Seminars will take place live and in person on Wednesdays,
2:30PM 鈥� 4:00PM
Room 101, 3647 Peel Street
Seminars and Events - Winter 2025
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Department Seminar听 听
January 22, 2025听听
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Race and Abortion Politics in the US
This talk covers the racial politics of the pro-life movement from Roe v. Wade (1973) to the Dobbs decision (2022). In doing so, it explores how opposing abortion changed from a primarily Catholic position to become an evangelical one, uniting evangelical values voters and helping to reshape US politics nationally. Beginning in the 1970s, white evangelicals across the United States began to politically organize against abortion by framing fetuses as the most persecuted group in history. Using language like the 鈥渁bortion holocaust鈥� and 鈥渢he Civil Rights issue of our time,鈥� evangelicals attempted to turn abortion, rhetorically, into a new racial justice issue. This talk shows how race has remained central to abortion politics in the United States.
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Margaret Lock Seminar听听
February 5, 2025
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"What鈥檚 therapeutic about a 鈥�club th茅rapeutique鈥�? On the functions and effects of a particular form of institutional psychotherapy"
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Recent Scholarship Roundtable听 听
February 6, 2025
(CNRS), to discuss Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS鈥� (Cornell University Press, 2024)
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The Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine听 听
March 12, 2025
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How Genetics Has Changed the History of the Black Death, And How History Has Changed Genetics
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Themed Roundtable听听
April 2, 2025
Place and Psyche
With Elena Vogman (Bauhaus-Universit盲t, Weimar), Coline Fournout (海角社区, Anthropology), Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Cornell University), Ramzi Nimr (海角社区, Anthropology), and Todd Meyers (Moderator: 海角社区, Social Studies of Medicine)
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Recent Scholarship Roundtable听 听
April 23, 2025
, to discuss Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness鈥�, Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus B眉schel, editors (Duke University Press, 2024).
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Book Launch听听
May 7, 2025
Todd Meyers, Gone Gone (Duke University Press, 2025).
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Seminars and Events - Fall 2024
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Department Seminar听听
September 11, 2024
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When Breast Isn't Best: Infant Mortality and the Undoing of Tropical Medicine in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1945
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Department Seminar听听
October 9, 2024
(Universit茅 de Montr茅al)
The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)
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November 6, 2024 6:00PM
(Imperial College London)
Medicine - the art of the expert performer. What clinicians can learn from the performing arts
The Jonathan C. Meakins Amphitheatre Room 521 - McIntyre Building
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November 27, 2024
Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum: Problematic Pasts, Challenging Futures
With Dominic Hall (Harvard, Warren Anatomical Museum), Catherine Turgeon (海角社区, Redpath Museum), Annie Lussier (海角社区, Redpath Museum), Richard Fraser (海角社区, Maude Abbott Medical Museum), Alyssa Bader (海角社区, Department of Anthropology) and Hugo Rueda (海角社区, Social Studies of Medicine).
Faculty Council Room (M48)
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentristry Building
3640 Rue University
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Would you like join our seminar list? E-mail us at ssom [at] mcgill.ca