University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Dates and Time:
October 16, 2:30pm - 7:00pm
October 17, 8:00am - 5:05 pm
Location:
University of Pennsylvania (contact the organizers at the link below for more information)
Description:
JAS Med is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. The meeting was founded in 2002 to foster a collegial intellectual community that provides a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate student research.
The conference begins Friday afternoon with the option of either attending a workshop session with pre-circulated papers or a tour of the Mütter Museum. We have the honor of hosting Lundy Braun, who will deliver a keynote that evening titled "Race, Medicine, and Lung Function: Why History Matters."
The program features exceptional graduate student work organized into five panels on the bureaucratic and epistemological structures of late twentieth century medicine; testimonies of bodies and healthy/sickly places; learned and indigenous healing knowledge in the late medieval and early modern world; social movements surrounding African-American institutions and sciences of race; and the materiality of domestic and laboratory spaces linked to expertise and identity. Robert Aronowitz, Christopher Sellers, Nükhet Varlik, Deirdre Cooper Owens, and Nancy Tomes will serve as faculty commentators.
For more details please see http://jasmed2015.wordpress.com/program/