Mastodon feed- Untitled February 4, 2025PhD #scholarship #opportunity in interdisciplinary approaches to infection biosciences: "Investigating Co-infections and Co-Morbidities in the Ancient World" under the BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award. Application closes 28/02.https://www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex-one-health-doctoral-landscape-award
- Untitled January 16, 2025One of our researchers, Megan Cassidy-Welch, has published a short piece on the health of pilgrims - please share! https://theconversation.com/fruit-and-veg-exercise-frequent-bloodletting-and-more-tips-on-staying-healthy-from-medieval-travellers-244638#histmed #pilgrim #healthhumanities
- Untitled December 5, 2024PhD scholarship opportunity: "Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary". PI Tina Asmussen is not only a great scholar, but a lovely person to work with -- we can attest! What a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the field with leading scholars + institution, Mining Museum Bochum.https://karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0952d6d3e3f583fbd76eac1cb76e36bf9e032e2e0
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Yearly Archives: 2020
Book Review: “Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne”
Marc Conesa, Nicolas Poirier (dir.), Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne. Actes des XXXVIIIes Journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbaye de Flaran, 14 et 15 octobre 2016, Toulouse (Presses universitaires du Midi) … 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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Flowing Together: A Workshop on Archaeological and Historical Approaches to Middle Eastern Water Management (7th-15th centuries)
12-13 November Radboud Institute for Culture & History This workshop aims to explore the various challenges, problems and potentials for collaboration between historians and archaeologists in the study of water management. Since early 2020, the NWO-VICI project ‘Source of Life’ … Continue reading
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Online Seminar: The Dynamics of Healthscaping
Friday, 31 July 2020, 16:00 – 17:00 (CEST) Urban History summer seminar’s third paper in this series comes from the winners of Urban History‘s Dyos Prize for 2020, Dr. Taylor Zaneri and Professor Guy Geltner. This paper traces how urban … 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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The Testimony of History: To Live and Overcome the Epidemic in the Present
International Symposium (online) 18-19 June, 17:30-19:00 (Lisbon time) This seminar aims to be a space for knowledge sharing on the theme of epidemics, in different geographical contexts, national and foreign, limited to the Middle and Early Modern Ages, seeking to … Continue reading
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The Silk Roads as a Model for Exploring Eurasian Transmissions of Medical Knowledge: Online Workshop
Online Workshop with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Thursday, 28 May 2020, 15:00-17:00 (CEST) How can we begin to think about transmissions of medical knowledge in medieval Eurasia? What type of work can be done in order to engage with this question? Can … 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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