We had a great time yesterday @uniheidelberg.bsky.social talking about Sue Peabody's latest book 'Madeleine's children', which has also recently been translated into French!
Thanks for coming by and sharing fascinating aspects of your research. 📚 #furcy
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See you this Monday! @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
The Balzan–FRIAS Project in Global History invites applications from early-career researchers for a two-day masterclass and lecture on the history of capitalism from a global perspective featuring Professor Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford), to be held on 16–17 July 2026.
Join us for an engaging discussion with Sue Peabody, who will share insights from her recent book and reflect on the writing process, exploring questions such as: Which narrative style is most effective - #biography, #microhistory, or #fiction?
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We are excited to announce the second FEVER lecture series for the summer term 2026, with different talks relating to the history of fevers, medicine, and science. Feel free to join us in person at the Lecture Hall of Heidelberg's history faculty (Grabengasse 3-5)!
Had the pleasure of reviewing Sascha Auerbach’s latest book for @journalslavery.bsky.social! He offers a compelling reinterpretation of late-stage slavery and indenture in the British Empire.
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📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History!
JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger.
In person and online.
Find out more and register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...
📢 New on First View!
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
CFA: Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Historia de América Latina
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015
Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina
Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Zum Start ins neue Jahr gibt es einen neuen Beitrag in unserem FEVER-Blog! Unsere PI Stefanie Gänger schreibt über die Klassifizierung von Fiebererkrankungen und deren "Unordnung" in der Sattelzeit.
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...
#CfA : 1 Akademische:r Mitarb. (PostDoc) (w/m/d) "Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit" @uniheidelberg.bsky.social auf 4 Jahre. Mitarbeit in der Fachstudienberatung, Verwaltung des Deutsch-Französischen Masters & Ph.D.-Tracks @ehess.fr #DFH #FrüheNeuzeit
Frist: 5. Januar 2026
Join us for some FEVER at Deutsches Museum in Munich if you happen to be in the area! www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Forsc...
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
This FEVER historian spent the last few days deep in the beautiful archives of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, in the footsteps of the many doctors who came here in the 1700s to learn about fevers.
The Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History is hosting a masterclass for (post-) doctoral researchers with Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on global cultural history, set to take place 22-23 Jan 2026. Spread the word! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...
#WeekendListening sorted! 🎧
Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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📖 In a new post on our FEVER-blog, our very own Lea-Marie Trigilia takes a look at the tensions between learned medicine and medical charlatanism during the petechial fever epidemics that affected Italy in the early 19th century. Happy reading! www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/the-most-...
It's time to look back on our FEVER conference which took place in early July at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences! To learn more about the tropics discussed, take a look at the conference proceedings at our FEVER-blog: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/workshop-... Huge thanks to everyone that joined!
Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification!
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Our team member @teresagoeltl.bsky.social recently spoke about her academic journey. Recorded by #Africana, a platform hosted by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, dedicated to showcasing research on Africa and its global connections: africanaens.com/portraits-de...
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Our FEVER Workshop wrapped up on Friday — what a pleasure and privilege it was! Huge thanks to all who joined us, and especially to our wonderful speakers, including Kevin Siena, @wraggem.bsky.social, Chris Hamlin, Margaret DeLacy, and Ricardo Cabral de Freitas.
Ahead of our FEVER-workshop on 10-11 July, we'll be hosting Kevin Siena's talk "The Foetus is made by Contagion: Pathology and the Enlightenment Debate on Human Variety", next Wednesday (July 9) at 16:15CET at the lecture hall of Heidelberg's History Faculty or online via zoom (e-mail us for link!).
Ahead of our FEVER-workshop on 10-11 July, we'll be hosting Kevin Siena's talk "The Foetus is made by Contagion: Pathology and the Enlightenment Debate on Human Variety", next Wednesday (July 9) at 16:15CET at the lecture hall of Heidelberg's History Faculty or online via zoom (e-mail us for link!).
We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex!
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
Wherever you are in the world, if you want to hear the latest about the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1760-1830, join us online tomorrow, June 27, 14:00 (CET), when Stefanie Gänger will be speaking in the TRANSPACIFIC lecture series, hosted by a fellow ERC project. crossroads-research.net/projects/erc...
We are thrilled to inaugurate our FEVER blog with a post by Stefanie Gänger, Lea-Marie Trigilia, and Ricardo Castellón on the prevalence of fever-diagnoses in Guatemala's San Juan Hospital in the 18th century:
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay)
#histmed #histstm
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