BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:aahm2026 X-WR-CALDESC:Event Calendar METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Sched.com 2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260603T200000Z DTEND:20260603T230000Z SUMMARY:LAMPHHS Steering Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom B\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:b8e706fc15f07bd151d4bbc79a140cd4 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/b8e706fc15f07bd151d4bbc79a140cd4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T130000Z DTEND:20260604T160000Z SUMMARY:AAHN Board Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Pearl Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building. \;\n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe \;Pearl Room \;is located above the Fitness Center. \; \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:75b8450a94f2db6ae6ca865a90ebd56d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/75b8450a94f2db6ae6ca865a90ebd56d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T160000Z DTEND:20260604T220000Z SUMMARY:Annual AAHM Council Meeting DESCRIPTION:Lunch @ 12pm\nCouncil Meeting: 1pm-4pm CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom B\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:f00a19a2cbb6be4cd8bd1871f2227c38 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/f00a19a2cbb6be4cd8bd1871f2227c38 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T160000Z DTEND:20260604T230000Z SUMMARY:Registration DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION LOCATION:Coatroom\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:c9c3e3c330ca935b7eb2f9f51a21b640 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/c9c3e3c330ca935b7eb2f9f51a21b640 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T180000Z DTEND:20260604T210000Z SUMMARY:AAHN Pre-Conference Meeting DESCRIPTION:1.) Emily Barr\, \;Narrative\, Film\, and Moral Agency: Teaching Ethics Through Nursing and Healthcare History\n2.) Donna Curry\, \;Teaching Healthcare History through Visual and Experiential Learning\n3.) Ruth Manchester\, Nurses (and Other Medical Personnel) Depicted in WPA Murals\n\n​The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center.  \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.\n\n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:2583efbd64beba83b3f91354756dbc7d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/2583efbd64beba83b3f91354756dbc7d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T180000Z DTEND:20260604T190000Z SUMMARY:Sigerist Circle Business Meeting DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:f3253a7aa858110791d2c0cb6639072f URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/f3253a7aa858110791d2c0cb6639072f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T180000Z DTEND:20260604T210000Z SUMMARY:Op-Ed & Public Outreach Working Session DESCRIPTION:The Education & Outreach Committee will hold space for the sharing of ideas\, information\, and best practices for reaching public audiences. Bring an idea for or draft of an op-ed for workshopping in this session. Other formats of public outreach also welcomed. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:dfea25e5910dff287069f15206eb64bc URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/dfea25e5910dff287069f15206eb64bc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T190000Z DTEND:20260604T210000Z SUMMARY:Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change DESCRIPTION:The Communities of Care project focuses on communities of care in Buffalo to think with study participants about the everyday ways that those impacted by disability\, both caregivers and those receiving care\, including poor\, racialized\, and disabled people\, navigate and negotiate living\, working\, and accessing vital healthcare and other needs. The project uses “communities of care” to extend its understanding of care networks beyond formalized healthcare settings to include the vital care that takes place in the home\, in neighborhoods\, and in other settings. It also considers care as work – both in its more formal settings and in the informal spaces in which it most often occurs. The Communities of Care project explores the ways in which this work has been/is gendered and racialized and the implications that this has for the formation of caregiving/receiving relationships and worker organizing. At the center of the project is the creation of a permanent digital community archive\, gallery and exhibition space\, and research guide made available to community members\, students\, and researchers of all levels. In this roundtable conversation\, the Communities of Care project will be put into dialogue with the innovative work being done through the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute\, which focuses on abolishing health inequities.\n\n1. Michael Rembis\, \;Introduction and Co-Creating Stories \;\n2. \;Steve Peraza\, \;Care Doesn’t Provide Itself\n3. Tabby Violet\, \;Stories We Can't Tell: Reflections on Refusal and Possibility\n4. Henry Louis Taylor\, Jr.\, Unnecessary Deaths\, Sacrifice Zones\, and Underdeveloped Neighborhoods: How to Abolish Health Inequities CATEGORIES:SPECIAL SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:da131da7bbce54aed2ce460fd9f41522 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/da131da7bbce54aed2ce460fd9f41522 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260604T213000Z DTEND:20260604T233000Z SUMMARY:Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Buffalo! \nPlease join us for the Opening Reception. Refreshments will be served.  \;Be sure to wear your name badge and use your red drink tickets during the reception.\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Regency Ballroom & Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1a0a19ee58a49dfbb5549ff30e2a100a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1a0a19ee58a49dfbb5549ff30e2a100a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T110000Z DTEND:20260605T120000Z SUMMARY:AAHM President's New Member and New Members Breakfast Meeting DESCRIPTION:Pick up your breakfast from the Grand Ballroom Foyer and come meet AAHM Vice President\, Laura Hirshbein . New members and first-time meeting attendees are encouraged to attend to learn about the association and the annual meeting. Join the meeting with your breakfast in Niagara on the Mezzanine level. \; CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Niagara Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:0069d6c3f1fbf2812ec11a37d1b1f534 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/0069d6c3f1fbf2812ec11a37d1b1f534 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T110000Z DTEND:20260605T120000Z SUMMARY:Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Breakfast Meeting DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Bulletin for the History of Medicine board! Please pick up your breakfast from the Grand Ballroom Foyer and meet in Jocko's Garden Room located on the hotel's lobby level. CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Jocko's\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:380575cd4edf6650fffb225ef6c0637c URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/380575cd4edf6650fffb225ef6c0637c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T110000Z DTEND:20260605T120000Z SUMMARY:Nursing History Review - Breakfast Meeting DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Nursing History Review \;board! Please pick up your breakfast from the Grand Ballroom Foyer and meet in the Executive Room located on the hotel's second level. \; CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Executive Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:03b4c46eea6078c61b13f04c533bcc8b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/03b4c46eea6078c61b13f04c533bcc8b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T110000Z DTEND:20260605T123000Z SUMMARY:Breakfast DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:50e563821d5b1ba72e6b24b57b863f3c URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/50e563821d5b1ba72e6b24b57b863f3c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T110000Z DTEND:20260605T210000Z SUMMARY:Registration DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION LOCATION:Coatroom\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:07d92e486433768062e616194576846a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/07d92e486433768062e616194576846a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T120000Z DTEND:20260605T131500Z SUMMARY:Presidential Address DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom ABC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:2ea6de702b0425c4b78b656db31edd5b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/2ea6de702b0425c4b78b656db31edd5b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T131500Z DTEND:20260605T133000Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:538932cbca00f806c8bc849f1ace994d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/538932cbca00f806c8bc849f1ace994d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A1. Grassroots Matters: Beyond the State in East Asian Healthcare DESCRIPTION:1. Wayne Soon\, \;Grassroots Politics Matter: Towards a New History of Universal Health Care in Taiwan \;(soonx005@umn.edu)\n2. Po-Hsun Chen\, Needling about the ‘One China’: The Policies to Acupuncture Anaesthesia and Trans-Pacific Scientific Acupuncture Research in Cold War Taiwan \;(sim298@hotmail.com)\n3. Eunjeong Ma\, Roboticizing healthcare in South Korea: A case of rehabilitation robots \;(eunjma@postech.ac.kr)\n\nChair email: \;ffan@binghamton.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:2547baae625adb02d7b63c037ddad9a2 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/2547baae625adb02d7b63c037ddad9a2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A2. Bodies\, Values\, Materiality DESCRIPTION:1. Pablo Gómez\, \;Embodied Economies of Freedom: Afro-Caribbean Corporeal Finance in the Seventeenth Century \;(pgomez@wisc.edu)\n2. Adam Warren\, \;Ability's Experts: Healers and the Assessment and Diagnosis of Enslaved Litigants in Colonial Lima and Buenos Aires \;(awarren2@uw.edu)\n3. Elizabeth O'Brien\, \;“She answered everything except [where the fetus was]”: Medicine and evangelization in the Santa Clara de Asís Mission\, 1777-1833 (eobrien@history.ucla.edu)\n4. Mariana Labarca\, \;Medical Opinion at the Real Audiencia: How Healers Inspected\, Interpreted\, and Valued the Human Body in Eighteenth-Century Chile \;(mariana.labarca@usach.cl)\n\nChair email: \;gsotolaveaga@fas.harvard.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:41b186f4eee15d6d144427064abf6728 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/41b186f4eee15d6d144427064abf6728 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A3. Women\, Aging\, and Chronic Disease DESCRIPTION:1. Martha N. Gardner\, \;“Yet to see a decline”: the gendered experience of smoking and lung cancer in American women\, 1950s-90s \;(martha.gardner@mcphs.edu)\n2. Jesse F. Ballenger\, “A Completely Unexplained Feature of Alzheimer’s Disease:” Gender\, Senility\, and Medical Science in Modern Society \;(jfb83@drexel.edu)\n3. Cara Kiernan Fallon\, \;Freedom from Disease and Disability: Healthy Aging in Women from the “New Grandma” to the Zumba Grandma\, 1930-2010 \;(cara.fallon@yale.edu)\n\nChair email: \;ks2890@columbia.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:524248ca512f8c8964bb218c2ebd9814 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/524248ca512f8c8964bb218c2ebd9814 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A4. Disability and Reproduction in the United States DESCRIPTION:1. Miriam Rich\, Women’s Reproductive Anxieties and Imaginaries of Disability in the Progressive Era \;(mirich@utmb.edu)\n2. Emma Wathen\, “Stop Being a Polio Patient\, Be a Mother”: Polio Mothers and Parenting Narratives in the Postwar United States \;(ewathen@wisc.edu)\n\nThis panel brings together work from historians who study disability and reproduction in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Histories of reproduction in the United States have often overlooked disability as an analytical category and disabled people as reproductive agents. In line with disability studies scholarship\, the collective work of these historians positions disability as both a discourse that has been used to create and defend racial and gender hierarchies\, and a lived experience that shaped the reproductive lives of many women in the United States. Examining the portraits\, letters\, and memoirs of mothers with and without disabilities\, this panel explores how American mothers in different eras contended with (and sometimes countered) ableism\, whether through fears about congenital disability or assumptions about the maternal fitness of visibly and publicly disabled women. It calls attention to the ways race\, gender\, and class intersected with disability. Analyzing the active and intentional demonstration of deafness and motherhood in the portrait of Eliza Clerc\, Hull demonstrates the imperative role that d/Deaf women like Clerc had in the creation of American Sign Language\, the foundation of the American Deaf community\, and the advent of deaf education in the nineteenth-century United States. Turning to the Progressive Era\, Miriam Rich explores how lay discourse on reproduction encoded complex and contested imaginaries of congenital disability\, becoming a site where diverse women worked out questions and anxieties related to racial descent\, gendered family structures\, environmental determinants of development\, and disabled motherhood. Finally\, Emma Wathen investigates how\, in the wake of the Salk vaccine\, American “polio mothers” called attention to the continuing reproductive needs of polio survivors and reinforced their belonging within the status quo of the white\, middle-class nuclear family at a time when women with disabilities were widely deemed to be unfit wives and mothers. Foregrounding disability and disabled people\, this panel highlights innovative work from emerging scholars in the fields of disability and reproductive history.\n\nChair email: \;Hilary.Marland@warwick.ac.uk CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:adb779abca237b720df601cdd490938d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/adb779abca237b720df601cdd490938d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A5. Reframing the History of 19th century Medicine DESCRIPTION:The 19th century in the history of medicine has been viewed as an era of epistemic changes brought about by the advent of the germ theory and the rise of laboratory medicine. While building upon these existing frameworks\, this panel makes a historiographical intervention in our understanding of 19th-century medicine by adopting a polycentric approach\, expanding the canvas of actors and institutions\, ideas and practices as well as bodies and spaces associated with medicine. \n\nThis roundtable brings together four speakers who illustrate the dynamism of 19th-century medicine by reorienting our understanding of familiar themes through race medicine\, psychiatry\, death\, and sexuality. Focusing on the use of race in 19th-century medicine\, Suman Seth unpacks one of the deepest contradictions of race medicine that was based on differentiating between black and white bodies while simultaneously using black subjects to understand diseases that afflicted white bodies. Sohini Chattopadhyay highlights the significance of death and display\, focusing on the prototype of vertical burial pits as a British imperial invention to conceal starvation-related famine deaths and limit expenses while reinforcing divisions of caste and community. Arnav Bhattacharya revises the Eurocentric focus of the Foucauldian argument of the medicalization of sexuality in the 19th century by revealing how disparate sites ranging from Beirut to Bombay influenced the production of sexological knowledge\, the practice of sexology\, and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders. Through such themes\, this roundtable opens up a wider cast of “experts”\, social differences\, locations\, and practices to rethink the assumed characteristics of 19th-century medicine.\n\nChair email: \;ss536@cornell.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nTo reframe our understanding of 19th-century medicine by expanding on the set of actors\, practices\, institutions\, and locations usually associated with major historical developments in that era.To unpack how historical developments in race medicine\, psychiatry\, sexual health\, as well as the management of the dead\, are relevant for medical practice today\, as they overlap with core questions of social identity and bioethics in medicine.The roundtable directly speaks to the issue of the social determinants of medicine as well as the equitable and inclusive representation of health practitioners by highlighting how these were historically relevant concerns even in the 19th century. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:e55de7f1646519532b4f94ff20a186b9 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/e55de7f1646519532b4f94ff20a186b9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A6. Cross-Cultural Understandings of Madness and the Supernatural DESCRIPTION:1. Wendy Turner\, \;Unhealthy Minds: Premodern Understanding of Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities \;(wturner1@augusta.edu)\n2. Stephanie Boyle\, \;Spiritual Medicine: The role of space and place in healing in the Egyptian Delta in the 19th Century \;(SBoyle@citytech.cuny.edu)\n3. Marlis Hinckley\, Natural and supernatural healthcare in New Spain \;(mhinckle@nd.edu)\n\nChair email: alisha.rankin@tufts.edu\n\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Roosevelt \;Room is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:d700282ebd2c249ea96be0652090d49b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d700282ebd2c249ea96be0652090d49b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T133000Z DTEND:20260605T150000Z SUMMARY:A7. Nurses and the Nursing Profession DESCRIPTION:1. Alisa Haushalter\, Marie Gill\, and Kelly Fulkerson Dikuua \;The Role of Nursing Theory ThinkTanks in Advancing Nursing Knowledgeand Theory: A historical qualitative study utilizing the Margaret NewmanArchive\, 1978-1988\n2. \;Andrej Toth\, \;Building a Modern Nurse: State Policy\,Philanthropy\, and theProfessionalization of Nursing inInterwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)\n3. \;Elizabeth Ahern and Emily Barr\, \;Light\, Order\, and Authority: VisualizingNursing and Sanitary Science at Scutari\n4. \;Jess Dillard-Wright\, \;Nurses not Nursing: The Profession and Social Movements\n\nThe Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center.  \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:7d0dbe3dd15d635ef71dad996db00f94 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/7d0dbe3dd15d635ef71dad996db00f94 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T140000Z DTEND:20260605T210000Z SUMMARY:Book Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:EXHIBIT LOCATION:Regency Ballroom BC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:179aefc54b7aa0b22f7e3e0e74c92443 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/179aefc54b7aa0b22f7e3e0e74c92443 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T150000Z DTEND:20260605T151500Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:c3e7bfe6a8bf769e24d028eaf6cfeba1 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/c3e7bfe6a8bf769e24d028eaf6cfeba1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T150000Z DTEND:20260605T163000Z SUMMARY:Student Affairs Coffee Meetup DESCRIPTION:Students are welcome to come grab coffee across from the hotel\, network with other students\, and make plans for lunch! CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Fountain Plaza\, 580 Main St. SEQUENCE:0 UID:4da3798d8e44cf6c2a67ab8833eac749 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/4da3798d8e44cf6c2a67ab8833eac749 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T151500Z DTEND:20260605T161500Z SUMMARY:American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote DESCRIPTION:Molly Ladd-Taylor will deliver the American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote Address titled "Nurses\, Mothers & Others: Baby-Saving and its Legacy in American History" CATEGORIES:SPECIAL SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom ABC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:2164ae28e0196fc0ffc2863e58843021 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/2164ae28e0196fc0ffc2863e58843021 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B1. Violence\, Children\, and the State in the 20th century DESCRIPTION:1. Deborah B Doroshow\, \;From Classroom to Cop Car: Florida’s Baker Act and the Criminalization of Children’s Behavior \;(deborah.doroshow@mssm.edu)\n2. Lisa J. Pruitt\, \;Celebrity Surgeon and “Healer of Children”: Dr. Adolf Lorenz in Buffalo and the Power of Publicity\, 1923-1924 \;(lisa.pruitt@mtsu.edu)\n3. Geremy D. Lowe\, \;These Are Their Risk Factors: Epidemiology and the Public Health Investigation of the Atlanta Child Murders\, 1980-1982 \;(geremy.lowe@ucsf.edu)\n\nChair email: \;linker@upenn.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1f67aba3d7f03bd2d85a8a66d0581651 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1f67aba3d7f03bd2d85a8a66d0581651 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B2. Scalpels\, Spectacles and Iron Hands: The Early Modern Medical Marketplace at Work DESCRIPTION:1. Heidi Hausse\, \;Wear and Tear: An Inside Look at a “Used” Sixteenth-Century Prosthetic Hand \;(hlh0048@auburn.edu)\n2. Samuel Paek\, \;Amputations\, Expertise\, and the Rise of New Genres of Medical Writing in Sixteenth-Century England \;(spaek@nd.edu)\n3. Tawrin Baker\, \;The Medicalization of Spectacles in the Seventeenth Century: Assisting and Curing via Mathematical Arts and Crafts \;(tawrin@gmail.com)\n\nChair email: \;eragland@nd.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1dd6fe3a04f88417e4f5cafff2e07b72 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1dd6fe3a04f88417e4f5cafff2e07b72 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B3. Women\, Risk\, Public Health\, and the Law DESCRIPTION:1. Elizabeth Sapere\, \;“We Are All Unfit Mothers”: Baby M and the Surrogacy Wars in the 1980s \;(esapere@ur.rochester.edu)\n2. Joanna Federico\, External Causes? Conceptualizations of Violence in American Public Health Before the Dickey Amendment (1887 – 1993) (joanna.federico@rutgers.edu)\n3. Shannon Withycombe\, \;Preserving Her Life: Medical Exceptions in Nineteenth-Century Abortion Laws in the U.S. \;(swithycombe@unm.edu)\n\nChair email: lreagan@illinois.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:21b3fd7364d97f66384fcc9bd353364b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/21b3fd7364d97f66384fcc9bd353364b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B4. Imperial Health\, Colonial Bodies DESCRIPTION:1. Kristin Brig-Ortiz\, \;Springs and Cemeteries: Urban Public Health\, Water Management\, and Burial Ground Surveillance in Colonial South Africa\, 1880-1910 \;(kristinb@wustl.edu)\n2. Kalman Rotstein\, \;The Fear of Premature Burial and the Campaign for Death Certification in Fin-de-Siècle Britain \;(krotste1@binghamton.edu)\n3. Ogechukwu Williams\, \;Bodies\, Blame\, and Birth: Historicizing Maternal Mortality Discourses in Nigeria \;(ow2@buffalo.edu)\n\nChair email: \;nsbhatta@central.uh.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1907405a5aefbe5701aab1489e0cb288 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1907405a5aefbe5701aab1489e0cb288 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Regional Stories DESCRIPTION:While historians of medicine are keenly aware of the importance of sensorial knowledge and practice in healing\, most studies have focused on Western societies and the five conventional senses. By discussing medicine and the senses in Asia\, this first roundtable\, together with a related one submitted separately\, aims to reconceptualize what constitutes the senses by exploring a wide range of sensorial conditions and techniques in various Asian healing cultures\, from East\, South\, and Southeast Asia to the Near East. Furthermore\, the discussion seeks to shed light on the connection between the senses and culture\, gender\, and politics in various Asian contexts.\n\nLisa Brooks discusses the central role of touch in the ontology\, epistemology\, diagnostics\, and treatments of first-millennium Ayurvedic medicine\, through which to reveal constructions of gendered interactions and embodied knowledge in premodern South Asian medical sources. Lan Li discusses the sense of ma in premodern Chinese medical and literary sources\, a word that denotes a common plant yet encapsulates a multiplicity of sensations related to plant-human relations\, including flavor\, touch\, and pain. Saghar Bozorgi discusses the role of embodied practices in healing mental illness\, through oral history narratives of 1960s and 1970s Iran\, demonstrating how the senses of non-human creatures could directly impact a human’s mental well-being. Finally\, Nicole Barnes discusses the odor of night soil\, or “humanure\,” in modern China\, illustrating how sensitivity to the stench of humanure and its related health concerns became politically mobilized in the Mao era.\n\nCollectively\, this roundtable intends to expand our understanding of the senses by bringing key Asian perspectives into the conversation. We also hope that medicine and the senses can be a useful window through which to acquire deeper insights into a given Asian society.\n\nChair email: \;ruth.rogaski@vanderbilt.edu\n\nLearning OutcomesDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicineUnderstand the dynamic history of medical ideas and practices\, their implications for patients and health care providers\, and the need for lifelong learningRecognize the dynamic interrelationship between medicine and society through history\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:c97e104e7509d44bb55003110a7af60a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/c97e104e7509d44bb55003110a7af60a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B6. Environmental Justice and the Historian DESCRIPTION:This roundtable explores the intersection between environmental justice and histories of health and medicine. The environmental justice movement emerged from protest cultures of the late 1980s\, culminating in the 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington DC\, and codified within the EPA in 1994.  \;While “environmental justice” as an actors’ term is both relatively recent and US-focused\, it also serves as an analytic category\, enabling an exploration of health\, place\, and dispossession across broader geographies and temporalities.  \;By highlighting the intersections of toxic risks and marginalization along economic\, ethnic\, and racial lines\, environmental justice redefined environmentalism to address differential impacts.  \; Historians of health and medicine have something unique to offer and to learn from close engagement with environmental justice: as a historical moment\, as a mode of historical analysis\, and as a mode of engaged history.  \;Merlin Chowkwanyun will speak on how new methodologies and data allow us to broaden our notions of "environmental justice" and to interrogate the legal history that has largely been narrated -- sometimes accurately\, sometimes less so -- by EJ activists themselves.  \; Matt Klingle will take a broader history of environmental justice as the entwined changes to planetary\, bodily and social metabolisms from the late 19th century to the present day\, with particular focus on diabetes in relation to rural and indigenous healfh.  \;Jason Chernesky will explore how 1980s healthcare workers\, particularly pediatric nurses during the HIV-AIDS crisis\, understood environmental inequalities and shaped ecologies of care in marginalized populations in American cities. Rick Mizelle and Harriet Washington use lead poisoning to situate case studies of environmental racism. In Mizelle’s story\, EJ becomes an analyst’s category\, following lead toxicity from the Civil Rights era to the Flint and Jackson Water Crises.  \; Washington in turn examines how efforts to address environmental racism in the form of lead poisoning in communities of color\, have repeatedly been undermined by the medicalization of diagnoses like pica\, which putatively led children of color to ingest lead-paint flakes in heavy-metal-imbued housing. Jeremy Greene will highlight intertwined methods of history as advocacy in communities facing health harms from medical incinerators. \;\n\nChair email: \;greene@jhmi.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nUnderstand the history of environmental justice as inextricably linked to the history of health and medicineExplore the intersection and divergences between\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:66ee3106ad4d2c3700ab61f7a74bf722 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/66ee3106ad4d2c3700ab61f7a74bf722 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T163000Z DTEND:20260605T180000Z SUMMARY:B7. Nursing in the South DESCRIPTION:1. Christine Ardalan\, Nurses Among the Florida Seminole sand Miccosukee\, 1934-1971\n2. Charlotte Swint\, Bringing Nursing and Medical Care toWest Alabama: A Retrospective Reviewof West Alabama Health\n3. \;Valeria Eadler and Alisa R. Haushalter\, \;Services from the 1970s to 2000s A Century of Public Health Nursing:Archival and Material-Culture Evidence from a Southern State\n\n​The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center.  \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:d1c2b21a37d20826e2d2bb286002d873 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d1c2b21a37d20826e2d2bb286002d873 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T180000Z DTEND:20260605T181500Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:56311318e7a79ba050781f9ad736af3e URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/56311318e7a79ba050781f9ad736af3e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C1. Gender and Health in the 1960s DESCRIPTION:1. Andrew Hogan\, \;“Allied Health” in the 1960s: Women’s Professions\, Men’s Ambitions (andrewhogan@creighton.edu)\n2. Kelly O'Donnell\, \;The Valley of the Dolls and the Cultural History of Medicine: Sex\, Drugs\, and Health Politics in the 1960s \;(kellyodonnell@towson.edu)\n3. Andrew Pothier\, \;Therapeutic Community Behind Bars: Experiments in Correctional and Community Rehabilitation in the Adirondacks\, 1960–1975.” \;(apothier@buffalo.edu)\n\nChair email: \;deborah.doroshow@mssm.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:a51d2abe7c377217af72d0c6718fd7bd URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/a51d2abe7c377217af72d0c6718fd7bd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C2. The New Modern Medicine: 'Epidemiological'\, 'Multifactorial' \,'Risky'\, 'Evidence-Based'\, 'Personalized'\, or 'Postmodern?' DESCRIPTION:Popular medical history often discusses the rise of ‘modern medicine’ in the 19th or 20th century. Critical medical history problematizes the idea. In his forthcoming academic book The New Modern Medicine: Disease\, Evidence\, and Epidemiological Medicine (OUP\, 2025)\, Jonathan Fuller revives the idea of modern medicine as a legitimate historical and philosophical problem. This author-meets-critics roundtable will discuss the book’s argument and themes raised by it. The New Modern Medicine argues that scientific medicine made medicine modern. But scientific medicine needs further theorizing. It was once associated with the rise of the experimental laboratory\, but this narrow rendering misses the point that scientific medicine is shifting and continues to serve as ground on which new battles for scientific authority are fought\, though typically under different terms. Scholarly reflection on the characteristics of scientific medicine can help counteract or at least clarify cultural narratives such as evidence-based medicine and personalized medicine. The New Modern Medicine argues that the new modern scientific medicine since the second world war is epidemiological: many of the concepts and methods of epidemiology became the concepts and methods of clinical medicine. ‘Epidemiological medicine’ weaves together several threads in medical historiography\, including contemporary multifactorial conceptions of disease etiology\, and the pervasiveness of epidemiological risk in medicine. However\, we should also question whether medicine is becoming postmodern\, less dominated by the hegemony of mainstream scientific orthodoxy. This roundtable includes historians who have explored some of these themes\, especially modern epidemiology and its relationship to medicine. The session will proceed as follows. In speaking slots of approximately 10 min each\, the author will summarize the book’s argument\, before each of three discussants offers commentary. Then the author will respond before the roundtable discussion enlarges to include the audience for approximately 40 min.\n\n Chair email: \;s.wesloh@pitt.edu\n \;\nLearning Outcomes\nDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicinePromote tolerance for ambiguity of theories\, the nature of evidence\, and the evaluation of appropriate patient care\, research\, and educationUnderstand the dynamic history of medical ideas and practices\, their implications for patients and health care providers\, and the need for lifelong learning\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:f3b712b316410f85963fa7dfc4e6ef37 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/f3b712b316410f85963fa7dfc4e6ef37 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C3. Between Marginalization and Medicalization DESCRIPTION:1. \;Ben Maldonado\, \; \;Labor\, Sex\, and the Construction of “Normal Aging” at the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging\, 1950-1980 \;(bmaldonado@g.harvard.edu)\n2. Maud Jansen\, \;“The Age Factor” in Hip Fracture Care: How Precarity Shaped Therapeutic Change \;(mjansen@g.harvard.edu)\n\nChair email: \;cara.fallon@yale.edu\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:37382d375da2d4c686a8800dc33c0fd3 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/37382d375da2d4c686a8800dc33c0fd3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C4. Institutions of Maternity Care DESCRIPTION:1. \;Hilary Marland\, \;‘Enlarging her capacity as a mother’: Mother and Baby Units and Maternal Mental Illness in Postwar Britain \;(hilary.marland@warwick.ac.uk)\n2. Corey Schultz\, \;Debating Juice: The Controversial History of Fruit Juice in WIC food packages (corey_schultz@urmc.rochester.edu)\n3. Janet Greenlees\, \;‘The subject of heated controversy’: maternity care and the unmarried mother in post-World War 1 United States \;(janet.greenlees@gcu.ac.uk)\n\nChair email: \;megann.licskai@yale.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1348b49f6f8d44bafaecc6b97e337ccf URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1348b49f6f8d44bafaecc6b97e337ccf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Cross-Cultural Stories DESCRIPTION:This roundtable highlights the cross-cultural exchange of sensorial knowledge and practice between different healing cultures within Asia and between Asia and the West. Each participant’s case study reveals a dynamic process of translocal interplay in forming emergent understandings about the senses in relation to the body\, conditioned by commercial interests\, religious aspirations\, and colonial influences. Yan Liu examines how transregional exchange of aromatics from West\, South\, and Southeast Asia—like saffron\, camphor\, and frankincense—shaped the production of olfactory knowledge and its relation to medical practice among Chinese physicians in the medieval period. Claire Cooper investigates how “mummy medicine\,” as knowledge and commodity\, was translated from early modern Dutch pharmacopeia into Japanese medical treatises\, and the multisensorial ethical concerns that emerged in Japan from the idea of consuming the dead. Genie Yoo explores the role of the body and the senses in Islamicate understandings of spirit possession and exorcism in early modern and modern Indonesia\, with an emphasis on the medical and magical potency of Quranic verses in their recited\, written\, and edible forms. Finally\, Ling Ma illuminates how Euro-American missionary surgeons based in China at the turn of the twentieth century relied on touch to establish trademark “modern” methods in diagnosing and treating the birthing body of Chinese women. Paying attention to both local and transregional dynamics influenced by the circulation of commodities\, ideas\, and people\, this second roundtable\, together with a related one submitted separately\, invites participants and attendees to rethink the role of the senses in medicine and society across regions and time periods\, while bringing a diversity of Asian perspectives into the conversation.\n\nChair email: \;pgomez@wisc.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicineUnderstand the dynamic history of medical ideas and practices\, their implications for patients and health care providers\, and the need for lifelong learningRecognize the dynamic interrelationship between medicine and society through history\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:419784f1dd27f988498b3915c88470b5 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/419784f1dd27f988498b3915c88470b5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C6. COVID-Studies: The History of Medicine Meets Disaster DESCRIPTION:While many people\, politicians\, and policymakers seek to “move on” from COVID-19\, scientists and survivors are still coming to know\, and struggling to understand\, its features and impacts. Origin stories double as foreign policy battles\; denialism gives way to agnotology. But the social worlds that made the COVID-19 pandemic into the most resounding disaster of our times are well known to us\; they are inheritances\, and they have historical structure. Although it no longer drives our headlines\, we suggest that we are still researching and writing from inside the disaster\; not formally acknowledged as a pandemic anymore by global health officials\, but nevertheless a disaster in its toll on life\, health\, economy\, safety\, and justice. In fact\, COVID is a nested disaster\, a deadly and debilitating virus\, tucked inside of an infodemic\, woven through traumatically inadequate health systems in the United States and around the world. COVID is also a compound disaster\, entangled with climatic disasters of land\, air\, and sea\, and grinding against the tragedies of migration\, war\, and political dysfunction. These modes of analysis take COVID and its lessons out of the museum of past disasters\, where powerful people and institutions want it to remain\, and put it right back into the middle of our lives\, where it belongs for now\, and surely for a very long time to come. The pandemic also quickly changed the ways many people lived their daily lives--a sense of history helps as we watch the disastrous become quotidian. \;\n\nThis roundtable brings together the history of medicine and disaster studies\, connecting scholars eager to discuss the archival\, methodological\, and political problems posed by researching the the history of pandemics from inside a pandemic. While uniform in their commitments to historical knowledge as a necessary tool for survival in a disaster\, the participants come from different scholarly traditions\, with differential commitments and strategies for public engagement. The roundtable will allow these many perspectives to be heard\, and audience members will actively participate in the conversation. Participants will include George Aumoithe\, Jih-Fei Cheng\, Gregg Gonsalves\, Monica Green\, Scott Gabriel Knowles\, Jacob Steere-Williams\, and Jacqueline Wernimont.\n\nChair email: \;s.knowles@northeastern.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nThis roundtable will provide participants practical skills in understanding historiographical trends in the history of medicine and in disaster studies. Additionally it will allow participants to see history as an unfolding set of conflicts\, resolved through the deployment of political power\, expertise\, and dispoute. Participants will appreciate the ways that medicine and society co-structure each other as dynamic spaces of human action. Lastly\, participants will hear under-represented voices in history\, and see the importance of full inclusivity in the formation of historical archives.\n\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:cb1267de3d84a7e151b795579cdc791d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/cb1267de3d84a7e151b795579cdc791d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T181500Z DTEND:20260605T194500Z SUMMARY:C7. Teaching Nursing History DESCRIPTION:1. \;Darlla Thompson\, \;From Camp to Clinic: Teaching Nursing History Through the Legacy of Pauline Bray Fletcher and Simulation-Based Learning\n2. \;Sally Ellis Fletcher\, \;Integrating History into a Time Limited Guest Lecture\n3. \;Amber P. Williams\, \;Understanding our roots: engaging students in the history of nursing\n4. \;Cassondra Burks\, \;Using AI in Course Development for a Nursing History Course\n\n​The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center.  \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:a42c1a1cb7711fd51ade6a53ef8e0609 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/a42c1a1cb7711fd51ade6a53ef8e0609 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T194500Z DTEND:20260605T200000Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:447d6ebf68621e677a22af4e9ed14e4a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/447d6ebf68621e677a22af4e9ed14e4a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D1. Flash Talks DESCRIPTION:\n1. Justin Barr\, \;Look into My Heart: Cardioscopes\, Technology\, and Heart Surgery in the 20th Century \;(justbarr@gmail.com)\n2. Ken Sullivan\, \;Tracing the Disability Discourse: Women Healers and Premodern European Disability History from the 4th to 17th Century \;(kensullivan072@gmail.com)\n3. Adia Cullors\, \;"Black Powder\, Bio-Revolt\, and the Black Atlantic": Gunpowder and Medical Resistance 1700 -1899 \; (aec9757@nyu.edu)\n4. Yemok Jeon\, \;Translating Ginseng: Korean Efforts to Prove the Medicinal Effects of Ginseng through Biomedical Language\, 1960s–1970s \;(yjeon6@jhmi.edu)\n\nChair email: \;nancy.tomes@stonybrook.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:c280bc1459d2cde4c78e84c3e7144b5d URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/c280bc1459d2cde4c78e84c3e7144b5d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D2. Mentorship Workshop: Insights From Faculty\, Staff\, and Postdocs for Students DESCRIPTION:The AAHM Student Affairs Committee is happy to be reprising our mentorship workshop for the third year. In this workshop\, students and more established professionals in academia\, libraries\, archives\, and museums will break into small groups to chat about the job search\, funding\, publishing\, and more. We will have prompts on hand\, but please bring questions of your own. This is a great opportunity to hear candid advice from people who have been where you are\, and to kickstart new relationships in the process.\n\nChair email: \;jhester6@jhu.edu\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:15a56e7d8ca09ec7bb48b86c39c3009b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/15a56e7d8ca09ec7bb48b86c39c3009b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D3. Collaborative Histories of Institutionalization: Archives\, Activism\, and Access DESCRIPTION:This proposed roundtable presents several new\, innovative projects in the public history of institutionalization. Participants come from across disciplines including History\, Media Studies\, Library and Information Science\, American Studies\, and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. We will highlight the importance and complexity of collaboration–with disabled activists and community members\, undergraduates\, other scholars\, and even corporations–in bringing hidden histories to light. Caitlin Angelone will highlight the newly opened archive at Elwyn\, an active service organization wrestling with preserving both its own dark history and its modern reputation. Brenda Brueggemann will present on three years of work with UConn undergraduates to preserve and interpret the archives and history of the Mansfield Training School. Ashten Vassar-Cain and Jess \;Petrazzuoli-Gallagher will share their current efforts to expand access to materials from Speaking For Ourselves\, one of the nation’s first self-advocacy organizations\, as part of a community-controlled digitization project. Finally\, Heather Cassano and Chelsea Chamberlain (also Chair)\, will discuss the Institution Cemetery Project\, an in-progress website that maps the locations and memorialization statuses of institution cemeteries across the United States. Taken together\, we hope that presenters and audience members will have a productive discussion about collaboration in public history\, the ethical challenges posed by institutional records\, the limits of medicalized sources and narratives\, and how efforts to preserve and share disability histories can promote justice in the present.\n\nChair email: \;chelsea.chamberlain@wilkes.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nAcquire a historically nuanced understanding of the organization of the U.S. healthcare system\, and of other national health care systemsDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicine\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:7314b3bd811194858887cda8692da268 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/7314b3bd811194858887cda8692da268 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D4. Negotiating Norms: Biomedicine in the 20th century DESCRIPTION:1. Caroline Wechsler\, \;Standardizing syndromes: Clinical scoring systems in genetic connective tissue disorders \;(caroline.wechsler@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)\n2. Sofia Grant\, \;Blocked Impulses: Myasthenia Gravis\, the Prostigmin Test\, and the Making of a Clinical Diagnosis in Midcentury America \;(sgrant48@jh.edu)\n3. Adrien Gau\, \;Of Monolids and Medicine: On the racialization of upper-eyelid blepharoplasty \;(agau@sas.upenn.edu)\n4. Melody Slavnik-Xu\, In the Eye of the Beholder: the Use of Film and Video in the Mackworth Eye-Tracking Devices (1945-1975) \;(mxu59@jh.edu)\n\nChair email: \;mschwart@bsd.uchicago.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:f6d68910410cb181c6896ab68b9245ad URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/f6d68910410cb181c6896ab68b9245ad END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D5. Doing Health History Across the Contemporary University DESCRIPTION:Health historians are facing important challenges in the current higher education climate. While our courses add significant value to undergraduate\, graduate\, and professional education\, their very premises are under assault from attacks on classroom speech and curricular content. An unprecedented termination of federal support for science and humanities research and education has created a resource crisis for public and private institutions alike\, with direct and indirect effects for the health humanities. Histories of the health sciences link diverse spaces in the university: the undergraduate classroom\, graduate programs\, and professional training in nursing\, public health\, and medical schools. Yet in an atmosphere of retrenchment\, the structures by which we collectively bridge these different parts of campus are themselves under threat. \;\n\nThis roundtable offers an opportunity to reflect upon these challenges and to develop strategies for facing them. It shares the perspectives of program directors in a range of settings—private and public\, schools of health sciences and arts and sciences—to address scholarly vulnerabilities and tactics for resilience in the face of shrinking resources\, new pedagogical threats\, and collapsing support for inquiry into some of the principal axes of health humanities research\, including (but not limited to) health disparities research. We seek to engage with an audience of peers to share concerns and learn about the experiences of health historians at all levels—graduate\, professional\, tenure-track\, contingent—as a means of fostering scholarly community and building strength during a moment of exceptional precarity. \;\n\nChair email: \;rckeller@wisc.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nParticipants will learn about significant challenges facing medical humanities programs in a range of settings.Participants will develop critical thinking skills in the areas of pedagogy\, humanities research\, and program administration.Participants will be able to strategize about ways to build resilience in the face of adversity.\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:a183e35d57d259b419cc6f96857e0376 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/a183e35d57d259b419cc6f96857e0376 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D6. Meeting the Moment: History of Medicine and Activism DESCRIPTION:In this innovative workshop specially designed by the Program Committee\, three leading historians of health and medicine discuss the multi-faceted ways that scholars can respond to contemporary political dialogue and debate. Topics for this workshop include local political activism\, op-ed writing to national and international audiences\, and engaging scholarly voices to "meet the moment" of the present.\n\nChair email: \;skroberts@columbia.edu\n\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:4a03ae4f1e3ce60b4dbacda323a870da URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/4a03ae4f1e3ce60b4dbacda323a870da END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T200000Z DTEND:20260605T211500Z SUMMARY:D7. Nurse Training and Education DESCRIPTION:1. \;Sarah Saffa\, \;The Kiowa School of Practical Nursing:Its Role Within and Beyond the US Indian Service\n2. \;Karen Anne Wolf\, \;The Nurse Practitioner (NP) \;Experiment: MGH – CharlestownBunker Hill Pediatric NP Program\n3. \;Kim Curry\, \;The Historical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Education\n\n​The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. \n\nFrom the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.\n\nThe Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center.  \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route. CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Pearl Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:8875f6d32db7a201ee48245653fe84ab URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/8875f6d32db7a201ee48245653fe84ab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T220000Z DTEND:20260605T230000Z SUMMARY:AAHM Garrison Lecture delivered by Monica Green DESCRIPTION:Dr. Monica H. Green will deliver the 2026 AAHM Garrison Lecture entitled "Straining the History of Infectious Diseases: \;Europe’s Two Black Deaths."\n\nThe Garrison lecture will be held at the \;Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Science (JSMBS) in room \;2120A. \;JSMBS is located at 955 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203.\n\nJSMBS is a 20-minute walk from the Hyatt. Exit the north side of the hotel and walk north on Main Street or Washington Street until you reach High Street. JSMBS can be accessed through the entrance on High Street. Volunteers will be there to guide you.\n\n Buffalo’s Metro Rail can also take you to JSMBS. From the Hyatt\, board the Metro Rail at Fountain Plaza heading outbound. Take the train to the next stop (Allen–Medical Campus). Volunteers will be there to guide you to the medical school.\n\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL SESSION LOCATION:Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)\, 955 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:fde196e63711598ce10eb604af074cd5 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/fde196e63711598ce10eb604af074cd5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260605T230000Z DTEND:20260606T010000Z SUMMARY:Garrison Reception DESCRIPTION:Please join us immediately following the Garrison Lecture for the Garrison Reception\, located just outside the lecture hall at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Be sure to wear your name badge and use your orange drink tickets during the reception. CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)\, 955 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:f9caf0e0978ee8f42510582f31e331ee URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/f9caf0e0978ee8f42510582f31e331ee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T110000Z DTEND:20260606T120000Z SUMMARY:Clinician Historian Breakfast Meeting DESCRIPTION:Andrew Lea\, MD PhD\, "The Sieve of Asclepius: A History of Searching the Medical Literature from Index to Algorithm" \;\nCoffee and lite fare provided at the meeting. \n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Niagara Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:49961c238e37766898122f9ddb17b76b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/49961c238e37766898122f9ddb17b76b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T110000Z DTEND:20260606T123000Z SUMMARY:Women and Gender Diverse Historians of Medicine Meeting DESCRIPTION:Networking opportunity to meet and talk with women and gender-diverse historians of medicine and healthcare. There will be refreshments served. Jocko's Garden Room is located on the hotel's lobby level.\n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Jocko's\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:49f7ed17c5d4c5a12325393d4356c7cc URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/49f7ed17c5d4c5a12325393d4356c7cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T110000Z DTEND:20260606T203000Z SUMMARY:Registration DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION LOCATION:Coatroom\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:23d964e5234178dea31db206c840f8a6 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/23d964e5234178dea31db206c840f8a6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T120000Z DTEND:20260606T130000Z SUMMARY:Poster Session Set Up DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:EXHIBIT LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:1e698bb8dbb6067f49cc5417fcea11dc URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/1e698bb8dbb6067f49cc5417fcea11dc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T123000Z DTEND:20260606T140000Z SUMMARY:AAHM Awards Breakfast DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:SPECIAL SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom ABC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:9b9a4e400ba3f5cf5e341d73ec8c81f5 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/9b9a4e400ba3f5cf5e341d73ec8c81f5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T130000Z DTEND:20260606T193000Z SUMMARY:Book Exhibit DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:EXHIBIT LOCATION:Regency Ballroom BC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:2aaa5d907b9a1fbfb395bc83290c31f3 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/2aaa5d907b9a1fbfb395bc83290c31f3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E1. Nursing\, Labor\, and Collective Action DESCRIPTION:1. Reynaldo Capucao\, \;Matters of Discipline: Unrest at the Philippine General Hospital\, 1910–1916 \;(rcc9vq@virginia.edu)\n2. Hafeeza Anchrum\, \;Exploited\, Still: \;Black Women’s Care Labor from Domestic Service to the Professional Workforce \;(hanchrum@sas.upenn.edu)\n3. Bradford Pelletier\, \;Striking for the Patients: Medical Civil Rights & Labor Equity at the South Carolina State Hospital (1964-1984) \;(smr7ct@virginia.edu)\n\nChair email: \;rnp6dm@virginia.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:d27c5e01067968afa63362566329f30a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d27c5e01067968afa63362566329f30a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E2. Madness\, Medicine\, and Materiality Across the Atlantic World DESCRIPTION:1. \;Olivia Weisser\, \;The Dreaded Pox and Household Medicine in Early Modern England \;(olivia.weisser@umb.edu)\n2. Francesca Gibson\, \;Hysterical Conceptions: Madness\, Reproduction\, and Race in the Early Modern British Atlantic World \;(fggibson@uscs.edu)\n3. Evan Ragland\, \;Disease\, Pathological Anatomy\, and the Question of Causes in Early Modern Europe (eragland@nd.edu)\n\nChair email: \;jfk0027@auburn.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:9d5a7f60bb20136c94db45fbf7037be9 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/9d5a7f60bb20136c94db45fbf7037be9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E3. What Can A Pharmacist Do? A History of 20th c. Pharmaceutical Professionalization in Japan and China DESCRIPTION:1. \;JJ Strange\, \;Growing Medicine: Huang Minlong and the rise and fall of botanical pharmaceutical research in twentieth-century China \;(reynoldsstra@wisc.edu)\n2. Yaming You\, \;Reinventing Bencao: The Manchurian Medical College and Traditional Chinese Medicinal Drugs in Japan’s Informal empire\, 1910s-1940s \;(unayouyaming@foxmail.com)\n3. \;Minji Kim\, \;Unattributable Harm and State Compensation: The (In)visibility of the Agent Orange Issue in South Korea since the 1990s \;(mmjj1231@gmail.com)\n\nChair email: \;lucas.richert@wisc.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:810e3ff9112252c0abb63dbae6075069 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/810e3ff9112252c0abb63dbae6075069 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E4. Comparative Histories of Gender\, Health\, and Risk DESCRIPTION:1. Hayley C. Roy\, \;Imperial Obstetrics: Training Secular Nurses for Germany's Overseas Colonies\, 1884 – 1904 \;(hroy@emory.edu)\n2. \;Victoria Pihl Sørensen\, \;Intrauterine Devices\, Eugenics\, and Reproductive Injustice in Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat \;(viso6507@colorado.edu)\n3. \;Andrea Tone\, \;Dangerous Beauty or Acceptable Risk? The American Medical Association\, Cosmetics\, and Consumer Health \;(andrea.tone@mcgill.ca)\n\nChair email: \;dgolaszewski@colgate.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:a398baa6e2d48d333170d3de61ca02e4 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/a398baa6e2d48d333170d3de61ca02e4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E5. Sexual Knowledge\, Medical Power: Reframing the History of Sexology DESCRIPTION:Sexology\, beginning with Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis in 1844\, has presented itself as a rigorous and objective science while simultaneously addressing medical and health concerns\, often seeking to apply findings for clinical and therapeutic ends. Tensions over whether sexology has been descriptive or therapeutic\, neutral or activist\, and normalizing or pathologizing partly reflect these tensions between scientific origins and medical applications. \;\n\n\nThis disciplinary duality has also shaped the historiography of sexology. This history has developed largely through science and technology studies (STS)\, the history of sexuality\, and the history of science. While these approaches have been fruitful\, the contributions of historians of medicine to the history of sexology have been less clearly defined. Given the medical backgrounds of many sexologists\, medical questions and applications\, and the significance of sex therapy and sexual medicine\, medical histories of the discipline are necessary. Some recent histories of transgender medicine\, psychiatry\, and fertility have shown possibilities of medical histories of sexology\, but there is much more to be explored.\n\nThis roundtable brings together historians engaged in research into the history of sexology and the sexual sciences to think through the benefits and limitations of a “history of medicine” approach to sexology. Sophia DeLeonibus considers how intersections between sexology\, psychoanalysis\, and psychiatry informed the making of the category of “gender identity” in the mid-20th century US. Donna Drucker considers the role of technology in defining sexology as medical practice. Kirsten Leng examines the role of female sexologists in early-20th century Germany\, and the ways in which their work entangled medical and scientific knowledge with desires for social change. Ezra Gerard’s research investigates how medicalized understandings of childhood development were central to sexologists’ constructions of homosexuality. Rachel Louise Moran (speaker/moderator) examines “female sexual dysfunction” in the mid-20th century US\, and tensions between psychiatric and physiological solutions. Sohini Mukhopadhyay explores the great diversity of the “unruly appropriations” of Euro-American sexology in turn-of-the-century Bengal\, including the role of doctors. \;\n\nChair email: \;rachelmoran@tamu.edu\n\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:628d6136fc18d3e16debd0f1bf71d401 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/628d6136fc18d3e16debd0f1bf71d401 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T141500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:E6. Doctoring the Birth of Our Country DESCRIPTION:Two hundred and fifty years ago\, the US declared independence\, fighting to win an imperfect freedom from Great Britain’s tyranny.  \;The fight extended beyond military engagements\, with Americans struggling against disease and trauma.  \;As on the battlefield\, they met both success and failure.  \;Landmark events like George Washington’s mandatory inoculation order and John Jones’ first surgical textbook in the country contrasted with the fact that 90% of American losses resulted from disease.  \;Throughout\, the health of both the troops and the civilian community affected the military strategy and political happenings that eventually resulted in British defeat.\n\nAs America celebrates its semiquincentennial\, universities\, museums\, hospitals\, and medical centers are honoring the occasion with events – and often asking for assistance from AAHM membership.  \;This workshop gathers an array of professional perspectives on the subject to discuss not just what happened but more importantly ways to research and represent this past critically.  \;Discussion will focus on how to convey these stories to students\, doctors\, and the lay public that not only inspires but also leads to thoughtful contemplation of the constant interplay among medicine\, war\, and society.  \;\n\nHistorian Erica Charters brings her expertise on disease in warfare to showcase placing these events in a global context\, bringing particular insight into relevant archives.  \; Judy Chelnick\, former curator at the Smithsonian American History Museum\, will explore preparing exhibitions\, large and small\, showcasing how to utilize artifacts with minimal words to tell a story.  \;Trauma surgeon Jeremy Cannon utilizes medicine in the Philadelphia campaign to demonstrate how to work with local history and engage medical students and hospitals in these projects.  \;Surgeon Per-olaf Hasselgren builds on his biographical work to showcase the utility of exploring a topic through the lives of its actors.  \;Clinician-historian David Jones discusses his success in transforming academic research into broadly appealing stories featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.  \;Scott Podolsky speaks in his triptych role as a physician\, historian\, and Director of Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine\, emphasizing how medical repositories can help researchers\, students\, physicians\, and the lay public alike explore this exciting topic.\n\nChair email: \;justbarr@gmail.com\n\nLearning Outcomes\nBy the end of this activity\, the learner will develop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicine.By the end of this activity\, the learner will deepen understanding of illness and sufferingBy the end of this activity will identify successes and failures in the history of medical professionalismBy the end of this activity will understand the dynamic history of medical ideas and practices\, their implications for patients and health care providers\, and the need for lifelong learning\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.\n\n\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:d47a7f55b7729d2607a2bd11b122b0d1 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d47a7f55b7729d2607a2bd11b122b0d1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T154500Z DTEND:20260606T154500Z SUMMARY:Break - “Mad Sauces” food truck will be at the Hyatt patio\, on Main St. next to the Starbucks\, for those hoping for a taste of authentic\, made-in-Buffalo Buffalo wings. To order online\, visit https://streetfoodfinder.com/Madsauces. DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Hyatt Patio\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:d30cca9ab159c3ee05745775c33e2a3a URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d30cca9ab159c3ee05745775c33e2a3a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T160000Z DTEND:20260606T170000Z SUMMARY:Poster Session DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:EXHIBIT LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:573a617c87a40c216385a9d421b21126 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/573a617c87a40c216385a9d421b21126 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F1. Health in Civil Rights Movements DESCRIPTION:1. Caine Jordan\, \;The Berry Plan: Policing\, Public Health\, and Civil Rights in 1950s Chicago \;(cainejordan@uchicago.edu)\n2. Emily Webster\, \;Health and Housing in the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement\, 1945-1972 \;(emily.webster@durham.ac.uk)\n3. Pratik Chakrabarti\, \;The Hospital in the Ward: A Documentary of Healing and Resistance \;(pchakra7@central.uh.edu)\n\nChair email: \;biggsa2@rpi.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:c768a08299faaed8ad809c2fa08e38d8 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/c768a08299faaed8ad809c2fa08e38d8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F2. Medical Networks: Patients\, Publics\, and Markets from the Cold War to Neoliberalism DESCRIPTION:1. Eram Alam\, \;In Search of Care: Scenes from the US/Mexico Border \;(ealam@fas.harvard.edu)\n2. Claire Edington\, "A War Inside a War: Fighting Drug Addiction During the Decolonization of Vietnam" \; \;(cedington@ucsd.edu)\n3. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan\, \;From Russia\, with Love: The Promise of Indo-Soviet Medical Cooperation and Assistance in Postcolonial India \;(ks2890@columbia.edu)\n\n\nWhat does it mean when countries open borders and resources for scientific exchanges and cooperation\, care and treatment\, and in turn\, like today\, when these historic moments and ‘openings’ end or close? This panel brings together four papers to explore the mobility and immobility of medical ideas and networks in the 20th-21st century\, in the context of the Cold War and post-colonial modernization\, and neoliberal projects in Asia\, Latin America and Africa. The papers will discuss the pathways of circulation for experts\, patients\, and the changing aspirations that underlay these partnerships and interactions. Just as medical networks flowed outwards\, their founders also addressed internal politics and ideologies\, such as interpreting the value of science and socialism\; and they were compelled to confront domestic\, political rivalries. What did these exchanges represent for hosts in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union\, and what insights does it offer us on ‘Cold War medicine’ as a diverse and fluid\, even contradictory project? How were foreign medical research and technological aid understood and justified in the newly decolonized nations\, and what vocabularies and discourses were deployed? How do these networks and collaborations with socialist physicians recast 'western' tropes about backward medical 'peripheries' and developed\, 'centers\,' that were pervasive in aid discourses with the US ?  \;These medical networks offer us crucial narratives regarding innovation and self-reliance\; and how experts\, publics\, and patients interacted\, and also debates regarding emerging medical markets for care. Our panel will look at the 'afterlives' of medical networks in a neoliberal context when markets and consumer choices lead to patients seeking care across borders\, such as between Mexico and the US. How do cultures of aid and medical exchange\, also translate later through medical expertise that is marketed to patients as tourists. The papers in our panel will productively address these questions\, and critically evaluate medical networks and knowledge and care in transit on border crossing ways.  \; CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:89fa71e673ef95eeaec7edbbac7a1bf3 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/89fa71e673ef95eeaec7edbbac7a1bf3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F3. Race and Reproduction and the Politics of Care in the Twentieth Century DESCRIPTION:1. Rose Holz\, Reproductive Freedom and Racial Reckoning: A Lost History of Planned Parenthood’s Mid-Twentieth Century \;(rholz2@unl.edu)2. Molly Yeo (vta5fx@virginia.edu) and Dominique Tobbell (rnp6dm@virginia.edu)\, Polio during Segregation: Black Nurses' and Communities'Contributions to Polio Prevention\, Care\, and Vaccination\, 1940-19603. Mosunmola Ogunmolaji\, Royalty in the Ward: Princess Adenrele Ademola and Elite African Women inBritish Nursing Training\, 1930s-1940s \;(mogunmolaji@ufl.edu)\n\nChair email: mirich@utmb.edu \; CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:342469544e4f75c49070dcd0fcfde31e URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/342469544e4f75c49070dcd0fcfde31e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F4. Transgressed Boundaries\, Interconnected Histories: Gender\, Medicine\, and Sociotechnical Systems of Healthcare in Global East Asia DESCRIPTION:1. \;Tianyuan Huang\, \;Who Treated Women Better?  \;The Material Culture of Disregard\, the Transnational Hierarchy of Tradition\, and Medical Pluralism in Tokugawa Japan \;(tianyuan.huang.d1@tohoku.ac.jp)\n2. Soyoung Suh\, \;Uncertainty as A Norm: Depo-Provera\, Breast Cancer\, and the Gendered Medical Culture in South Korea\, 1960s-1970s \;(soyoung.suh@dartmouth.edu)\n3. Jingya Guo\, \;Phlegm or Amenorrhea? The Blood Myriad and Instability of Diagnostic Categories in Women’s Bodies in Seventeenth-Century China \;(jg2329@cornell.edu)\n\nChair email: \;hbian@princeton.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:6ad8e55e3a59d42babc3f31602f79536 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/6ad8e55e3a59d42babc3f31602f79536 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F5. Historian-Clinician Engagement DESCRIPTION:While their perspectives may differ\, both clinicians and medical historians share a common interest in the history of health care. The premise\, therefore\, of this roundtable is that historians and clinicians have much to offer each other in both theory and practice. This is particularly true at a time when medical history is occupying an ever more precarious place in the medical school curriculum. Further\, while dated stereotypes about Whiggism and presentism persist\, the clinician population is changing as are its historical interests. The possibilities for new areas of collaboration are expanding.\n\nGrowing out of an ad hoc committee on clinician engagement\, this roundtable will explore practical strategies for expanding historian-clinician engagement. This roundtable will facilitate discussion between clinicians and historians\, and generate additional ideas that can be applied at the institutional and local level.\nShelley McKellar PhD will draw on her experience teaching medical students and residents\, who are seeking venues and communities for avocational clinicians interested in the history of medicineMindy Schwartz MD will discuss the Clio Project and the development of an online community to support medical historyJustin Barr MD\, PhD will provide insights into publishing history in medical journals from his perspective as both an author and the history editor for Annals of Surgery OpenPeter Kernahan MD\, PhD will discuss historical initiatives at the American College of Surgeons \;Julie Lemmon MD will comment on historian-clinician interaction from the perspective of a clinician completing a master’s degree in the history of medicine \;David Korostyshevsky PhD will discuss his experience researching\, writing\, and producing a departmental history while a graduate studentChair emails:\nkerna001@umn.edu\nsmckell@uwo.ca\n\nLearning Outcomes\nTo understand historical activities in the clinician communityTo recognize the mutual benefits of collaboration between historians and cliniciansTo develop initiatives for integrating history into the medical curriculum\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:8ace92791adb0f719b013e021d1ba9c9 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/8ace92791adb0f719b013e021d1ba9c9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T170000Z DTEND:20260606T183000Z SUMMARY:F6. Recontextualize? Return? Navigating the Afterlives of Human Remains in Medical Collections DESCRIPTION:Nineteenth- and twentieth-century anatomists and physicians at American medical schools and medical societies amassed collections of human remains\, harvesting tissues from their living patients or exhuming graveyards\, buying from dealers\, or trading remains with interlocutors near and far. Anatomy collections—which often harbored examples of ‘healthy’ bodies—and pathology collections—which housed ‘diseased’ or ‘deformed’ ones—benefitted doctors in ways both pedagogic and reputational. Students consulted these collections to learn about the body\; doctors burnished their bonafides by demonstrating diagnostic and surgical skills. Historically\, physicians rarely considered the desires of any person whose body they added to a collection. Current stewards often think about them differently\, and the American Association for Anatomy issued recommendations for these ‘legacy collections’ last year. In this roundtable\, presenters from Johns Hopkins\, Yale\, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia will discuss several case studies highlighting their work to re-interpret and/or return human remains in such collections. \;\n\nThe panelists’ work engages questions central to these conversations: how can we track the provenance and life histories of specimens that have little identifying information? Should we? How might digital tools engage new stewards of these remains? What does it mean to anonymize or de-anonymize human remains? How might contemporary frameworks like informed consent and patient privacy help and hinder efforts to steward collections? When and how can we discover possible descendent communities? What processes might be required to inform these communities about ancestral remains? How might we reframe the history of physician-patient relationships by accounting for collecting practices? Each presenter will emphasize different considerations and approaches to recontextualizing\, [un]displaying\, or returning human remains. We will additionally invite attendees to briefly share their own experience so that we can all learn from each other. We will take notes and create a resource about projects in progress and tactics attendees are using.\n\nChair email: \;cthompson@history.msstate.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nIdentify changes in medical collection practices and interpretations over timeDeepen understanding of current landscape of repatriation work or the recontextualization of collectionsDevelop a historically informed sensitivity to patients whose bodies physicians exhibited as specimens (including appreciation of class\, gender\, socio-economic status\, ethnicity\, cultural\, spiritual orientations)\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:60d5ea5c6bef0ef9c5303754b7e720d3 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/60d5ea5c6bef0ef9c5303754b7e720d3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T184500Z DTEND:20260606T193000Z SUMMARY:AAHM Business Meeting DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:ad0a0ba6fff22cf71e4713a9d4dfb4e2 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/ad0a0ba6fff22cf71e4713a9d4dfb4e2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T193000Z DTEND:20260606T194500Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:83f523d06e5e94273704a846dfbbdd35 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/83f523d06e5e94273704a846dfbbdd35 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G1. How Medicine Decides What Counts as Evidence DESCRIPTION:1. \;Barron Lerner\, \;Bad Attitudes: Thomas Holmes and the Connection of Emotion to Disease \;(barron.lerner@nyulangone.org)\n2. Stephen Casper\, \;Why We Can No Longer Diagnose What We Discovered: A Genealogy of Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome \;(scasper@clarkson.edu)\n3. Johanna Schoen\, \;Pain and the Premature Infant \;(johanna.schoen@rutgers.edu)\n\nChair email: \;jeffrey.baker@duke.edu\n\nThis panel explores the changing nature of evidence in the history of medicine\, emphasizing the social and cultural factors that have influenced scientific assessment. First\, Stephen Casper explores traumatic brain injuries over time\, noting how standardization of diagnosis supplanted clinical observations. While providing a uniform diagnosis\, a term such as “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy” may have little connection and meaning for individual patients. \n\nSecond\, Barron Lerner revisits a forgotten episode in the history of psychosomatic medicine in which a post-World War II psychiatrist named Thomas Holmes developed an elaborate system tying specific emotional states to the development of various diseases. While evolving standards of clinical evidence eventually disproved most of Holmes’ connections\, his concept of emotions—and their visual representations—was a patient-centered approach to understanding complicated illnesses. \n\nThird\, Johanna Schoen explores the evidence used by physicians to justify the withholding of anesthesia for infants—arguing that they felt no pain. It was not until the 1980s that parents became aware that their infants received no anesthesia/pain control\, and it took another decade to change clinical practice.  \;\n\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:831a8a36d09a789b31539b4a2bf1fced URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/831a8a36d09a789b31539b4a2bf1fced END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G2. Carceral Sickness in the State of New York DESCRIPTION:Scholars like Harriet Washington\, Heather Ann Thompson\, and Susan Reverby have illuminated the history of substandard healthcare provision in American prisons during the twentieth century. They have identified the many harms endured and resisted by generations of prisoners\, their families\, and broader communities\, harms arising from factors like enduring racism\, medical experimentation\, malnutrition\, overcrowding\, inadequate service provision and oversight\, and unmet mental health needs. Despite reports and inquiries spanning decades\, from Rector’s 1929 survey of medical provision in American prisons to investigations surrounding the 1971 Attica uprising\, the carceral system’s health problems have remained deeply entrenched and widespread\, especially following the rise of mass incarceration in the 1970s.  \;\n\nThis roundtable discussion will draw connections and comparisons across one hundred years of prisoners’ health experiences in the state of New York\, with a particular focus on infectious disease. The research team - three formerly incarcerated scholars and one university-affiliated historian - came together in 2024 to investigate questions of sickness\, disability\, race\, and scientific racism using century-old prison records at the New York State Archives. \;\nBuilding from an archival exploration of syphilis treatment during the 1920s at Elmira Reformatory\, the Institution of Defective Delinquents at Napanoch\, and Sing Sing Prison\, the discussion will expand to foreground more recently incarcerated individuals’ experiences facing infectious diseases like HIV\, Hepatitis C\, and COVID-19. Questions the speakers will address include:\nHow did changing testing and treatment standards for syphilis affect New York prisoners during the 1910s and 1920s?To what extent were/are prisoners coerced into treatment and to what extent could/can they resist?In what ways did/do certain diseases attract moral punishment within prison settings?How might the inclusion of formerly incarcerated scholars in the research and writing process lead to a richer understanding of historical and present-day healthcare challenges within the carceral system?Chair email: \;ram78@cam.ac.uk\n\nLearning Outcomes\nDevelop a historically informed understanding of sickness and health in the carceral systemDevelop an understanding of the enduring nature of inadequate healthcare provision in American prisonsLearn about research co-production methodology\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:7ec406f3392fdac367b7d7f82b04c04b URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/7ec406f3392fdac367b7d7f82b04c04b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G3. Cross Cultural Borders of Care DESCRIPTION:1. \;Rohini Dasgupta\,The Other Pains: Cervical Cancer\, Colonial Medicine\, and Reproductive Subjectivity in 20th-Century India \;(rohini.dasgupta@wisc.edu)\n2. Xiaoyun Zhao\, Nursing Book Publishing and the Development of Modern Chinese Nursing during the Republic of China (1912–1949) \;(xiz434@pitt.edu)\n3. Yao Tang\, Crossing Borders of Care: The Professionalization of Women in Nursing and China–U.S. Collaboration at Xiangya\, 1909–1926 \;(tmr7zq@virginia.edu)\n\nChair email: \;rcc9vq@virginia.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:d5606ea68a594c6380f21e0f44286743 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d5606ea68a594c6380f21e0f44286743 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G4. Examining the Past\, Building the Future: The Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing at 40 DESCRIPTION:In 1986\, the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at Penn Nursing received official recognition as a center by the University of Pennsylvania. Its inaugural leadership included visionary nursing leaders like Joan S. Lynaugh\, Ellen D. Baer\, and Lillian S. Brunner\, and the historian of medicine Charles Rosenberg. From its earliest days\, the Center articulated a multi-faceted\, interdisciplinary mission that aimed to document\, collect\, and preserve the history of nursing and to produce new research in the history of nursing for the benefit of the nursing profession. But perhaps more than anything else\, the Center has served as a crucial community-building hub that has historically brought together scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Nurses\, historians\, and physicians (and all the combinations therein) have found themselves drawn into the Bates Center’s orbit over the years. Through its expansive archival collections as well as its outreach in education\, research\, publication\, funding\, and programming\, the Center has arguably had an outsized impact on shaping the field of the history of nursing given its small size. Its reach has spread around the world\, its impact profoundly shaping not only the history of nursing\, but also the history of medicine and the field of nursing itself. This roundtable brings together six individuals who have helped shape the Bates Center’s story over the past four decades to critically discuss the Center’s dual role as a bridge between nursing and history\, and between the history of nursing and the history of medicine. Please join us as we recognize the Bates Center’s 40th \;anniversary with a critical and lively discussion of the Center’s past impact\, its struggles\, its successes\, and how we can build on this rich and complicated past to envision its future.\n\nLearning Outcomes\nDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of nursing and medicine.Identify successes and failures in the history of nursing and medical professionalism.Recognize the dynamic interrelationship between nursing\, medicine and society through history\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:13fff7d2810a736e99cc253a826730db URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/13fff7d2810a736e99cc253a826730db END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G5. Thinking with Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:This roundtable brings together a group of scholars to discuss the possibilities for future directions in the history of medicine from the vantage of Southeast Asia. As a place of tremendous cultural and ecological diversity\, shaped by the collision of different colonizing and decolonizing projects\, Southeast Asia focuses our attention on those cross-cultural circulations of knowledge and transnational networks of expertise that shaped the everyday experiences of medicine\, health and caregiving across the region and beyond. Indeed\, we argue that this region\, which remains "peripheral" to scholarship on the history of medicine\, was never just "out there" but was instead a constitutive feature of the global development of medicine and public health. The four panelists will offer vignettes from their current projects. Anh Le (Assistant Professor\, Muhlenberg College) will speak about how connections across diasporic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia reshaped the meaning and practice of traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Vietnam. Thuy Linh Nguyen (Associate Professor\, Mount Saint Mary College) will discuss the health impacts of the colonial mining industry amidst the intensification of colonial capitalism and ecological degradation in Vietnam’s northern borderlands with China. Claire Edington (Associate Professor\, University of California - San Diego) will discuss how we might use archival sources to recover the experiences of drug users and their families in Vietnam across the twentieth century. Michitake Aso (University at Albany - SUNY) will talk about the public health response to Agent Orange during and after the Vietnam War as a way to reframe our understanding of the relationship of medical science and postwar politics. This discussion will showcase how the history of medicine in Southeast Asia offers valuable conceptual frames for widening our field of vision\, both within HOM and Southeast Asian Studies. \;\n\nChair email: \;cedington@ucsd.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nTo deepen understanding of the importance of Southeast Asia to the global history of medicine and public healthTo think with Southeast Asia as a generative site for exploring new themes and methodologies in the history of medicineTo reflect more generally on the relationship between area studies and the history of medicine\, and to chart out future steps for collaboration across fields.\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Ellicott Room\, Hyatt\, Floor 2 SEQUENCE:0 UID:ecc8941cc8f713ea4b16b232f8bb4cda URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/ecc8941cc8f713ea4b16b232f8bb4cda END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T194500Z DTEND:20260606T211500Z SUMMARY:G6. Historians' Role in Researching and Writing Amicus Briefs DESCRIPTION:This workshop will bring together AAHM members who have recently written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court and appeals courts\, among them Chiles v. Salazar (2025)\, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)\, and GenBioPro v. Raynes et. al. (2025). Topics covered will be: the reasons for sharing our historical knowledge in this way\, especially at this point in time\; the differences between academic history writing and this kind of legal writing\; and the practical challenges of working with lawyers and law firms on a tight schedule. As part of our preparation\, we plan on surveying AAHM members to collect information on how many have worked on amicus briefs in the past five years. Also\, we will discuss the feasibility of creating a handbook of information—what we wish someone had told us at the start—to share with other AAHM members who decide to do this kind of work. We will also discuss the feasibility of creating and publicizing a list of AAHM members interested in writing amicus briefs.\n\nChair email: \;rkluchin@csus.edu\n\nThe Roosevelt Room is on the \;2nd Floor \;of the Genesee Building.From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The \;Roosevelt \;Room \;is located above the Citizens Banks \;Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.\nLearning Outcomes\nUnderstand why historians of medicine are asked to write amicus briefsUnderstand how amicus briefs are written and how this writing differs from other kinds of academic historical writingGain insight into how historians collaborate with lawyersEvaluate types of resources that would help future historians write amicus briefs.\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Roosevelt Room\, Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:782779c1591b504e23e7068b4d4df326 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/782779c1591b504e23e7068b4d4df326 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T213000Z DTEND:20260606T230000Z SUMMARY:Bates Reception DESCRIPTION:Join the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing for a celebratory toast marking 40 years of leadership\, scholarship\, mentorship\, and archival stewardship in the history of nursing. Attendees that paid to participate in the 2026 annual meeting are invited to stop by at any point during the reception to connect with colleagues\, celebrate the Center’s legacy\, and honor its continued impact on the field. CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Genesee Public House\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:e496c29b55d72f81669b130b321010ac URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/e496c29b55d72f81669b130b321010ac END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260606T220000Z DTEND:20260607T000000Z SUMMARY:Student Happy Hour DESCRIPTION:AAHM student attendees from can gather at reserved tables at Fattey Beer Co. (right across from the hotel!). Grab drink tickets upon arrival. Some appetizers available\; you can also bring food. \; CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Fattey Beer Co.\, 5 Genesee St. SEQUENCE:0 UID:86357ae5ca77f1ba1772af7fe252ca92 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/86357ae5ca77f1ba1772af7fe252ca92 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T110000Z DTEND:20260607T120000Z SUMMARY:Post Mortem DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MEETING LOCATION:Regency Ballroom BC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:8140d85915823c7214142fd38bf7e455 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/8140d85915823c7214142fd38bf7e455 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T110000Z DTEND:20260607T121500Z SUMMARY:Breakfast DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom ABC\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:6d9e9df77b35181bb5b796dc644e72bd URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/6d9e9df77b35181bb5b796dc644e72bd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T110000Z DTEND:20260607T160000Z SUMMARY:Registration DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:REGISTRATION LOCATION:Coatroom\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:b4a3425fbfdb0c3cdd1318319b593049 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/b4a3425fbfdb0c3cdd1318319b593049 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T123000Z DTEND:20260607T140000Z SUMMARY:H1. Therapeutic Jurisprudence DESCRIPTION:1. David Korostyshevsky\, \;Locked in a Mad House: Guardianship\, Asylums\, and the Medical Incarceration of Habitual Drunkards in the Gilded Age \;(david.korostyshevsky@colostate.edu)\n2. Peper Rivers\, \;“‘Artificial Motivation’: The American Experiment with Civil Commitment for People Who Use Drugs (1961-1971)” \;(pelang@iu.edu)\n3. Elizabeth Nelson (eanelson@iu.edu) and Jarrod Wall (jarrodmwall@gmail.com)\, \;Getting into the DSM: Diagnostic Recognition of Trauma among Vietnam Vets and the Formerly Incarcerated\n\nChair email: marembis@buffalo.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:cddbdb7f5195f5d33fe130df87a6e020 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/cddbdb7f5195f5d33fe130df87a6e020 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T123000Z DTEND:20260607T140000Z SUMMARY:H2. After the Single Use: Toxicity and Risk in Medical Technologies DESCRIPTION:1. \;Eloïse Richard\, \;Toxic Asepsis: Chemical Sterilization and the Rise of Disposable Medical Devices in the 20th Century \;(eloise.richard@unige.ch)\n2. Amanda Mahoney\, \;“A non-expendable disposable\,”: Nurses\, Central Supply\, and the Problem of Tubing in U.S. Hospitals\, 1915-1965 (axm1342@case.edu)\n3. Sloane Wesloh\, \;Personal health devices\, chronic disease\, and the consumerization of risk \;(s.wesloh@pitt.edu)\n\nChair email: \;joseph.gabriel@med.fsu.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:d7d4659a9f968ac8a8f24132a5417a40 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d7d4659a9f968ac8a8f24132a5417a40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T123000Z DTEND:20260607T140000Z SUMMARY:H3. Disease\, Disability\, and Dissection DESCRIPTION:1. \;Walton Schalick\, \;The Twin Paradox: A Study of Health\, Disease\, and Disability in theTwelfth-century De gemellis \;(schalick@wisc.edu)\n2. Brian Long\, \;Learned Medicine among the Saints: Quantifying Medical Miracles in the Long Twelfth Century \;(brian.paul.long@gmail.com)\n\nChair email: \;wturner1@augusta.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:abd8b80c04dec9a78f67507013419ff9 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/abd8b80c04dec9a78f67507013419ff9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T123000Z DTEND:20260607T140000Z SUMMARY:H4. Why the History of Medicine Needs Trans and Intersex Studies DESCRIPTION:This roundtable brings together scholars working at the intersection of trans studies\, intersex studies\, and the history of medicine. The roundtable argues that the history of medicine stands to benefit from a greater engagement with some of the central questions of trans and intersex studies\, namely: the historical and social contingency of concepts like sex\, gender\, and identity\; the role of medicine in coercive and carceral treatment of trans and intersex people\; and the positioning of trans and intersex people as objects rather than subjects of medical\, social\, and cultural knowledges.\n\n\nCritical trans and intersex studies has produced a long-standing body of scholarship reckoning with the nature and social consequences of medicalized concepts like sex\, gender\, and identity. How can engagement with critical trans and intersex studies enrich the understanding of these concepts held by both scholars and practitioners? What would it mean for both medical education and the history of medicine to center trans and intersex people as producers of knowledge on these categories\, rather than objects of clinical investigation?\n\n\nTrans and intersex people in the U.S. have been subject to remarkably high levels of psychiatric incarceration\, forced surgical and medical interventions\, and medically justified criminal detention. As such\, trans and intersex studies has long engaged with medicine as a site of coercive and carceral power. The history of medicine\, on the other hand\, has been slower to turn to trans and intersex studies as a source of knowledge and scholarship on the coercive and carceral potential of medicine. \;What can medicine learn about itself by engaging more proactively with trans and intersex studies? What would it mean for medical education to include the history of medicine’s collaboration with carceral and state power to vis a vis trans and intersex people?\n\nChair email: \;ccannon@gwu.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nDevelop an historically informed sensitivity to the diversity of patients (including appreciation of class\, gender\, socio-economic status\, ethnicity\, cultural\, spiritual orientations)Recognize the dynamic interrelationship between medicine and society through historyDevelop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature\, ends and limits of medicine\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:0a075e152effc4a34e43522830b26176 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/0a075e152effc4a34e43522830b26176 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T140000Z DTEND:20260607T143000Z SUMMARY:Break DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:NETWORKING LOCATION:Grand Ballroom Foyer\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:4a33ff8364f92b2e5788811dfb44f76c URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/4a33ff8364f92b2e5788811dfb44f76c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T143000Z DTEND:20260607T160000Z SUMMARY:I1. Rethinking Epidemic Moments DESCRIPTION:1. Stephen Pemberton\, \;A Case of Medical Tragedy and ‘Doctor Guilt’ \;(stephen.g.pemberton@njit.edu)\n2. Ashley Brown\, \;Situating Kahnawà:ke in the 1885 Montreal Smallpox Epidemic \;(brown.ashle@northeastern.edu)\n3. Knowledge G. Moyo\, \;Blood\, HIV/AIDS\, and the Hematological Diagnosis of a Diseased Nation\, c 1985- 2000 \;(kgm2254@my.utexas.edu)\n\nChair email: \;emily.webster@durham.ac.uk CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom E\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:d691d6e6264725a2ae40fa23166845f1 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/d691d6e6264725a2ae40fa23166845f1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T143000Z DTEND:20260607T160000Z SUMMARY:I2. Expertise Across Medical Boundaries DESCRIPTION:1. \;Lucas Richert\, \;"The Physician Is Boss?”: Scope Creep\, Status Strain\, and the Pharmacist–Physician Divide in American Healthcare \;(lucas.richert@wisc.edu)\n2. Libby O'Neil\, \;Wired Up: Biofeedback Research between Medicine and Counterculture in the 1970s (eso39@msstate.edu)\n3. Matthew Soleiman\, \;“Ten Steps from Patient to Person”: Self-Help Activism and the Emergence of the American Chronic Pain Association \;(mtsoleim@ucsd.edu)\n\nChair email: \;jas34@case.edu CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom F\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:aa892af3dcfa568aa91bf1aa3484a22c URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/aa892af3dcfa568aa91bf1aa3484a22c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T143000Z DTEND:20260607T160000Z SUMMARY:I3. Who's Afraid of ChatGPT? DESCRIPTION:The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence into clinical medicine\, education\, and other contexts raises concerns about the risks of this technology and who should be held responsible when AI causes preventable harm. Efforts to automate labor and decision-making have a complex history\, connecting tests\, forms\, timers\, meters\, machines\, and algorithms. This roundtable will discuss how automation technologies produce novel and sometimes unexpected risks\, tend to reinforce existing social hierarchies\, and disrupt lines of accountability for undesirable outcomes ranging from injuries to the misallocation of scarce resources. Based on these problems and the rhetoric around automation since the early-1900s\, we will consider the extent to which the real and perceived dangers of AI are “new” or continuations of the longer-term trend of automation.\n\n\nThis roundtable consists of four historians and anthropologists of medicine and technology who have studied the practical applications and cultural meanings of automation from the twentieth century to the present. Andrew Lea\, author of the book \;Digitizing Diagnosis \;(2023)\, has mapped the early history of computer-assisted diagnosis and is working on the history of software errors involving radiation therapy and electronic blood banks. Zeynel Gül studies the medical and legal uncertainty around the diagnosis and treatment of silicosis in present-day Turkey\, documenting how depersonalized technologies and procedures invalidate the claims of sick workers. Tina Wei has investigated the history of workplace fatigue with particular attention to time-motion studies and the paper tools used to screen and to structure the labor force. Alex Parry works on home accidents and consumer product safety\, showing how engineering fail-safes can simultaneously protect appliance users and lead some of these users to take unnecessary risks.\n\n\nAltogether\, this roundtable will help its participants reflect on the dynamic place of automation in the history of medicine and the continued push to make AI central to our work as educators\, researchers\, and clinicians.\n\nChair email: \;scasper@clarkson.edu\n\nLearning Outcomes\nDescribe the historical continuities and discontinuities between artificial intelligence and earlier automation technologies\, especially their effects on health and safety.Explain how automation technologies can contribute to undesirable outcomes including injuries and the misallocation of medical resources.Apply insights from history and medical anthropology to evaluate the role of automation technologies in present-day healthcare systems and academic institutions.\n\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Grand Ballroom G\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:9aefe432369c21bdf5cfa2b6b228b9f1 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/9aefe432369c21bdf5cfa2b6b228b9f1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T143000Z DTEND:20260607T160000Z SUMMARY:I4. Histories and Ethics of Medical Photography DESCRIPTION:1. Brynne McBryde\, \;Photographic Manipulation and the Shaping of the Medical Record \;(bmcbryde@umd.edu)\n2. Christine Slobogin\, Feminized Anonymity: Gender and Privacy in Patient Photographs \;(christine_slobogin@urmc.rochester.edu)\n3. Kathleen Pierce\, Photographing the Animal Research Subject \;(kpierce@smith.edu)\n\nChair email: selederer@wisc.edu \;\n\n\n CATEGORIES:CONCURRENT SESSION LOCATION:Regency Ballroom A\, Hyatt\, Mezzanine Level SEQUENCE:0 UID:26a50a5a0fb33253caad42d44e8185bc URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/26a50a5a0fb33253caad42d44e8185bc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T024957Z DTSTART:20260607T170000Z DTEND:20260607T210000Z SUMMARY:Niagara Falls Excursion (Optional add-on via Registration) DESCRIPTION:While you’re in nearby Buffalo\, take the opportunity to visit Niagara Falls!\n \nA chartered bus will depart from the conference hotel (Hyatt) at 1:00 pm on Sunday\, June 7\, for a self-guided\, two-hour visit to the Falls. The bus will return to the Hyatt between 4:00 and 5:00 pm.\n \nTravel time is approximately 25 minutes each way. \;\n\nCost: $50 per person \;\nHow to join: Select the Niagara Falls Excursion option when registering for the meeting. CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hyatt Regency\, 2 Fountain Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY 14202\, USA SEQUENCE:0 UID:9eb5e3ba23dcaad56049035f87df80e3 URL:http://aahm2026.sched.com/event/9eb5e3ba23dcaad56049035f87df80e3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR