Category Archives: Announcements

Kick-off Event: SCARCE Research Project

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Sarah May

SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today’s stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management … Continue reading →

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August 2024/ Luisa Dallai et al.: “From lab to field, from vertical to horizontal. New approaches to the use of portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology”

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Sarah May

This year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2024) takes place in Rome. One of our dear colleagues, Luisa Dallai, will be presenting on the use of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology. Her and her colleagues’ abstract … Continue reading →

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MINESCAPES Summer School for PhD Students: Call for Applications

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Sarah May

MINESCAPES: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Call for Applications 2024 PhD Summer School – MINESCAPES. Application Deadline: 15 January 2024 Summer School Dates: 31 May – 10 June 2024 Conveners: … Continue reading →

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Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Sarah May

13 January 2023, 12pm EST/ 6pm CET/ 10.30pm IST/ 4am + 1 AEDT Online, zoom Begin the new year with a virtual book launch for the fourth title in the “Health and Healing in the Middle Ages” series by publishers … Continue reading →

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Public Film Screening, Deakin University

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Sarah May

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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PhD Position: Preventative Medicine and the Medici Court, 1530-1737

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

Project description: This PhD scholarship is an important part of the ARC-funded project “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800,” led by Prof. G. Geltner. The team project will reconstruct and analyze preventative healthcare theory, policy and practice across three … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Health, Environment and Urban Development in the Middle Ages

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

New Dates: 17-18 February 2022 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim New Abstract Submission Date: 17 December 2021 (The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty about travel activity, inland and abroad. However, it is our priority … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Keeping Apart and Coming Together: Mobility Restrictions and Confinement as Health Practices in a Longue Durée Perspective Theme: 2. Pandemics and climate change: responses to global challenges 8-11 September 2021 This session focuses on two key questions: how did past … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Health, Environment and Urban Development in the Middle Ages

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

6-7 October 2021 Norwegian University of Science and technology, University Museum, Trondheim The conference completes the Norwegian Research Council funded project “Medieval urban health: from private to public responsibility” (2017-2020), whose goal is to shed new light on how public … Continue reading →

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Centring Race in History: Antiquity to the Present (online conference)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

23-25 November 2020 Organised By: International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK. MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism magazine, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy (EUI). Department of History & Civilization, EUI. What should be the … Continue reading →

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