25th meeting of the International Society of the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN2021 Virtual)

9 Jul 2021 14:00 to 21:00

Event timezone: (UTC 0.00) London
 

The 25th meeting of the ISHN will now be held VIRTUALLY by Zoom on Friday July 9th, as the meeting in Rennes had to be postponed due to COVID-19.

The meeting is FREE, but for organising purposes (limited Zoom capacity, which may need to be extended), please register using this link: ISHN 2021 VIRTUAL MEETING Billets, Le ven 9 juil. 2021 à 15:00

Instructions for joining (Invite link, Meeting ID and Passcode) will be sent by Eventbrite a few day prior to the event.

Program

Please note that the times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST). We start at 3 pm Amsterdam/Paris; that is 2 pm in London and 9 am in New York).

15.00 – 15.45 Alastair Compston: Thomas Willis: neurology, the doctrine of the nerves

15.45 – 16.30

Jörg Jewanski (with Sean A. Day): From obscure feeling (1772) to synesthesia (1892): The rediscovery of the early history of research on synesthesia.
16.30 – 16.45 Break
16.45 – 17.30

Tilli Tansey: Henry Dale: physiologist, pharmacologist or neuroscientist?

17.30 – 18.15 Fernando Vidal: Brainfilms and Us
18.15 – 19.00 Donald Stein: A personal perspective on the history of treatments and recovery from brain injuries
19.00 – 20.30 Break
20.30 – 21.15 Douglas Lanska: Prusiner and the prion
21.15 – 22.00

Informal part of the program including Wendy Finger's presentation of 25 years of ISHN followed by toast and chatting.

 

More information: http://www.neurohistory.nl/ishn-2020-rennes/