Prof. Frank W. Stahnisch participates in the ICHST Congress 2025

Over the past week (June 29th to July 5th, 2025), UCalgary History's Dr. Frank Stahnisch has actively participated in the International Congress for the History of Science and Technology (ICHST, 2025) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, by presenting a paper on “The Post-Weimar Quest for Holism: Forced-Migration and the Neurological Foundations of the Rehabilitative Medicine Field” and chairing two panels on “Medicine in the Twentieth Century” and “Vernaculars and Sciences of Brain Damage: Harm, Risk, and the Body in Global Sporting Culture, 1870-Present" on which he gave commentary. 

The papers by Prof. Stephen Casper (Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York) "Punch Drunk Slugnuts: Global Sport, Culture and the Medicalization of Neuromolecular Degeneration", Dr. Stephen Townsend (University of Queensland, Australia) "She’ll be right, mate”: Collisions of Science and Masculinity in the Australian Concussion Crisis", Prof. Kathryn Henne (Australian National University) "Enacting Female Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports: Gendered Politics of Recognition and Non-Knowledge", and Prof. Kathleen Bachynski (Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA) "The Curious Case of the Q Collar, and Other “Brain Protection” Devices" were intellectually rich and spanned history of neuroscience, sport and cultural history, sociological analyses, and well-crafted health economic considerations and contexts.