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This three day conference hosted by the Wellcome Unit for the history of medicine, University of Oxford, and sponsored by the African Studies Centre (University of Oxford), Wellcome Trust, the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM), and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) will bring together researchers and scholars working on diverse contexts and topics within imperial and colonial medicine. The goal of the conference is to challenge boundaries defining imperial and colonial medicine, questioning and expanding upon recent historiography concerned with relationships between 'metropole' and 'periphery' in the construction and diffusion of medical and scientific knowledge. As more research reveals further networks and linkages between diverse people, places and ways of knowing disease, health and hygiene, ideas that constitute our current understanding of imperial and colonial medicine are coming under closer scrutiny.

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Considering such areas as transnational relationships, class, gender, race, and politics this conference hopes to expand upon and critique recent 'turns' in imperial and colonial history, contributing to a deeper understanding of the complex entanglements in the development of medicine as it was imagined and practised in local imperial and colonial contexts.

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Speakers will include: Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick), Professor David Hardiman (University of Warwick), Professor Waltraud Ernst (Oxford Brookes University), Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford), Professor Anne-Marie Rafferty (Kings College, London), Professor Barbara Ramusack (University of Cincinnati), Professor Howard Phillips (University of Cape Town), and Professor Sioban Nelson (University of Toronto).

 Conference Organiser: Mr. Ryan Johnson.

Conference Administration: Ms. Carol Brady and Ms. Belinda Michaelides