Conference Call for:
“City and Public Health: Urban History and Medical Humanities”
The 4th International Conference of the East-Asian Society for Urban History & 2nd International Conference of the HK+ Institute for Integrated Medical Humanities
11 September, 2021
Online
The Covid-19 Pandemic, that has been going on for more than a year now, calls for a variety of reflections on the history of human civilization. There is no doubt that civilizations originated from very ancient cities, and one of the many conceptual definitions of these cities is that they are dense, permanent settlements of human beings. In the struggle against various diseases, mankind has developed medicine through academic and scientific research in the cities, through treatment and care for the sick. Advances in medical thought, knowledge, and medical technology have influenced the formation of urban infrastructure and helped establish the public health system of modern cities. Under the unprecedented conditions of pandemic, the 4th East-Asian Society for Urban History conference, 2021 aims to focus on the history of public health within cities. Urban history itself is a unique field, but the cooperation with the medical humanities this year is expected to produce greater academic results. We hope that the East-Asian Urban History Society conference will be a place to discuss new academic attempts to analyze the history of public health from the urban historical perspective to the medical humanities perspective, or a combination of both perspectives.
The East-Asian Society for Urban History and the HK+ Institute for Integrated Medical Humanities are happy to announce the call for papers. An abstract of no more than 300 words is to be submitted according to the instructions below. We welcome papers from various academic fields covering all aspects of Cities and Public Health, including the following themes;
Urban hygiene; public health; health cities; urban planning and public health; cities and hospitals; water and health; city governance and infectious diseases; urban preparedness for epidemics; disease and urban social change; disease and urban culture; medical and urban networks.
Preparatory Committee
Chairman of the Preparatory Committee
Min You-ki (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Members of Committee
Se Hoon Park (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea)
Sam-hun Park (Konkuk University, Korea)
Chulhyun Park (Kookmin University, Korea)
Jeongeun Jo (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Youngmi Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Seungrae Kim (Tokyo University, Japan)