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 […]
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Public Film Screening, Deakin University
Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre will hold their final CES stream event for the year: Unbounded Bodies, Dynamic Places: Biopolitics in the Preindustrial World, with Professor Guy Geltner on Tuesday 6 December 2022. OVERVIEW (More details below) Session 1*: Masterclass with … Continue reading
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Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World
The ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference ‘Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World’ at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. During this two-day conference, the team members presented the findings of five years of research in … Continue reading
Calling Some Public Health Initiatives “Medieval” is Harmful
The “Middle Ages” have been making the headlines since the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and its presence in at least 29 countries around the globe. As the list of the dead and infected grows worryingly long, observers seem eager to … Continue reading
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Book Review – The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Written by Claire Weeda Heng, Geraldine. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Every discipline is in many intimate ways intimately connected to its object of study. In pre-modern historical sciences, the question of … Continue reading
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Marking and Badges: Exploring Premodern Schools, Discipline and Communal Health from a Global Perspective
A Report by Claire Weeda In June 2019, I hesitantly fastened my conference badge to my blouse in attendance of the conference ‘The Pursuit of Global Urban History’ in Leicester. How to address global commensurability, the impress of environment and … Continue reading
The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork: Inside the CSMBR Summer School
A Report by Lola Digard The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies belonging to the Fondazione Comel. Between the 29th and the 31st of March, the … Continue reading