International perspectives on nursing history conference
Date: Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 September 2010
Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London 
Full details and registration: www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference
Join us in September 2010 for this landmark event
To be held in the International Year of the Nurse, and timed to run alongside commemorative events to mark the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale, this international conference on the history of nursing and midwifery aims to showcase innovative and scholarly work by nurse-historians and academics from allied disciplines. The conference will appeal to historians of nursing and medicine, women’s historians, critical theorists and intellectual historians.
The conference is run jointly by the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) and The European Nursing History Group (ENHG) which comprises four organizations: the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences; The UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery; The Irish Center for Nursing and Midwifery History; and The History of Nursing Society of the Royal College of Nursing, UK.
Scientific programme
The conference scientific programme will take place over three days and will comprise plenary sessions, concurrent sessions on pre-specified themes and poster presentations. Guest speakers include Dr Afaf Meleis, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; and Mark Bostridge, author of Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend. The scientific programme will be built around five broad conference themes:
- profession, identity and ideology
- systems of care and ways of working
- biography and place
- military history, power and conflict
- technology and the patient.
Preconference workshops on aspects of historical method will be held on 13 September.
The conference programme will also incorporate the annual awards ceremonies, the AAHN’s now legendary annual auction of books and memorabilia, and a number of book launches.
Centenary event
There will be an opportunity to sightsee some major London attractions on Monday 13th September before attending a special service at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale; her tomb is in the crypt of the Cathedral. Delegates are then invited to a reception at the Florence Nightingale Museum which will recently have re-opened following a major refurbishment.
Celebrate with us
The conference will be an opportunity for nurses, midwives and other health professionals to come together to celebrate the Year of the Nurse, to examine and review aspects of our shared history and scholarship in the field by scholars from around the world. The conference will also be an opportunity for scholars new to the discipline of nursing history to learn something of the methods of historical inquiry.
Call for abstracts
Abstracts are invited for paper and poster presentations on the five broad conference themes listed above. The Conference Scientific Committee welcomes abstract submissions from scholars studying history within a range of disciplines, including history, nursing history, medical history, women’s studies, education, and sociology. The call for abstracts opens on 15 September 2009 and closes at midnight
(Eastern Standard Time) on 15 February 2010. For full details and submission guidelines please see the conference website www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference
Information and registration
To register for this event or to find out more please visit the conference website www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference
