from the performing arts



Themed Roundtable 

November 27, 2024

Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum: Problematic Pasts, Challenging Futures

With Dominic Hall (Harvard, Warren Anatomical Museum), Catherine Turgeon (McGill, Redpath Museum), Annie Lussier (McGill, Redpath Museum), Richard Fraser (McGill, Maude Abbott Medical Museum), and Hugo Rueda (McGill, Social Studies of Medicine).




Seminars and Events - Winter 2025



Department Seminar 

January 22, 2025

Stacey Langwick (Cornell)





Margaret Lock Seminar 

February 5, 2025

Anthony Stavrianakis (CNRS)

"What’s therapeutic about a “club thérapeutique”? On the functions and effects of a particular form of institutional psychotherapy"




Recent Scholarship Roundtable 

February 6, 2025

Anthony Stavrianakis (CNRS), to discuss Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS​ (Cornell University Press, 2024)




The Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine 

March 12, 2025

Monica Green (Independent Scholar)




Themed Roundtable 

April 2, 2025

Place and Psyche

With Elena Vogman (Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar), Coline Fournout (McGill, Anthropology), Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Cornell University), Ramzi Nimr (McGill, Anthropology), and Todd Meyers (Moderator: McGill, Social Studies of Medicine)



Recent Scholarship Roundtable 

April 23, 2025

Nancy Rose Hunt, to discuss Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness​, Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, editors (Duke University Press, 2024).




Book Launch 

May 14, 2025

Todd Meyers, Gone Gone (Duke University Press, 2025).