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- CfP: “What Lies Beneath”, The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) Conference 2024 November 14, 2023
- Seminar Talk: Aydogan KARS, “Prophetic Medicine and Sufi Piety in Medieval Islam” October 31, 2023
- October 2023 // Upcoming Seminar. Guy Geltner, “Towards an Environmental History of Mining in Preindustrial Europe” October 10, 2023
- September 2023/ Upcoming Seminar. Guy Geltner, “The Nature of Preindustrial Mining: Environmental Perspectives and Knowledge Creation” September 6, 2023
- August 2023/ Upcoming Seminar: “The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe” August 22, 2023
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- Untitled November 27, 2023Are engineers interested in the medieval? 4 Dec digital symposium: Teaching the #MiddleAges and #Renaissance to #STEM Students. Papers on sharing knowledge, generating interest, collaborative products, innovative "teaching tools"#pedagogy #DH #gaming https://sites.gatech.edu/smartsymposium/
- Untitled November 22, 20237+8 Dec at Deutches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and online, "Resources and Sustainability?" adds historical context to climate change, human-environment interactions, New Materialism, post-humanism, with special reference to #earlymodern extractive industries inc. #mining. Great speakers, inc. the lovely @tinaasmussen.To register: reform@ressourcencampus-bochum.de
- Untitled November 22, 2023China's first public health system? Read Asaf Goldschmidt's 2023 article, "Reacting to Epidemics: The Innovative Imperial Public Health System during the Late Northern Song Dynasty". 👇https://journals.lww.com/cmc/fulltext/2023/03000/reacting_to_epidemics__the_innovative_imperial.7.aspx #northernsong #北宋 #publichealth #histmed
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Category Archives: Announcements
Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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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Podcasting Medieval Public Health with Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans
In episode 13 of Infectious Historians, Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans discuss their work that offers new insights into what public health was like in medieval urban settings. They reveal a far more complex picture of how local cities practiced … Continue reading
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Janna Coomans Won the 2020 Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize
Janna Commans, a member of the Premodern Healthscaping Project, has won the 2020 Praemium Erasmianum dissertation prize for her work on Public Health in the Late Medieval Low Countries. You can read more about this award here.
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Pest en politie: De politiek van publieke gezondheid toen en nu
Publieke gezondheid en politiemacht zijn historisch altijd aan elkaar verbonden geweest. Tijdens eerdere pandemieën kwam er een sterkere controle op en stigmatisering van armere bevolkingsgroepen. Juist nu moet er daarom sprake zijn van georganiseerde kritiek, betogen Janna Coomans en Claire … Continue reading
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