That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰

Historians of medicine in Sydney for ANZ Society for the History of Medicine conference gather with sleepy koala at Featherdale wildlife sanctuary: Kelly Burke, me, Michele Thompson, @hanspols.bsky.social, Marta Hanson
@anzshm.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social #histmed

Registrations are open for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 19th Biennial Conference in Sydney this July. Details with provisional program available here. www.anzshm2025.com @anzshm.bsky.social

Tomorrow! Our first seminar for the year, with Paula Michaels 🎉

Our colleagues of the William Osler Society of Australia & New Zealand are hosting a seminar "Harvey Cushing's Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025" on 16 April at 9pm AEST.

Please email nadeemtdyn @outlook .com for the Zoom meeting link.

@philippabarr.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social

Reminder - our first online seminar for the year will take place in two weeks! Please join us for this very exciting seminar by Assoc. Prof Paula Michaels.

The (excellent) program and registration for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) in Yogyakarta 24-27 June 2025 - now available on the website
#histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗

Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website:

www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

CFP: The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures.

I'm delighted to share the call for papers for the @hematopolitics.bsky.social symposium this June at the wonderful @thackraymuseum.bsky.social in Leeds!

Please share widely!

We are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print:

Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History"

Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉

muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

This looks promising! Wonderful to see reference to 'the indispensable tools of critical historical analysis'! And to 'health equity' and the deficiencies of Eurocentrism. Such a contrast to south of the border!

#histmed #histstm #STS @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social

❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗

The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST

The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟

For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗

Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website:

www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

Have you published a history of medicine or health book between 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024?

Apply for the 2025 ANZSHM Biennial Book Prize 📖

Nominations are due 1 March

More info on our website: www.anzshm.org.au/book-prize

#history #historyofmedicine #historyofhealth

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the 2025 ANZSHM Conference - due tomorrow❗

ANZSHM's next conference will be held in Sydney, 8-12 July 2025, with the theme ‘Health History in the Making’ 🍎

CFPs are due 28 February & we have a range of bursaries for ECR colleagues!

Check out our conference website here: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...