On 22 August 2024, as part of the ARC Discovery Project research group, “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800”, we ran our first public event to share the research conducted in the two years of the project’s running. Our programme included presentations by all of our researchers minus one, plus a keynote speech from Professor Elizabeth Stephens at the University of Queensland.
The colloquium was a great success. Several participants attended both online and in-person, and came from a range of disciplines and places including religious history, the history of medicine and plague, and histories of colonialism and empire; a range of places including Sydney, Chicago, and Finland; and a range of career stages, including PhD students, Early Career Researchers, and leaders in the fields of public health and “healthscaping”. We look forward to further connecting with, and growing, our network and scholarship on preindustrial public health histories.
The presentations were records, and the videos will be able to be/ can be viewed under our Media > Videos tab.
This project, and colloquium, were generously funded by the Australian Research Council.
