Mastodon feed- Untitled September 12, 2023Our colleague prof. Megan Cassidy-Welch of ACU writes: "Today the Australian Catholic University announced a plan to disestablish the Medieval and Early Modern Studies research program. A myopic decision needing international condemnation."As director of that program, I will be strongly objecting to this decision."Medieval and early modern studies lies at the heart of university history, […]
- Untitled September 11, 2023#Applications open at California Institute of Technology for a postdoctoral instructor in medieval history. See flyer attachment for more information. Application online through: https://applications.caltech.edu/jobs/medievalhistory#postdoc #medieval #opportunity
- Untitled September 11, 2023Wed 13 Sept 12pm AEST// 4am EST, Guy Geltner presenting University of Melbourne's History of Philosophy and Science Seminar Series: “The Nature of Preindustrial Mining: Environmental Perspectives and Knowledge Creation”For Zoom email premodern.healthscaping@gmail.comhttps://www.hpsunimelb.org/seminars
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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