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Upcoming Seminars & Events

Seminars will take place live and in person on Wednesdays,

2:30PM – 4:00PM

Room 101, 3647 Peel Street


Seminars and Events - Winter 2025

Department Seminar Photo Sophie Bjork-James

January 22, 2025

(Vanderbilt University)

Race and Abortion Politics in the US

This talk covers the racial politics of the pro-life movement from Roe v. Wade (1973) to the Dobbs decision (2022). In doing so, it explores how opposing abortion changed from a primarily Catholic position to become an evangelical one, uniting evangelical values voters and helping to reshape US politics nationally. Beginning in the 1970s, white evangelicals across the United States began to politically organize against abortion by framing fetuses as the most persecuted group in history. Using language like the “abortion holocaust” and “the Civil Rights issue of our time,” evangelicals attempted to turn abortion, rhetorically, into a new racial justice issue. This talk shows how race has remained central to abortion politics in the United States.

Margaret Lock SeminarPhoto Anthony Stavrianakis

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 Book Cover photo

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 Photo Monica Green

March 12, 2025

(Independent Scholar)

How Genetics Has Changed the History of the Black Death, And How History Has Changed Genetics

Themed RoundtableMental Institution

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 Book cover

April 23, 2025

, to discuss Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness​, Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, editors (Duke University Press, 2024).

Book Launchbook cover white title over autum fruits and ashtray

May 7, 2025

Todd Meyers, Gone Gone (Duke University Press, 2025).

Seminars and Events - Fall 2024

Department SeminarTheresa Ventura

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)

Osler LectureHeadshot Roger Kneebone

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

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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


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