Past Events

April 9, 2024
12:00pm – 5:00pm

Find the Midwife Project Launch

Join us as we use documentary film to connect midwifery's past and today's maternal health crisis. You are invited to join us for project launch events on Tuesday, April 9th across two Baltimore campuses. 12pm - Homewood Campus - Clipper Room, Shriver Hall 3pm - East Baltimore Campus - Room N431, School of Nursing, with reception to follow. The events will be offered in a limited hybrid format via zoom webinar - Click here to join the events! No registration is necessary, just click on the link at the time of the events and you'll be able to join us online. You can submit a question via the Q&A function on the zoom webinar. Your questions will be read aloud for the project team to answer as time allows.   Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins Center for Advanced Media Studies, Department of the History of Medicine, and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine.
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December 7, 2023
Colloquium
3:00pm

Colloquium Speaker: Matthew Klingle

Dr. Matthew Klingle of Bowdoin College will present ““Wear and Tear”: An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination,” as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Matthew Klingle
When: December 7th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Wear and Tear”: An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination

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November 16, 2023
Colloquium
3:00pm

Colloquium Speaker: Antoine Johnson

Dr. Antoine Johnson of Johns Hopkins University will present “(Re)Framing AIDS: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area,” as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Antoine Johnson
When: November 16th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: (Re)Framing AIDS: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area

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October 26, 2023
3:00pm – 4:30pm

Colloquium Speaker: Aishah Scott

Dr. Aishah Scott of Providence College will present “Trickledown Respectability Politics and HIV/AIDS in Black America,” as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Aishah Scott
When: October 26th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Trickledown Respectability Politics and HIV/AIDS in Black America”

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October 12, 2023

Colloquium Event: Madagascar Workshop

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 & Social Medicine. The event will be held October 12-14th and will be a hybrid event. For more information, visit https://www.madagascarworkshop.com/  On Thursday, October 12th, time TBA, the event will feature a panel entitled "Medicine in Madagascar Between Social Scientific Analysis and Practical Intervention" as part of the Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.
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September 28, 2023
Colloquium
3:00pm – 4:30pm

Colloquium Speaker: Pablo Gomez

Dr. Pablo Gomez of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present “Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic,” as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Joseph Vignone
When: September 28th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic”

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September 14, 2023
Colloquium
3:00pm – 4:30pm

Colloquium Speaker: Joseph Vignone

Dr. Joseph Vignone of Gonzaga University will present “Remembering Bodies: Theories of Mind and Memory in Medieval Islamic Medical Compendia,” as part of our Fall 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Joseph Vignone
When: September 14th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Remembering Bodies: Theories of Mind and Memory in Medieval Islamic Medical Compendia”

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May 16, 2023
4:00pm

Special Event: Book Talk with Dr. Lisa Haushofer

Drawing on extensive archival research, historian Lisa Haushofer reveals in Wonder Foods that the story of modern food and nutrition was not about innocuous technological advances or superior scientific insights, but rather about the powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects. In the process, these wonder foods shaped both modern food regimes and how we think about food. Join us for a book talk where Dr. Lisa Haushofer will be discussing her recent book, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, in conversation with Anne Kveim Lie and others. This is the last event of academic year for us, and it is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Medicine, the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, and the Program in Medicine, Science, & Humanities. Title: Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition Who: Dr. Lisa Haushofer What: Book Talk When: Tuesday, May 16th at 4pm Where: Bird in Hand Café located at 11 East 33rd Street
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May 4, 2023
Colloquium
3:00pm – 4:30pm

Colloquia Speaker: Graham Mooney

Dr. Graham Mooney of Johns Hopkins University will present “How Public Health Makes “Behavior”: Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Graham Mooney
When: May 2nd, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: How Public Health Makes “Behavior”: Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore

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May 1, 2023
4:00pm

Noguchi Lecture: Punch Drunk Slugnuts with Dr. Stephen Casper

You are invited to the 48th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture in the History of Medicine on Monday, May 1st at 4pm featuring Dr. Stephen T. Casper presenting Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, and Concussion. The event will occur in person in the West Reading Room on the 2nd floor of the Welch Library Building located at 1900 East Monument Street with reception to follow. There will be a webinar livestream available. Stephen T. Casper, PhD is Professor in the History of Medicine at Clarkson University and an expert on the history of neurology, neuroscience, and the human sciences. His current book project is called Punch Drunk and Dementia: A Cultural History of Concussion, c.1870-2020. The book is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, and it explores the cultural history of blunt force trauma to the head. He is also currently co-editing an anthology entitled Troubling Encounters in the History of the Human Sciences: Latin America and the United States Empire, 1870s-2000s, a volume now forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He discloses that he is an expert witness in the history of medicine in concussion litigation pending in the United States and Britain. This lecture tells a cultural story about the way it became normal to hit our heads. From early Vaudeville acts to Bob Hope's sideshow routines before boxing matches at Madison Square Gardens; from everyday speech on the streets of Chicago or the letters of eminent authors like Hemingway, Steinbeck and Malcolm X; to aggressive sports and risky daredevil stunts; violence to the head and its lasting ramifications entered American culture in languages of slang, physical comedy, bravado, humor and stigma. This history of concussion and its diseases thus looks not at what scientists and doctors discovered about head injury and its effects alone across the twentieth century, but instead explores the way those doctors and scientists and their cultures navigated violence and the inevitable harms that followed from it. The legacies - medical, institutional, and cultural - remain visible today. Title: Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, & Concussion What: Lecture with Reception to follow Who: Dr. Stephen Casper of Clarkson University When: Monday, May 1st at 4pm Where: West Reading Room, 2nd Floor Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, 21205 Zoom Webinar Link: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/96110198581?pwd=dm8wNy9kVzBhdlN0YXZZZHZYNVlZUT09
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