Departmental Seminars take place monthly during the academic year and are open to both the university community and the wider public. Each session is generally 90 minutes long and features a presentation from a guest speaker followed by interactive discussion. The seminars share a common commitment to engage with inventive and cutting-edge research across the disciplinary areas represented by the SSoM departmental faculty.
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2023-24
Shireen Hamza, Northwestern University. 鈥淭he Proximity of Masculinity: Gender, Space, and Medical Authority in Medieval Islam鈥�
Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard University. 鈥淔or a Topohistory: Psychiatric ruins and sediments of memory鈥�
Stephen T. Casper, Clarkson University. 鈥淚ndustry Capture and Traumatic Brain Injury: Who gets hurt and how when industries focus on protecting profits鈥�
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2022-23
Sophie Vasset, Universit茅 Paul Val茅ry - Montpellier. 鈥淢urky Waters: Exploring Spas, Health, and Leisure in 18th Century Britain.鈥�
Stefan Timmerman, UCLA. 鈥淭he Unclaimed: Death, Standardization, and Families鈥�
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2021-22
Hannah Zeavin, UC Berkeley. 鈥淎bsence, Presence, Distance: A [Brief] History of Teletherapy鈥�
Eugene Richardson, Harvard University. 鈥淓pidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health鈥�
Bettina Hitzer, Max-Planck - Institute for Human Development, Berlin. 鈥淐ure in the Bunker. Radiological Cancer Treatment and Emotion in the Cold War鈥�
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2020-21
Katrin Solhdju, University of Mons, Belgium/ 鈥淭he Fear of Being Duped. Modern Medicine and Its Modes of Disqualification鈥�
N眉khet Varl谋k, Rutgers University. 鈥淲hy the Islamic World is Central to the History of the Plague鈥�
Thorben Simonsen. IT University of Copenhagen. 鈥淭he Spatial Organization of Psychiatric Practice: A Situated Inquiry into Healing Architecture鈥�
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