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Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context
Written by Alessandro Bianchi, Newcastle University I had the pleasure of attending the ‘Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context’…
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Preserving Black Health Histories: Archives, Memory, and Community
Written by Naomi Samake-Bäckert (naomi.samake-backert@graduateinstitute.ch) & Che Kelly (che.kelly@qmul.ac.uk) All photographs were taken by Francesca Nyakora (francescanyakora@gmail.com) The workshop, ‘Archives of Care: Black Health Histories…
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Representing, Reshaping Reenacting.
Anatolii Kozlov, (Université de Genève) What is common between the creativity tests and meat-imitating food? Between social interactions and formal modelling? Between the trembling Earth…
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War, Trauma and Emotional Injury (Part 2)
Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Freie Universität Berlin) The Military Welfare History Network held its second symposium at Birmingham University on the 6th and 7th of November…
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Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic (19th Annual MEMSA Conference)
Ana Inés Aldazabal, Andrea Cartia, Virginia Ghelarducci, Vittoria Faga (Boğaziçi University) Against the breath-taking backdrop of Durham Castle and blessed with wonderful summer weather, the…
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Health and Medicine in the Colonial, Postcolonial and Global Worlds (10th History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) Conference)
Mai Thi My Vi (National Cheng Kung University); Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (University of Manchester); Dr Vivek Neelakantan Report 1 The tenth International Conference on the History of…
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Death and Disease in Anatolia (SHIFA-ANA Workshop)
Alper Kerem Koşar (Boğaziçi University) The SHIFA-ANA Workshop: Death and Disease in Anatolia was held on 11–13 June 2025 at Koç University’s Anatolian Civilizations Research Center…
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Writing Population History in a Time of Planetary Crisis
Eloïse Richard (University of Geneva) The workshop Writing Population History in a Time of Planetary Crisis took place at the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities…
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The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: Preparations, Evolutions and Legacies (Part 1)
Soundararajan Jagdish (Independent Researcher) The Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) held its first symposium at the University of Birmingham (10-11 April 2025). Supported with funding…
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Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World
Samantha Hosein (University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.) The ‘Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World’ international conference, held from…