Past Events by Category
James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: The Many Faces of Diabetes: Complications and Debility in Late 20th Century America
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Richard M. Mizelle, Jr, PhD, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston
Category: History
What’s in a Web Archive Collection? Summarization and Discovery of Archived Webpages
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Michele C. Weigle, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University
Category: History
Life after Lockdown: Pandemic Perspectives from Peru
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Kathleen Kole de Peralta, PhD—Clinical Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University
Category: History
Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease
Thursday, October 27, 2022
John Mathew, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Science, Humanities & Social Sciences & Sciences, Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India
Category: History
Shutting the Digital Back Door: Creating Tech Justice with Health Data Liquidity and the Digital Humanities
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Kim Gallon, PhD, MS, MLIS, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
Category: History
James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Kylie M. Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, 2021-2022 President’s Humanities Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing & the Humanities, Emory University, 2019 NLM G13 recipient
Category: History
Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Samuel Thrope, PhD, Curator, Islam and Middle East Collection, National Library of Israel, Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections
Category: History
Merleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting
Thursday, June 23, 2022
William D. Adams, PhD, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Former President, Colby College
Category: History
Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine: A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Matthew Stibbe, PhD, Professor of Modern European History, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, and 2019 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow
Category: History
The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Rana A. Hogarth, PhD, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Category: History