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National Endowment for the Humanities Medical Humanities Conference

Sam Houston State University
Organization: NEH-Sam Houston State
Categories: Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy
Event Date: 2025-10-02 to 2025-10-03 Abstract Due: 2025-02-01

NEH Medical Humanities Conference

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

October 2-3, 2025

 

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals

 

Sam Houston State University is hosting a medical humanities conference, which aims to promote interdisciplinary discussion around topics common to medicine, humanities, and the social sciences. We invite proposals for panels and paper presentations on topics related to health, medicine, and disability, broadly construed. The conference will feature plenary talks by Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness, and Lynn Harter, Ohio University, whose extensive research focuses on issues of health care communications and narrative.  

The NEH Medical Humanities Conference will be held on the campus of Sam Houston State University from Thursday, October 2, to Friday, October 3, 2025. Sam Houston State is located in Huntsville, Texas, about one hour north of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

 

We invite panel and paper proposals from scholars at all ranks, including graduate students, for topics including but not limited to the following:

 

Community Health

Health Disparities

Health and the Environment

Health Justice

History of Medicine

Medicalization of Society

Medicine and the Arts and Literature

Medicine and Ethics

Medicine, Globalization, and New Infectious Diseases

Medicine, Health, and Society

Medicine and Public Policy

Medicine: Traditional/Folkloric/Alternative and Contemporary

Medicine and (World) Languages

Nutrition and Wellness

Political Determinates of Decision-Making in Medicine

Medical Education

Public Health and Prevention

AI in Medicine

 

Oral paper presentations will be twenty minutes in length, with ten minutes for questions and answers. 

Please submit a panel or paper proposal of between 300 to 500 words with background, objectives, methods, results, and conclusion. Submissions should be received by February 1, 2025. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Abstract Review Committee and evaluated according to importance of the question and organization and clarity. Receipt of abstract submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail to the submitting author. After the review process is complete, the author will be notified regarding the acceptance or rejection of her or his abstract.

To be included in the official program, participants must register for the (free) conference.

 

Please send your abstract electronically to

 

NEH Medical Humanities Conference

Abstract Review Committee

Care of Paul Child, Program Committee Chair: PaulChildSHSU@gmail.com

 

The conference is funded in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

PaulChildSHSU@gmail.com

Paul Child