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The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Madagascar Workshop will be hosted by the Johns Hopkins Medicine, Science, and Humanities Major in conjunction with the Center for Medical Humanities &

Johns Hopkins archives and special collections will begin offering limited access to Johns Hopkins faculty and graduate students. Access options for Johns Hopkins undergraduates,

Dr. Heather Rosengard, a resident in Dermatology at Johns Hopkins, will be presenting a paper entitled “Scratching the Surface: An Examination of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins”

Title: Happy and Well-Adjusted: Measuring Gender in 1050s Pediatric Endocrinology
Who: Sandra Ender, University of California, Berkeley
What: Colloquia Presentation, 

Lukas Engelmann of the University of Edinburgh will present “Making a Data Science: The Reed-Frost Model and Epidemiologic Theory in the 1920s”

Title: Stabilizing Lymph: The Production and Distribution of Vaccine Lymph in Britian and Empire, 1871-1903
Who: Kristin Brig, Johns Hopkins University
What: Colloquia Presentation,

Title: Retraining the Sanitary Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Household Bacteriology
Who: Alex Parry, Johns Hopkins University
What: Colloquia Presentation,

Title: Traditional Birth Attendants and Medical Ethics in Historical Perspective
Who: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, University of Texas at Austin
What: Colloquia Presentation,

Marta will present material from a new chapter “Material Things and Technologies of the Body in the Golden Mirror, 1742”

The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health.

Dr. Stephen Casper of Clarkson University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium April 20, 2017

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Seminar Room,

Dr. Richard M. Mizelle of the University of Houston will present a paper on “Sugar Diabetes: Medical Entitlement and Civil Rights in America”

Dr. Rana Hogarth of the University of Illinois will speak at the HSMT Colloquium March 2 on “Professionalism, Pragmatism, and the Pretense of Humanitarianism: Charleston’s Early Slave Hospitals”

Phoebe Tang of Johns Hopkins University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium April 27

3:00-4:30 p.m.

300 Gilman Hall,

Jonathan Phillips of Johns Hopkins University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium May 4

3:00-4:30 p.m.

300 Gilman Hall,

Dr. Jennifer Tappan of Portland State University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium March 16 on “Primates, Wandering Epizootics, and Zones of Emergence: The Complex Ecology of Yellow Fever in Africa and the Making of An(Other) African Disease”

Dr. David Luesink of the University of Pittsburgh will speak at the HSMT Colloquium April 25, 2017

Noon-1:30 p.m.

Dr. Bridget Gurtler of Johns Hopkins University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium April 6

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Seminar Room,

Dr. Ahmed Ragab of Harvard University will speak at the HSMT Colloquium Feb. 16

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Seminar Room,

Dora Vargha, Birkbeck, University of London

“Out of the World Health Organization: Socialist International Health in the 1950s”

12:30 p.m.

Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University

“Mens sana in corpore sano? Concepts of Health, Ancient and Modern”

Marian Moser Jones, University of Maryland, College Park

Dispatches from the Second Battlefield: Four Hopkins Nurses Tell Their World War I Stories

4:30-7:00 p.m.,

William D. Johnston, Wesleyan University

“Cholera Control and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Japan”

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.,

Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Geography at the Frontiers of Science: Geopolitics in Twentieth-Century China”

3:00 p.m.

Samuel Scharff, Johns Hopkins University

Looking Through the Mask of Sanity: Psychopathy and Forensic Cultures in the United States,

Robin Scheffler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research and Cold War Planning at the Special Virus Leukemia Program

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Paul R. Josephson, Colby College

“Nature Transformation in Russia, 1900 – Present: From Tsarist Roots to the Megaprojects of the Putin Era”

Olivia Weisser, University of Massachusetts Boston

Treating the Secret Disease: Sex, Sin and Authority in 18th-Century Venereal Cases

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Nancy Anderson, Johns Hopkins University

“Rational Colors: Bioluminescence Studies and the Success of GFP as a Molecular Marker”

3:00 p.m.

Leah DeVun, Rutgers University

“Hermaphrodites and the Medieval Science of Sex”

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Seminar Room,

Keith A. Wailoo, Princeton University

How Cool Got In: Smoker Psychology and the “Therapeutics” of Menthol in the Early Years

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt University

What Is a Month of Life Worth?: Assessing the Impact of ACA Rejection on White Men in Tennessee

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Joanna Behrman, Johns Hopkins University

“Education and Professional Identity: American Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century”

3:00 p.m.

Jennifer Rampling, Princeton University

“The Missing Stanzas: Looking for Alchemical Expertise in Pre-Reformation England”

3:00 p.m. –

Jean-Paul Gaudillière, CERMES 3, Paris

“From International to Global: Tuberculosis and the Postwar Government of Health”

3:00 –

Heidi Morefield, Johns Hopkins University

“Technology for Health: Rethinking the Role of Medical Commodities and the Economics of Development at USAID,

Christian Pross, Behandlungszentrum für Folteropfer, Berlin

Revolution and Madness: The Case of a Radical Anti-Psychiatric Group in West Germany in the 1970s

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Ayah Nuriddin, Johns Hopkins University

” ‘Something Needed to be Done for the Black Patients’: Integrating the Crownsville State Hospital,

“The Great Influenza” of 1918-20: A Plague of Compassion

Samuel Cohn, University of Glasgow

Seminar Room,

In the Institute Seminar Room on March 31, 12:30-1:30 pm, Prof Mary Fissell will talk about “Teaching Online, the Toolbox approach”

Join us in the Institute Seminar Room at 12.30-1.30pm on Tuesday March 10 for a brown bag lunch with our very own grad student Seth LeJacq,

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Johns Hopkins University Press present Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (JHU Press,

Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, ‘Anaphylactic Reactions: How Peanuts Put the Food Back into Allergy’, Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch,

Fighting over Infrastructure: Paris’s Fragile Urban Modernity, 1870-1914

Peter Soppelsa, University of Oklahoma

2.00-3.30pm

Room 300,

Matt Stanley, New York University, ‘Asteroid Apocalypse: Astronomers and the Vicissitudes of Prediction’

‘Safe Driving Depends on the Man at the Wheel’: Psychology, Standardization, and Auto Regulation, 1920-1955

Lee Vinsel, 

HSMT colloquium with Jimena Canales (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana), ‘The Media of Relativity: Theoretical Physics and the Telecommunications Industry’, Room 300,

Inventive Institutions: Invention and the Early History of the Jet Engine

Hermione Giffard, Utrecht University

3:00-4.30pm

Room 300,

Emily Margolis, The Johns Hopkins University, ‘Eyewitness to Space: Spaces, Witnesses, and Uses of NASA’s Traveling Art Show, 1966-1970’, Room 300,

Emilie Raymer, The Johns Hopkins University, ‘Heredity, the Environment, and Human Progress: Neo-Darwinism and the American Social Sciences’, Room 300, Gilman Hall,

Exploitation of German Science and the Challenges of Technology Transfer in the Postwar World

Douglas O’Reagan,

Very Muddy Waters: Observation and Authority in Renaissance Debates on the Generation of Mice and Bugs

Daryn Lehoux, 

Aeolipile as Experimental Model in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Craig Martin, Oakland University

3.00-4.30pm

Room 300,

Long Live Play: The PlayStation Network and Technogenic Life

Colin Milburn, University of California,

Wendy Kline (Purdue University), ‘Coming Home: Medicine, Midwives, and the Transformation of Birth in Late-Twentieth-Century America’, 3pm, Seminar Room,

Visualizing the Third Plague Pandemic in East Asia, 1870s-1920s

Marta Hanson, The Johns Hopkins University

3.00-4.30pm,

From a Collection of Rare Diseases to Large-Scale Screening: The Emergence of Genetic Counseling in Sweden 1950-1980

Maria Björkman,

“Ear Spectacles” for the Deaf: Making and Marketing Artificial Eardrums, 1850-1920

Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi, University of Toronto 

3.00-4.30pm

Seminar Room,

David Jones, Harvard University, ‘Surgical Nationalism: Making the Case for Cardiac Surgery in Postcolonial India, 1943-1968’, Seminar Room,

Bish: The Social Life of Poisons in Nineteenth-Century India

David Arnold, University of Warwick 

3.00-4.30pm

Seminar Room,

HSMT colloquium at 3pm with Benjamin Zajicek (Towson University), ‘The Reception of Emil Kraepelin’s Dementia Praecox Concept in Russia, 1899-1914’, Seminar Room,

Suman Seth, Cornell University

Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the 18th Century British Empire

3:00-4:30pm,

Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Hidden Dangers: Munitions Factories, Health, and the Environment in Wartime Britain

3:00-4:30pm, 

Jimena Canales, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Media of Relativity: Theoretical Physics and the Telecommunications Industry

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Howard Kushner, Emory University

Curing Left-Handers or Creating Stutterers? The Controversy over the (re)Education of Left-Handers in 20th-Century America

3:00-4:30pm,

He Bian, Princeton University

Masters of the Medicine Chamber: Pharmaceutical Expertise in Early Modern China

3:00-4:30pm,

Harun Kücük, University of Pennsylvania

Petros Baronyan’s Qibla Compass (1738): A Brief History of Magnetism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Harold Cook, Brown University

Descartes’ Early Medical Interests: Some Conjectures

3:00-4:30 p.m., Seminar Room,

Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Victoria University of Wellington

Controversies over Comets: Isaac Newton, Nicolas Hartsoeker, and Early Modern World-Making [No paper]

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Anne Helene Kveim Lie, University of Oslo

Naming and Mapping Diseases: Centers and Peripheries in the New Classification Practices in 18th Century Europe

3:00-4:30 p.m.,

Andrew Simpson, Duquesne University

“New Definitions of Civic Health: Great Society Medicine in Pittsburgh and Houston”

3:00 p.m.

Alex Wellerstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

“The Possibility of Much Bigger Bangs”: US Official Interest in “Very High Yield” Nuclear Weapons,

Etienne Benson, University of Pennsylvania, The Environmental Self

3pm, Room 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus.

Doctoring Tradition: Pocket Watches and the Refiguration of Ayurvedic Therapeutics, c. 1860-1930

Projit Bihari Mukharji, 

 
Reasoning with Cases: The Transmission of Clinical Medical Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Song China

Asaf Goldschmidt,

Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
October 3-4,

“Shall do no harm to the health of the Muslims”: Healers and the State in Early Modern Ottoman Society

Nükhet Varlik,

Mutant Sexuality

Luis Campos, University of New Mexico

3.00-4.00pm

Seminar Room,

Visualization of the Third Plague Epidemic in China

Christos Lynteris, University of Cambridge 

3.00-4.30pm

Seminar Room,

The 2014 Graphic Medicine conference will take place on the Johns Hopkins medical campus in Baltimore 26-28 June, 2014. The theme of the conference is “Comics and Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health”

Due to forecasts of a snow/sleet storm this colloquium has been cancelled. A new date will be announced when it is re-scheduled.

“Revolution @ Home: Distributed Computing and the Public’s New Role in Science”

Joseph November (University of South Carolina)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Science & 

“Sound and Fury: Projecting Change in the American Film Industry, 1926-1933” [No pre-circulated paper]

Emily Thompson (Princeton University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Science & 

“State Secrets for the Public Sphere: The Practice of Geography and the Circulation of Political Information in Enlightenment Europe”

Barbara Naddeo (The City College of New York,

“Science, Technology, and the Postcolonial Condition: Producing the Indian Space Program, 1960-70”

Asif Saddiqi (Fordham University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Science & 

“Heredity and the Study of Human Populations after 1945”

Soraya De Chadarevan (University of California, Los Angeles)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room,

“‘Wedded Too Much to Antiquity’: John Fryer, Travel Literature, and the Seventeenth-Century Critique of Indian Medicine”

Jeffrey Tucker (Johns Hopkins University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room

3rd Floor Welch Medical Library

East Baltimore Campus

“Stone Gorge Lee: An Unorthodox Healer Connecting the Heart/Mind with the Cosmos in Colonial Period Korea”

James Flowers (Johns Hopkins University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room

3rd Floor Welch Medical Library

East Baltimore Campus

“Bridey Murphy and the New Age of the Mind”, Alison Winter (University of Chicago)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room

3rd Floor Welch Medical Library, 

“To Cure a Thief: Testing Poison Antidotes in Early Modern Europe”

Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room

3rd Floor Welch Medical Library

East Baltimore Campus

“Filing Hyperactivity: The Ditto Machine and the Hyperkinetic Syndrome”

Volker Hess (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

12.30-1.30pm

Department of the History of Medicine Seminar Room

3rd Floor Welch Medical Library

East Baltimore Campus

Naming and Identity: ‘Local Botanicals’ in the Korean Tradition of Medicine

Suyoung Suh, Dartmouth University

12.30-1.30pm

Seminar Room,

The Lobster and the Mother-in-Law: Making Knowledge in 17th Century London

Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University

12.30-1.30pm

Seminar Room,

Colloquium at 3pm with Barbara J. Becker
Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center, Homewood campus, sponsored jointly with the Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium at 3pm with Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
300 Gilman Hall, Department of the History of Science and Technology,

The history of the surgical location of cerebral function and the shifting relation of brain and mind History of Medicine Grand Rounds in the Department of Neurosurgery at 7am with Katja Guenther,

A Medical Humanities Symposium at 2-5pm, reception to follow 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood campus

Colloquium at 3pm with Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
300 Gilman Hall, Department of the History of Science and Technology,

The second of our Spring 2014 Research Ethics Seminars will be led by Randall Packard, 

The second of our Spring 2014 Research Ethics Seminars will be led by Randall Packard, 

Colloquium at 3pm with Fred Gibbs, University of New Mexico Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room,

Colloquium at 3pm with Joanna Radin, Yale University Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor,

History of Medicine Grand Rounds in the Department of Pathology at 8.30am with Jeremy Greene, Institute of the History of Medicine,

Colloquium at 3pm with Joseph Gabriel, Florida State University, College of Medicine Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room,

Wilder Penfield’s Stimulation Reports and the Discovery of ‘Mind’
Colloquium at 3pm with Katja Guenther, Princeton University Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room,

Graduate Program Holiday Party at 4pm
Institute of the History of Medicine, 3rd floor, Welch Library, 1900 East Monument St,

Colloquium at 3pm with Mari K. Webel, Emory University Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor,

Colloquium at 3pm with Benjamin Gross, Chemical Heritage Foundation 300 Gilman Hall, Department of the History of Science and Technology,

Colloquium at 3pm with Heidi Voskhul, University of Pennsylvania
300 Gilman Hall, Department of the History of Science and Technology,

History of Medicine Grand Rounds at 12pm with Deborah Levine, Providence College, Welch Center for Prevention,

“Learning from Disaster: The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research”

Scott Knowles (Drexel University)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Science & 

“The Kennedy Administration and the Satellite Communications Act of 1962”

Hugh Slotten (University of Otago, New Zealand)

3.00-4.30pm

Department of the History of Science &

Colloquium at 3pm with Deborah Levine, Providence College, Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor,