Colloquia Ceranea VIII

Colloquia Ceranea VIII

Call for papers

in a hybrid format at the University of Łódź, Poland, from 7 to 9 May 2026.

Our aim is, among other things, to explore the history of medicine in Late Antiquity and Byzantium in the broadest possible context, with a special focus on how ancient and Byzantine dietetics and materia medica can contribute to contemporary science.

The plenary speakers will be:

Dr Effie Photos-Jones (University of Glasgow)

Dr Chryssa Bourbou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania, Hellenic Ministry of Culture)

While individual paper submissions are welcome, we particularly encourage proposals for thematic panels that bring together multiple contributions around a shared research question or debate. In addition, participants are invited to take part in the following round tables:

• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Diet: Application of Past Results to the Present
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Pharmacotherapeutics: Application of Past Results to the Present
• Environmental Lessons from the Past for Modern Food Production and Wellbeing
• AI for Unlocking Byzantine Medical Manuscripts

The submission deadline is 28 February 2026.

You will find all details concerning the event on the Ceraneum Centre’s website:

Colloquia Ceranea

To give you an idea of the conference, we are also sharing a link to a playlist on the Ceraneum Centre’s YouTube channel, where video recordings from Colloquia Ceranea 2025 are currently being published:

Colloquia Ceranea VII_playlist

This week we shared the plenary lecture by Dr Manuela Marai, entitled Pharmaceuticals from the Mineral and Animal Kingdoms: Considerations on Ancient and Modern Uses. In the coming days, we will be publishing conference panels devoted to various aspects of the history of medicine.

Organisation institutionnelle et pratiques de recherche dans l'histoire des sciences humaines

What we do in the archives. Institutional organization and research practices in the History of Human Sciences

Call for abstracts

45th ESHHS Conference

DEADLINE MARCH 1st, 2026


The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) invites submissions to its 45th conference to be held from June 30th to July 3rd, 2026. The conference will be hosted by Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, and will be held in person only.

We invite proposals for oral presentations, posters, symposia or workshops that deal with any aspect of the history of the human, behavioural and social sciences or with related historiographic or methodological issues. This year’s conference particularly encourages submissions related to the theme of archival work and uses (see below). Naturally, all other topics are welcome as well.


Guidelines for submission

Any submission should include the following: name, email and institutional affiliation of all authors. Please indicate clearly on the top of the page the submission type: oral presentation, poster, session or workshop.

• Proposals for individual oral presentations should contain a 500-600 word abstract in English plus a short bibliography. Accepted presentations will be grouped by theme in 90 minutes sessions.

• Proposals for posters should contain a 300-word abstract in English and a short bibliography.

• Proposals for workshops or round tables should contain a 500–600-word rationale of the event, plus a short bibliography, as well as a short abstract for each individual contribution to the event. These formats will be held in 90 minutes sessions.


Presentations can be given in a language other than English, yet, to reach the widest audience possible, consider providing reading or visual materials in English as well. If the presentation(s) will not be in English, please indicate this in your proposal. Please send your proposal as an attachment in MSWord (.doc/.docx) to eshhs2026@gmail.com


Deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2026.


Travel stipends

A limited number of travel stipends will be available for students, or scholars who otherwise might require economic support. Only those presenting a paper (including in an organized session) or poster are eligible. If you wish to apply for a travel stipend, please indicate this clearly in your submission email.


Meeting Theme: What we do in the archives. Institutional organization and research practices in the History of Human Sciences.

Archives are undoubtedly central in any historical research, as they constitute the evidence with which reconstructions and interpretations are made. As such, discussions about the notion of “the archive” and the examination of sources have been constant in the discipline of History. These discussions have been typically renewed by successive historiographical outlooks, the release or finding of new documents or collections, or conceptual debates such as what can be considered as a source or the uses of memory in the public space (i.e. Osborne, 1999; Brockmeier, 2010). Moreover, the issue of the archive has exceeded the realm of the discipline of History into other humanities (i.e. Derrida,1996; Eichhorn, 2013). There is a profuse literature about this (i.e. Foucault, 1972; Caimari, 2017) and it will remain as a constant topic of reflexion inasmuch as historical studies seek for renovation.


Despite this, there are some aspects about this subject that have been less considered overall, especially when the history of the human sciences is being researched within the epistemic and training boundaries of a particular discipline. The focus of this year’s theme is not so much about the “the archive” as a conceptual synthesis of the range of documentation considered for a specific research, nor the proposition of a new “archival turn”, but about the concrete archives, as institutions which gather and classify many types of documents for several purposes, and the actual uses researchers make of them. The aim is to thematize what relation historians have with the institutional archives, how much we know about their organization and in which way we participate of that, which materials we use to train new researchers, how archives change with new technology and how that impacts historical research, or what kind of documents we consider and interpret depending on the available resources of said archives. In sum, how familiar we are with the functioning of existing archival institutions and what interactions we have with their authorities and staff.


With this in mind, the theme of this meeting tries to promote reflection on questions such as: How the organization of archives determine the results of research? How historians mediate between archives and lay people? How do historians get to know where sources are? In which ways archivists and historians can build a productive exchange? Which are the current archival policies towards documentation preservation, access and exchange? How to tackle the pressing issue of digital sources of the XXI Century? Which are the structural and contingent limitations of archives? How archives should be organized and used so as to mitigate or avoid localisms, ethnocentrisms or dogmatisms? Surely, the participants of the event can come up with many other inquiries or approaches to this topic, whether directed towards these specific points, or as an added reflection in their specific research. 


References

- Brockmeier, J. (2010) After the Archive: Remapping Memory. Culture & Psychology, 16(1), 5-35

- Caimari, L. (2017). La vida en el archivo. Goces, tedios y desvaríos en el oficio de la historia. Siglo XXI.

- Derrida,J. (1995). Mal d’archive. Galilée.

- Eichhorn, K. (2013). The archival turn in feminism: outrage in order. Temple University Press.

- Foucault, M. (1969). L’Archéologie du savoir. Gallimard.

- Osborne, T. (1999). The ordinariness of the archive. History of the Human Sciences, 12(2), 51-64.


Luciano Nicolás García, on behalf of the Organization Team. 

Médecine Napoléonienne

Journée Médecine Napoléonienne

18 FÉVRIER 2026
 

Présidée par HUBERT JOHANET
organisée par XAVIER RIAUD
 

15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine 75006 Paris
Académie Nationale de chirurgie
 

Programme
9h - Accueil : Hubert Johanet - Président Académie Nationale de Chirurgie
Introduction : Son Altesse Prince Joachim Murat.

Chirurgie militaire sous l'Empire
Modérateur : Jean Noël Fabiani-Salmon 

9h15 - Dominique Le Nen (Brest) : Soins et évacuation des blessés militaires sur les champs de bataille : apport des « würst », ambulances hippomobiles de Pierre-François Percy (1754-1825). 

9h40 - Claude Savornin (Paris) : Dominique Larrey, chirurgien de la Grande Armée. 

10h05 - Frédéric Dubrana (Brest) : Réflexions sur la place des mousses et la naissance des vaisseaux-hôpitaux dans la marine napoléonienne. 

10h30 - Frank Duteille (Nantes) : Est-ce que les chirurgiens auraient pu sauver le maréchal Lannes ?

Médecine sur le champ de bataille
Modérateur : Guillaume Pourcher

10h55 - Pierre Devallet (Montauban) : Sir Charles Bell, un chirurgien et artiste
anglais au service des blessés français à Waterloo.

11h20 - Philippe Liverneaux (Strasbourg) : La résection du poignet vue par Clémot, chirurgien de la marine sous le Premier Empire.

11h45 - Patrice Gayet (Besançon) : Amputations sur le champ de bataille.

12h10 - Hubert Johanet (Paris) : Le Typhus : maladie générique des guerres napoléoniennes.
 

Napoléon et la médecine française
Modérateur : Philippe Marre

14h30 - Xavier Riaud (Nantes) : Les grandes réformes médicales sous l'Empire.

14h55 - Patrick Carlioz (Lyon): Napoléon Bonaparte créateur du concours de l’Internat des Hôpitaux.

15h20 - Albert Claude Benhamou (Paris) : Les chirurgiens Légionnaires d’honneur de Napoléon Ier.
 

Sommités médicales
Modérateur : Xavier Riaud

15h45 - Michel Germain (Paris) : "Je ne crois pas en la médecine, je crois en Corvisart".

16h10 - Jean Noël Fabiani-Salmon (Paris) : Antoine Fourcroy, un réformateur au service des pouvoirs.

16h35 - Benoit Lengelé (Louvain) : François-Xavier Bichat, son école et ses élèves : Les anatomistes éponymes du Consulat et de l’Empire.

17h - Yves Catonné (Paris) : Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777-1832) : pionnier de l’orthopédie, inventeur de l’orthomorphie à l’École de médecine de Montpellier.
 

Conclusion : Hubert Johanet - Président de l'ANC

Médecine, sciences et savoir dans les traditions bibliques et talmudiques

Medicine, Sciences and Knowledge in Biblical and Talmudic Traditions (and beyond)



Call for Papers 

EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 


Chairs: Mark Geller (London) & Lennart Lehmhaus (Tübingen)

For our annual focus area “Popularization of Knowledge”, we invite scholars to comparatively explore the diffusion of medicine, sciences and other (scientific) knowledge (including magic, divination, dream interpretation etc.) beyond the confines of technical texts or groups of experts, with a specific focus on its applicability and socio-cultural utility in Jewish (also in Judeo-Arabic, Ladino or Yiddish), (early) Christian (in Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Latin etc.) and Islamic(ate) (con)texts as well as in ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and other cultures (Syriac, Persian, Mandean, South-Asian, East-Asian etc.)

Scholars may address – with a focus on a single text/tradition or a comparative approach, synchronic and/or diachronic – the diffusion of (expert) knowledge into the non-technical discourse (e.g. literature, epistles, political, religious or legal writings) of other learned circles (political, or other elites), religious traditions (e.g. rabbinic texts; the Persian Denkard/Bundahisn; early Christian authors, Islamic texts, Vedic traditions etc.) as well as into wider areas of society. Such a ‘popularization’ of expert knowledge might include the appropriation of concepts about the body, the world/nature and the cosmos/creation or practices (e.g. healing; ritual action, examinations, incantations, divination).

How was this spill-over related to a greater availability of and interest in (magical, medical, astrological) handbooks and compendia (mechanics, warfare, agriculture, architecture etc.) or general encyclopaedias (Pliny, Isidore of Sevilla, Chinese leishu; or collections in Arabic, Persian, Syriac etc.)? What was the (practical, didactic and sociopolitical) role(s) of the experts/practitioners and their clients/patients or of the recipients and users of ‘popular’ texts like handbooks, recipes, calendars etc.? How did ‘lay expertise’, peer-to-peer transfers, non-textual transmission and material aspects took place (as competing with or complementing?) and affected the knowledge or practice(s) conveyed?

Alongside the thematic focus, we have an open call for contributions (from different traditions) engaging more generally with health/medicine, sciences and other knowledge/practices that fall into the general scope of our unit as outlined in our group description (also a longer CFP on the focus theme, info regarding travel grants etc.).

https://eabs.my.site.com/s/research-units?language=en_US&tabset-635f1=2

While the formal application should be done through the online system of EABS, please feel free to reach out to the unit chairs with your ideas and your proposals or contact us in case you have any questions related to this call or to the research unit in general.

Contact Information 
lennart.lehmhaus@uni-tuebingen.de

m.geller@ucl.ac.uk



Contact Email 
lennart.lehmhaus@uni-tuebingen.de

Au-delà de la thalidomide

Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change

Call for applications



Link to Postdoc Positions:

https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5089/

https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5091/



Link to PhD (predoctoral) Position

https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5090/


Beyond Thalidomide (2024-2029), funded by an ERC Starting Grant pioneers a history of the global rise of patient engagement with drug-related disability in the second half of the twentieth century to understand how newly empowered agents transformed conceptions of (reproductive) health and disease in science and society. It develops a framework to examine the origins, development, and consequences of patient engagement with antenatal drug use, iatrogenic disability, and reproductive health from the 1960s until today.

The project maps the conditions of patient engagement with antenatal drug use and reconstructs how patient action created political and scientific urgency starting in 1960. Their multifaceted activities resulted in clashes between different forms of knowledge and expertise that connected actors in the “global South” and “North”—from Latin America through Central Africa, India, and Europe—in the enforcement, implementation, and stabilization of reproductive health approaches that addressed the emerging challenges to democracy and civil society, beyond traditional accounts of expert-led iatrogenic risk management.


Job description:
Postdoctoral and Predoctoral research within the ERC Starting Grant " Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change "
Original archival research with a thematic focus on either:
patient engagement with programs to prevent drug-related disability in health care systems in Western welfare states, in state socialist countries, or in postcolonial, newly independent countries to reconstruct patient impacts on the flow and negotiation of medical and public health models
patients’ roles in the “entanglement” of Western drug development and postcolonial global pharmaceutical markets, including the histories patient campaigns contesting both pharmaceutical companies’ strategies for developing, testing, and marketing their drugs as well as uses of the respective products in postcolonial countries and beyond; with the aim to integrate industrial production into our understanding of patient impact on contestations on global markets
legal action led by patients or patient campaigns as a practice and pivotal intervention into scientific and political debates to understand how the courts acted as sites of knowledge-making
To examine transformations in (reproductive) health by interrogating how patients act, organize, activate, and appropriate resources on “markets”, produce knowledge and expertise, and engage and communicate—distinct from authoritative scientific and political-regulatory counterparts
To contribute to a more active and inclusive as opposed to proactive and paternalistic approach to global health policy making as well as in historical research ethics, recognizing the challenges of iatrogenic risks and disability and the potential of participatory approaches and ethics in research collaboration for democratic governance and civil society
To contribute to project aims such as academic event organization, public dissemination of research results, publications


Requirements:
Doctoral degree (PhD) in History or related fields (for Postdocs); Masters degree (MA) in History or related fields (for Predoc)
experience in archival research
working language skills in two or more languages

For Postdoctoral Researchers:
experience in archival research in various geographic locations
peer-reviewed publications (or submitted/accepted manuscripts)
interest in interdisciplinary research with public health, medical anthropology and sociology
ability to work independently and collaboratively in research teams
excellent English communication skills


Application

Please apply through the online portal (including covering letter, research proposal, full CV, relevant certificates, writing sample):

For the Postdoc positions:
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5089/

https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5091/


For the PhD (predoctoral) position
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5090/


You can find more information about the ERC project here:
https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/nemec-birgit/



For further information or questions, please contact Prof. Birgit Nemec, birgit.nemec@univie.ac.at.


The University of Vienna is seeking to increase diversity and invites diverse personalities. Please do let us know if you believe your profile will increase diversity or if you consider yourself part of a marginalised group. It is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically encouraged to apply. Please visit the application portal, which gives you access to the legally binding German version.

Les beaux cas de dermatologie de l'hôpital Saint-Louis

Soigner l'image - Destin des beaux cas de dermatologie de l'hôpital Saint-Louis (1801-1979)


Sophie Delpeux

 

PUF
Nombre de pages : 176
Date de publication : 2025/04/16
ISBN : 9782130872764


Soigner l'image . Au XIXième siècle, les malades de la peau convergent en nombre à l'hôpital Saint-Louis, devenu en quelques décennies le centre incontesté de la dermatologie. Cette jeune discipline doit son essor au charismatique Dr Alibert qui, pour imposer les vues de son école et les diffuser, publie des atlas luxueusement illustrés - plaçant ainsi l'image de malades pauvres au coeur d'un processus de reconnaissance et d'institutionnalisation. Le Musée des moulages qu'abrite toujours cet hôpital conserve plusieurs milliers de cires qui témoignent de cette intense fabrique de représentations. En nous conviant à une visite aussi immersive que critique du lieu, Sophie Delpeux propose une réflexion sur la dimension politique et les conséquences visuelles et humaines de la constitution d'une telle iconographie. En révélant l'empreinte que les médecins ont voulu laisser en commanditant celles de leurs malades, Soigner l'image saisit la lumière autant que l'ombre de ce patrimoine et ouvre au présent des questions liées à l'éthique du soin et à celle de la représentation.

La fabuleuse histoire de la cardiologie

La fabuleuse histoire de la cardiologie. 3000 ans de découvertes 

Martine Maarek

L'Harmattan
2026 

Le cœur, organe fascinant par le symbole de vie qu’il représente, mais aussi organe complexe dont l’étude a nécessité des siècles de recherches, de tâtonnements, voire de reculs. Son anatomie, son fonctionnement, ses maladies sont restés bien mystérieux avant d’être décryptés.
De la simple palpation du pouls à l’invention du stent, l’histoire de la cardiologie a parcouru trois millénaires, autant d’années de découvertes et d’inventions souvent géniales qui ont radicalement transformé l’espérance de vie des êtres humains. Des centaines de scientifiques talentueux, évoqués et mis à l’honneur dans cet ouvrage, ont jalonné cette véritable épopée.
Cet ouvrage se propose de raconter la fabuleuse histoire de cette spécialité en perpétuelle progression. Courtes biographies, anecdotes savoureuses, nombreux schémas et illustrations l’émaillent afin d’intéresser tous les lecteurs que passionnera la découverte de cette aventure médicale.

L’OCDE et la quantification internationale du « trou de la Sécu »

Le prix de la santé. L’OCDE et la quantification internationale du « trou de la Sécu » (1972 - 2019)
 

Constantin Brissaud

 

Éditions du Croquant 

2026 

 

 

La santé, entend-on souvent, n'a pas de prix, mais elle aurait un coût.

Ce livre analyse la diffusion planétaire d'une manière de le calculer inventée à l'OCDE, au début des années 1970. Essentiellement budgétaire, cette vision des systèmes de santé est devenue hégémonique, justifiant réforme après réforme dans les pays occidentaux. Les chiffres seuls ne suffisent pas. Des administrations puissantes -- les États-Unis de Reagan, le Japon ou l'Australie -- ont donc soutenu les mises en chiffres de l'OCDE contre toute alternative, défendant ainsi des politiques de santé austéritaires tout en favorisant leurs industries pharmaceutiques nationales.

Nourrie d'entretiens, d'archives et d'observation de réunions internationales, la critique scientifique révèle les mécanismes sociaux qui ont donné aux chiffres de l'OCDE leur valeur d'évidence, et aux comparaisons internationales les atours de la vérité. Elle éclaire finalement la conversion à l'économie d'un secteur vital de l'action publique