Soins médicaux aux enfants de la CRS-SE, Genève (Archives fédérales, Berne)
Programme
Thursday, 18th May 2017
Morning (10:30-13:00)
10:00-12:00 Registration
12:00-13:00 Welcome and Introduction
Evening (15:00-18:30)
15:00-15:45 Dolores Martín-Moruno (iEH2, Université de Genève, Switzerland): Gendering humanitarian war narratives: Nursing within the history of compassion
15:45-16:15 Discussion
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-18:30 Workshop 1: Tools for the history of humanitarianism: Gender and emotions. Comments by Dolores Martín-Moruno, Francesca Piana (SUNY, Binghamton, USA), and Rebecca Gill (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Vaccinating Mexico City: Humanitarian medicine in the Spanish Empire
Farren Yero (Duke University, USA)
The work of the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in Flanders during the First World War
Linda Palfreeman (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Elche, Spain)
The emotions in the First World War: Letters and diaries of war nurses and godmothers
Marie Leyder (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Historical perspective on Russian humanitarian medicine during the Great War: Assistance to Armenian refugees and absence of gender-differentiated strategies
Asya Darbinyan (Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA)
Suffering and happiness of treatment and training. Finnish narratives on tuberculosis work in Somali refugee camps, 1981
Kaisa Harju (University of Oulu, Finland)
Expatriate women, Ugandan health workers, and continuities in humanitarian medicine during conflict in Uganda, 1971-2002
Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
Friday 19th May 2017
Morning (9:00-12:30)
9:00-9:45 Francesca Piana (SUNY, Binghamton, USA): Of suffering and healing: Gendered bodies and emotions in the history of humanitarian photography
9:45-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:30 Workshop 2: Tools for the history of humanitarianism: Visual culture. Comments by Francesca Piana and Rebecca Gill
The International Medical Relief Corps of the Chinese Red Cross: 1939-1945
Robert and Viviane Mamlok (Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, Texas, USA)
A precarious humanitarian agency: The Spanish Republican Red Cross in France, 1945-1950
Àlvar Martínez-Vidal (Universitat de València, Spain) & Xavier García-Ferrandis (Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain)
The medical history of the refugee camp
Jennifer Carr (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Portraits and landscapes of Ebola: Locating emergencies and emerging conflicts in quarantined humanitarian operations
Cristina Moreno Lozano (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
Evening(16:00-19:30)
16:00-16:45 Valérie Gorin (Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, Université de Genève, and Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland): Cinema and humanitarianism in the 1920s and the 1960s: From humanitarian propaganda to representational dilemmas
16:45-17:15 Discussion
17:15-17:45 Coffee break
17:45-19:30 Workshop 3: Tools for the history of humanitarianism: Films and emotions. Comments by Valérie Gorin, Dolores Martín-Moruno, and Jon Arrizabalaga
Ethical cross cultural interaction: Humanitarian intervention, bias and agendas
Kathryn Muyskens (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Shifting care regimes in the care of disabled children in Romania: Two filmic representations of the ‘orphanage of horrors’ (1981 and 1990) and the way in which they changed everyday life around it
Leyla Safta-Zecheria (Central European University, Budapest)
The South of No North
Teresa Correia (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
Saturday 20th May 2017
Morning (8:30-13:15)*
* This session will be held at the Museu de Menorca, Pla des Monestir - 07701 Mahon / Maó
8:30-9:15 Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Humanitarianism and medicine: Past and present
9:15-9:45 Discussion
9:45-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-12:00 Workshop 4: Tools for understanding the past and the present of humanitarian medicine. Comments by Bertrand Taithe and Rebecca Gill
Shaping the right bodies for mental health: The paradoxes of culturally-sensitive aid in post-war Peru
Rogelio Scott (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
From ‘displaced person apathy’ to ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’: A history of refugee psychiatry from the specific to the general
Ibrahim Baher (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Solving the patient exclusion problem with medicine and humanitarianism. Reflexive organization in the Doctors Without Borders’ reconstructive surgery project in Amman
Evan Fisher (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole des Mines ParisTech, France)
Changes in medical practice in Syria: Dilemmas and adaptations in medical facilities continually under threat of attack
Justin Amstrong & Jean François Saint-Sauveur (Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain)
Hierarchies of humanitarians: Syrian doctors as precarious subjects
Rania Kassab Sweis (University of Richmond, USA)
12:00-12:45 General discussion
12:45-13:15 Concluding remarks. School closure
Accomodation venues
HOTEL MIRADOR - Dalt Vilanova, 1 - 07701 Maó
HOSTAL LA ISLA- Santa Caterina, 4 - 07701 Maó
For booking additional nights (over the two ones included in the registration packs), please contact Ms Janette Lanting at
Organising institutions of the 9th ESSMahon2017
- Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (IME), Maó
- Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (SCHCT)
- Institución Milà i Fontanals (IMF), CSIC, Barcelona
- Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités (Programme d’histoire de la médecine), Université de Genève
- Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero (IHMC), Universitat de València
With the support of the Research Project “Relief action and medical technologies in humanitarian emergencies, 1850-1950: agencies, agendas, spaces, and representations” (HAR2015-67723P, MEICOMP, Spanish Government)
And the collaboration of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS)