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Less mud slinging and more facts in public health history. Projects funded by @EU_H2020 @arc_gov_au. Tweets reflect the views of the project team.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined October 2017
Introducing…"Public Health in the Preindustrial World"! @arc_gov_au funded project connecting #physicalanthropology🦴; #archaeobotany🌱; #religiousstudies🕌; + #history📚 to explore #healthpractices of groups across Europe, India, + the Middle East 1100-1800 CE. #medicalhistory
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We will be moving our profile to Bluesky and Humanities Commons under the handle @prosanitate. Next month this account will no longer be active. Join us. Joiiiiin usss.
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One of our researchers, Megan Cassidy-Welch, has published a short piece on the health of pilgrims - please share! #histmed #pilgrim #healthhumanities
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Happy New Year! Start the year with a lovely reminder about the effects of lead pollution on brains and IQ, this time with evidence from 2000 years ago:
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RT @ProSanitate: New pub! G Geltner and Gregory Roberts: “Social and Environmental Policing in Medieval Cities,” in A Companion to Crime an…
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CfP: "Shame and Medicine", a conference summarising the work of a Wellcome Trust-funded project, 10-11 June 2025. Abstract submissions close 31 January.
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PhD scholarship opportunity: "Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary" @tinasmussen is not only a great scholar, but a lovely person to work with -- we can attest! A fantastic opportunity to contribute to the field with leading scholars + institution, @dbmbochum
🚨Job alert🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project “Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)” at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources.
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RT @CarsonCenter: To round off the kick-off week, @GhoshAmitav will give a lecture on “Hiding from the Apocalypse: How the World’s Wealthi…
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Evoking the Coalscape: Prof Gary A. Boyd discusses the architectural ecologies of coal: "forms, systems and connections that existed both within and across the buildings and landscapes coalmining created". 20 November, 5-7pm in London Online
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A reminder we have Mastodon and Bluesky accounts (and would prefer to use them more...). See this useful Researcher's Guide to Bluesky: @prosanitate.bsky.social
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RT @EUI_History: Our conference Commodities and Environments in #EarlyModern Global Asia is in full swing at the stunning Biblioteca Riccar…
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On the ironies of modern sanitation transitions: Beattie & Boileau discuss Cantonese market gardening, nightsoil waste, and tensions of health & hygiene in 19th century colonial Australasia. Worth a read. #ChineseOverseas #healthhumanities #healthscaping
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CfP: the International Health Humanities Conference at Suzhou, China, 23-24 May 2025. Submissions close 16 December.
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RT @PastPresentSoc: This year’s Past & Present supplement “Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World” has been published. Edited by Renaud M…
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A publication of our initial findings is also now available Open Access: “Prospections géochimiques dans la vallée d’Antas (Sardaigne)" #archaeometallurgy
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@SocietyAncMed is hosting a webinar on: "The Trajectory of Ancient Medicine as a Subfield", 22 November. w/ Vivian Nutton (@ucl), Lesley Dean-Jones (@UTAustin), and Ralph Rosen (@Penn)Registration below:
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RT @OxMedGradConf: The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward…
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Free Saturday? Shireen Hamza @ibn_shireen, Aditya Harchand + Giti Datt are presenting at the Conference on South Asia in Madison on "𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚". @AdityaHarchand* #historyofthesenses
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