Updated: Wed, 10/09/2024 - 15:16

Oct. 10-11, campus is open to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Most classes are in-person. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Les 10 et 11 octobre, le campus est accessible aux étudiants et au personnel de l’Université, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. La plupart des cours ont lieu en présentiel. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

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 - Fall 2024

 

Department Seminar   Headshot Theresa Ventura

September 11, 2024   

Theresa Ventura, (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

Simplice Ayangma Bonoho (Université de Montréal)

The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)

 

 

Osler Lecture      Headshot Roger Kneebone

November 6, 2024  

Roger Kneebone (Imperial College London)

Medicine - the art of the expert performer 

What clinicians can learn from the performing arts

 

Themed Roundtable    index cards with patient's name and diagnosis historical

November 27, 2024

Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum: Problematic Pasts, Challenging Futures

With Dominic Hall (Harvard, Warren Anatomical Museum), Catherine Turgeon (McGill, Redpath Museum), Annie Lussier (McGill, Redpath Museum), Richard Fraser (McGill, Maude Abbott Medical Museum), and Hugo Rueda (McGill, Social Studies of Medicine).

 

 


Seminars and Events - Winter 2025

 

Department Seminar   

January 22, 2025

TBC

 

 

Margaret Lock Seminar  

February 5, 2025

Anthony Stavrianakis (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

Anthony Stavrianakis (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

Monica Green (Independent Scholar)

 

 

Themed Roundtable  Photo of Mental Institutions

April 2, 2025

Place and Psyche

With Elena Vogman (Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar), Coline Fournout (McGill, Anthropology), Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Cornell University), Ramzi Nimr (McGill, Anthropology), and Todd Meyers (Moderator: McGill, Social Studies of Medicine)

 

 

 

Recent Scholarship Roundtable   Book cover Nancy Rose Hunt

April 23, 2025

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

 

 

 

 

Book Launch  Photo Todd Meyers

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

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