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• 22 mar 2012

  23 mar 2012

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - History

  Catholic perspectives on capital cities, 19th-20th centuries

  Brussels, Paris, Quebec, Rome

  Le colloque Regards catholiques sur les capitales entend reprendre la question complexe du rapport des catholiques à la ville par le bout des capitales nationales. Comment se fait-il que, même dans des pays profondément catholiques et influencés par un clergé puissant, les capitales nationales aient été perçues par certaines élites comme des havres du libéralisme et des lieux privilégiés de tolérance religieuse tandis que, pour d’autres, elles symbolisaient toutes les subversions ? Il s’agit d’objectiver cette tension.

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• 26 avr 2013

  27 avr 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Food and Hospitals

  An Historical Perspective

  While contemporary grumblings about hospital food have become the quintessential hospital complaint, it is undeniable that a clean, warm bed, rest and the provision of food and drink, rather than medicines and therapies have always greatly increased hospital patients’ chances of recovery. Indeed diet has from the time of Galen been a central part of medical therapy. However, even if central to the day-to-day routine of hospitals, workhouses and asylums, food and drink continue to be overlooked in historical accounts of hospitalisation. This conference aims to foreground the role of food and drink in health care institutions in the past.

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