Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities will take place on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on April 11-13, 2016. The workshop is designed to provide practice, hands-on instruction on using new tools, methods, and data from the digital humanities to advance understanding of medical history. The intended audience will include history faculty and advanced graduate students in the history of medicine, librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences, and digital humanities scholars and students interested in new fields for experimentation and development. The workshop will feature a keynote address by Dr. Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopkins University, instructional sessions led by Miriam Posner of the University of California at Los Angeles and Benjamin Schmidt of Northeastern University, and roundtable sessions led by librarians and scholars working at the intersection of digital humanities and medical history. The workshop is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities and Wellcome Trust. The host for the workshop will be the History of Medicine Division at the U. S. National Library of Medicine, on the NIH campus.
Applications for admission are now available on the workshop website (http://medicalhistworkshop.org/), along with the full schedule, list of presenters, and membership of the planning committee. The deadline for applications is September 30, 2015. Only admitted participants will be able to take part in the full workshop. The keynote address will be open to the public. Limited travel bursaries will be available for some participants to offset the costs of travel and lodging during the workshop. Updates on the workshop can be found from the website and twitter (#medhistws).
