Lunch and Learn: A Guided Tour through the New Digital Collections of the Edward Kremers Research Library and Archive
Thursday, February 13th
12:00 (noon) Central
Join University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy archivist Hannah Swan for a deep dive into the new digital collections of the Edward Kremers Research Library and Archive! Launched on January 22nd, the 84th anniversary of AIHP, the Digital Collections of the Edward Kremers Research Library and Archive hold over seven hundred items—and continue to grow.
While taking us through some of the many treasures in the collections, Swan will orient users to the ins and outs of researching in the new system. Learn how items are selected and what it takes to catalog them, explore the rich visuals of nineteenth-century advertising, and hear about upcoming additions to AIHP’s digitization program. And we want to hear from you! Time will be given at the end for questions, comments, and user feedback.
This is a members-only event, check your email or contact aihp@aihp.org for the link to register. Don’t feel left out if you can’t make the event. This talk will get added to our members-only YouTube channel for you to watch at your convenience.
Kremers Award Lecture How Empire Turned People into Patients
Dr. Zachary Dorner
Thursday, February 20th
12:00 (noon) Central
The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of British history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on coerced labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare that underwrote this change.
In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. These experiences helped reconceptualize people whose health had once been understood individualistically into interchangeable patients and provided evidence for emergent ideas of racial difference.
Sickness and commerce are ubiquitous presences in our lives, intimately tied to our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us, yet they remain subject to material power outside our control. It feels urgent now, as it always has been, to identify the extent to which such abstraction has shaped our expectations of our own bodies and the bodies of those around us.
Register for the event here. This event is open to the public. The talk will be recorded and placed on our public YouTube Channel.
Artifacts Roadshow
Dr. Gregory Higby
Thursday, March 6th
12:00 pm (noon) Central
Join Dr. Higby as he talks about artifacts from our collection, and maybe even yours!
If you have an artifact that you would like Dr. Higby to talk about or identify, please send photographs of the object to aihp@aihp.org before February 28th.
This is a members-only event, and registration is required.
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (HoPP) Open House with HoPP Editorial Board Members
Thursday, March 13th
11:00 am Central
Learn about the journal and what editors are looking for in a submitted article.
This is a members-only event, and registration is required.
Pharmacy Fatigue & Burnout with Dr. Jason Perepelkin
Tuesday, April 8th
4:00 pm Central
This event is open to the public, and registration is required. Register for the event here.
Ketamine Therapy & Pharmacy with Dr. Jason Perepelkin
Wednesday, April 9th
3:00 pm Central
This event is open to the public, and registration is required. Register for the event here.
Access the Pharmacy in History JSTOR Archive
All past issues of Pharmacy in History have been digitized and are text-searchable at JSTOR.
Note: Academic libraries seeking subscriptions to History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals should directly contact the University of Wisconsin Press.
Read MoreUpcoming events of interest to pharmacists and historians of pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, medicines, science, and related fields. (Event information current when posted.):
March 21-24, 2025: APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Nashville, TN.
May 1-4, 2025: Annual Meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine, Boston, MA.
May 13-16, 2025: National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
June 7-11, 2025: ASHP Pharmacy Futures Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
July 19-22, 2025: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
December 7-11, 2025: ASHP Midyear, Las Vegas, NV.