Consumers and Co-Designers

Chair: Lauren Kassell

1. From patients and users to co-designers and consumers: diabetics and their diabetes management tools in the twentieth century – Elizabeth Neswald
2. Studying personality between psychiatry and fashion – Chiara Lacroix
3. Beyond the Screen: Tracing the Legacy of Feminist Health Movements in Today's FemTech – Anne-Sophie Reichert

Health Beyond the State

Chair: Gisela Mateos

1. Childcare, health and gender: competing visions in socialist Ethiopia – Sarah Howard
2. Mozambique’s Village Health Workers: from cornerstone of the primary health policy to a perceived failure (1977-1983) – Alila Brossard Antonielli
3. From Cross to Crescent: Identity and Aid in the Ottoman Red Crescent Society – Christin Zurbach

Spatial Imaginaries in the 19-20^th Centuries

Chair: Chris Sandal-Wilson

1. Besieged by Contagion: The Contribution of Italo-Tunisian Physicians in the Development of a Contagionist-Besieging Imaginary – Giorgio Ennas
2. Ideal Locations for Vaccination? Stabilization of Cholera Vaccination Practices in Japan and the Geographical Considerations of Epidemics (1893–1926) – Shiori Nosaka
3. Hygiene, Space, and Belonging: Architecture, Rural Reform and Health Policies in Eastern Thrace (1930s-1940s) – Cansu Degirmencioglu
4. Where is Turkey? Geographical Imaginaries of Health and Epidemiological Occidentalism (1940s-1980s) – Léa Delmaire

Abortion Beyond Medicine

Chair: Agata Ignaciuk

1. Women on trial: The influence of forensic medicine in cases of abortion, infanticide, and child abandonment in Colombia (1905-1966) – Ángela Lucía Agudelo-González
2. Abortion on trial: Doctors, the courts, and media coverage in Spain and Canada, 1970s-1980s. – Agata Ignaciuk, Christabelle Sethna
3. Between punitiveness and autonomy: Social discourses around self-managed abortion in Spain (1985-2020) – María Mundi-López
4. Abortion as a criminal offense: Court cases in Greece during the first half of the 20th century – Martha Vasili

Producing and Negotiating Evidence

Chair: TBA

1. The Historical Debates Surrounding Aircraft Fume Events – Stephen Mawdsley
2. Competitive collaboration: international data-sharing in the treatment of end stage renal disease, 1964-1989 – Alexandra Geisthövel
3. Creating a Global Pediatric Market: Child Health, Childhood Allergy and the Marketing of Antihistamines in the Post-World War II Period – Felix Rietmann
4. Against Reliability – Simon Brausch

Health, Diplomacy and Development

Chair: Lu Chen

1. Between health and diplomacy: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Greek state – Yannis Gonatidis
2. Transnational Practice of Public Health: A Case Study of Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Disease Control Project in the Pinghsiang Colliery in China – Yexin Liu
3. "International agencies and the fight against hunger in the Cold War: The Food for Peace in Latin America" – Romulo de Paula Andrade

Environment and Health

Chair: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

1. The Relationship between Medical Travels and Climatotherapy amidst the Decline of Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Min Bae
2. Transformations of Health in Agricultural Sciences and Technology in India’s Punjab Davina – Kaur Patel
3. Medicines for Planetary Health: The (re)discovery of biochar for healing soils and landscapes in India – Daniel Münster
4. “The Superflies Will Free Us”: Zoonotic disease, atomic energy, and sterilization at the US-Mexico Border – Lauren Killingsworth

Patient Activism and Resistance to Unjust Policies

Chair: Birgit Nemec

1. Globalizing Diné (Navajo) Stories of Nuclear Suffering: Indigenous Health and Transnational Activist Networks against Uranium Mining, Late 1970s to Early 1980s – Jacob Tropp
2. Linas Hatsedek. Grassroots initiatives to organize medical care for Polish Jews in the first half of the 20th century – Marek Tuszewicki
3. “A Psychological Sort of Pressure”: Mental Health, Activism, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act – Hannah Kempel

Worlds of Labor, Worlds of Health: Occupational Health and Safety in State Socialism

Chair: Bogdan Iacob

1. Translating workers’ health across the Iron Curtain: transnational formation in occupational health and safety of Romanian professionals in the 1970s – Corina Doboș
2. Women experts, occupational health and the redefinition of women’s work in the 1950s Poland – Natalia Jarska
3. Protecting Women’s Bodies at Work: Early Soviet Debates on Occupational Health and Industrial Labor – Almira Sharafeeva

The Body in Parts

Chair: Jenny Bangham

1. Empire’s Lifeline: The Medical Practice and Rhetoric of Blood Transfusion in Wartime Japan, 1931–1945 – Isaac C. K. Tan
2. Saving Infants: Rh Disease and Twentieth-Century Blood Transfusion Practices in France – Margaret Andersen
3. Standardised, Stockpiled: Turning Skin into Medical Technology in Cold War America – Sophie Grapentin
4. 'Respectful use': Defining norms for the handling of donated bodies in Dutch medical institutions, 1975–2025 – Hieke Huistra

Migration and Health

Chair: Anne Kveim Lie

1. “These diseases are primarily those of […] the enemy of European civilization”: German Migrants and the Pathologization of “The Other” in Brazil, ca. 1850–1930 – Markus Wahl
2. Refugees, illness, and care in interwar Greece: International organizations and the emergence of public health institutions – Aimilia (Emilia) Salvanou
3. ‘She jabbers away in French’: Experiences of Belgian Refugees in British Asylums 1914-1919 – Ute Oswald and Rob Ellis

Political Epistemologies

Chair: Amir Teicher

1. Nineteenth-Century Narratives and the Public Health Theory of Violence – Sophie Franklin
2. Pathologies of Power: Towards a History of Nazi Epidemiology – Lukas Engelmann
3. The Making of the ‘Modern Thai Mind’: Mental Hygiene, Child Guidance, Social Psychiatry, and Revolution – Krittapak Ngamvaseenont

Voicing Trauma: Emotional Suffering in the 20^th Century

Chair: TBA

1. Life Lines: a case study of 20th century Irish parents lived experiences of grief following Stillbirth – Ciara Henderson
2. Men who cry: Disorderly emotions, sexuality, and the construction of neurasthenia in early 20th century Greece – Dimitra Vassiliadou
3. “Dependent on a device [...] a terrible thought!“ An emotional history of artificial respiration from iron lung to home ventilation – Lea Münch

Women, Children and Medical Expertise

Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovacs

1. ‘Kingdoms of Babes’: Home Nurseries as ‘Medico-Moral’ Domains of Infants in America, 1850s-1920s – Elisabeth Yang
2. Neurotic child and the psychiatry in the 1960s in Poland – Natalia Pamula
3. Contested Care: Women Experts, Child Health, and Socialist Values in Cold War Czechoslovakia – Katerina Liskova
4. Promoting women’s emancipation in socialist Hungary: pediatrician Emmi Pikler, early childhood care and transnational knowledge circulation, 1950s-1960s – Annina Gagyiova

Biomedical Technologies: Testing, Tracing, Planning

Chair: TBA

1. Medical Research and the Human Genome Project in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France (1989-1993) – Raphaël Lavie
2. What is being tested? Making and debating HIV testing and screening policies in Greece (1983-2000) – Katerina Vlantoni, Pateraki, Kostas Raptis, Eirini Savaidou. Athanasios Barlagiannis
3. Track, Test, and Blame: Tracing ‘Contacts’ in British Contagion Narratives, c.1850-1920 – Elise Smith

Political Ecologies as Cross-Disciplinary Networks

Chair: Hanna Lucia Worliczek

1. Mapping a political ecology of human congenital toxoplasmosis at the intersection of history of medicine and historical epistemology of the life sciences – Hanna Lucia Worliczek
2. A political ecology of the opioid crisis: Constructing alternative understandings of a public health – Ariane Hanemaayer
3. Political Ecologies of Personalized Medicine: Critical approaches to data-driven health – Saheli Datta Burton

Researching the ‘mundane’

Victoria Bates and Barbara Caddick

The future of associations

Pablo Gomez, Claire Edington, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Ahmed Ragab, Anne Kveim Lie

Making the Medical Mask

Bruno J. Strasser, Thomas Schlich and David Gentilcore

Challenging Narratives: Decentering the History of HIV/AIDS in Europe

Chair: Nikolaos Papadogiannis

1. People with HIV in Photographs of Valery Khristoforov and Jürgen Baldiga – Katerina Suverina and Andrei Zavadski
2. The HIV Text in the Russophone Contemporary Culture – Alexander Meienberger
3. HIV and AIDS campaigns, religious practices and Black African communities in the UK, 1996-2008 – Nikolaos Papadogiannis
4. “To Europe — Yes, but…”: HIV/AIDS and the Negotiating of Global Concepts and Local Realities in Poland, 1985 — 1995 – Katarzyna Szarla

Medicalizing and the Unconscious

Chair: Sarah Marks

1. The Therapeutic Language of Emotions: Medicalized Mindfulness in Mass Media in the 2000s – Josephine Selander, Laurence Monnais and Flavio Rossi
2. Medicalising the Unconscious in the Late Soviet Union (1950s–1980s) – Roman Mamin
3. Destroying the Brain to Cure the Mind: The History of Psychosurgery – Lukas J. Meier

Regulating the Disabled Body

Chair: TBA

1. Medicine or Miracle?: Deaf Cure and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China – Shu Wan
2. Workers’ Health and Disability: Workplace accident trials in Greece, 1920-1940 – Nikos Kastrinakis
3. Common, Dependent, or Educable? The Recognition of Physically Disabled Children’s Educational Needs in Belgium via the Common Fund, 1900-1940 – Marisa De Picker
4. Disabled Veterans Beyond Medicine: Spiritual Wounds During The 1930s – Michael Robinson

Informing Health from the Outside 1945-2000

Chair: Lukas Engelmann

1. When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague Reservoirs and Disease Ecology in the Americas (1940s-1970s) – Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
2. Reframing Environmental Health: The Human Exposome in the early 21st century – Sammie Jansen
3. The vision of a technological cure – How the peer-production of an artificial pancreas reconfigured diabetes knowledge – Bianca Jansky
4. Evolving Concepts of Disease and Large-Scale Data and AI in Medicine – Marie-Christine Fritzsche

Experimenting with Public Health

Chair: Alila Brossard Antonielli

1. Global Histories of Community Health: A reflection on community participation in Global Health – Sebastián Fonseca
2. The road to community health programs: Mexico’s experiments in applied anthropology (1920-1955) – Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
3. Strategic Collaboration in Transition: Expanded Programme on Immunization in China – Lu Chen
4. Romania, Medicinal Plants and Counter-hegemonic Cooperation in Global Health during the late Cold War – Bogdan C. Iacob

Organizing Networks of Knowledge and Practice

Chair: TBA

1. Beyond Medicine: Meeting Hygieia – Bastienne Klein
2. The 1950s provincial doctor crisis and the reorganisation of Swedish primary care – Helene Castenbrandt
3. The Hidden Pedagogical Networks of Dr. William Cullen – Jeffrey Wolf

Religion and Medicine

Chair: Ahmed Ragab

1. Good Christian care ? Care practicing in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay (18th century) – Marie Vesco
2. "L'administration l'ignore." Religion, politics and 'patient activism' in the Salpêtrière (1880-1905) – Marie van Haaster
3. Contested Meats: A contemporary history of Buddhist cosmologies and more-than human health in Bhutan – Heidi Fjeld

Transnational Networks of Medical Practice

Chair: Jean-Paul Gaudilliere

1. Colonial Surgery in an Age of Medical Reform: Wouter Schouten and His World, 1638–1704 – Jan Becker
2. Couching or Extraction? For a Historical Sociology of Cataract Surgery (18th -19th Century) – Corinne Doria
3. Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Globalization of Mental Health – Alfred Freeborn
4. Of mathematics and margarine: the East African Medical Survey and the afterlives of colonial quantification – John Nott