Mastodon feed- Untitled March 31, 2026Please come along to our book launch in Oxford of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim published by Oxford University Press. Three chapters of the book are also available Open Access, find them at the following link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/public-health-in-the-premodern-world-9780198969464?lang=3n&cc=rs#For those on the other side of […]
- Untitled March 26, 2026Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4FElavGNTvCSSM0svVliBGEVrI4Kvm/view?usp=sharingRegistration: https://forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQjaXG38 #histmed #histstm
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Public Lecture – “Premodern Public Health: The End of an Oxymoron?”
Wednesday 18 April, 2018 at Monash University, Australia. For more information, please contact Jocelyne Mohamudally (Email: jocelyne.mohamudally@monash.edu), or visit: https://arts.monash.edu/about/sophis.
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History Research Seminar: “In the Camp and on the March: How Armies Shaped Public Health History in the Premodern World”
“In the Camp and on the March: How Armies Shaped Public Health History in the Premodern World” Guy Geltner (UvA) 8 March 2018, 15:00–17:00 – VOC-zaal, Bushuis Public health is widely viewed as a modern pursuit, enabled especially by the … Continue reading
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Upcoming Conference – Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, Monash University, 13-15 December 2017
This conference represents the first analysis of how diseased bodies were represented in Italy during the ‘long Renaissance’, from the early 1400s through ca. 1650. Many individual studies by historians of art and medicine address specific aspects of this subject, … Continue reading
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CfP to a session/s on “Premodern Public Health: Comparing Cities, 1250-1750”
We are delighted that a session we proposed for the European Association for Urban History Conference (Rome 29/8-1/9/2018) has been accepted. You can apply to submit papers for this session until 5/10/2017 (note the very early deadline). See the full … Continue reading
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