15/09/09
Call for abstracts: 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 and present your work to an interdisciplinary and international audience
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.
- For full details of the conference programme and to register please visit the conference website www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference
Call for abstracts
Abstracts are invited for paper and poster presentations on the five broad conference themes of:
- profession, identity and ideology
- systems of care and ways of working
- biography and place
- military history, power and conflict
- technology and the patient.
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 five themes are suggested as a guide for authors, and a more detailed list of possible topics within each theme is available on the conference website.
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
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.
