National Endowment for the Humanities Medical Humanities Conference

NEH Med-Hum Conf


  • Event Date: 2025-10-02 ~ 2025-10-03
  • Abstract Submission Date: 2025-02-01
  • Submission Date: 2025-02-01
  • Organizer: Sam Houston State University
  • Location: Huntsville, United States of America

Humanities, Literature & Arts (General)



NEH Medical Humanities Conferenc



Sam Houston State University



Huntsville, Texas



October 2-3, 2025



Call for Panel and Paper Proposals



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



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



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



 



Community Health



Health Disparities



Health and the Environment



Health Justice



History of Medicine



Medicalization of Society



Medicine and the Arts and Literature



Medicine and Ethics



Medicine, Globalization, and New Infectious Diseases



Medicine, Health, and Society



Medicine and Public Policy



Medicine: Traditional/Folkloric/Alternative and Contemporary



Medicine and (World) Languages



Nutrition and Wellness



Political Determinates of Decision-Making in Medicine



Medical Education



Public Health and Prevention



AI in Medicine



 



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



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



 



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



Please send your abstract electronically to



NEH Medical Humanities Conference



Abstract Review Committee



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