Consumers and Co-Designers (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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 (Room 1.403)

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* (Room 1.404)

Chair: Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

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 (Room 1.405)

Chair: Gareth Millward

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 (Room 1.502)

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 (Room 1.504)

Chair: Projit Mukharji

1. Transformations of Health in Agricultural Sciences and Technology in India’s Punjab Davina – Kaur Patel
2. “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 (Room 1.401)

Chair: Birgit Nemec

1. Linas Hatsedek. Grassroots initiatives to organize medical care for Polish Jews in the first half of the 20th century – Marek Tuszewicki
2. “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 (Room 1.101)

Chair: Agata Ignaciuk

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 (Room 1.402)

Chair: Jenny Bangham

1. Saving Infants: Rh Disease and Twentieth-Century Blood Transfusion Practices in France – Margaret Andersen
2. 'Respectful use': Defining norms for the handling of donated bodies in Dutch medical institutions, 1975–2025 – Hieke Huistra

Migration and Health (Room 1.403)

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 (Room 1.404)

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* (Room 1.405)

Chair: Despo Kritsotaki

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 (Room 1.502)

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 (Room 1.504)

Chair: Lu Chen

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, Marilena 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 – scales, directionality, and a multiplicity of objects (Room 1.401)

Discussant: Lara Keuck

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 emergency – Ariane Hanemaayer
3. Political Ecologies of Personalized Medicine: Critical approaches to data-driven health – Saheli Datta Burton
4. Moderated round up discussion with the panelists – Lara Keuck

The future of associations (Room 1.101)

Pablo Gomez, Claire Edington, Ahmed Ragab & Dora Vargha

Researching the ‘mundane’ (Room 1.402)

Victoria Bates & Barbara Caddick

Making the Medical Mask (Room 1.403)

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale UP, 2025), with David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, Anne Kveim Lie & Lu Chen.

Challenging Narratives: Decentering the History of HIV/AIDS in Europe (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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 (Room 1.403)

Chair: Jonathan Reinarz

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 (Room 1.404)

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. Evolving Concepts of Disease and Large-Scale Data and AI in Medicine – Marie-Christine Fritzsche

Experimenting with Public Health (Room 1.405)

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 (Room 1.502)

Chair: Tillmann Taape

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
4. Couching or Extraction? For a Historical Sociology of Cataract Surgery (18th -19th Century) – Corinne Doria

Religion and Medicine (Room 1.504)

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