National Library of Medicine Announces 2022 History Talks

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces its 2022 History Talks. All talks are free, live-streamed globally, and archived by NIH VideoCasting.

• Alexandre White, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine, will speak on “Narratives of Pandemics Past: Archival Approaches to Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. White’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, January 27, 2022.
• Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD, The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine & Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will speak on “What History Reveals: Slavery and the Development of U.S. Gynecology.” Dr. Cooper Owens’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, February 10, 2022.
• Patricia Palma, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile, will speak on “George Deacon and the Circulation of Homeopathic Therapies in Peru (1880-1915).” Dr. Palma’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, March 17, 2022.
• Rana A. Hogarth, PhD, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will speak on “The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement.” Dr. Hogarth’s talk will be co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the NLM/NEH partnership to collaborate on research, education, and career initiatives and will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, April 28, 2022.
• Matthew Stibbe, PhD, Professor of Modern European History, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, and 2019 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow, will offer the 6^th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine, “A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War.” Stibbe’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
• William D. Adams, PhD, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Former President, Colby College, will speak on “Merleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting.” Dr. Adams’s talk will be co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the NLM/NEH partnership to collaborate on research, education, and career initiatives and will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, June 23, 2022.
• Samuel Thrope, PhD, Curator, Islam and Middle East Collection, National Library of Israel, Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections, will speak on “Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections.” Dr. Thrope’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 11am ET on Thursday, July 14, 2022.
• Farren Yero, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University, will speak on “Atlantic Antidote: Race, Gender, and the Birth of the First Vaccine.” Dr. Yero’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, August 11, 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, Atlanta, Georgia, and recipient of a 2019 NLM Grant for Scholarly Works (G13), will offer the 13^th annual James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine, “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South.” Smith’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, September 15, 2022.
• John Mathew, PhD, Associate Professor of History of Science, Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India, will speak on “Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease.” Dr. Mathew’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, October 27, 2022.
• Michele C. Weigle, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, will speak on “What’s in a Web Archive Collection? Summarization and Discovery of Archived Webpages.” Dr. Weigle’s talk will take place via NIH Videocasting at 2pm ET on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

NLM History Talks promote awareness and use of NLM and related historical collections for research, education, and public service in biomedicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The series also supports the commitment of the NLM to recognize the diversity of its collections—which span ten centuries, encompass a range of digital and physical formats, and originate from nearly every part of the globe—and to foreground the voices of people of color, women, and individuals of a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds who value these collections and use them to advance their research, teaching, and learning.

Interviews with the speakers in this series are published in Circulating Now, the blog of the NLM History of Medicine Division. Explore https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/tag/nlmhisttalk/  on the blog and stay informed about NLM History Talks on Twitter at #NLMHistTalk.

Complete details of all NLM History Talks are available from the NLM History of Medicine Division website at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html.