INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF NURSING
London 14 to 16 September, 2010
The European Nursing History Group (ENHG) and the American Association for the History of Nursing
(AAHN) are pleased to announce their international conference in the History of Nursing and
Midwifery.
Join us at the Royal Holloway University of London
in September 2010 for this landmark event and present your work to an interdisciplinary and
international audience.
To be held in the International Year of the Nurse, and timed to run alongside commemorative
events to mark the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale, the conference aims to
showcase innovative and scholarly work by nurse-historians and academics from allied disciplines.
The conference will appeal to historians of nursing and medicine, women's historians, critical
theorists and intellectual historians.
The conference is run jointly by the American Association for the History of Nursing and The
European Nursing History Group, which comprises four organizations:
- Nurses Voices (FHSC Kingston University & St. George's University of London);
- The UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery;
- The Irish Center for Nursing and Midwifery History;
- The History Society of the Royal College of Nursing, UK.
The scientific programme will take place over three days, from 14th to 16th September, 2010 and
will include pre-conference workshops on aspects of historical method.
The conference will comprise plenary sessions, concurrent sessions on pre-specified themes, and
poster presentations. Guest speakers include Dr Afaf Meleis, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and
Mark Bostridge, biographer and author of Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend.