Centre News
New Wellcome Trust Award for Centre Collaboration
Dr Catherine Cox, UCD School of History and Archives and Prof Hilary Marland, University of Warwick, have secured funding from the Wellcome Trust for a ground-breaking 3-year project on the relationship between Irish migrants, ethnicity and mental illness from c.1850 to 1921. The project builds on substantial Wellcome Trust funding for the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland and on existing expertise in the history of psychiatry. The award will boost research activity at the research Centres at UCD and Warwick and will intensify collaboration with national and international partner institutions..... (more)
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Call for Papers - History, Digestion and Society: New Perspectives. University College, Dublin (30 April - 1 May)
Diet and digestion, and associated topics, have been relatively neglected in histories of the body, health and medicine. We have a limited historical context in which to locate the diseases and ailments of the digestive system, such as dyspepsia or peptic ulcer disease, not to mention processes such as vomiting. Meanwhile, historical analysis of issues related to food and eating often reveals a tendency to stress the political elements of historical events at the expense of the biological and medical. Topics such as hunger strikes, and the rise of organised movements such as the Temperance movement and organised vegetarianism have complex medical and biological aspects which are worthy of serious analytical attention.... (more)
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History of Psychiatry Workshop - December 2009
The provisional details for the Psychiatry, Politics and Society in Twentieth Century Ireland and Britain one-day workshop are now online. Places for this workshop are limited so registration is essential.
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Artist Monica d Church on 'Along the Flyway'
The award-winning artist Monica d Church talks about her exhibition for the 2009 SSHM Postgraduate Conference.
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SSHM 2009 Postgraduate Conference Podcasts now online
Postgraduate students attending the SSHM Postgraduatein April 2009 took time out to offer an insight into their research. Listen to interviews here. Topics discussed include woolsorters' disease in Bradford, Quaker practice as psychiatric therapy, social history of HIV/AIDS in Japan, drinking disease in Germany, cholera in Canada, ADHD, the politics of polio in communist Hungary, and the tropical underwear survey.... (more)
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Annual Centre Seminar Series Details Announced
The details of the seminar series for semester 1 have been announced. The series begins on Thursday 1st October when Susan McGann (Royal College of Nursing) will present her paper “There are no millionaires in Ireland …”. The Politics of Irish Nursing, 1917-1925. 5 pm, K114 School of History and Archives, UCD.... (more)
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Call for Abstracts - International Perspectives on Nursing History
Abstracts are invited for paper and poster presentations on the five broad conference themes of 1 ‘profession, identity and ideology, 2 ‘systems of care and ways of working’, 3 ‘biography and place’, 4 ‘military history, power and conflict’, and 5 ‘technology and the patient’. The five themes are suggested as a guide for authors, and a more detailed list of possible topics within each theme is available on the conference website at www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference.
The Conference Scientific Committee welcomes abstract submissions from scholars studying history within a range of disciplines, including history, nursing history, medical history, women’s studies, education, and sociology.... (more)
