Monthly Archives: July 2017

CfP: Debt in History 18-19 May 2018, University of Toronto At a Q&A that followed a Toronto screening of Little Men (2016), a film about two families’ battle over a lease and its impact on the lives of its central protagonists, director Ira Sachs reflected on the modern-day struggle of many families to remain in […]

CfP: Early Modern Civil Religion Workshop 14 September 2017, Newcastle University Recent scholarship has reintegrated the religious perspective into how the intellectual culture of the early modern period, particularly in the political sphere, can be understood. This has opened up new avenues of enquiry for those working on the role of scholarship (biblical, patristic, and […]

CfP: Paradigms of Change in Modernising Asia and America 13-14 October 2017, Ghent University and KU Leuven Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the terminology of change belonging to the European intellectual tradition—composed of terms that constitute milestones in the historiographical account of societal, historical and political development such […]

CfP: Rewrite Conflicts: The Role of Losers, Heretics, and Outsiders in the History of Medicine Invited editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri A multifaceted narration characterizes the contrapositions between schools, factions, theories, and practices in the history of medicine. Yet, studying these conflicts helps to shed light on those actors traditional historiographies usually relegate to secondary roles: surgeons, […]