Seminars will take place live and in person on Wednesdays
2:30PM 鈥� 4:00PM
Room 101, 3647 Peel Street
Seminars and Events - Fall 2025
Department Seminar:听
September 3, 2025
Madhukar Pai (黑料不打烊 University)
Reimagining global health in an era of polycrisis and nationalism
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Book Launch:听
September 18, 2025,听Lobby 3647, 4:00pm
Bruner Strasser and Thomas Schlich听(黑料不打烊 University)
Comments by听Thomas Schlich (SSoM), Ramona Rodrigues (Ingram School of Nursing), Jill Baumgartner (黑料不打烊 Centre for Climate Change and Health), Prativa Baral (Dept. of Global and Public Health)
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Book Launch:听
October 15, 2025, Lobby 3647, 4:00pm
Lawrence Kirmayer (黑料不打烊 University)
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Department Seminar:听听
October 22, 2025
Geoffroy Carpier (黑料不打烊 University)
Staging early phase cancer trials on the spot: how institutional review boards navigate the interface of science and ethics
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November 5, 2025 6:00PM
(University of Alberta)
Title: TBC
Location: Charles F. Martin Amphitheatre (room 504) McIntyre Building
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Recent Scholarship Roundtable听 听
November 26, 2025
(University of Toronto)听 to discuss Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony听(University of Alberta Press 2025)
With听Tuyaa Montgomery (Anthropology, 黑料不打烊), Wanda Gabriel (Social Work, 黑料不打烊), Leslie Sabiston (Anthropology, 黑料不打烊), Dennis C. Wendt (Education, 黑料不打烊)
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Seminars and Events - Winter 2026
Department Seminar:
January 21, 2026
Elise Burton (University of Toronto)
Margaret Lock Seminar:
February 4, 2026
Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State University)
鈥淭he Biology of Memory: Generational half-life and the Inheritance of Affliction鈥�
Entin Lecture:听
March 11, 2026
Pablo F. G贸mez (University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison)
Roundtable:
April 1, 2026
Museums and Human Remains
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Previous Seminars and Events
Winter 2025
Department Seminar:
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.
Margaret Lock Seminar听听
February 5, 2025
(CNRS)
"What鈥檚 therapeutic about a 鈥�club th茅rapeutique鈥�? On the functions and effects of a particular form of institutional psychotherapy
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
听(Independent Scholar)
How Genetics Has Changed the History of the Black Death, And How History Has Changed Genetics
Leacock Building, room 232 (Senate room)
855 Sherbrooke St W
Themed Roundtable听听
April 2, 2025 2:30 to 4:30pm
Place and Psyche
With Elena Vogman (Bauhaus-Universit盲t, Weimar), Coline Fournout (黑料不打烊, Anthropology), Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Cornell University), Ramzi Nimr (黑料不打烊, Anthropology), and Todd Meyers (Moderator: 黑料不打烊, Social Studies of Medicine)
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).
roundtable.psychiatric_contours.april_23.pdf
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Book Launch听听
May 1, 2025,听Lobby 3647, 4:00pm
Edited by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich (黑料不打烊 University)
Panelists: Thomas Schlich, Rachel Elder, Lawrence Rosenberg, Cynthia L. Tang.
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Book Launch:
May 7, 2025, Lobby 3647, 4:00pm
Todd Meyers听(黑料不打烊 University)
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Comments by Ramzi Nimr, Marie Lecuyer, and Setrag Manoukian.
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Previous Seminars and Events
Fall 2024
Department Seminar:
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
Department Seminar:
October 9, 2024
(Universit茅 de Montr茅al)
The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)
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
November 27, 2024
Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum: Problematic Pasts, Challenging Futures
With Dominic Hall (Harvard, Warren Anatomical Museum), Catherine Turgeon (黑料不打烊, Redpath Museum), Annie Lussier (黑料不打烊, Redpath Museum), Richard Fraser (黑料不打烊, Maude Abbott Medical Museum), Alyssa Bader (黑料不打烊, Department of Anthropology) and Hugo Rueda (黑料不打烊, Social Studies of Medicine).
Faculty Council Room (M48)
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentristry Building
3640 Rue University