Category Archives: Blog Post

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 →

Posted in Announcements, Blog Post, Events | Comments Off on Kick-off Event: SCARCE Research Project

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 →

Posted in Announcements, Blog Post, Events | Comments Off on Public Film Screening, Deakin University

Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

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 →

Posted in Blog Post, Events | Comments Off on Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World

Calling Some Public Health Initiatives “Medieval” is Harmful

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

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 →

Posted in Blog Post | Comments Off on Calling Some Public Health Initiatives “Medieval” is Harmful

Book Review – The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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 →

Posted in Blog Post | Comments Off on Book Review – The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Marking and Badges: Exploring Premodern Schools, Discipline and Communal Health from a Global Perspective

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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 →

Posted in Blog Post, Events | Comments Off on Marking and Badges: Exploring Premodern Schools, Discipline and Communal Health from a Global Perspective

The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork: Inside the CSMBR Summer School

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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 →

Posted in Blog Post, Events | Comments Off on The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork: Inside the CSMBR Summer School