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Seminar: Health and medicine museums are good for you
Sunday 5 July 2015 at 10.00am to 1.00pm

Venue: The Harry Daly Museum, Australian Society of Anaesthetists, North Sydney

The seminar is open to conference attendees and all other interested people. It will focus on the use of collections to engage audiences through, for example, exhibitions, websites, etc. The main emphasis will be on sharing ideas suitable for small and/or volunteer-managed health and medicine museums.

To RSVP, offer a short presentation on this theme, or request more information, please contact Megan Hicks, mobile 0428 647 747, email meganix@optusnet.com.au. 

Conference attendees who cannot make it to the seminar are invited to contact curator Anna Gebels to arrange a viewing of the Harry Daly Museum during the week, telephone 02 8556 9708, email agebels@asa.org.au. 

Australian College of Nursing - History Conference 
29 June 2015 - Sydney, NSW 

Venue: The Peter Cosgrove Centre
Level 22, Tenison Woods House
8 - 20 Napier Street
MacKillop Campus, North Sydney

The conference will give members the opportunity to refelect on the unique history of our profession and hear from presenters on the important milestones that have shaped nursing history in Australia. Register your interest below to receive email updates as event information is released.

Psychiatric History and the History of Psychiatry - Comparative Perspectives and New Research
2nd International Research Workshop
29 June 2015 - Sydney, NSW 

Venue: Room 16 A/B
Level 16, Tension Woods House
8 - 20 Napier Street
North Sydney Campus, Australia Catholic University

This event presents a series of papers about psychiatric history and the history of psychiatry. Papers address a variety of themes, including methodological and theoretical discussions of mental health histories, transnational and local perspectives from the 19th century, lessons and examples from Indonesian psychiatry, mental health practices in wartime, Catholic traditions and the closure of institutions in the 1970s in Italy.