Seminars will take place live and in person on Wednesdays,
2:30PM – 4:00PM
Room 101, 3647 Peel Street
Seminars and Events - Fall 2024
Department Seminar
September 11, 2024
, (Concordia University)
When Breast Isn't Best: Infant Mortality and the Undoing of Tropical Medicine in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1945
Department Seminar
October 9, 2024
(Université de Montréal)
The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)
November 6, 2024 6:00PM
(Imperial College London)
Medicine - the art of the expert performer.What clinicians can learn from the performing arts
The Jonathan C. Meakins Amphitheatre Room 521 - McIntyre Building
November 27, 2024
Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum: Problematic Pasts, Challenging Futures
With Dominic Hall (Harvard, Warren Anatomical Museum), Catherine Turgeon (SM, Redpath Museum), Annie Lussier (SM, Redpath Museum), Richard Fraser (SM, Maude Abbott Medical Museum), Alyssa Bader (SM, Department of Anthropology) and Hugo Rueda (SM, Social Studies of Medicine).
Faculty Council Room (M48)
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentristry Building
3640 Rue University
Seminars and Events - Winter 2025
Department Seminar
January 22, 2025
(Vanderbilt University)
Title: TBC
Margaret Lock Seminar
February 5, 2025
(CNRS)
"What’s therapeutic about a “club thérapeutique”? On the functions and effects of a particular form of institutional psychotherapy"
Recent Scholarship Roundtable
February 6, 2025
(CNRS), to discuss Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS (Cornell University Press, 2024)
The Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine
March 12, 2025
(Independent Scholar)
Themed Roundtable
April 2, 2025
Place and Psyche
With Elena Vogman (Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar), Coline Fournout (SM, Anthropology), Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Cornell University), Ramzi Nimr (SM, Anthropology), and Todd Meyers (Moderator: SM, Social Studies of Medicine)
Recent Scholarship Roundtable
April 23, 2025
, to discuss Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness, Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, editors (Duke University Press, 2024).
Book Launch
May 14, 2025
Todd Meyers, Gone Gone (Duke University Press, 2025).
Would you like join our seminar list? E-mail us at ssom [at] mcgill.ca