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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
September 11, 2024
Theresa Ventura, (Concordia University)
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
November 6, 2024
Roger Kneebone (Imperial College London)
Themed Roundtable
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
Stacey Langwick (Cornell)
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
March 12, 2025
Monica Green (Independent Scholar)
Themed Roundtable
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
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
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