We are delighted to invite scholars to the international conference Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1600–1900 to be held at the University of Helsinki on 11–13 March 2026. The conference is organised by
This international conference explores how different forms of experimental practices have been used to gain knowledge around healing and the human body at large both within and outside scholarly medicine. The goal is to access and examine how experimentation has taken place and shaped knowledge around questions of health and healing roughly between the years 1600 and 1900.
The registration for the conference is open until 25.02.2026.