🚨Colloquium registration open🚨 Our 4-year Australian Research Council funded project focuses on Preindustrial Public Health across various groups around the world. This colloquium is a showcase of 2 years of hard work. Registration FREE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

CfP! The Australian Early Medieval Association conference is 26-28 Sept Australian Catholic University Canberra, w/ the theme "Exploring the Semiotics of Colour": uses of colour(s) in medieval life - including in medicine, health, disease + healing. #healthscaping #conference AEMA

Abstract submissions now open for the Kiel Conference, 24-29 March 2025, under the theme: "𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 & 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬" kielconference.uni-kiel.de

The pathogens that could spark the next pandemic This week WHO published a list of over 30 pathogens that could trigger the next pandemic, including influenza A, dengue and monkeypox viruses, as well as plague and cholera: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Registration for our hybrid #Colloquium on #Preindustrial #PublicHealth closes tomorrow for in-person, Monday for online attendance. Programme in the link. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #premodern #medievaltwitter #mughalhistory #medici #intellectualhist #crusades #envhist

Check out our first blog in the Premodern Gender series for VIDA! Thanks to Dr Matt Firth for this fascinating piece on England's little-known, tenth-century royal women

Another lecture forthcoming this autumn... #CSMBR #Galen #Onproblematicalmovements

#CfP: “Conjuring Identity – Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages”. Deadline 20/9. In our project seminars we have increasingly explored the connection between public health, religion + magic. #publichealth + #histmed chapters would be great! anzamems.org/wp-content/upl…

Registrations open for the #hybrid #roundtable: "Reflecting on 5 Years Post-COVID – Shaping the Future of Global Health", 13 Sept w/Philippa Nicole Barr Dr Claire Hooker and other experts on #publichealth, #virology, #ethics + #medicalhumanities 👇 mailchi.mp/1d8b1c0406fe/5…

Very excited that I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG for my project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations".

Congratulations to Dr. Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik for their DECRA fellowship w/ Australian Research Council, exploring the #ethics in responses to public health emergencies. Infectious Disease Ethics

Congratulations to vol. eds. Emily Colbert Cairns & Nieves Romero-Diaz, and to all the contributors, on the publication of this new volume from Amsterdam Univ Press - #EarlyModern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic aup.nl/en/book/978946… #earlymodernwomen

Job Alert! Rice University's History Department is recruiting for a tenure-track assistant professorship of medieval or early modern history of science, technology, and/or medicine. #histmed #historyofscience h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…